Ennio Morricone to Receive Oscar

Posted by Sarah Canice Funke Dec 14, 2006

Italian composer Ennio Morricone is scheduled to receive an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards this coming February. Though nominated five times for original score, this will be Morricone's first Oscar.

The composer's score for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, with its electric guitars and whistling, set the sound for a number of later Western films. Morricone's other notable film scores include Days of Heaven (1978), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991) and Malena (2000).