Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone has passed away at the age of 91. Morricone is best known for his work on Spaghetti Westerns like “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “Once Upon a Time in the West” and Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight,” which earned him an Academy Award. The famed composer was nominated for five previous Academy Awards for “Days of Heaven,” “The Mission,” “The Untouchables,” “Bugsy” and “Malena.”
Born in Rome, Morricone began his career to arranging and conducting for pop singers in the late 1950s. He would go on to compose an estimated 500 scores for films and television over the course of 50 years, beginning with “Il Federale” in 1961. In addition to his 2016 Oscar win for ‘The Hateful Eight,” Morricone won a Honorary Academy Award in 2007, plus seven David di Donatello awards, three Golden Globes, four Grammys, 11 Nastro d’Argento awards, four ASCAP Awards, six BAFTAs, ten David Awards, three European Film Awards, two LAFCA awards, ASCAP’s Golden Soundtrack Award and the career achievement award of the Film Music Society.
Morricone died on Monday morning in a Rome clinic, where he was taken shortly after suffering a fall that caused a hip fracture. He is survived by wife Maria Travia and their four children.
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