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Steven Spielberg Credits John Williams During Sony Pictures’ Dedication

“I don’t recognize the movies as mine but as ours,” Spielberg said of his longtime musical collaborator.

“It is with great pride that we dedicate this building to John Williams for having made such a profound impact on not just Hollywood, but on the lives of billions of people around the world who have been touched by the magic of his musical genius,” Tony Vinciquerra, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, said in a press statement. “The first time I came to this studio was 1940 when my father brought me here to show me the stage and I was about 9 or 10 years old, and I thought, some day this will all be mine,” Williams shared while at the ceremony. For Columbia Pictures, Williams scored the Academy Award-winning “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” and “The Patriot.” Eighteen of those films were with Spielberg, and two of those features were with J.J. Abrams, “Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens” and “Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker.”

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