Ennio Morricone
Composer
They're All My Children : An Interview with Ennio Morricone (Feature)His music was prominently featured in Quentin Tarantino's World War II revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds, and along the way Morricone has racked up heaps of awards, including five BAFTAs (Britain's equivalent of the Oscar), France's... In this article: Ennio Morricone, Oscar, Sergio Leone, Giuseppe Tornatore, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Mario Bava, Clint Eastwood, Malena, Inglourious Basterds, and World War II |
-
Wired: Underwire | August 26, 2009
Wired Playlist: Music and the Films of Quentin Tarantino
...we play tribute to the music of Quentin Tarantino's films, as well as his influences, with a tracks from Oscar-winning composers David Shire and Ennio Morricone (pictured right), the bands Smith and Chingon, and the late Nick Perito. Album:...
In this article: Quentin Tarantino, David Shire, Smith, Reservoir Dogs, Inglourious Basterds, Oscar, Wired.com, and The Alamo
-
www.washingtonpost.com | February 03, 2007
Oscar Honoree Morricone Conducts in U.S.
...Friday in a performance for invited guests who filled the U.N. General Assembly hall. Morricone, whose iconic theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is among his more than 400 film scores, picks up an honorary Oscar at the end of the...
In this article: Oscar, United Nations, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, United States, Coyote, Ecstasy of Gold, and Radio City
-
Morricone Says He Never Wanted an Oscar
...Leone. He had original score nominations for "Days of Heaven," "The Mission," "The Untouchables," "Bugsy" and "Malena." Morricone will receive the honorary Oscar during the Feb. 25 awards ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.
In this article: Oscar, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone, Stanley Kubrick, Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, Rome, and California
-
South Bend Tribune | November 05, 2009
Film score composer Morricone still active
...to the movies. Morricone sat down briefly at his Italian villa to discuss (long distance, via translator) how he got into music, his reticence to pick a favorite score and just how much that honorary Oscar meant to him. Q: What has always...
In this article: Academy Awards, Clint Eastwood, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, World War II, A Fistful of Dollars, and Mario Bava
-
The Australian | September 03, 2009
Saga restores passion to Venice
...the post-war era. Ennio Morricone, who scored the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, wrote the soundtrack for Baaria more than 20 years after that of Cinema Paradiso, which won the Oscar for best foreign film in 1989. The festival will...
In this article: Giuseppe Tornatore, Oscar, Cinema Paradiso, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, World War II, Italian Communist Party, Fairfax Media, David Kirk, and Venice Film Festival
-
Composer Morricone to Get Honorary Oscar
...the Bad and the Ugly," is finally getting an Oscar. Morricone, who has been nominated for five Academy Awards but never won, will receive an honorary Oscar at the Feb. 25 awards. "I certainly did not expect anything of the sort, by now...
In this article: Academy Awards, Coyote, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone, Cinema Paradiso, and Los Angeles
Trends
Loading...
More on Ennio Morricone
Description from Wikipedia:
Ennio Morricone, OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian Academy Award-winning composer. He has composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions. Morricone wrote the characteristic soundtracks of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) as well as The Great Silence (1968), and My Name Is Nobody (1973). His more recent compositions include the scores for The Thing (1982), Once Upon A Time In America (1984), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Cinema Paradiso (1988), Lolita (1997),The Legend of 1900 (1998), Malèna (2000), Mission to Mars (2000) and Fateless (2005). Ennio Morricone has won five Anthony Asquith Awards for Film Music by BAFTA in 1979–1992. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score in 1979–2001, winning none of them. Morricone received the Honorary Academy Award in 2007 "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music". He was the second composer to receive this award after its introduction.
- Birth Date:
- November 10, 1928
- Birthplace:
- Rome, Italy
- Occupation:
- composer, arranger, conductor
- Website:
- http://www.enniomorricone.it
Explore everything named Ennio Morricone...
