John Williams received his first Oscar nomination in 1967 for Valley of the Dolls and received his 50th nomination two years ago for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Fittingly, the composer's 51st nomination comes 51 years after the first one. Williams has averaged a nomination every year since the first one, and while he has gone without a nomination in some years, he rarely goes more than two between noms, and has made up for those empty years by being nominated multiple times in other years. In fact, of the five Oscars Williams has actually won, he's beaten himself once. In 1977 his score for Star Wars beat his score for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. His last win was in 1993 for Schindler's List.