John Williams: Hollywood's maestro goes for more Oscars history

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Williams, 91, is already the oldest person to receive an Oscar nomination for a competitive award.

And if he gets another statuette on Sunday, which would be his sixth, he will become the oldest person ever to triumph in any competitive category. The record is currently held by screenwriter James Ivory, who was 89 when he won.

Out of the dozens of nominations over the course of his extraordinary career, the composer won Academy Awards for the originalJaws, E.T.: The Extra-TerrestrialWilliam is known for his grand neo-Romantic scores in the fashion of Wagner, a contrast to the more experimental fare prevalent among many modern composers outside Hollywood.

The family moved to Los Angeles in 1948, where Williams later studied composition and took a semester of jazz band at Los Angeles City College.Afterwards, he moved to New York, where he enrolled at the prestigious Juilliard school to study piano.

 

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