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Explore the career and life of Ennio Morricone, one of the most influential and versatile film composers of all time. Browse his credits, awards, trivia, photos, videos and more on IMDb.
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- Rome, Lazio, Italy
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- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Istful of Dollars - 8.0
- Estigation of A Citizen Above Suspicion - 8.1
- Battle of Algiers - 8.1
- Legend of 1900 - 8.1
- Thing - 8.1
- A Few Dollars More - 8.2
- E Upon A Time in America - 8.3
- Ema Paradiso - 8.5
- E Upon A Time in The West - 8.5
- Good, The Bad and The Ugly - 8.8
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Morricone's first collaboration with Sergio Leone, the soundtrack to A Fistful of Dollars, is one of the essential sounds of the Spaghetti Western. This score introduced several musical elements that would later define Morricone's unique take on the Western. The use of a string section, solo trumpet and choir create an atmosphere of majesty that is...
While not one of the most recognizable films that Morricone worked on, Elio Petri's Italian crime drama is one of the most acclaimed European films of the 1970s. With a riveting main theme, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicionis not what most might expect from Morricone. Elements of film noir and crime soundtracks, including the influence of ...
Gillo Pontecorvo's realization of the Algerian War of Independence is one of the best war movies ever made about a lesser-known war. Shot on the streets of Algiers itself, The Battle of Algiersis based on events that took place between 1954 and 1957 in the attempts to drive out French colonial forces. Morricone's score is one of the darker ones he'...
A lesser-known film that Morricone has contributed to, The Legend of 1900is still one of his most significant collaborations with Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore. The film chronicles the life of 1900, a baby found on an ocean liner who grows up to be a prodigious jazz musician, never stepping foot on land. Due to the nature of the plot, jazz pl...
One of the few films by John Carpenter that he didn't soundtrack himself, The Thingmay not seem the most obvious type of film to feature music composed by Morricone. Despite this, his approach to composing for science fiction horror is compelling, with a score that's as delicate as it is tense. The film is a departure from the more grand soundtrack...
In many ways, For a Few Dollars More is a natural progression in Leone and Morricone's reworking of the Western genre. The film builds on the themes introduced in For a Fistful of Dollars, including a unique approach to music and narrative. RELATED: Sergio Leone's Best Scenes From His Spaghetti Westerns Morricone plays with dynamics much more in th...
Sergio Leone's final film, and his first in 13 years, is a gangster epic following two young Jewish men who become prominent in the New York crime world. Morricone's soundtrack is suitably sweeping for such a lengthy film and is essential in accompanying a narrative that lasts for over three hours. The main suite from Once Upon a Time in Americaand...
In Morricone's most famous collaboration with Giuseppe Tornatore, his score accompanies the sweeping drama that follows Salvatore Di Vita's early life and his cinematic education as an assistant to a projectionist. The film itself is a love letter to cinema, and it's fitting that Morricone provides a heartfelt score full of orchestral grandeur. The...
Released just after the Dollars Trilogy, both Leone and Morricone are at the height of their powers with Once Upon a Time in the West, and the score really enhances the melancholy of the end of an era. Morricone's theme helps characterize the main trio of Frank, Jill, and Harmonica, with each of their themes being accompanied by a different instrum...
Undoubtedly Morricone's most iconic soundtrack to date, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly more than deserves its place at the top of this list. The film has long retained a spot in the IMDb Top 10, and its score is infamous for contributing to the film's sinister, tense, and cool atmosphere. While almost every musical moment in the film deserves menti...
IMDb ranks the top 10 films that feature the legendary composer's music, from Westerns to war movies to sci-fi horror. Discover the iconic themes and motifs that Morricone created for Sergio Leone, Giuseppe Tornatore, John Carpenter and more.
Ennio Morricone OMRI (Italian: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; 10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles.
- 50 years of movie magic. On 6 July 2020, it was announced that movie music maestro Ennio Morricone has died in Rome. As the music and film world mourns one of its greats, we honour the incredible contribution of the man who penned over 500 movies and TV series, won hearts, and changed the sound of cinema forever.
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Moviegoers got to see Clint Eastwood's inscrutable 'man with no name' for the first time in Sergio Leone's pioneering Spaghetti Western.
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) The third film in the so-called 'Dollars Trilogy' following 'A Fistful of Dollars' and 'For a Few Dollars More'.
- Once Upon a Time in the West. An epic story with all the expected ingredients - a mysterious stranger (with harmonica), a notorious desperado, the beautiful widow in danger, and a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
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Jul 6, 2020 · Below, 10 essential Morricone scores. Italian composer, arranger and conductor Ennio Morricone records a choral group for the score of the Warner Bros film ‘Exorcist II: The Heretic’ in 1977...
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Nov 10, 2015 · A tribute to the legendary Italian composer who turned 87 on November 10, 2015. Explore his musical range and influence across genres, from westerns to horror, with 30 of his most memorable and influential scores.
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