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Grammys 2021 upon us Sunday at 8 p.m. on CBS, here are the top 10 nonclassical winners of music’s biggest night.Not only was Jones, 88, a part of Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” sweep in 1984 as producer of that classic LP, he also won Album of the Year for his own “Back on the Block” in 1991.

Kelly Ripa‘s son, Joaquin Consuelos, is another year older! The All My Children alum’s youngest celebrated a major milestone birthday on February 24, as he turned a whopping 18 years old. Kelly, of course, was caught-up in the emotion of the day, as her youngest child with husband Mark Consuelos officially became an adult. She marked the occasion with a touching tribute on Instagram, which you can see below!

Writing the script for 1977's Star Wars, George Lucas drew inspiration from late-romantic symphonies by Richard Wagner and Antonín Dvorák and the ravishing film scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood).

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine For the first time ever on Christmas Day, will kick off the nation's afternoon celebrations in style as he serves up a fantastic feast of festive food and entertainment. confirmed that the celebrity chef will be joined by the likes of , The Ritz's head chef John Williams and Bake Off Creme De La Creme winner Mark Tilling.

Strictly Come Dancing after the judges’ scores were combined with the results of the viewers’ votes to decide the lowest scoring two couples facing the dance-off.

coronavirus pandemic through April 5.The decision announced Thursday leaves only the possibility of performances at the very tail end of the hall’s 2020-21 season.Carnegie has been closed since March 12 and last June has canceled performances through Jan.

Over the past decade, are there any film composers with a better resume than Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross? Honestly, since 2010, when “The Social Network” was released, Reznor and Ross have become names that are mentioned with the likes of Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Alexandre Desplat, and more as some of the best musicians working in film today.

Jon Burlingame World conditions make this year’s Grammy voter choices in the visual-media categories somewhat harder to predict, in part because so many of us have been staying home watching television.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVIn 1978, the first installment of the Star Wars film saga earned John Williams a Music, Original Score Oscar. Forty two years later, the first season of the first live-action Star Wars TV series, Disney+’s The Mandalorian, landed Ludwig Göransson a Music Composition for a Series Emmy Award.Göransson warned his first ever Emmy nomination for The Mandalorian after winning an Oscar last year for Black Panther.

Schindler’s List has been named the nation’s favourite piece of film music.In a poll conducted by Classic FM, the John Williams score for Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Holocaust drama took the top spot ahead of The Lord of the Rings and Gladiator.Williams earned five entries in total in the top 20, for his work on Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial.On the award, the composer said, “I’d like to express my gratitude to the listeners of

A Spanish foundation on Friday (May 5) awarded one of the country’s most prestigious awards to composers Ennio Morricone and John Williams for their film work.

MADRID -- A Spanish foundation on Friday awarded one of the country’s most prestigious awards to composers Ennio Morricone and John Williams for their film work.

Minutes after 4 p.m. Saturday, Richard and Demi Weitz sat next to each other facing the same computer sc

Hildur Guðnadóttir became only the fourth woman to win an Academy Award for score as she walked away with honors for her “Joker” music Sunday night.

Hildur Guðnadóttir has won the 2020 Oscar for Best Original Score. The Icelandic composer took home the trophy for her work Joker, which previously netted her the Golden Globe for Best Original Score. She won the Academy Award over John Williams (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), Alexandre Desplat (Little Women), Randy Newman (Marriage Story), and Thomas Newman (1917).

There’s nothing like being honored for your 52nd Oscar nomination on your 88th birthday and finding yourself serenaded by 350 of the town’s top composers and songwriters. But that was Saturday afternoon for composer John Williams at the Society of Composers & Lyricists’ annual Oscar music reception, which was attended by nearly all of the original-score and original-song nominees on the day before the Academy Awards ceremony.

Kobe Bryant will be honored at the Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 9.

By Patrick Hipes

The film received critical acclaim for Bryant's poignant portrayal of the sport he loved

The Force was strong enough at an Arizona store to reunite Luke Skywalker with his long-lost vinyl record.Actor Mark Hamill is praising workers at Bookmans Entertainment Exchange in Flagstaff for returning the Star Wars: A New Hope soundtrack that had been a gift from film composer John Williams.Hamill said in a tweet Saturday that it felt “totally unexpected & positively surreal” to get back the record he hadn’t seen since the early 1990s.

John Williams is only getting better with age.

The Los Angeles-based Ethan Gruska, 30, grew up in the Valley watching his father, Emmy-nominated composer Jay Gruska, work with session players in their backyard studio and nerding out over Star Wars and Indiana Jones — the scores to both were written by his grandfather, the legendary John Williams. “As a kid, I didn’t understand how heavy that all is,” says Gruska today.

John Williams has received his 52nd Oscar nomination, besting his record for the most nods for any living person.

By Mike Fleming Jr

The 2020 Oscar nominations have arrived, including the full list of nominees for Best Original Score. Competing for the award are Randy Newman (Marriage Story), Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker), Alexandre Desplat (Little Women), John Williams (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), and Thomas Newman (1917). Find the full list of Best Original Score nominees below.

In a quieter week of releases, movie soundtracks take center stage this #NewMusicFriday. Star Wars and Cats are two of the year's most-anticipated releases, and the score/songs from the films will hit shelves. Legendary composer John Williams continues as the sci-fi series' music maestro, while Andrew Lloyd Webber is responsible for the Cats soundtrack, which features Taylor Swift's Golden Globe-nominated original song Beautiful Ghosts.

When the Grammy nominations were announced last month, film composer John Williams was informed that he was up for two awards. The news was no doubt welcome, but probably not entirely unexpected.