{"id":8580,"date":"2016-01-14T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2016-01-18T18:19:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T18:19:20","slug":"john-williams-receives-50th-oscar-nomination-for-star-wars-the-force-awakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=8580","title":{"rendered":"John Williams Receives 50th Oscar Nomination for &#8216;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Williams has received his 50th Nomination for the Academy Awards for the original score to <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>. The other nominees in the Original Score category are Ennio Morricone for <em>The Hateful Eight<\/em>, Johann Johannson for <em>Sicario<\/em>, Carter Burwell for <em>Carol<\/em>, and Thomas Newman for <em>Bridge of Spies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m deeply honored and grateful to the Academy for this recognition. It\u2019s been a privilege and a joy to revisit the Star Wars galaxy and to work with the brilliant director J.J. Abrams on this very special film<\/em>,\u201d John Williams said upon receiving the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The 88th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood &amp; Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. EST\/4 p.m. PST. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/oscar.go.com\/nominees\" target=\"_blank\">Full list of nominees<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?page_id=220\">John Williams &#8211; Full list of Academy Award nominations and wins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/26013-john-williams-receives-50th-oscar-nomination-for-the-force-awakens\/\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Williams has received his 50th Nomination for the Academy Awards for the original score to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The other nominees in the Original Score category are Ennio Morricone for The Hateful Eight, Johann Johannson for Sicario,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=8580\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-star-wars-episode-vii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8586,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions\/8586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}