YMMV / John Williams

• Award Snub: From a certain very limited perspective. Williams's five Academy Awards are more than enough to do any career proud. He also holds the record for most Academy Award nominations of any living individual, with 53 ^note most recently for The Fabelmans. While even a nomination is an honor, Fridge Logic dictates that this means he's gone home empty-handed 48 times. Ouch? ^note Technically, it's only been 39 times. He has had two scores from the same year nominated in the same category eight times. This means that, out of his 52 nominations, there were eight of them that he couldn't have won, regardless of if he did win that year, bringing his count of potential Oscars down to 44, unless he tied for the awards. (So far, though, the only instance where he won against himself is 1977, for a certain pair of sci-fi films by Lucas and Spielberg.)
  • An oddity was that his first Oscar win, Fiddler on the Roof, was technically not a score that he composed, but rearrangements and variations of the musical's songs used as background music. His first nomination, Valley of the Dolls, was a score similarly based on the songs composed for the film by André and Dory Previn.
• Gateway Series: A lot of people get into film soundtracks and classical music through him.
• Sacred Cow: Is revered amongst many, many, many movie fans and music fans. Even detractors of the movies he's scored have agreed that his compositions are amazing.

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