Star Wars: The Force Awakens Wins Grammy Award

02/12/2017 04:15 pm EST

Star Wars: The Force Awakens just took home a Grammy Award.

During the non-televised early awards segment, John Williams' score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens was awarded the Grammy for best score for visual media.

This is the fifth grammy award that Williams has won for his work on Star Wars. He won three Grammies for the original Star Wars score and another for the score to Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back.

John Williams has scored every film in the Skywalker Saga and will return to the galaxy far, far away to provide the score for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

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In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, thirty years after the defeat of the Empire, Luke Skywalker has vanished and a new threat has risen: The First Order, led by the mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke and his dark side enforcer, Kylo Ren. General Leia Organa's military force, the Resistance — and unlikely heroes brought together by fate — are the galaxy's only hope at thwarting a new reign of evil.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens was directed by J.J. Abrams and stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Max von Sydow.

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