Private Ryan (1999), Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television for Schindler’s List (1995), Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1983), Best Instrumental Composition for “Flying — Theme from ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’” from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1983), Best Instrumental Arrangement for “Flying — Theme from ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’” from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1983) Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982), Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special for Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back (1981), Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special for Superman (1980),Best Instrumental Composition for “Prelude and Main Title March” from Superman (1980), Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1979), Best Album of Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Special for Star Wars (1978), Best Instrumental Composition for “Main Titles from Star Wars” from Star Wars (1978), Best Pop Instrumental Performance from Star Wars (1978), Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special for Jaws (1976)

How Close Is He? He might as well be in a galaxy far, far away. Williams has never written music for a Broadway show, and hasn’t shown any special yearning for theater since his 1975 musical Thomas and the King was a