Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
Legendary Italian film composer Ennio Morricone passed away on July 6, 2020. He was 91 years old. An accomplished music maestro has composed over 500 scores for cinema and television over 66 years, including "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "The Untouchables," "The Mission," and "The Hateful Eight." Morricone was born in Rome and is the son of a trumpeter. He began writing music at the age of six and entered a conservatory to study it at the age of twelve. His classmate in school was filmmaker Sergio Leone, with whom he began collaborating by composing his spaghetti westerns. These films are part of his trilogy starring Clint Eastwood. Their careers took off with "A Fistful of Dollars," which has given him some prominence. However, one of his most influential scores in cinema history is "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
Morricone's other movie scores include "Once Upon a Time in the West," "Days of Heaven," John Carpenter's "The Thing," "The Mission," "Cinema Paradiso," "The Untouchables," "Bugsy," "Malena," and "Ripley's Game." In 2016, he became the oldest recipient to earn an Academy Award for Best Original Score for Quentin Tarantino's western "The Hateful Eight." Before that, in 2007, he was given an Honorary Award statuette for his contributions to the art of film music. Morricone's style of movie scoring inspired several film composers, including Hans Zimmer, to compose their soundtracks.
We will surely miss him. Here are the highlights of his film scores.
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