Ennio Morricone finally bags an Oscar after 500 movie credits

After having over 500 movie credits, Italian composer Ennio Morricone finally landed Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards, The Independent reported. The 87 year old composer had received an honorary Oscar for his lifetime contribution in 2007 Academy Awards event.

After his sixth nomination and first Oscar for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, he stated; “There isn’t a great soundtrack without a great movie that inspires it. This is why I thank Quentin Tarantino for choosing me, as well as the producer Harvey Weinstein and the whole crew.”

Morricone had previously been nominated five times for the Academy Award; for his scores to Days of Heaven(1978), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991), and Malèna (2000). He even scored for Sergio Leone’s iconic western trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).It’s never too late to win, especially for the genre Morricone is most associated with.

It’s a win which will surely bring Tarantino great pleasure as well, with an original Morricone score fulfilling a real ambition within the director’s own filmography. Morricone had previously declined scoring Inglorious Basterds (2009), though later agreeing to provide a single, new piece for Django Unchained (2012).