Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
Legendary Italian film composer Ennio Morricone passed away on July 6, 2020. He was 91 years old. The accomplished maestro 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 at twelve, he entered a conservatory to study it. His classmate was filmmaker Sergio Leone, with whom he began collaborating by composing music for Leone's spaghetti westerns. These films are part of his trilogy with Clint Eastwood. Their careers took off with "A Fistful of Dollars," which gave 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 received an Honorary Award statuette for his contributions to film music. Morricone's movie-scoring style inspired several film composers, including Hans Zimmer, to create their own soundtracks.
We will surely miss him. Here are the highlights of his film scores.
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