In 2018 the performing rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc. In 2013 Williams was presented with the Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2012 Williams received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in the Classic category as well as the Brit Award for the Composer of the Year. Williams was made an honorary brother of Kappa Kappa Psi at Boston University in the late 1980s. In 2009 Williams received the National Medal of Arts at the White House in Washington, D.C., for his achievements in symphonic music for films, and "as a pre-eminent composer and conductor scores have defined and inspired modern movie-going for decades." Earlier, in the year 2000, Williams had been inducted, alongside the singer and songwriter Garth Brooks, as one of the two inaugural inductees into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. In 2004, in recognition of his compositions, Williams was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. In 2003 the International Olympic Committee accorded Williams its highest individual honor, the Olympic Order. Williams received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Boston College in 1993, from Harvard University in 2017 and from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021. The competition includes composers of instrumental music of any genre. the Extraterrestrial, Angela's Ashes, Munich, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and The Book Thief, and one for his overture "Galaxy's Edge". Williams has won the Grammy Awards for Best Instrumental Composition and Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media several times for his scores for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, The Empire Strikes Back, E.T. He won a Classic Brit Award in 2005 for his soundtrack work of the previous year. In 2004 he received a Kennedy Center Honor. Williams was honored with the annual Richard Kirk award at the 1999 BMI Film and TV Awards, recognizing his contribution to film and television music. In 1998, Williams was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Since 1988, Williams has been honored with 15 Sammy Film Music Awards, the longest-running awards for film music recordings. In 1980 Williams received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music. He won four Oscars for Best Original Score and one for Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score ( Fiddler on the Roof). Forty-seven of Williams's Oscar nominations are for Best Original Score and five are for Best Original Song. With 53 Oscar nominations, Williams currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person, and is the second most nominated person in Academy Awards history behind Walt Disney with 59, as well as the only person in the history of the Academy Awards to have received nominations in seven consecutive decades. John Williams has been nominated for 53 Academy Awards, winning 5 6 Emmy Awards, winning 3 27 Golden Globe Awards, winning 4 73 Grammy Awards, winning 25 16 British Academy Film Awards, winning 7 22 Saturn Awards, winning 8. This is a list of awards and nominations received by the American composer John Williams.
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