Editing Ennio Morricone (section)

==Discography==
{{main|List of compositions by Ennio Morricone}}

Morricone sold well over 70&nbsp;million records worldwide during his career that spanned over seven decades,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://musica.net1news.org/morricone-contro-metodo-di-insegnamento-della-musica-a-scuola.html |title=Giusy |publisher=Net1News |access-date=17 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cultura.regione.emilia-romagna.it/notizie/2012/agosto/il-premio-oscar-alla-carriera-ennio-morricone-il-25-agosto-a-rimini |title=Il Premio Oscar alla carriera Ennio Morricone il 25 agosto a Rimini |publisher=ER Cultura |access-date=17 November 2012}}</ref> including 6.5&nbsp;million albums and singles in France,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Artiste_Ventes.php |title=EM single sales in France |publisher=Infodisc.fr |access-date=12 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105082230/http://www.infodisc.fr/Artiste_Ventes.php |archive-date=5 November 2013}}</ref> over three million in the United States and more than two million albums in South Korea.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/common_prog/newsprint.php?ud=20090512000054&dt=2|title=Ennio Morricone comes to Korea, May 12, 2009|language=ko|newspaper=[[The Korea Herald]]|date=30 March 2010|access-date=12 December 2011|archive-date=30 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151230042907/http://www.koreaherald.com/common_prog/newsprint.php?ud=20090512000054&dt=2|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1971, the composer received his first golden record (disco d'oro) for the sale of 1,000,000 records in Italy<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cinema.ilsole24ore.com/biografia/ennio-morricone/ |title=Biografia, EM |publisher=Cinema.ilsole24ore.com |access-date=12 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Artiste_Ventes.php |title=Artiste_Ventes en France |publisher=Infodisc.fr |access-date=12 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105082230/http://www.infodisc.fr/Artiste_Ventes.php |archive-date=5 November 2013}}</ref> and a "Targa d'Oro" (<small>[[:it:Targa d'oro|it]]</small>) for the worldwide sales of 22&nbsp;million.<ref name="Musicaedischi.it"/>

'''Selected long-time collaborations with directors'''
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|-
! scope="col" style="width:175px;"| ''Director''
! scope="col" style="width:75px;"| ''Period''
! scope="col" style="width:60px;"| ''No. of films''
! scope="col" style="width:175px;"| ''Film genre(s)''
! scope="col" style="width:450px;"| ''Film titles''
|-
| [[Mauro Bolognini]] (°1922–2001)
| 1967–91
| 15
| historical/drama/documentary
| including ''[[Le streghe]]'', ''[[L'assoluto naturale]]'', ''[[Un bellissimo novembre]]'', ''[[Metello]]'', ''[[The Venetian Woman]]'' and ''[[Farewell Moscow]]''
|-
| [[Alberto Negrin]] (1940–)
| 1987–2013
| 13
| crime/historic/drama
| including ''[[The Secret of the Sahara]]'', ''[[Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair]]'' and ''[[Il Cuore nel Pozzo]]''
|-
| [[Giuseppe Tornatore]] (1956–)
| 1988–2016
| 13
| historical/drama/documentary/advertising campaigns
| including ''[[Cinema Paradiso]]'', ''[[The Legend of 1900]]'', ''[[Malèna (film)|Malèna]]'', ''Baaria'' and ''[[The Best Offer]]''
|-
| [[Giuliano Montaldo]] (1930–2023)
| 1967–2008
| 12
| crime/historic/drama
| including ''[[Grand Slam (1967 film)|Grand Slam]]'', ''[[Sacco e Vanzetti (1971 film)|Sacco e Vanzetti]]'', ''[[A Dangerous Toy]]'', ''[[Marco Polo (1982 TV series)|Marco Polo]]'' and ''[[Time to Kill (1989 film)|Tempo di uccidere]]''
|-
| [[Luciano Salce]] (1922–1989)
| 1959–66
| 11
| comedy/drama/historical
| including ''[[Il Federale]]'', ''[[El Greco (1966 film)|El Greco]]'', ''[[Slalom (1965 film)|Slalom]]'' and ''[[Come imparai ad amare le donne]]''
|-
| [[Aldo Lado]] (1934–2023)
| 1971–81
| 9
| mystery/thriller
| including ''[[Chi l'ha vista morire?]]'', ''[[Sepolta viva]]'', ''[[L'ultimo treno della notte]]'' and ''[[The Humanoid (1979 film)|L'umanoide]]''
|-
| [[Roberto Faenza]] (1943–)
| 1968–95
| 8
| crime/horror/historical
| including ''[[Escalation (1968 Italian film)|Escalation]]'', ''[[Si salvi chi vuole]]'', ''[[Copkiller]]'' and ''[[Sostiene Pereira]]''
|-
| [[Sergio Leone]] (1929–1989)
| 1964–84
| 8
| western/crime
| including the ''[[Dollars Trilogy]]'', ''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]'', ''[[Duck, You Sucker!]]'', ''[[My Name Is Nobody]]'' and ''[[Once Upon a Time in America]]''
|-
| [[Sergio Corbucci]] (1927–1990)
| 1966–72
| 7
| western/comedy
| including ''[[Navajo Joe]]'', ''[[The Hellbenders]]'', ''[[The Mercenary (film)|The Mercenary]]'', ''[[The Great Silence]]'', ''[[Compañeros (film)|Compañeros]]'' and ''[[Sonny and Jed]]''
|-
| [[Alberto De Martino]] (1929–2015)
| 1966–72
| 7
| crime/war/horror
| including ''[[Dirty Heroes]]'', ''[[O.K. Connery]]'' and ''[[Holocaust 2000]]''
|-
| [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]] (1922–1975)
| 1965–1975
| 7
| mystery/historical
| including ''[[The Hawks and the Sparrows]]'', ''[[Teorema (film)|Teorema]]'', ''[[The Decameron (1971 film)|The Decameron]]'', ''[[The Canterbury Tales (film)|The Canterbury Tales]]'', ''[[Arabian Nights (1974 film)|Arabian Nights]]'' and ''[[Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom]]''
|-
| [[Elio Petri]] (1929–1982)
| 1968–79
| 7
| crime/horror/historical
| including ''[[A Quiet Place in the Country]]'', ''[[Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion]]'', ''[[The Working Class Goes to Heaven]]'' and ''[[Todo modo]]''
|-
| [[Dario Argento]] (1940–)
| 1968–98
| 6
| horror/gangster/thriller
| including ''[[The Bird with the Crystal Plumage]]'', ''[[The Cat o' Nine Tails]]'', ''[[Four Flies on Grey Velvet]]'', ''[[The Stendhal Syndrome]]'' and ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1998 film)|The Phantom of the Opera]]''
|-
| [[Carlo Lizzani]] (1922–2013)
| 1965–76
| 6
| comedy/crime/drama
| including ''[[Thrilling (film)|Thrilling]]'', ''[[Svegliati e uccidi]]'', ''[[The Hills Run Red (1966 film)|The Hills Run Red]]'' and ''[[San Babila-8 P.M.]]''
|-
| [[Sergio Sollima]] (1921–2015)
| 1966–73
| 6
| western/crime/thriller
| including ''[[The Big Gundown]]'', ''[[Faccia a faccia]]'', ''[[Run, Man, Run]]'', ''[[Città violenta]]'' and ''[[Revolver (1973 film)|Revolver]]''
|-
| [[Henri Verneuil]] (1920–2002)
| 1968–1979
| 6
| thriller/crime
| ''[[La Bataille de San Sebastian]]'', ''[[Le clan des siciliens]]'', ''[[The Burglars|Le Casse]]'', ''[[Night Flight from Moscow|Le Serpent]]'' and ''[[Peur sur la ville]]''
|-
| [[Giulio Petroni]] (1917–2010)
| 1968–79
| 6
| western/comedy
| including ''[[Tepepa]]'', ''[[A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof]]'' and ''[[Death Rides a Horse]]''
|-
|[[Bernardo Bertolucci]] (1940–2018)
| 1964–81
| 5
| drama/historical
| including ''[[Before the Revolution]]'', ''[[Partner (1968 film)|Partner]]'', ''[[1900 (film)|Novecento]]'' and ''[[Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man]]''
|-
|[[Pasquale Festa Campanile]] (1927–1986)
| 1967–80
| 5
| comedy/crime
| including ''[[The Girl and the General]]'', ''[[When Women Had Tails]]'', ''[[Hitch-Hike (film)|Hitch-Hike]]'' and ''[[Il ladrone]]''
|-
| [[Damiano Damiani]] (1922–2013)
| 1960–75
| 5
| drama/thriller/western
| including ''[[The Most Beautiful Wife]]'', ''[[The Case Is Closed, Forget It]]'' and ''[[A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe]]''
|-
| [[Quentin Tarantino]] (1963–)
| 2001–2015
| 6
| action/thriller/western
| ''[[Kill Bill]]'', ''[[Death Proof]]'', ''[[Inglourious Basterds (soundtrack)|Inglourious Basterds]]'', ''[[Django Unchained (soundtrack)|Django Unchained]]''*<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/italian-composer-morricone-slams-tarantino-428954 |title=Italian Composer Ennio Morricone: I'll Never Work With Tarantino Again |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=1 January 2014}}</ref> and ''[[The Hateful Eight]]''
|-
| [[Duccio Tessari]] (1926–1994)
| 1965–90
| 5
| western/action/adventure
| including ''[[A Pistol for Ringo]]'' and ''[[The Return of Ringo]]''
|}