Ennio Morricone (Rome, 10 November 1928 - Rome, 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, musician, conductor and arranger.

The Italian composer wrote atmospheric scores for spaghetti westerns and some 500 films by a Who’s Who of international directors, two of the most famous: A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

His career includes a wide range of compositional genres, which make him one of the most versatile, prolific and influential soundtrack composers of all time. Morricone's music has been used in more than 60 award-winning films.

In 2007 Morricone received the honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement "for his magnificent contributions to the art of film music" after being nominated 5 times between 1979 and 2001 without ever having received the award. On February 28, 2016, he obtained his second Oscar for the scores of Quentin Tarantino's film, The Hateful Eight, for which he also won the Golden Globe.

Morricone has also won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello awards, eleven Silver Ribbons, two European Film Awards, a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and a Polar Music Prize. It also sold over 70 million records.

These are some many popular films of the past 40 years of Hollywood cinema: Édouard Molinaro's "La Cage aux Folles" (1978), Mr. Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982), Mr. De Palma's "The Untouchables" (1987), Roman Polanski's "Frantic" (1988), Giuseppe Tornatore's "Cinema Paradiso" (1988), Wolfgang Petersen's "In the Line of Fire" (1993), and Mr. Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films (2003, 2004) his "Django Unchained" (2012) and his "The Hateful Eight" (2015).

And to remind him I propose the soundtrack of this week for your days: the timeless masterpieces of Ennio Morricone