Ennio Morricone getting Honorary Oscar Award

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Finally!

― Michael Costello (Michael Costello), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Does he make music?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Amazing that he never won one. I see he wasn't even nominated until 1978!

― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Funny, I've never thought of his stuff as music, just as sound along with stuff. With the exception of Gabriel's Oboe, which is a lovely wee piece of music.

― Andrew Munro (andyboyo), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

Saying, "Funny, I've never thought of his stuff as music", in regards to Morricone is... just... wow.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Ok then, music yes, just a bit like listening to Philip Glass - it's a whitewash of something (in Morricone's case it seems to be piano) and that's it. Maybe I just need educated.

― Well ok then... (andyboyo), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

yah probably. i dont mean to be insulting. the dude has tons of poppy material, rocking material, orchestral stuff, ragtime stuff.. theres lots of 'melodic' pieces.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

just go and buy the 'crime and dissonance' compilation. you'll never speak ill of ennio again.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

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Hah, 'melodic' - that'd get me into it. Anything with a tune!

― Andrew Munro (andyboyo), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

welcome to ILM!

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

hooray! i love ennio morricone!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

yah and dont get 'crime and dissonance' if you're looking for more musical pieces. thats mostly his avant tard shit.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

that's pretty unfair and inaccurate...there's a lot of beautiful, melodic stuff on there.

'avant tard'. ah, that's clever. I see what you did there. very clever. you should write a book full of cleverness.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

He takes diversity to new levels! Also, genius. My favourite composer of instrumental music. The Academy's lack of worth/relevance is exemplified by the fact that they've never recognised the Maestro until now.

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morricone: s/d (again)

― myopic_void (myopic_void), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

ennio morricone is one of those unassailable dudes, like fela or miles or steely dan.

― roger goodell (gear), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

like fela or miles or steely dan

I swear I will never understand what people hear in the dan. there must be countless threads here that offer vague enlightenment.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Be patient, son, it will come to you.

― myopic_void (myopic_void), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

doubtful. but if it does, I know I'll be ready for the soylent green suicide parlour.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

ok. i hate you.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

ah, bless.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

I swear I will never understand what people hear in the dan. there must be countless threads here that offer vague enlightenment.

LOOK UPON MY WORKS AND TREMBLE FOR MY NAME IS THE DAN

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, my (entirely justified) dan hatred has derailed this thread.

my apologies.

carry on.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

And c'mon, Morricone deserves one for the theme song to The Good, The Bad & The Ugly alone.

I think there's actually a Morricone reference in that SD thread...

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

fagan interviewed him for premiere magazine once.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, found it. Donald Fagen interviewing Morricone. For this exchange, he should also be offered an Oscar:

Fagen: But isn't it true that the Leone films, with their elevation of mythic structures, their comic book visual style and extreme irony, are now perceived as signaling an aesthetic transmutation by a generation of artists and filmmakers? And isn't it also true that your music for those films reflected and abetted Leone's vision by drawing on the same eerie catalog of genres - Hollywood western, Japanese samurai, American pop, and Italian Opera? That your scores functioned both "inside" the film as a narrative voice and "outside" the film as the commentary of a winking jester? Put it all together and doesn't it spell "postmodern", in the sense that there has been a grotesque encroachment of the devices of art and, in fact, an establishment of a new narrative plane founded on the devices themselves? Isn't that what's attracting lower Manhattan?

Morricone: [ shrugs ]

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

Has Morricone really not gotten an Oscar for anything? That seems impossible to believe?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

'tis sad but true. not that the oscars mean that much to the outside world, but it's still pretty shameful he never got one.

all EM's spaghetti western stuff is pretty astonishing.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride...

2001 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Score
for: Malèna (2000)
1992 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Score
for: Bugsy (1991)
1988 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Score
for: The Untouchables (1987)
1987 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Score
for: The Mission (1986)
1979 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Score
for: Days of Heaven (1978)

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

Strangely none of those is anywhere near his best stuff (well I've not seen Malena, but none of the other stuff is.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

'once upon a time in the west' should have won that year and each subsequent year.

― roger goodell (gear), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

malena's well worth seeing. bellucci + morricone.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Academy Awards in being slow-on-the-uptake shockah!

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

He should have won for one of his giallo soundtracks in the early '70's: literally tons of great stuff.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

four flies on grey velevet is great great great.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

yeah.
and there are lots of other great soundtracks: "gli occhi freddi della paura", "una lucertola dalla pelle di donna", "giornata nera per l'ariete", "diabolik", "milano odia"...
unfortunately that era of the italian cinema is gone forever.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

dunno how much of this is still 'live' but dude was also sharing some great Goblin shit:

http://mondomorricone.blogspot.com/

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

hey, i like the Days of Heaven soundtrack. not his best, but not the worst either. plus it's such a... Sam Shepard movie. very menacing yet pastoral.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

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