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Ennio Morricone


Birth name: Ennio Morricone
Birth: 10 November 1928
Died: 6 July 2020
Nationality: Italy

Career / Biography

Ennio Morricone has composed the music for a large number and variety of films some of which have been hugely influential. His scores for the Sergio Leone westerns (A Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More and The Good The Bad And The Ugly), a had a significant impact on the films and subsequent film scores. In A Fistful Of Dollars he set up a whistling motif that links to the man with no name and in the final stand-off there is a complex build up in the music that builds the tension and drama.

Composer

The Hateful Eight (2015)
Malena (2000)
Mission To Mars (2000)
Disclosure (1994)
Wolf (1994)
In The Line Of Fire (1993)
Bugsy (1991)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
The Untouchables (1987)
The Mission (1986)
Red Sonja (1985)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
The Scarlet And The Black (1983)
The Thing (1982)
The Island (1980)
Days Of Heaven (1978)
A Fistful Of Dynamite (1971)
Two Mules For Sister Sara (1970)
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
For A Few Dollars More (1965)
A Fistful Of Dollars (1964)

Oscars

Won - Best Score - The Hateful Eight (2015)
Nomination - Best Score - Malena (2000)
Nomination - Best Score - Bugsy (1991)
Nomination - Best Score - The Untouchables (1987)
Nomination - Best Score - The Mission (1986)
Nomination - Best Score - Days Of Heaven (1978)