A great among the greats of music.

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Throughout the history of cinema, many composers and their different musical proposals have forever marked films such as:

Ennio Morricone

Hans Zimmer

Alan Menken

Riva di Howard

Danny Elfman

But one of the most important names is undoubtedly John Williams.

He has collaborated on more than 400 audiovisual projects, including films and television, and has earned 51 Oscar nominations. He is the most nominated living person for this award and the second-most nominees in the Academy's history, behind Walt Disney's 59. He has won five statuettes, the first in 1972 for Fiddler on the Roof.

In the mid-70s he demonstrated his great sensitivity in films such as Poseidon's Adventure Earthquake or Hell in the Tower, but his first great musical composition came in 1975 with Steven Spielberg's Jaws, in which with two sequences of notes he generated the necessary tension despite the fact that the shark was not present.

Recommended by Spielberg, George Lucas created a soundtrack for Star Wars that blended the epic poems of Johann Strauss with the music of Hollywood's golden age. It won over fans in 1977 and earned him his third Oscar in 2005. The American Film Institute named the film's score, the first in a nine-part saga, the most important musical work in American cinema.

And beyond his work on Star Wars, the following two decades would be filled with impressive compositions, many of them Oscar-nominated, such as Superman, Empire of the Sun, Home Alone, and JFK, but above all with two cinematic classics made with his great collaborator Steven Spielberg: Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, Riders' March, which symbolized Indiana Jones in the popular sphere. And the following year, with the masterful soundtrack for ET the Extra-Terrestrial, a magical musical and cinematic spectacle for which he received another Oscar.

Curiously, the dramatic soundtrack for Schindler's List would have earned him the final golden statuette, but it's not other titles like Nixon or Saving Private Ryan that would have remained etched in popular memory as much as the main theme from "Jurassic Park," also by Spielberg, moving, grandiose, and as eloquent as the prehistoric creatures seen in the 1993 film.

In this second role, Williams continued to work and win awards with films like Catch Me If You Can: Memoirs of a Geisha and Lincoln, but in 2001, he composed the music for what would be his biggest project, Harry Potter, leaving such a mark on the saga that subsequent composers had to replicate his composition.

Motivated by the hardworking spirit of his grandparents, in addition to his five Oscars, he has won seven BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and twenty-four Grammy Awards, but beyond these impressive numbers, John Williams has achieved immortality thanks to a group of iconic songs he has composed over the last six decades.

That's all for today, but I'd like to ask you a question. Of all the movies I've listed, which one would you like to see on the big screen next?

I have it clear, I would watch E.T.