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| December 15, 2006 |
| Ennio Morricone: The Good, the Bad and the Oscar |
Cue the coyote howl. One of cinema's most iconic music men is finally getting his due.Ennio Morricone, the Italian maestro behind such memorable soundtracks as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and The Untouchables, has been tapped to receive an honorary Oscar at this February's Academy Awards.A five-time nominee for his scores to The Untouchables, Days of Heaven, The Mission, Bugsy and Maléna, Morricone has never won a statuette, even though his music is among the most recognizable committed to celluloid.
The 78-year-old composer was cited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for his "magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music" and will be on hand to accept his golden guy at the 79th Annual Academy Awards Feb. 25 at Hollywood's Kodak Theater."The board was responding not just to the remarkable number of scores that Mr. Morricone has produced, but to the fact that so many of them are beloved and popular masterpieces," Academy president Sid Ganis said in making the announcement. |
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