I read over at The Scotsman (???) via In Contention that film composer Ennio Morricone will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from AMPAS as next year's Oscar ceremony. And ya what? I couldn't agree more! It's all well and good to reward the directors and actors who got snubbed throughout their lives, but people like Ennio and others in the technical arena seem to continously be pushed aside. So it's nice to read that Morricone will have an Oscar come February next year. He's received five Oscar nominations in his time. Days of Heaven in 1978, The Mission in 1986, The Untouchables in 1987, Bugsy in 1991 and, most recently, Malèna in 2000.My very favourite Morricone score is that for Terrance Malick's Days of Heaven, a personal all-timer for me. It's probably the most perfect merging of images and sound ever put to screen. I don't care about the characters, or the dialogue, or the plot (well, no, I do. Obviously), but seeing those images with Morricone's music over the top is just... *sigh*. It's dreamy.
5x2 (2005)
Malèna (2000)
Vatel (2000)
Bulworth (1998)
Lolita (1997)
U-Turn (1997)
Wolf (1994)
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Bugsy (1991)
Hamlet (1990)
Casualties of War (1989)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Frantic (1988)
The Untouchables (1987)
The Mission (1986)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
The Thing (1982)
La Cage Aux Folles (1978)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Il Mostro (1977)
The Inheritence (1976)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
The Infernal Trio (1974)
Death Rides a Horse (1967)
The Rover (1966)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
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