Editing Ennio Morricone (section)

====1986–2020: From ''The Mission'' to ''The Hateful Eight''====

'''Association with Roland Joffé'''

{{main|The Mission (soundtrack)}}
''The Mission'', directed by Joffé, was about a piece of history considerably more distant, as [[Society of Jesus|Spanish Jesuit]] [[Missionary|missionaries]] see their work undone as a tribe of Paraguayan natives fall within a territorial dispute between the Spanish and Portuguese. At one point the score was one of the world's best-selling film scores, selling over 3&nbsp;million copies worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.onlineseats.com/ennio-morricone-tickets/index.asp |title=Morricone biography |publisher=Onlineseats.com |date=25 February 2007 |access-date=12 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124000932/http://www.onlineseats.com/ennio-morricone-tickets/index.asp |archive-date=24 November 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.limburger.nl/article/20081110/ERISEREENJARIG01/138962896/1121/erisereenjarig01 |title=Morricone is 80, Limburger.nl, November 2008, 10th |publisher=Limburger.nl |access-date=12 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214003525/http://www.limburger.nl/article/20081110/ERISEREENJARIG01/138962896/1121/erisereenjarig01 |archive-date=14 February 2012}}</ref>

Morricone finally received a second Oscar nomination for ''The Mission''.<ref name="oscars.org"/> Morricone's original score lost out to [[Herbie Hancock]]'s coolly arranged jazz on [[Bertrand Tavernier]]'s ''[[Round Midnight (film)|Round Midnight]]''. It was considered a surprising win and a controversial one, given that much of the music in the film was pre-existing.<ref name="hitfix.com">[http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/the-mission-tops-variety-composers-poll-of-the-all-time-greatest-film-scores#qCzZXYxvpBfl9OLq.99 "'The Mission' tops Variety composers' poll of the all-time greatest film scores"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116111026/http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/the-mission-tops-variety-composers-poll-of-the-all-time-greatest-film-scores#qCzZXYxvpBfl9OLq.99 |date=16 November 2012 }}, HitFix, Guy Lodge, 14 November 2012.</ref> Morricone stated the following during a 2001 interview with ''[[The Guardian]]'': "I definitely felt that I should have won for ''The Mission''. Especially when you consider that the Oscar winner that year was ''Round Midnight'', which was not an original score. It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces. So there could be no comparison with ''The Mission''. There was a theft!"<ref name="Sweeting interview">{{cite news |author=[[Adam Sweeting]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/feb/23/culture.features1 |title=Mozart of film music? The Friday interview |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=23 February 2001 |access-date=24 August 2014 |location=London}}</ref> His score for ''The Mission'' was ranked at number 1 in a poll of the all-time greatest film scores. The top 10 list was compiled by 40 film composers such as [[Michael Giacchino]] and [[Carter Burwell]].<ref name="hitfix.com"/> The score is ranked 23rd on the AFI's list of 25 greatest film scores of all time.<ref>{{cite web |author=American Film Institute |url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-of-film-scores/ |title=AFI's Top 25 |publisher=Afi.com |date=23 September 2005 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref>
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