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Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary classical works. His career includes a wide range of composition genres, making him one of the world’s most versatile, prolific and influential film composers of all time. Morricone’s music has been used in more than 60 award-winning films.Born in Rome, Morricone’s absolute music production includes over 100 classical pieces composed since 1946. During the late 1950s he served as a successful studio arranger for RCA. He orchestrated over 500 songs with them and worked with musicians such as Paul Anka, Chet Baker and Mina. However, Morricone gained worldwide fame by composing (during the period 1960–75) the music for Italian westerns by directors such as Sergio Leone, Duccio Tessari and Sergio Corbucci, including the Dollars Trilogy, A Pistol for Ringo, The Big Gundown, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Great Silence, The Mercenary, A Fistful of Dynamite and My Name is Nobody.During the 1960s and ’70s, Morricone composed music for many film genres, ranging from comedy and drama to action thrillers and historical films. He achieved commercial success with several compositions, including “The Ecstasy of Gold”, the theme of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Man with Harmonica, the protest song “Here’s to You” sung by Joan Baez and “Chi Mai”. Between 1964 and 1980 Morricone was also the trumpet player and a co-composer for the avant-garde free improvisation group Il Gruppo. In 1978, he wrote the official theme for the 1978 FIFA World Cup.From the late-1970s, Morricone excelled in Hollywood, composing music for American directors such as John Carpenter, Brian De Palma, Barry Levinson, Mike Nichols and Oliver Stone. Morricone has composed the music for a number of Academy Award-winning motion pictures including Days of Heaven, The Mission, The Untouchables, Cinema Paradiso and Bugsy. Other noteworthy scores include Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Thing, Casualties of War, In the Line of Fire, Disclosure, Wolf, Bulworth, Mission to Mars and Ripley’s Game. In the 1980s and ’90s, Morricone continued to compose music for European directors.Morricone is associated with the Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore, and has composed music for many of his films, including Cinema Paradiso (1988). His more recent works include scores for the television series Karol and The End of a Mystery, 72 Meters and Fateless. In the 21st century, Morricone’s music has been reused for television and in movies including Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003), Death Proof (2007), Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012). In 2007, Morricone received the Academy Honorary Award “for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music”. He has been nominated for a IMDB Wikipedia $20 million 1928 1928-11-10 Composer Django Unchained (2012) Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone Net Worth Inglourious Basterds (2009) Karta Amerikoje (1984) Kingdom of Italy Music Department November 10 Rome Scorpio Soundtrack The Untouchables (1987)

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Ennio Morricone Trademarks

1. Heavy use of trumpets and classical guitar
2. Composes music for Sergio Leone’s films
3. Frequently uses female voices as instruments blended with his lush orchestrations

Ennio Morricone Quotes

• I definitely felt that I should have won for The Mission (1986). Especially when you consider that the Oscar-winner that year was ‘Round Midnight (1986), which was not an original score. It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces. So there could be no comparison with “The Mission”. [2001]
• You can’t save a bad movie with a good score.
• I’m not linked to one genre or another. I like to change, so there’s no risk of getting bored. I enjoy all sorts of films and I don’t consider myself a horror fan, although I do like Dario Argento’s and John Carpenter’s movies.

Ennio Morricone Important Facts

• His Oscar win for The Hateful Eight was his first competitive win.
• Quentin Tarantino accepted his Golden Globe win for The Hateful Eight on his behalf.
• Did not win an competitive Oscar until over 50 years in the industry.
• Despite his legendary reputation, he has only won one competitive Oscar.
• At age 87, he is the oldest winner of a competitive Oscar. He received an Oscar in 2016 for Best Original Score for The Hateful Eight.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 7065 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 26, 2016.
• Co-wrote “It couldn’t happen here” with the British pop duo Pet Shop Boys for their 1987 album “Actually”.
• He composed the official theme for the Argentina ’78 World Cup.
• Frequently uses Edda Dell’Orso to provide haunting wordless vocals on his film scores.
• After more than 40 years of working with Clint Eastwood, Morricone’s speech was translated from Italian to English by him at the 2007 Oscars.
• Supporter of the Italian center-left Democratic Party (PD) led by Walter Veltroni.
• Has worked with director Sergio Leone in numerous films, in fact, it was Leone’s trademark to work with Morricone.
• Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1992.
• Studied at the Conservatory of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia.
• Refuses to move to Hollywood despite being offered a villa by a studio.
• Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984.
• It’s been felt by some that he was deprived of a possible Academy Award when the U.S. distributor of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America (1984) failed to file the paperwork so the score could be considered for nomination. This score is still regarded as one of his best.
• Heavy-metal band Metallica starts their shows with Morricone’s instrumental “The Ecstasy Of Gold” (from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)) before appearing on stage.
• Father of Marco, Alessandra, Andrea Morricone and Giovanni Morricone.

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