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Ennio Morricone
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Biography
Ennio Morricone OMRI (Italian: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; November 10, 1928 – July 6, 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. He has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven Nastro d'Argento, two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and the Polar Music Prize in 2010.
Notable films
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The Thing
Original Music Composer
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Wolf
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Great Silence
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
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The Untouchables
Original Music Composer
Once Upon a Time in America
Original Music Composer
The Hateful Eight
Original Music Composer
Chains
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Discs That Changed How Britain Watched
When DVD landed in Britain in 1997 it promised cinema in your living room. The discs that followed rewired what collectors expected from a film at home.
10 films
Italian Genre Gold
From Eurospy to spaghetti westerns and gothic horror, this chain celebrates the wild stylistic energy of Italian genre cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, with a nod...
8 films
Fur and Fangs
From the eerie moors of England to the neon streets of Tokyo, this chain of eight films reveals the werewolf as a creature of endless reinvention, embodying hor...
8 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
When the Sequel Outshines the Original
From gritty crime epics to mind-bending sci-fi, these sequels didn't just continue stories, they redefined them. Here's a chain of films that prove the second (...
8 films
The DVDs That Changed Everything
In the autumn of 1997, the first DVD players reached British shops, and the format arrived with a sales pitch that sounded too good to be true: cinema in your l...
13 films
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The Hateful Eight
2015
The Best Offer
2013
La provinciale
2006
Ripley's Game
2002
Mission to Mars
2000
U Turn
1997
The Stendhal Syndrome
1996
Wolf
1994
Abraham
1993
Bugsy
1991
Casualties of War
1989
Cinema Paradiso
1988
The Untouchables
1987
The Mission
1986
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
The Key
1983
The Thing
1982
Bloodline
1979
A Dangerous Toy
1979
La Cage aux Folles
1978
The Night Caller
1975
The Antichrist
1974
Property Is No Longer a Theft
1973
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
1971
Duck, You Sucker
1971
The Cat o' Nine Tails
1971
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970
Tepepa
1969
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
The Mercenary
1968
The Great Silence
1968
Danger: Diabolik
1968
Operation Kid Brother
1967
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966
The Battle of Algiers
1966
Seven Guns for the MacGregors
1966
For a Few Dollars More
1965
The Return of Ringo
1965
A Pistol for Ringo
1965
A Fistful of Dollars
1964
Crazy Desire
1962