StatsBirth Name: Ennio Morricone Age: 84, born 10 November 1928 Born and residing in:  Italy Ethnicity: White / Caucasian Relationship Status: Married Partner: Maria Travia
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Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 30 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces. Morricone is most famous for his work in the Spaghetti Westerns directed by his friend Sergio Leone, including A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Goo
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 30 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces. Morricone is most famous for his work in the Spaghetti Westerns directed by his friend Sergio Leone, including A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), but his career includes a wide range of composition genres making him one of the world's most versatile, prolific and influential artists.
Born in Rome, Morricone took up the trumpet as a child and attended the National Academy of Santa Cecilia to take lessons on the instrument at the age of nine. He formally entered a conservatory at the age of 12, enrolling in a four-year harmony programme. He received his trumpet diploma in 1946 and started working professionally, composing the music to "Il Mattino" ("The Morning"). Morricone soon gained popularity by writing his first background music for radio dramas and quickly moved into film.
In the 1950s he received the "Diploma in Instrumentation for Band" (fanfare) where he won a diploma in Composition under the composer Goffredo Petrassi. In 1955, Morricone started to ghost write and arrange music for other, already established film composers. Morricone soon came to the attention of his former school friend Sergio Leone, who hired Morricone to compose the music to some of his best known films. Together they created a distinctive score to accompany Leone's different version of the Western, A Fistful of Dollars.
In the 80s and 90s, Morricone continued to write the music for Leone's later films, including Once Upon a Time in America (1984). He also composed the music to Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) and Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso (1988). His more recent compositions include the scores for Malèna (2000), Fateless (2005), Baaria - La porta del vento (2009) and The Best Offer (2013).
Morricone has received two Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, five BAFTAs during 1979–1992, seven David di Donatello, eight Nastro d'Argento, and the Polar Music Prize in 2010. In 2007, he received the Academy Honorary Award "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music" and has been nominated for a further five Oscars in the category of Best Original Score during 1979–2001, but has never won competitively.
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 greatest composers for movies (7 person items)"1.for a few dollars more
2.the massacre
3.sixty seconds to what
4.goodbye colonel
5.the good,the bad and the ugly
6.a fistul of dollars, titoli
7.un amico
8.the vice of killing
9.without pity
10.deborah's theme
11.the mission
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 Favorite Film Composers (20 person items)"*The Man With No Name Trilogy (1964-1966)
*Once Upon a Time in tha West (1968)
*Days of Heaven (1978)
*The Thing (1982)
*Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
*The Mission (1986)
*The Untouchables (1987)"
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 My Favorite Film Score Composers (12 person items)"A Fistful of Dollars Suite (A Fistful of Dollars, 1964)
The Ecstasy of Gold (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966)
The Story of Solder (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968)
Poverty (Once Upon a Time in America, 1984)
Childhood Memories (Once Upon a Time in America, 1984)
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