The Hollywood Reporter
By Ariston Andersen
Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein will be among
those helping to honor the Academy Award winning composer.
Academy Award winning composer Ennio Morricone will be
honored with the 2,574th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday February
26 at 11:30 a.m. at 7065 Hollywood Blvd. Guest speakers at the ceremony will
include director Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Weinstein and Los Angeles Italia
Film Fashion and Art Fest founder Pascal Vicedomini (The festival, held Feb.
21-Feb. 27, will also honor Morricone).
Morricone will get honored in the category of live
performance/theatre.
Morricone, who doesn’t often travel from Europe, is
expected to stay for the Oscars ceremony, where he is nominated in the best
score category for The Hateful Eight. Morricone has already won a Golden Globe
and a BAFTA award for the score for the film.
The 87-year old composer is one of the most prolific
composers of our time, selling over 70 million records over his 70-year career.
He has composed 500 scores for cinema and television, as well as over a hundred
classical works.
Morricone has worked with such directors as Sergio Leone,
Gillo Pontecorvo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Lina Wertmuller,
Giuseppe Tornatore, Brian De Palma, Roman Polanski, Warren Beatty, Oliver
Stone, and Pedro Almodovar. Some of his best known scores apart from Leone’s
Dollars Trilogy include The Battle of Algiers, Sacco and Vanzetti, Cinema
Paradiso; The Legend of 1900, Malena, The Untouchables, Once Upon a Time in
America, and The Mission.
The soundtrack from the film The Good, The Bad and The
Ugly was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009. Over his career,
Morricone has been nominated for seven Oscars, received one honorary Oscar, won
three Golden Globes, eight Nastri D’Argentos, one Grammy, five BAFTAs and seven
David Di Donatello awards.
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