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A classmate of director Sergio Leone with whom he would form one of the great director/composer partnerships (right up there with Eisenstein & Prokofiev, Hitchcock & Herrmann, Fellini & Rota), Ennio Morricone studied at Rome's Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he specialized in trumpet. His first film scores were relatively undistinguished, but he was hired by Leone for A Fistful of Dollars (1964) on the strength of some of his song arrangements. His score for that film, with its sparse arrangements, unorthodox instrumentation (bells, electric guitars, harmonicas, the distinctive twang of the jew's harp) and memorable tunes, revolutionized the way music would be used in Westerns, and it is hard to think of a post-Morricone Western score that doesn't in some way reflect his influence. Although his name will always be synonymous with the spaghetti Western, Morricone has also contributed to a huge range of other film genres: comedies, dramas, thrillers, horror films, romances, art movies, exploitation movies - making him one of the film world's most versatile artists. He has written nearly 400 film scores, so a brief summary is impossible, but his most memorable work includes the Leone films, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966) , Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) and Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso (1988), plus a rare example of sung opening credits for Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966).

Ennio Morricone at an event for The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007)

I&#39;m not linked to one genre or another. I like to change, so there&#39;s no
risk of getting bored. I enjoy all sorts of films and I don&#39;t consider
myself a horror fan, although I do like <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000783/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Dario Argento</a>&#39;s and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000118/?ref_=nmqu_qu">John Carpenter</a>&#39;s movies.

You can&#39;t save a bad movie with a good score.

I definitely felt that I should have won for <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0091530/?ref_=nmqu_qu">The Mission (1986)</a>. Especially when you consider that the Oscar-winner that year was <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0090557/?ref_=nmqu_qu">&#39;Round Midnight (1986)</a>, which was not an original score. It had a very good arrangement by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0359372/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Herbie Hancock</a>, but it used existing pieces. So there could be no comparison with &quot;The Mission&quot;. [2001]

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