{"id":7232,"date":"2016-03-01T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2016-03-06T11:58:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T18:58:47","slug":"morricone-finally-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/01\/morricone-finally-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Morricone Finally Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/awards\/italy-cheers-ennio-morricone-oscar-for-hateful-eight-score-1201718070\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Variety<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Italy Cheers Ennio Morricone\u2019s Oscar Win for \u2018The Hateful Eight\u2019 Score<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/author\/nick-vivarelli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Nick Vivarelli<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/ennio-morricone-oscar-win.jpg?w=670&amp;h=377&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Ennio Morricone wins Oscar\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>A.M.P.A.S.\/REX<\/em> SHUTTERSTOCK<\/p>\n<p>ROME \u2013\u00a0Italy on Monday cheered <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/news\/ennio-morricone-best-original-score-the-hateful-eight-oscars-2016-1201717438\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ennio Morricone\u2019s Oscar victory<\/a> for composing the original score for Quentin Tarantino\u2019s \u201cThe Hateful Eight,\u201d which marks the first competitive Oscar won by the 87-year old maestro with more than 500 movie credits to this name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter an almost 60-year-long career, and five nominations which had left him empty-handed, <a id=\"auto-tag_ennio-morricone\" href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ennio-morricone\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag=\"ennio-morricone\">Ennio Morricone<\/a> finally brings an Oscar for best score home,\u201d trumpeted daily La Republica on its website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuperb Maestro, finally!\u201d tweeted Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi at dawn, Italian time. Also on Twitter Italo Culture Czar Dario Franceschini enthused that \u201can all-time movie giant has triumphed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morricone, who received an honorary Oscar in 2007, had been nominated five previous times, for \u201cDays of Heaven,\u201d \u201cThe Mission,\u201d \u201cThe Untouchables,\u201d \u201cBugsy\u201d and \u201cMalena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But international accolades for Morricone came after what is now considered his most groundbreaking work, on scores for Sergio Leone\u2019s so-called \u201cDollars Trilogy\u201d \u2013 \u201cA Fistful of Dollars,\u201d \u201cFor a Few Dollars More,\u201d and \u201cThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.\u201d And also on Leone\u2019s \u201cOnce Upon a Time in the West.\u201d They revolutionized the way Westerns, and movies at large, are scored.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/awards\/italy-cheers-ennio-morricone-oscar-for-hateful-eight-score-1201718070\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at Variety<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Variety Italy Cheers Ennio Morricone\u2019s Oscar Win for \u2018The Hateful Eight\u2019 Score by\u00a0Nick Vivarelli A.M.P.A.S.\/REX SHUTTERSTOCK ROME \u2013\u00a0Italy on Monday cheered Ennio Morricone\u2019s Oscar victory for composing the original score for Quentin Tarantino\u2019s \u201cThe Hateful Eight,\u201d which marks the first competitive Oscar won by the 87-year old maestro with more than 500 movie credits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}