Ennio Morricone, Oscar-winning film composer, dead at 91
Morricone is best known for scoring Leone's spaghetti Westerns which also included A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West and Duck, You Sucker. He also worked on Leone's Once Upon a Time in America.
The Italian composer earned an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2007, which was presented by Clint Eastwood, the actor who starred in A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Morricone won the Oscar for Best Original Score in 2016 for The Hateful Eight. He was also nominated for his work on Days of Heaven, The Mission, The Untouchables, Bugsy and Malena.
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I think those spaghetti westerns were the worst movies Eastwood ever appeared in.
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Maybe the plot and the acting sucked. But the music and the settings were great.
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