List of compositions by Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone discography
Ennio Morricone at the 66th Venice Film Festival, September 2009
Studio albums	14
Live albums	11
Compilation albums	116
Video albums	4
Singles	61
Soundtrack albums	520
Tribute albums	18

This is a list of compositions by composer, orchestrator and conductor Ennio Morricone. He composed and arranged scores for more than 400 film and television productions.^[1][2] Morricone was considered one of the most influential and best-selling film composers since the late 1940s.^[3]

He has sold well over 70 million records worldwide,^[4][5] including 6.5 million albums and singles in France,^[6] over three million in the United States and more than two million albums in Korea.^[7]

In 1971, the composer received his first golden record (disco d'oro) for the sale of 1,000,000 records in Italy^[8][9] and a "Targa d'Oro" for the worldwide sales of 22 million.^[10]

His score for Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the top 5 best-selling original instrumental scores in the world today, with about 10 million copies sold.^{[11][12][13][14]}

His score for The Mission (1986) was also at one point the world's best selling score.^[15][16] Morricone's music for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Le Professionnel (1981) each sold over 3 million copies worldwide.^[17]

Filmography[]

1950s[]

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1955	Abandoned	Francesco Maselli	Orchestrations only Score composed by Giovanni Fusco[18]
1959	La Duchessa di Santa Lucia	Roberto Bianchi Montero	Orchestrations only Score composed by Giorgio Fabor
	Death of a Friend	Franco Rossi	Composed with Mario Nascimbene Also orchestrator and conductor

1960s[]

Year	Title	Director	Notes	Latest CD / Digital Release
1960	Run with the Devil	Mario Camerini	Orchestrations only Score composed by Piero Piccioni,
	Lipstick	Damiano Damiani	Orchestrations only Score composed by Giovanni Fusco
	L'Avventura	Michelangelo Antonioni
	Le Pillole Di Ercole	Luciano Salce	Rejected score Replaced by Armando Trovajoli
1961	The Fascist		First full score
	The Last Judgment	Vittorio De Sica	Arrangements and Conducting only Score composed by Alessandro Cicognini,
1962	L'italiano ha 50 anni	Francomaria Trapani	Orchestrations only Composed by Gino Peguri,
	Gli Italiani e le vacanze	Filippo Walter Ratti
	I motorizzati	Camillo Mastrocinque
	Crazy Desire	Luciano Salce
	Il Sorpasso	Dino Risi	Orchestrations only Score composed by Riz Ortolani
	I due della legione	Lucio Fulci	Orchestrations only Score composed by Luis Bacalov
	Eighteen in the Sun	Camillo Mastrocinque
	A Girl...and a Million	Luciano Salce
1963	Violenza segreta	Giorgio Moser	Orchestrations only Score composed by Giovanni Fusco
	Il Successo	Dino Risi
	Le monachine	Luciano Salce	N/A
	El Greco		N/A
	Gunfight at Red Sands	Ricardo Blasco Mario Caiano	First Western film score
	I basilischi	Lina Wertmüller	N/A
1964	Una Nuova fonte di energia	Daniele G. Luisi	Documentary film
	Malamondo	Paolo Cavara	N/A	CAM Sugar / 2021
	I maniaci	Lucio Fulci	Composed with Carlo Rustichelli
	I marziani hanno 12 mani	Franco Castellano Giuseppe Moccia	N/A
	In ginocchio da te	Ettore Fizzarotti	N/A
	Bullets Don't Argue	Mario Caiano	N/A
	A Fistful of Dollars	Sergio Leone	Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
	I due evasi da Sing Sing	Lucio Fulci	N/A	Quartet Records / QR445 / 2021
	Before the Revolution	Bernardo Bertolucci	N/A
	[it]	Camillo Mastrocinque	N/A
1965	A Pistol for Ringo	Duccio Tessari	N/A
	Nightmare Castle	Mario Caiano	First horror film score
	Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary	Sergio Grieco	Title song only Score composed by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
	Highest Pressure	Enzo Trapani	Composed with Luis Enriquez Bacalov
	Slalom	Luciano Salce	N/A
	Menage all'italiana	Franco Indovina	N/A
	Fists in the Pocket	Marco Bellocchio	N/A
	Thrilling	Carlo Lizzani Gianni Luigi Polidori Ettore Scola	Composed with Bruno Nicolai
	Non son degno di te	Ettore Fizzarotti	N/A
	Se non avessi più te		N/A
	Idoli controluce	Enzo Battaglia	N/A
	For a Few Dollars More	Sergio Leone	N/A
	The Return of Ringo	Duccio Tessari	N/A
1966	The Bible: In the Beginning	John Huston	First American film Uncredited; Composed with Toshiro Mayuzumi
	Seven Guns for the MacGregors	Franco Giraldi	N/A
	Wake Up and Die	Carlo Lizzani	N/A
	Agent 505: Death Trap in Beirut	Manfred R. Köhler	Composed with Bruno Nicolai
	The Hawks and the Sparrows	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
	The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo	Composed with Pontecorvo
	The Hills Run Red	Carlo Lizzani	N/A
	Un uomo a metà	Vittorio De Seta	N/A
	How I Learned to Love Women	Luciano Salce	N/A
	For a Few Extra Dollars	Giorgio Ferroni	Composed with Gianni Ferrio
	Florence: Days of Destruction	Franco Zeffirelli	Documentary film
	Navajo Joe	Sergio Corbucci	N/A
	The Big Gundown	Sergio Sollima	N/A
	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	Sergio Leone	N/A	Quartet Records / QR436 / 2021
1967	Il giardino delle delizie	Silvano Agosti	N/A
	Dalle Ardenne all'inferno / Dirty Heroes	Alberto de Martino	Composed with Bruno Nicolai
	The Rover	Terence Young	N/A
	The Witches	Luchino Visconti Mauro Bolognini Pier Paolo Pasolini Franco Rossi Vittorio De Sica	Composed with Piero Piccioni
	The Hellbenders	Sergio Corbucci	N/A
	China is Near	Marco Bellocchio	N/A
	O.K. Connery	Alberto De Martino	Composed with Bruno Nicolai
	Matchless	Alberto Lattuada	N/A
			Composed with Gino Marinuzzi Jr. & Piero Piccioni
	Grand Slam	Giuliano Montaldo	N/A
	The Girl and the General	Pasquale Festa Campanile	N/A
	Arabella	Mauro Bolognini	N/A
	Face to Face	Sergio Sollima	N/A
	Her Harem	Marco Ferreri	N/A
1968	Danger: Diabolik	Mario Bava	N/A
	Tepepa	Giulio Petroni	N/A
	The Mercenary	Sergio Corbucci	Composed with Bruno Nicolai
	Eat-it	Francesco Casaretti	N/A
	Come Play with Me	Salvatore Samperi	N/A
	A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof	Giulio Petroni	N/A
	Ecce Homo	Bruno Gaburro	N/A
	Run, Man, Run	Sergio Sollima	Composed with Bruno Nicolai
	Escalation	Roberto Faenza	N/A
	Death Rides a Horse	Giulio Petroni	N/A	Beat Records / BCM9589 / 2021
	Guns for San Sebastian	Henri Verneuil	Composed with Laurie Johnson
	Comandamenti per un gangster	Alfio Catabiano	N/A
	Theorem	Pier Paolo Pasolini	N/A
	Partner	Bernardo Bertolucci	N/A
	Roma come Chicago	Alberto De Martino	Composed with Bruno Nicolai	Quartet Records / QR441 / 2021
	Machine Gun McCain	Giuliano Montaldo	N/A
	Once Upon a Time in the West	Sergio Leone	Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
	The Great Silence	Sergio Corbucci	N/A
	Alibi	Vittorio Gassman Adolfo Celi Luciano Lucignani	N/A
	Galileo	Liliana Cavani	N/A
	The Lady of Monza	Eriprando Visconti	N/A
	A Fine Pair	Francesco Maselli	N/A
	A Quiet Place in the Country	Elio Petri	N/A
1969	Cuore di mamma	Salvatore Samperi	N/A
	Listen, Let's Make Love	Vittorio Caprioli	N/A
	H2S	Roberto Faenza	N/A
	The Fifth Day of Peace	Giuliano Montaldo	N/A
	Fräulein Doktor	Alberto Lattuada	N/A
	The Invisible Woman	Paolo Spinola	N/A
	L'assoluto naturale	Mauro Bolognini	N/A
	La stagione dei sensi	Massimo Franciosa	N/A
	The Sicilian Clan	Henri Verneuil	N/A
	Burn!	Gillo Pontecorvo	N/A
	Sai cosa faceva Stalin alle donne?	Maurizio Liverani	N/A
	Senza sapere niente di lei	Luigi Comencini	N/A
	Metti una sera a cena	Giuseppe Patroni Griffi	Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
	Brief Season	Renato Castellani	N/A
	Vergogna, schifosi	Mauro Severino	N/A
	That Splendid November	Mauro Bolognini	N/A
	The Five Man Army	Italo Zingarelli	N/A

1970s[]

Year	Title	Director	Notes	Latest CD / Digital Release
1970	Violent City	Sergio Sollima	N/A
	The Voyeur	Franco Indovina	N/A
	Hornets' Nest	Phil Karlson	N/A
	I cannibali	Liliana Cavani	N/A
	The Red Tent	Mikhail Kalatozov	Composed with Aleksandr Zatsepin
	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion	Elio Petri	N/A
	La califfa	Alberto Bevilacqua	N/A
	The Most Beautiful Wife	Damiano Damiani	N/A
	The Bird with the Crystal Plumage	Dario Argento	First collaboration with Argento
	Metello	Mauro Bolognini	Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
	When Women Had Tails	Pasquale Festa Campanile	N/A
	Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It	Salvatore Samperi	N/A
	Compañeros	Sergio Corbucci	N/A	Beat Records / BCM9591 / 2021
	Two Mules for Sister Sara	Don Siegel	N/A
1971	'Tis Pity She's a Whore	Giuseppe Patroni Griffi	N/A
	1870	Alfredo Giannetti	N/A
	Winged Devils	Duccio Tessari	N/A
	Duck, You Sucker!	Sergio Leone	N/A
	Cold Eyes of Fear	Enzo G. Castellari	N/A
	The Decameron	Pier Paolo Pasolini	N/A
	Tre nel mille	Franco Indovina	N/A
	The Cat o' Nine Tails	Dario Argento	N/A
	Incontro	Piero Schivazappa	N/A
	The Working Class Goes to Heaven	Elio Petri	N/A
	The Burglars	Henri Verneuil	N/A
	Short Night of Glass Dolls	Aldo Lado	N/A
	Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion	Luciano Ercoli	N/A
	The Case is Closed, Forget It	Damiano Damiani	N/A
	Maddalena	Jerzy Kawalerowicz	Features "Chi Mai"
	Oceano	Folco Quilici	Documentary film
	A Lizard in a Woman's Skin	Lucio Fulci	N/A
	Four Flies on Grey Velvet	Dario Argento	N/A
	Without Apparent Motive	Philippe Labro	N/A
	Sacco & Vanzetti	Giuliano Montaldo	Composed with Joan Baez Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
	Veruschka: Poetry of a Woman	Franco Rubartelli	N/A
1972	Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio?	Flavio Mogherini	N/A
	What Am I Doing in the Middle of a Revolution?	Sergio Corbucci	N/A
	Who Saw Her Die?	Aldo Lado	N/A
	What Have You Done to Solange?	Massimo Dallamano	N/A
	D'amore si muore	Carlo Carunchio	N/A
	Fiorina la vacca	Vittorio De Sisti	N/A
	The Fifth Cord	Luigi Bazzoni	N/A
	I figli chiedono perché	Nino Zanchin	N/A
	Devil in the Brain	Sergio Sollima	N/A
	The Master and Margaret	Aleksandar Petrović	N/A
	Chronicles of a Homicide	Mauro Bolognini	N/A
	The Canterbury Tales	Pier Paolo Pasolini	N/A
	Sonny and Jed	Sergio Corbucci	N/A
	Bluebeard	Edward Dmytryk	N/A
	Black Belly of the Tarantula	Paolo Cavara	N/A
	Plot	Yves Boisset	N/A
	Life is Tough, Eh Providence?	Giulio Petroni	N/A
	L'ultimo uomo di Sara	Maria Virginia Onorato	N/A
	La cosa buffa	Aldo Lado	N/A
	My Dear Killer	Tonino Valerii	N/A
	When Women Lost Their Tales	Pasquale Festa Campanile	Composed with Bruno Nicolai
	This Kind of Love	Alberto Bevilacqua	N/A
	The Sicilian Checkmate	Florestano Vancini	N/A
1973	Property is No Longer a Theft	Elio Petri	N/A
	Here We Go Again, Eh Providence?	Alberto De Martino	Composed with Bruno Nicolai
	Crescete e moltiplicatevi	Giulio Petroni	N/A
	Giordano Bruno	Giuliano Montaldo	N/A
	My Name Is Nobody	Tonino Valerii	N/A	Beat Records / BCM9595 / 2021
	Night Flight from Moscow	Henri Verneuil	N/A	Music Box Records / MBR-099 / 2021
	Libera, My Love	Mauro Bolognini	N/A
	Massacre in Rome	George P. Cosmatos	N/A
	Revolver	Sergio Sollima	N/A
	Woman Buried Alive	Aldo Lado	N/A
	The Master Touch	Michele Lupo	N/A
1974	Allonsanfàn	Paolo Taviani Vittorio Taviani	N/A
	The Murri Affair	Mauro Bolognini	N/A
	Arabian Nights	Pier Paolo Pasolini	N/A
	Around the World with Peynet's Lovers	Cesare Perfetto	Composed with Alessandro Alessandroni
	The Devil Is a Woman	Damiano Damiani	N/A
	La cugina	Aldo Lado	N/A
	Weak Spot	Peter Fleischmann	N/A
	The Secret	Robert Enrico	N/A
	Le trio infernal	Francis Girod	N/A
	Autopsy	Armando Crispino	N/A
	Almost Human	Umberto Lenzi	N/A
	Last Days of Mussolini	Carlo Lizzani	N/A
	Spasmo	Umberto Lenzi	N/A
1975	Eye of the Cat	Alberto Bevilacqua	Composed with Clément Janequin
	The Divine Nymph	Giuseppe Patroni Griffi	Composed with Cesare Andrea Bixio
	The Flower in His Mouth	Luigi Zampa	N/A
	Lips of Lurid Blue	Giulio Petroni	N/A
	The Sunday Woman	Luigi Comencini	N/A
	The Antichrist	Alberto De Martino	Composed with Bruno Nicolai
	Léonor	Juan Luis Buñuel	N/A
	Last Stop on the Night Train	Aldo Lado	N/A
	Fear Over the City	Henri Verneuil	N/A
	Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Pier Paolo Pasolini	N/A
	Todo modo	Elio Petri	N/A
	A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe	Damiano Damiani	N/A
	The "Human" Factor	Edward Dmytryk	N/A
1976	End of the Game	Maximilian Schell	N/A
	The Desert of the Tartars	Valerio Zurlini	N/A
	And Agnes Chose to Die	Giuliano Montaldo	N/A
	The Inheritance	Mauro Bolognini	N/A
	1900	Bernardo Bertolucci	N/A
	Down the Ancient Staircase	Mauro Bolognini	N/A
	Rene the Cane	Francis Girod	N/A
	San Babila-8 P.M.	Carlo Lizzani	N/A
	A Sold Life	Aldo Florio	N/A
1977	Hitch-Hike	Pasquale Festa Campanile	N/A
	The Cat	Luigi Comencini	N/A
	Il mostro	Luigi Zampa	N/A
	Il prefetto di ferro	Pasquale Squitieri	N/A
	Stato interessante	Sergio Nasca	N/A
	Orca	Michael Anderson	N/A
	Exorcist II: The Heretic	John Boorman	N/A
1978	Corleone	Pasquale Squitieri	N/A
	Stay As You Are	Alberto Lattuada	N/A
	Where Are You Going on Holiday?	Mauro Bolognini	Segment: "Sarò tutta per te"
	Holocaust 2000	Alberto De Martino	N/A
	L'immoralità	Massimo Pirri	N/A
	One, Two, Two : 122, rue de Provence	Christian Gion	N/A
	Days of Heaven	Terrence Malick	Composed with Leo Kottke BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score
	La Cage aux Folles	Édouard Molinaro	N/A
1979	Lovers and Liars	Mario Monicelli	N/A
	Dedicato al Mare Egeo	Masuo Ikeda	N/A
	Bloodline	Terence Young	N/A
	I as in Icarus	Henri Verneuil	Nominated - César Award for Best Original Music
	A Dangerous Toy	Giuliano Montaldo	N/A
	La Luna	Bernardo Bertolucci	N/A
	Buone notizie	Elio Petri	N/A
	The Humanoid	Aldo Lado	N/A
	The Meadow	Paolo Taviani Vittorio Taviani	N/A
	Ogro	Gillo Pontecorvo	N/A

1980s[]

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1980	The Blue-Eyed Bandit	Alfredo Giannetti	N/A
	Il ladrone	Pasquale Festa Campanile	N/A
	La Cage aux Folles II	Edouard Molinaro	N/A
	Si salvi chi vuole	Roberto Faenza	N/A
	The Island	Michael Ritchie	N/A
	Fun is Beautiful	Carlo Verdone	N/A
	Men or Not Men	Valentino Orsini	N/A
	Windows	Gordon Willis	N/A
1981	Bianco, rosso e Verdone	Carlo Verdone	Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score
	Butterfly	Matt Cimber	Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song Nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score
	Espion, lève-toi	Yves Boisset	N/A
	The Lady Banker	Francis Girod	N/A
	La disubbidienza	Aldo Lado	N/A
	Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man	Bernardo Bertolucci	N/A
	The Lady of the Camellias	Mauro Bolognini	Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score
	The Professional	Georges Lautner	Featured "Chi Mai" from "Maddalena" Nominated - César Award for Best Original Music
	Buddy Goes West	Michele Lupo	N/A
	So Fine	Andrew Bergman	N/A
	White Dog	Samuel Fuller	N/A
1982	Copkiller	Roberto Faenza	N/A
	A Time to Die	Matt Cimber	Composed with Robert O. Ragland
	Blood Link	Alberto De Martino	N/A
	The Ruffian	José Giovanni	N/A
	Nana	Dan Wolman	N/A
	The Thing	John Carpenter	Nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score
1983	The Key	Tinto Brass	N/A
	Hundra	Matt Cimber	N/A
	Treasure of the Four Crowns	Ferdinando Baldi	N/A
	Le Marginal	Jacques Deray	N/A
	Thieves After Dark	Samuel Fuller	N/A
	Sahara	Andrew V. McLaglen	N/A
1984	Once Upon a Time in America	Sergio Leone	BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
	La Cage aux Folles III: The Wedding	Georges Lautner
1985	The Trap	Giuseppe Patroni Griffi	N/A
	The Repenter	Pasquale Squitieri	N/A
	Red Sonja	Richard Fleischer	N/A
1986	The Venetian Woman	Mauro Bolognini	N/A
	The Mission	Roland Joffé	BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score
1987	Control	Giuliano Montaldo	N/A
	Farewell Moscow	Mauro Bolognini	N/A
	The Gold Rimmed Glasses	Giuliano Montaldo	David di Donatello for Best Score
	Rampage	William Friedkin	N/A
	Quartiere	Silvano Agosti	N/A
	The Untouchables	Brian De Palma	BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
1988	A Time of Destiny	Gregory Nava	N/A
	Frantic	Roman Polanski	N/A
	Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	Composed with Andrea Morricone BAFTA Award for Best Film Music David di Donatello for Best Score Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
1989	Time to Kill	Giuliano Montaldo	N/A
	Casualties of War	Brian De Palma	Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
	Fat Man and Little Boy	Roland Joffé	N/A

1990s[]

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1990	Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!	Pedro Almodóvar	Nominated - Goya Award for Best Original Score
	The Palermo Connection	Francesco Rosi	N/A
	Hamlet	Franco Zeffirelli	N/A
	The Bachelor	Roberto Faenza	Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score
	The Big Man	David Leland	N/A
	Everybody's Fine	Giuseppe Tornatore	David di Donatello for Best Score
	State of Grace	Phil Joanou	N/A
	Tre colonne in cronaca	Carlo Vanzina	N/A
1991	Bugsy	Barry Levinson	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
	Especially on Sunday	Marco Tullio Giordana Giuseppe Tornatore	Composed with Andrea Morricone
	Husband and Lovers	Mauro Bolognini	N/A
	Money	Steven Hilliard Stern	N/A
1992	City of Joy	Roland Joffé	N/A
1993	In the Line of Fire	Wolfgang Petersen	N/A
	Jonah Who Lived in the Whale	Roberto Faenza	David di Donatello for Best Score Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
	The Long Silence	Margarethe von Trotta	N/A
	The Escort	Ricky Tognazzi	Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score
1994	A Pure Formality	Giuseppe Tornatore	N/A
	Love Affair	Glenn Gordon Caron	N/A
	Disclosure	Barry Levinson	N/A
	Wolf	Mike Nichols	Nominated - Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
1995	The Star Maker	Giuseppe Tornatore	Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score Nominated - Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
	Who Killed Pasolini	Marco Tullio Giordana	N/A
	The Night and the Moment	Anna Maria Tatò	N/A
	Sostiene Pereira	Roberto Faenza	N/A
1996	The Stendahl Syndrome	Dario Argento	N/A
	La Lupa	Gabriele Lavia	N/A
	We Free Kings	Sergio Citti	N/A
	The Nymph	Lina Wertmüller	N/A
	Strangled Lives	Ricky Tognazzi	N/A
1997	Cartoni animati	Franco Citti Sergio Citti	N/A
	Lolita	Adrian Lyne	N/A
	U Turn	Oliver Stone	N/A
1998	The Legend of 1900	Giuseppe Tornatore	Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score
	The Phantom of the Opera	Dario Argento	N/A
	Bulworth	Warren Beatty	Nominated - Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

2000s[]

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2000	Canone Inverso - Making Love	Ricky Tognazzi	David di Donatello for Best Score Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
	Malèna	Giuseppe Tornatore	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
	Mission to Mars	Brian De Palma	N/A
2001	Vatel	Roland Joffé	N/A
	Aida of the Trees	Guido Manuli	N/A
	Un altro mondo è possibile	Various	Documentary film
	La ragion pura	Silvano Agosti	N/A
2002	Senso '45	Tinto Brass	N/A
	Ripley's Game	Liliana Cavani	N/A
	Carlo Giuliani, Boy	Francesca Comencini	Documentary film
2003	The End of a Mystery	Miguel Hermoso	N/A
	Instructing the Heart	Giovanni Morricone	Composed with Andrea Morricone Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
2004	72 Meters	Vladimir Khotinenko	N/A
	Guardians of the Clouds	Luciano Odorisio	N/A
2005	Fateless	Lajos Koltai	N/A
	E ridendo l'uccise	Florestano Vancini	N/A
2006	The Unknown Woman	Giuseppe Tornatore	David di Donatello for Best Score
	Libertas	Veljko Bulajic	N/A
	A Crime	Manuel Pradal	Music used from Mosca Addio (1987) & Dimenticare Palermo (1990)
2008	The Demons of St. Petersberg	Giuliano Montaldo	Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
2009	Baaria	Giuseppe Tornatore	David di Donatello for Best Score

2010s[]

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2011	Love Story	Florian Habicht	N/A
2013	The Best Offer	Giuseppe Tornatore	David di Donatello for Best Score Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score
2015	Come What May	Christian Carion	Nominated - César Award for Best Original Music
	Il Sole è buio	Giuseppe Papasso	Documentary film Composed with Paolo Vivaldi
	The Hateful Eight	Quentin Tarantino	Academy Award for Best Original Score ASCAP Award for Best Film Score BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Nominated - Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Music
2016	The Correspondence	Giuseppe Tornatore	Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score

Television films and series[]

1960s[]

Year	Title	Notes
1960	Il Lieto Fine	Television film
	Gente che va e gente che viene
1961	Enrico '61	Documentary special
	Alla scoperta dell'America
1963-64	Smash	Theme music & 10 episodes

1970s[]

Year	Title	Notes
1970-71	The Virginian	Theme music; Season 9
1973	Nessuno deve sapere	Theme music & 6 episodes
1974	Moses the Lawgiver	Miniseries
1975-77	Space: 1999	Italian-language version Theme music & 48 episodes
1976	Drammi gotici	Television film
1977	Forza Italia!	Documentary special
1978	Noi lazzaroni	Television film
	Il prigioniero
	1978 FIFA World Cup	Theme music
	Le mani sporche	Miniseries
1979	Orient-Express
	Dietro il processo	Television film

1980s[]

Year	Title	Notes
1981	The Life and Times of David Lloyd George	Theme music & 9 episodes
1982	Marco Polo	Miniseries
1983	The Scarlet and the Black	Television film
1985	Via Mala	Miniseries
1985-95	La Piovra	Theme music & 36 episodes 7 d'Or for Best Music
1986	C.A.T. Squad	Television film
1987	The Secret of the Sahara	Miniseries
	The Betrothed	Theme music & 7 episodes
1988	Gli indifferenti	Miniseries
1989	The Endless Game
	Gli angeli del potere	Television film

1990s[]

Year	Title	Notes
1990	Cacciatore di nave	Television film
	Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
1991	Il principe del deserto	Miniseries
	Piazza di Spagna	Theme music & 5 episodes
1992	Una storia italiana	Miniseries
1994	Missus
	Genesis: The Creation and the Flood	Television film
	Jacob
1995	Il barone	Miniseries
1996	Samson and Delilah	Television film
1997	Solomon
	In fondo al cuore	Miniseries
	Nostromo
	Il quarto re	Television film
1998	La casa bruciata
	Ultimo
	In fondo al cuore
1999	Ultimo 2 - La sfida
	Tower of the Firstborn
	I guardiani del cielo	Miniseries
	Nana

2000s[]

Year	Title	Notes
2000	Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth	Miniseries
2001	La Piovra 10	Television film
2002	Perlasca, un Eroe Italiano	Miniseries
	Un difetto di famiglia
	Il diario di Matilde Manzoni
2002-03	Musashi	Theme music & 49 episodes
2003	The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII	Miniseries
	Maria Goretti	Television film
	ICS L'amore ti da' un nome
	Charlie Chaplin – Les années suisses	Documentary special
2004	Ultimo 3 - L'infiltrato	Television film
2005	Il Cuore nel Pozzo	Miniseries
	Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
	Cefalonia	Television film
	Lucia
	Bartali: The Iron Man	Miniseries
2006	Karol: The Pope, The Man
	La provinciale
	Giovanni Falcone - L'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra
2007	L'Ultimo dei corleonesi	Television film
2008	Résolution 819[19]
2009	Pane e libertà	Miniseries
	Quatraro Mysteriet	Theme music & 8 episodes
2010	Mi Ricordo Anna Frank	Television film
	Filumena Marturano
2011	Napoli milionaria
	Napoli milionaria
	Questi fantasmi
2011-13	Come un delfino - La serie	Theme music & 6 episodes
2012-13	L'isola	Theme music & 12 episodes
2012	Sabato, domenica e lunedì	Television film
	Paolo Borsellino: The 57 Days
2013	Ultimo 4 - L'occhio del falco	Miniseries

Stage productions[]

• Il Lieto fine (Luciano Salce, 1959)
• Il Pappa Reale (Luciano Salce, 1960)
• Non approfondire (Enzo Trapani, 1961)
• La Chasse aux corbeaux (Anton Giulio Majano, 1962)
• Rascelinaria (Pietro Garinei, Sandro Giovannini, 1962)
• Filumena Marturano (2010)

Radio productions[]

• Ventimila leghe sotto i mari (Francesco Ghedini, 1961)
• Tiempe d'ammore (Fausto Cigliano, Achille Millo, 1961)

Advertising campaigns[]

Since 1984, Ennio Morricone composed original background music to several advertising campaigns. Most of the commercials were directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.^[20]

Year	Title	Producer	Director
1984	Motta	Motta	N/A
1989	Museo delle tradizioni e arti contadine	Mutac	Giuseppe Tornatore
1990	Grandmother	Chef Boyardee
	Mulino Bianco	Barilla Group
	Italiana petroli	Anonima Petroli Italiana
1995	Profumo	Dolce & Gabbana
1996	Pomeriggi al cinema	Pomeriggi al cinema
	San Pellegrino Calze (starring Antonio Banderas)	San Pellegrino Calze
2001	Come vorresti che fosse il futuro?	Telecom Italia	Andrew Douglas
2002	Il Cinema	Dolce & Gabbana	Giuseppe Tornatore
	Nissan El Grand	Nissan
2003	Sicily (starring Monica Bellucci)	Dolce & Gabbana
	Sky Cinema (starring John Travolta)	Sky Cinema
2008	Lancia Delta (starring Richard Gere)	Lancia	Harald Zwart
2009	Rose The One / L'Eau The One (starring Scarlett Johansson)	Dolce & Gabbana	Jean-Baptiste Mondino
	Mediaset Premium	Mediaset Premium	Matteo Pellegrini
2010	The One Gentleman	Dolce & Gabbana	Jean-Baptiste Mondino
2011	La Bellezza dello Spazio	Lancia	Ago Panini
2012	The One – Sport (starring Adam Senn)	Dolce & Gabbana	Mariano Vivanco
2013	Dolce, the Perfume		Giuseppe Tornatore
2015	Dolce Rosa Excelsa (starring Sophia Loren)
	Non è una crociera qualsiasi	MSC Crociere	Daniel Barber

Selected films with music by Morricone[]

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1963	Gli imbroglioni	Lucio Fulci
	Prima della rivoluzione	Bernardo Bertolucci	Songs of Morricone and Gino Paoli
1964		Ettore Maria Fizzarotti
1965	Non son degno di te
	Se non avessi più te
1966	Mi vedrai tornare
	O.K. Connery	Alberto de Martino
1978	Germany in Autumn	Alexander Kluge	features sung by Joan Baez
1981	Le Professionnel	Georges Lautner	It features
1995	Joseph	Roger Young	Songs of Ennio Morricone and Marco Frisina
1999	Election	Alexander Payne	music from Navajo Joe
2001	Cowboys Don't Kiss In Public	Michelle Trudo
2003-04	Kill Bill	Quentin Tarantino	Kill Bill Vol. 1 features the main theme from Death Rides a Horse. Kill Bill Vol.2 features the tracks "L'Arena" (from Il mercenario), "Il Tramonto" (from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), "Per Un Pugno di Dollari" (From Per un pugno di dollari),"A Silhouette of Doom" & "The Demise of Barbara" and "The Return of Joe" (from Navajo Joe).
2004	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Wes Anderson	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou soundtrack features "Here's To You", featuring Joan Baez.
2006	Jackass Number Two	Jeff Tremaine	It features the song "The Ecstasy of Gold" from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
2007	Death Proof	Quentin Tarantino	Death Proof soundtrack features the song "Paranoia Prima" from Cat O' Nine Tails soundtrack.
	Hot Rod	Akiva Schaffer	Hot Rod soundtrack features the song "A Gringo Like Me".
2008	Seven Pounds	Gabriele Muccino
2009	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds soundtrack features the tracks "The Verdict (La Condanna)" (from La resa dei conti), "L’incontro Con La Figlia" (from Il ritorno di Ringo), "Il Mercenario (Ripresa)" (from Il mercenario), "Algiers 1 November 1954" (Composed with Gillo Pontecorvo; from La battaglia di Algeri), "The Surrender (La resa)" (from La resa dei conti), "Mystic and Severe" (from Death Rides a Horse), "Un Amico" (from Revolver), and "Rabbia e Tarantella" (from Allonsanfàn).
	Couples Retreat	Peter Billingsley
2010	The Book of Eli	Albert Hughes/Allen Hughes	Once Upon A Time In America
2012	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino	The Braying Mule, Sister Sara's Theme, Un Monumento, Ancora qui (music only)
	The Expendables 2	Simon West	The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
2014	American Sniper	Clint Eastwood	It features the song "The Funeral" from The Return of Ringo.

Classic (absolute) music[]

Ennio Morricone's classical compositions include over 15 piano concertos, 30 symphonic pieces, choral music, one opera and one mass. His first classical pieces date back to the late forties.

Live albums[]

• Ennio Morricone live (with Metropole Orchestra) (1987)
• Concerto Premio Nino Rota (1995)
• Ennio Morricone – Live (1995)
• Morricone dirige a Morricone (1998)
• Cinema Concerto: Ennio Morricone at Santa Cecilia (1999)
• Verona Arena Concerto (2002)
• La leggenda della pianista (2003)
• Focus: Ennio Morricone & Dulce Pontes (2004)
• Voci dal silenzio (2004)
• : The Munich Concert 2004 (2006)
• Note di Pace/Peace Notes: Live at Piazza San Marco, Venice (2008)^[22]
• Giorgio Armani presents Musica per il cinema (2CD)(2012)

Studio albums[]

with Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza[]

• 1966 "Nuova Consonanza", LP RCA
• 1967 "The Private Sea of Dreams" (as Il Gruppo), LP RCA Victor
• 1968 "Improvisationen" LP Deutsche Grammophon
• 1970 "The Feed-back" (as The Group), LP RCA
• 1973 "Improvvisazioni a Formazioni Variate" (also known as "Gruppo d'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza"), LP General Music
• 1975 "Nuova Consonanza", LP Cinevox Records. Reissue 2007 CD Bella Casa
• 1976 "Musica su Schemi", LP Cramps Records. Reissue 2002: LP Get Back, CD Ampersand
• 1992 "1967–1975", CD Edition RZ
• 2006 "Azioni", CD Die Schachtel
• 2010 "Niente", CD Cometa Edizioni Musicali. Reissue 2012 LP The Omni Recording Corporation/The Roundtable
• 2011 "Eroina", CD Cometa Edizioni Musicali

with Chico Buarque[]

• (1970, Chico Buarque & Ennio Morricone)
• (2000, Chico Buarque & Ennio Morricone)
• (2002, Clara Murtas & Ennio Morricone)

other[]

• (2007, Carel Kraayenhof & Ennio Morricone)
• Paradiso (2011, Hayley Westenra & Ennio Morricone)
• (2012, Romina Arena & Ennio Morricone)
• Morricone 60 (2016, Ennio Morricone & Czech National Symphony Orchestra)

Selected compilations[]

Remix albums[]

• (2003)
• (2 CD) (2004)

Box sets[]

• (1999, 10 CD Box)
• Io (2003, 4CD Box)
• (2003, 4CD Box)
• (2004, 3CD Box)
• (2006, 24CD Box)
• (2008, 4CD Box)
• The Complete Edition (2008, 15CD Box)

DVDs[]

• Man & His Music (2004)
• (2006)
• (2007)
• (2008)

Tribute albums[]

Selected songs[]

Year	Performer	Song Title	ITA[23]	FRA[24]	NL[25]	UK[26]	USA[27]
1962	Milva	Quattro Vestiti	–	–	–	–	–
1962	Milva	La Tua Stagione	–	–	–	–	–
1963	Gianni Morandi	Go-kart Twist	–	–	–	–	–
1963	Peter Tevis	A Gringo Like Me	–	–	–	–	–
1963	Rita Pavone	Pel di Carota	52	–	–	–	–
1964	Gianni Morandi	Per Una Notte No	–	–	–	–	–
1964	Paul Anka	Il Tuo compleanno	28	–	–	–	–
1965	Maurizio Graf	Angel Face	29	–	–	–	–
1965	Ennio Morricone & La Sua Orchestra	Il Silenzio/Parlami D'Amore Mariu	–	–	–	–	–
1965	Ennio Morricone	A Fistful of Dollars	4	62	–	–	–
1965	Ennio Morricone	A Pistol for Ringo	32	–	–	–	–
1965	Dino	Il Ragazzo di ghiaccio	26	–	–	–	–
1966	Mina	Se Telefonando	6	–	–	–	–
1966	Dino	Ho messo gli occhi su di te	–	–	–	–	–
1966	Ennio Morricone	For a Few Dollars More	5	16	–	–	–
1967	Christy	Run Run	73	–	–	–	–
1967	Ennio Morricone	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	45	–	–	–	–
1968	Christy	Deep Down	–	–	–	–	–
1968	Hugo Montenegro	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	–	–	–	1	2
1969	Roy Budd	Hurry To Me	73	–	–	–	–
1969	Ennio Morricone	A Man With Harmonica	–	1	–	–	–
1969	Dalida	Il Clan Dei Siciliana	29	–	–	–	–
1969	Milva	Metti una sera a cena	–	–	–	–	–
1971	Massimo Ranieri	Io e te	5	–	–	–	–
1971	Ennio Morricone/Joan Baez	The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti (Here's To You)	4	25	–	–	–
1971	Astrud Gilberto	Casse	–	–	–	–	–
1971	7 Mladih	Za Šaku Dolara	–	–	–	–	–
1971	Ennio Morricone/Joan Baez	Here's To You	46	2	29	–	–
1972	Milva	Mia Madre Si Chiama Francesca	–	–	–	–	–
1972	Ennio Morricone	Giù la testa	11	6	–	–	–
1973	Ennio Morricone	God With Us	–	8	–	–	–
1973	Ennio Morricone	My Name Is Nobody	–	–	–	–	–
1973	Ennio Morricone & Bruno Nicolai	Indagine / La Cosa Buffa	–	–	–	–	–
1974	Mireille Mathieu	J'oublie La Pluie et le Soleil	–	–	–	–	–
1975	Mireille Mathieu	Mon Ami de Toujours	–	–	–	–	–
1975	Ennio Morricone	Tema di Mosè	25	–	–	–	–
1976	Ennio Morricone	Once Upon a Time in the West	–	–	25	–	–
1977	I Gladrags	Sunshine / Notturno Per Tre		–	–	–	–
1978	Ennio Morricone	El Mundial 78	23	–	–	–	–
1978	Ennio Morricone	Come Maddalena (Disco 78)	–	–	–	–	–
1978	The Bombers	Mexican	–	–	–	–	–
1981	Ennio Morricone	Chi Mai	–	1	–	2	–
1982	Pia Zadora	It's Wrong For Me To Love You	–	–	–	–	–
1988	The Pet Shop Boys/Ennio Morricone	It Couldn't Happen Here	–	–	–	–	–
1994	Gérard Depardieu	To Obliterate The Past	–	–	–	–	–
1998	Sarah Brightman	Nella Fantasia	–	–	–	–	–
1998	Andrea Bocelli	Come Un Fiume Tu	–	–	–	–	–
1999	Ennio Morricone & Roger Waters	Lost Boys Calling	–	–	–	–	–
1999	Down Low	Once Upon a Time	3	–	–	–	–
1999	Andrea Bocelli	Un Canto	–	–	–	–	–
2001	Josh Groban	You're Still You/Cinema Paradiso	–	–	–	–	–
2004	Isobel Campbell	Argomenti	–	–	–	–	–
2006	Amii Stewart	Love Song	–	–	–	–	–
2007	Céline Dion	I Knew I Loved You	–	–	–	–	–
2008	Tenniscoats/Tape	Come Maddalena	–	–	–	–	–
2010	Coolio	Change	–	–	–	–	–

All music composed by Ennio Morricone, lyrics written by various artists.

Other song compositions[]

1961 – and by Edoardo Vianello (lyrics by Carlo Rossi)

1962 – by Luigi Tenco (lyrics by Luciano Salce)

1963 – by Rita Pavone (lyrics by Franco Migliacci)

1963 – by Gino Paoli (lyrics by Lina Wertmüller)

1963 – by Rita Pavone

1964 – by Peter Tevis

1964 – by Paul Anka

1965 – by Rosy

1965 – Penso a te by Catherine Spaak

1965 – by Pierfilippi

1965 – by Dino & Anna Moffo

1965 – by Catherine Spaak

1966 – Uccellacci e uccellini by Domenico Modugno

1967 – by Maysa Matarazzo

1968 – by Renato Rascel

1968 – by Sergio Endrigo

1968 – by Sergio Endrigo

1969 – Una breve stagione by Sergio Endrigo

1971 – by Gianni Morandi

1989 – by Zucchero

All songs composed by Ennio Morricone, lyrics written by various artists.

Selected music certifications[]

Score/single/album	Sales	Certification date/info
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)	100,000 (F)[28]) 1,500,000 (Italy)[29]	Certification in 1981
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)	500,000 (RIAA) 3,000,000 (Worldwide)[30]	14 August 1968
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (song) (1968)	1,000,000 (Worldwide)	Hugo Montenegro version[31]
A Man With Harmonica (1969)	1,260,000 (F)	Original single version[32]
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)	800,000 (NL)[33] 1,000,000 (F)[34][35] 10 million (Worldwide)[36]	Certification in 1992
Here's To You (1971)	790,000 (F)	Original single version[37]
A Fistful of Dynamite (1971)	477,000 (F)	Original single version[38]
God With Us (1973)	378,000 (F)	Original single version[39]
La Cage aux Folles (1978)	500,000 (RIAA)[40]	14 December 1995
Le Professionnel (1981)	902,900 (F)[28] 3,000,000 (Worldwide)[17]	certification in 2001
The Mission (1986)	500,000 (RIAA) (US) 50,000 (CDN) 100,000 (UK) 20,000 (Polen)[41] 100,000 (F)[28] 50,000 (ARG)[42]
Chi Mai (1981)	505,000 (BPI) (UK) 911,000 (F)[43]	single
Guardinas of the Clouds (2006)	30,000 (NL)	5 January 1981
Live at Arena – Verona (2006)	150,000 (I)[44][45]	Live album
Voices of Silence (2007)	40,000 (I)[46]	track dedicated to 9/11 attacks
We All Love Ennio Morricone (2007)	120,000 (I)[47][48]	2008

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Ennio Morricone at Soundtrackguide.net
• Ennio Morricone (Unofficial) Fans Club
• The Ennio Morricone Fanpage
• Ennio Morricone Myspace
• The Ennio Morricone Online Community
• Ennio Morricone Japanese website
• Ennio Morricone at IMDb
• Ennio Morricone Discography at SoundtrackCollector.com