ennio morricone chronological filmography

Began composing at age six.
1940 At age 12, enrolled in a a four-year harmony program at a music conservatory; variously reported as completing it in two years or six months (date approximate).
Became protege of composer Goffredo Petrassi.
Performed as a trumpet player in nightclubs.
Began composing and arranging scores for RAI television in the mid-1950s.
1959 Worked for RCA record company through the mid-1960s arranged songs by the likes of Mario Lanza, Renato Rascel and Rita Pavone.
Composed incidental music for various Italian plays including "La Pappa Reale" (1959), "Il Lieto Fine" (1960) and "Enrico 61" (1961).
1961 First film score, "Il Federale/The Fascist", an Italian feature.
1963 Contributed songs to the revue "La Manfrina".
1964 First collaboration with Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, "Before the Revolution".
1964 First collaboration with Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, "A Fistful of Dollars" starring Clint Eastwood.
1965 First collaboration with the Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio, "Fists in the Pocket".
1965 Became member of experimental music group Nuova Consonanza (date approximate).
1966 Reteamed with Leone and Eastwood with "For a Few Dollars More" (released in the United States in 1967).
1966 Scored ballet "Requiem per un Destino".
1966 First collaboration with Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, "Hawks and Sparrows".
1966 First collaboration with Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, "The Battle of Algiers".
1966 Composed his most well-known piece of film music, the theme to Leone's "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (film released in the USA in 1968).
1968 First collaboration with Italian filmmaker Elio Petri, "A Quiet Place in the Country".
1968 Scored Pasolini's "Teorema".
1969 First collaboration with Italian filmmaker Dario Argento, "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage".
1969 Collaborated again with Leone on "Once Upon a Time in the West".
1970 First US feature credit, Don Siegel's "Two Mules For Sister Sara" (starring Eastwood).
1971 Scored Pasolini's "The Decameron".
1972 Worked on the score for Dario Argento's "Four Flies on Grey Velvet".
1973 Scored Damiano Damiani's "Il Sorriso de Grande Tentatore/The Tempter".
1975 US TV debut, scored and served as music director on the six-hour CBS miniseries "Moses -- the Lawgiver" (also TV acting debut of Burt Lancaster).
1978 Received first Academy Award nomination for his haunting musical score for "Days of Heaven", directed by Terrence Malick.
1979 Provided uncredited opera music adaptations for Bertolucci's "La Luna".
1982 Had more television success with the score for "Marco Polo" (NBC).
1984 Scored Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America".
1985 Conducted a series of concerts of his work throughout Europe.
1986 Wrote the score to "The Mission", directed by Roland Joffe; garnered second Oscar nomination.
1987 Composed and orchestrated the atmospheric music for "The Untouchables", directed by Brian De Palma; received third Academy Academy Award nomination.
1989 Scored "Casualties of War" (helmed by De Palma) and "Old Gringo".
1990 Was the subject of an Italian TV documentary entitled "La Musica Negli Occhi".
1991 Composed and conducted the score for Barry Levinson's early mob tale "Bugsy"; picked up fourth Oscar nomination.
1992 Scored the Roland Joffe-directed drama "City of Joy".
1993 Contributed the music to the Clint Eastwood action blockbuster vehicle "In the Line of Fire".
1994 Scored "Wolf", a modernized werewolf film starring Jack Nicholson; also composed the music for "Disclosure" and the remake of "Love Affair", produced by and starring Warren Beatty.
1995 Wrote score for "Who Killed Pasolini?", a provocative feature film investigation into the murder of the famed director.
1997 Composed and orchestrated the music for the controversial remake "Lolita" and Oliver Stone's "U-Turn".
1998 Scored the political satire "Bulworth", directed by Warren Beatty.
1998 Created the sweeping music for "The Legend of 1900/The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean".
1999 Wrote the music for Dario Argento's remake of "The Phantom of the Opera".
2000 Reteamed with De Palma for the score to "Mission from Mars".
2000 Penned the lovely score for "Vatel", Roland Joffe's 18th-century romance.
2000 Earned fine notices for his music for the Italian film "Canone Inverso/Making Love".
2000 Garnered fifth career Oscar nomination for the score to "Malena".