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Ennio Morricone, Oscar-Winning ‘Hateful Eight’ Composer, Dies at 91
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variety.comCarmel Dagan Staff WriterOscar winner Ennio Morricone, composer of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “The Mission” and among the most prolific and admired composers in film history, has died.
He was 91.The Italian maestro’s estimated 500 scores for films and television, composed over more than 50 years, are believed to constitute a record in Western cinema for sheer quantity of music.At least a dozen of them became film-score classics, from the so-called spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s, including “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “Once Upon a Time in the West” to the widely acclaimed “The Mission” and “Cinema Paradiso” of the 1980s.He was nominated six times for Oscars — for “Days of Heaven,” “The Mission,” “The Untouchables,”.
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