Morricone to receive honorary Oscar
Five nominations but not a single win: Ennio Morricone (78) will finally receive an honorary Oscar for his career at the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony, to be held in Los Angeles on February 25. This was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organizes the prestigious event, recognizing the “magnificent and multi-faceted contributions to the art of film music” produced by Morricone for the big screen.
"The board was responding not just to the remarkable number of scores that Mr Morricone has produced," said Academy president Sid Ganis, "but to the fact that so many of them are beloved and popular masterpieces".
These popular masterpieces include Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables and Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore, who won the 1990 Best Foreign Film Oscar.
However, Morricone’s artistry and popularity are tied most of all to the Sergio Leone, with whom he began working in 1965 on the score of For a Fistful of Dollars and later on the masterpiece Once Upon a Time in America.
(Translated from Italian)
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