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===Composer for Giuseppe Tornatore=== In 1988, Morricone started an ongoing and very successful collaboration with Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore. His first score for Tornatore was for the drama film ''Cinema Paradiso''. The international version of the film won the [[Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)|Special Jury Prize]] at the [[1989 Cannes Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/236/year/1989.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Cinema Paradiso |access-date=1 August 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820055739/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/236/year/1989.html |archive-date=20 August 2011}}</ref> and the 1989 [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]. Morricone received a [[BAFTA]] award with his son [[Andrea Morricone|Andrea]], and a [[David di Donatello]] for his score. In 2002, the [[director's cut]] 173-minute version was released (known in the US as ''Cinema Paradiso: The New Version'').<ref name="Brigden" /> After the success of ''Cinema Paradiso'', the composer wrote the music for all subsequent films by Tornatore: the drama film ''[[Everybody's Fine (1990 film)|Everybody's Fine]]'' (Stanno Tutti Bene, 1990), ''[[A Pure Formality]]'' (1994) starring [[Gérard Depardieu]] and Roman Polanski, ''[[The Star Maker (1995 film)|The Star Maker]]'' (1995), ''[[The Legend of 1900]]'' (1998) starring [[Tim Roth]], the 2000 romantic drama ''[[Malèna (soundtrack)|Malèna]]'' (which featured [[Monica Bellucci]]) and the psychological thriller mystery film ''[[La sconosciuta]]'' (2006). Morricone also composed the scores for ''[[Baarìa (film)|Baarìa]]'' (2009), ''[[The Best Offer]]'' (2013) starring [[Geoffrey Rush]], [[Jim Sturgess]] and [[Donald Sutherland]] and the romantic drama ''[[The Correspondence]]'' (2015)<ref name="Brigden">Charlie Brigden: [https://www.rogerebert.com/tributes/ennio-morricone-1928-2020 Ennio Morricone: 1928–2020] rogerebert.com & July 2020</ref><!-- starring [[Jeremy Irons]] and [[Olga Kurylenko]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}} --> The composer won several music awards for his scores in Tornatore's movies. Morricone received a fifth Academy Award nomination and a [[Golden Globe]] nomination for ''Malèna''. For ''Legend of 1900'', he won a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score]].<ref>Bizio, Silvio: [https://www.goldenglobes.com/articles/memoriam-ennio-morricone-golden-globe-winner-1928-2020 In Memoriam: Ennio Morricone, Golden Globe Winner, 1928–2020] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708045436/https://www.goldenglobes.com/articles/memoriam-ennio-morricone-golden-globe-winner-1928-2020 |date=8 July 2020 }} goldenglobes.com 6 July 2020</ref> In September 2021 Tornatore presented out of competition at the [[78th Venice International Film Festival]] a documentary film about Morricone, ''[[Ennio (film)|Ennio]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Foreman |first1=Liza |title=Giuseppe Tornatore Gets Standing Ovation Before and After 'Ennio' Screens in Venice |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/global/venice-ennio-giuseppe-tornatore-1235061793/ |access-date=24 January 2022 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=11 September 2021}}</ref>
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