Ennio Morricone was an Oscar-winning composer of movie soundtracks whose iconic music was the backdrop to films including “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”The Italian-born Morricone was known best by many for the soundtracks he composed for Sergio Leon’s spaghetti Westerns: “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964), “For a Few Dollars More” (1965), “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (1966), and the director’s later films.
But Morricone wasn’t tied to a single genre, and his compositions drove films from comedies to horror to romances and beyond.
He earned an Oscar nomination, his first of six, for Terence Malick’s period drama “Days of Heaven” (1978). Morricone was nominated again for “The Mission” (1986), which has been ranked among the all-time best.
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