Italy’s Ennio Morricone, Oscar-winning composer for the movies, dies at 91

Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer whose haunting scores to Spaghetti Westerns like "A Fistful of Dollars" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" helped define a cinematic era, has died. He was 91, France 24 reports. 

Morricone had broken his femur some days ago and died during the night in a clinic in Rome, Italian news agency ANSA said on Monday.

Born in Rome in 1928, Morricone wrote scores for some 400 films but his name was most closely linked with the director Sergio Leone, with whom he worked on the now-classic Spaghetti Westerns as well as "Once Upon a Time in America".

Morricone worked in almost all film genres — from horror to comedy — and some of his melodies are perhaps more famous than the films he wrote them for.

After decades of being snubbed at the Oscars, he finally won an Academy Award in 2016 for his soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight".

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