Italian composer Morricone to get honorary Oscar
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Italian movie composer Ennio Morricone, famed for his work on such "spaghetti westerns" as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "A Fistful of Dollars," will receive an honorary Oscar during the Academy Awards ceremony next February, organizers said on Wednesday.
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Premio musicale considerato l'equivalente degli Oscar
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LOS ANGELES  - Production designer Robert Boyle will receive an honorary Oscar during the Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, organizers said Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES  - There aren't many composers whose music is immediately identifiable after just a couple of whistled notes. Such is the influence of Ennio Morricone that all it takes is a bit of whistling to evoke the Italian composer's masterful, genre-defying work on the spaghetti westerns he scored for Sergio Leone -- films such as 1967's "A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."
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Luciano Pavarotti will make his first public appearance since undergoing surgery for pancreatic cancer last summer to receive a prize next week at a music festival in the northern Italian city of Bergamo, officials said Thursday.
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Franco Zeffirelli, the legendary filmmaker who has directed greats like Elizabeth Taylor and Placido Domingo, will be the first Italian to receive an honorary knighthood from Britain Wednesday.
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Director Sidney Lumet can't head to the West Coast until four days before the Feb. 27 Academy Awards ceremony where he will receive an honorary Oscar, because of post-production deadlines on his latest feature, "Find Me Guilty." So the Academy will throw him a "Congratulations, Sidney" party here at the Plaza Athenee on Feb. 23.
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Cncerto con Garfunkel per il premio George Gershwin
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Film-maker Franco Zeffirelli is the first Italian citizen to receive an honorary knighthood from Britain.
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Martin Scorsese, the creator of "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver", finally won Oscar recognition on Sunday but he had to share the spotlight with politician Al Gore, regal actress Helen Mirren and Cinderella story Jennifer Hudson.
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Martin Scorsese is honoured by the Directors Guild of America for his mob thriller The Departed.
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Martin Scorsese won the Academy Award for best director on Sunday.
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US actor Robert De Niro failed to turn up at two film events in Italy, despite flying to the country to attend. The Italian-American film star was due to receive Milan&#39;s highest honour, the Golden Ambrosius award, from the city&#39;s mayor on Thursday.
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The pushy orchestra music that elbows Oscar winners off the stage has long been a trademark of Academy Awards speeches &#151; and no one has ever used it better than Al Gore.
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Guai con la droga, la cantante non sarÃ  a Los Angeles per gli Oscar della musica6 nomination e il collegamento via satellite: "Morivo dalla voglia di esibirmi"                                          Grammy, lo show senza la star a Winehouse niente visto per gli Usa                                                                                  Fra gli artisti con piÃ¹ candidature, i Foo Fighters, Kanye West, TimbalandPer il 50esimo dello show, sul palco Jerry Lee Lewis e Little Richard
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Music and film stars joined top political figures and tens of thousands of tearful fans to honour opera legend Luciano Pavarotti at his funeral Saturday.
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L'Academy ha deciso: il compositore italiano, 78 anni e piÃ¹ di 300 musiche per film, ricever&agrave; il premio a Los Angeles il 25 febbraio