Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. He received numerous accolades throughout his career, including two Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven Nastro d'Argento, two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and the Polar Music Prize. His filmography includes more than 70 award-winning films, all of Sergio Leone's films from A Fistful of Dollars on, all of Giuseppe Tornatore's films since Cinema Paradiso, Dario Argento's Animal Trilogy, as well as The Battle of Algiers, 1900, La Cage aux Folles, Le Professionnel, The Thing, The Key by Tinto Brass and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!. He received the Academy Award for Best Original Score nominations for Days of Heaven, The Mission, The Untouchables, Bugsy, Malèna and The Hateful Eight, winning for the last. He won the Academy Honorary Award in 2007. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_M...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)