At the 34th Annual BMI Film TV & Visual Media Awards, BMI honored prolific composer John Williams with the John Williams Awards in recognition of his incomparable status as one of the greatest film and television composers of our time. Watch Williams’ speech from this gala evening of music, cinema and celebration. FOLLOW US: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bmi/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bmi Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/broadcastmusicinc LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/1XVWvWo http://www.bmi.com About BMI Celebrating over 76 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) is a global leader in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in nearly 13 million musical works created and owned by more than 800,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created a groundbreaking open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMI's repertoire, from chart toppers to perennial favorites, span all genres of music and are consistently among the most-performed hits of the year.