THE HATEFUL EIGHT's Ennio Morricone Wins Oscar for Original Score

By: Feb. 28, 2016
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Ennio Morricone has won the Academy Award for Original Music Score for THE HATEFUL EIGHT. This is the sixth Academy Award nomination for Morricone. He was previously nominated for:

MALÈNA (2000)
Nominee, Music (Original Score)

BUGSY (1991)
Nominee, Music (Original Score)

THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987)
Nominee, Music (Original Score)

THE MISSION (1986)
Nominee, Music (Original Score)

DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978)
Nominee, Music (Original Score)

Morricone also received an Honorary Award in 2006 "in recognition of his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to THE ART OF film music."

Other films in the category include Bridge of Spies, Sicario, Carol, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

About the film: A few years after the Civil War, a bounty hunter is taking in a female outlaw in Wyoming when their stagecoach is stopped by a former Union officer and a Southerner. The quartet is then forced to seek shelter from a blizzard at a waystation, where four more travelers greet them, and as tensions rise, the eight realize that they may not all survive.

The 88th ACADEMY AWARDS are taking place tonight, Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and are being televised live by the ABCTelevision Network. The Oscar presentation is also being televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. Comedian, actor and filmmaker Chris Rock returns as host of the event for a second time.



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