Tuesday, January 9, 2007

An Oscar for Ennio Morricone


Hollywood renders honor to Ennio Moricone: this grand Italian composer will receive this February an Oscar for his career.
Morricone, at 78, has composed approximately 400 movie soundtracks and film music and the Acadamey has declared the desire to reward him for "his magnificient contribution for his multiple aspects of music as art in films".
He became famous thanks to the music of "A Fisftul of Dollars", a movie of Sergio Leone, while the Maestro has composed other music to films such as: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", "Once Upon a Time in America", "The Untouchables" and New Cinema Paradise".
The Roma composer, satisfied and content, commented to this news "A hole which needed to be filled". Morricone, in fact, was candidate five times, but never conquered the gold statuette.

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