El inigualable Ennio Morricone debió haber recibido un Oscar en 1986 por su banda de sonido para el filme "The Mission". Esto es un hecho que cualquier amante del Séptimo Arte en su sano juicio nunca jamás pondría en disputa. Pero lo mismo podría afirmarse de tantos, tantos otros soundtracks compuestos por este extraordinario italiano... Resulta injustificable que un talento de su estatura, y un reportorio de cientos y cientos de maravillosas obras, no haya sido reconocido por la Academia de Hollywood con la siempre codiciada (aunque a fin de cuentas irrelevante para los verdaderos cinéfilos) estatuilla dorada...Pero tal parece que llegó la hora de corregir semejante papelón:
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ennio Morricone, the prolific film composer who created music for more than 300 films, such as the memorable coyote-howl theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," is finally getting an Oscar.
Morricone, who has been nominated for five Academy Awards but never won, will receive an honorary Oscar at the Feb. 25 awards.
"I certainly did not expect anything of the sort, by now with great tranquillity and peace of mind I had given up on this," he told Italy's Sky TG24 TV. "This is a great, very important recognition, which I deem of great value."
Morricone had original score nominations for "Days of Heaven," "The Mission," "The Untouchables," "Bugsy" and "Malena."
In announcing the award Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cited the Italian composer's "magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music."
Morricone, 78, composed for many of director Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns as well as a range of other genres, including "Cinema Paradiso," "La Cage Aux Folles" and "Bulworth."
Se lo tiene bien merecido, maestro.
Y hablando de Ennio, ¿alguien tiene ganas de hacerme un regalito para Navidad? ¿Sí? ¿En serio? No, no es para nada caro. Simplemente haga click acá. Una pichincha, vea. Y me dejaría tan, pero TAN contento...
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