E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - End Credits ▾

A Steven Spielberg film.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
music by John Williams
written by Melissa Mathison
starrig: Henry Thomas
Dee Wallace
Drew Barrymore
Peter Coyote
Robert MacNaughton
C. Thomas Howell

♬ A discussion with John Williams
📺E.T. and Elliot - A Holiday Reunion
🎬End Credits Playlist
💿John Williams: Maestro of the Movies

Chapters:
0:00 E.T. and Me
0:39 ouch
1:46 I'll be right here
3:44 farewell
4:33 credits

[adriannicolini]

I came to this video to be moved. I’m literally crying. I don’t care if it slowly ages. As a film always does with the passage of time. Even if the special effects age, the emotional weight will stay forever. That is the magic of a good film: it doesn’t matter how much time passes and how old it looks. The emotional effect will always be the same. The same with A Trip to the Moon. The day films die, I fear it will also be the death of me. Film is the answer to world peace literally. And to imagine the film could win best picture at the Oscars. But the Academy didn’t make it justice.

[Jzzmus]

This scene is NOTHING without the music

[NovaKJ]

What would the 80s have been without John Williams, Jim Henson and Steven Spielberg?

[CAVlogs]

The music here is beyond extraordinary. It’s absolutely majestic.

[jhnnyboi]

I wonder if John Williams cries to his own music as this scene plays through.

[jerramaurice]

The greatest composer in the film industry John Williams

[tarvis]

This is one of the most heartbreaking yet beautiful scenes in cinema history. The music is just a great fit and it was sad to see a boy lose a friend who taught him so much about friendship and love.

[HasseBasseBingBong]

Why E.T. didn't win the acadamy award for best picture is beyond me.

[lzluna]

Back in the 80s when the movies were epic, shot with celluloid, special effects practical and a amazing soundtrack, This movie made cry the entire world .Nowaday the film industry is different, full of movies with special effect that look like videogames .And zero feeling of realism and sentiment, you leave the theater the same way you enter

[patgogan]

John Williams is a GoD of themes...there is no debating this..

[TommyLellan]

Those last moments are so powerful because they don’t show the kids smiling or glad. They’re looking up at something remarkable, knowing full well that it’s something that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Stunning movie.

[DaveFisher-cqdr]

there will never be another composer like John Williams

[sinaptico]

If you are here in 2024 you deserve an entire universe of love and happiness

[walterkobylak]

John Willams. Bar none. The greatest. Period. Untouchable.

[waynee]

45 year old man here. Yes, I did see this in a movie theatre when I was a kid. And yes, these are tears coming out of my eyes. Don't you judge me!

[DaveFisher-cqdr]

4:00-4:31 the most powerful, extraordinary piece of movie music in the history of films, John Williams is the Mozart of movie music, these extraordinary notes of music lift us above the Earth, they are right up there with the music of such great music legends Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Stravinsky, Wagner and many more, all their music including this film's music shall live on forever

[jeremyspokeinclass]

One of the greatest cut to black ever.

[chriscombest]

Probably the greatest movie ending of all time.

[Moltar_Railfan]

This is another one of Steven Spielberg’s *MASTERPIECES*

[feverpa]

I don't think there's any score in the history of film that can match the final scene of E.T. It's quite simply a perfect ending that captures every complex emotion from the characters and elicits those same emotions from the audience. The musical build to "ouch" is mirrored, but with a more hopeful tone leading up to "I'll be right here." The 30 seconds from the Rainbow to the "cut to black" is just magical. Perfect. Simply perfect.