Hollywood composer Ennio Morricone who wrote the music for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly dies aged 91. Ennio Morricone, whose scores for movies such as ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, ‘The Mission’ and ‘Cinema Paradiso’ made him one of the world’s most famous and prolific screen composers, has died aged 91. Morricone, who won two Oscars and dozens of others awards including Golden Globes, Grammys and BAFTAs, broke his femur some days ago and died during the night in a clinic in Rome. A statement issued by lawyer and family friend Giorgio Assuma said Morricone ‘passed away in the early hours of July 6 with the comfort of his faith’. He remained ‘fully lucid and with great dignity right until the end,’ the statement said. His last Oscar was in 2016 for best original score for Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’. He first declined the job, but then relented, demanding that Tarantino allow him a ‘total break with the style of Western films I wrote 50 years ago’.
