{"id":10799,"date":"2020-07-06T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10799"},"modified":"2020-07-13T11:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:27:24","slug":"morricone-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/06\/morricone-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Morricone Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/story\/2020-07-06\/ennio-morricone-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from the Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone dies at 91<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-david-colker-staff.html\" target=\"_blank\">DAVID COLKER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ennio Morricone - The Best of Ennio Morricone - Greatest Hits (HD Audio)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jjq6e1LJHxw?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oscar-winning film composer Ennio Morricone, who came to prominence with the Italian western \u201cA Fistful of Dollars\u201d and went on to write some of the most celebrated movie scores of all time, has died. He was 91.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morricone\u2019s longtime lawyer, Giorgio Assumma, told the Associated Press that the composer died early Monday in a Rome hospital of complications following a fall, in which he broke a leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A native of the Italian capital, Morricone composed music for more than 500 films and television shows in a career that spanned more than 50 years. At first he was closely associated with \u201cA Fistful of Dollars\u201d director Sergio Leone, for whom he scored six films, including \u201cThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly\u201d and \u201cOnce Upon a Time in America.\u201d Established in his own right, Morricone turned out classic scores for films such as \u201cDays of Heaven,\u201d \u201cBugsy,\u201d \u201cCinema Paradiso,\u201d \u201cThe Untouchables,\u201d \u201cLa Cage aux Folles\u201d and \u201cBattle of Algiers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A favorite of critics, directors and other composers, Morricone\u2019s score to the 1986 film \u201cThe Mission\u201d was voted best film score of all time in a 2012 Variety poll. On his sixth nomination, he finally won a competitive Oscar, in 2016, for his score for Quentin Tarantino\u2019s \u201cThe Hateful Eight.\u201d The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had awarded Morricone an honorary Oscar in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/story\/2020-07-06\/ennio-morricone-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Los Angeles Times Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone dies at 91 By\u00a0DAVID COLKER Oscar-winning film composer Ennio Morricone, who came to prominence with the Italian western \u201cA Fistful of Dollars\u201d and went on to write some of the most celebrated movie scores of all time, has died. He was 91. 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