Disclosure Day: Everything you need to know about John Williams’ score

11 June 2026, 15:46

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By Siena Linton

Sci-fi film ‘Disclosure Day’ marks the 30th collaboration between cinema’s greatest contemporary duo, director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams. Here’s everything you need to know about the score.

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Steven Spielberg and John Williams are together responsible for some of the greatest films and soundtracks of the last 50 years.

Since their first collaboration on The Sugarland Express in 1974, the duo have brought us nostalgia, awe, fear, joy, and all kinds of raw, powerful emotion, through their unique recipe of moving image and music.

Now marking their 30th film together, the pair behind Jaws, Jurassic Park, E.T., Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List and many, many more have added another sci-fi film to their roster: Disclosure Day, starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson.

‘Disclosure Day’ marks the 30th collaboration between John Williams and Steven Spielberg, in their partnership of over half a century. Picture: Getty / Alamy

Is John Williams retiring?

In October 2025 it was confirmed that the then 93-year-old Williams would be writing the music for Spielberg’s upcoming UFO film, despite the composer having hinted that his score for the director’s 2022 film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, might be his last.

He later rowed back on the suggestion when the subject of his retirement came up at an event celebrating 50 years of their collaboration, saying: “Steven is a lot of things. He’ s a director, he’s a producer, he’s a studio head, he’s a writer, he’s a philanthropist, he’s an educator.

“One thing he isn’t is a man you can say ‘no’ to.”

When Spielberg approached Williams with Disclosure Day, the composer supposedly suggested four other composers to the director, but in the end there was only one answer Spielberg would accept.

How did John Williams write the Disclosure Day score?

Parts of the Disclosure Day score echo Spielberg and Williams’ previous adventures in sci-fi, but the pair took a different approach to this one.

“Disclosure Day is probably the most restrained score he has ever written for one of our collaborations – at least until it is not,” Spielberg said. “But until those moments, he holds back in a way that is subtle and beautiful and enriches the experience.

“It is like he is accompanying the film from slightly behind it, pushing it forward. Scoring is usually the last thing we do and I always say it is the reward for finishing a movie – the reward being getting to listen to a new John Williams score.”

Speaking to Classic FM at the film’s London premiere, Spielberg praised John Williams: “He’s the maestro of film music today, but he also could hold a candle to the the great composers of the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. He has done so much for my films, he’s elevated the experience emotionally.

“If I can make my audience’s eyes wet, Johnny’s score will allow the tears to actually fall.”