81 A radio drama is a dramatised, acoustic performance broadcast on radio. What is The War of the Worlds? Look up what happened when it was broadcast on radio. Search the Internet for at least three famous directors Ennio Morricone worked with. GREAT FILM MUSIC COMPOSERS Max Steiner (1888-1971) The Austrian composer Max Steiner was one of the pioneers of film music. He composed Hollywood scores from Casablanca to Gone with the Wind, which was ranked by the American Institute as one of the greatest film scores of all time. There would be no movie soundtracks as we know today without Max Steiner. He was awarded the very first citation ever given by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his score for The Informer in 1935. John Williams (1932- ) Williams has composed more than 100 scores for films, and his extraordinary themes such as Jaws, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Superman, E.T, and Schindler s List are immediately recognisable. He has had numerous nominations and won four Oscars. Bernard Herrman (1911-1975) Herrman composed the scores for many films by Alfred Hitchcock, such as The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), and Psycho (1960). He also composed the music for the popular radio drama The War of the Worlds by Orson Wells. Barry composed the soundtracks for 11 of the James Bond films. His successes include five Oscars. He also wrote the scores for Midnight Cowboy (1969), Dances with Wolves (1990), and Out of Africa (1985). Nino Rota (1911-1979) Rota wrote the scores for the films by Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli s Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola s Godfather trilogy. strings: strumenti a corda 186 CREATIVE ARTS Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) Morricone s most famous film scores are the ones for Sergio Leone s Spaghetti Westerns , but he wrote scores for over 400 films. He received an Oscar for The Hateful Eight, and an Honorary Oscar to his career in 2007. A year after his death, Giuseppe Tornatore shot a documentary on him, Ennio, combining the punctuality of the documentary with the expression of the authentic and strong feeling of a friend; Morricone s amazing music did the rest, and the movie was awarded the David di Donatello for the best sound. John Barry (1933-2011) James Horner (1953-2015) Horner established himself as one of Hollywood s most important contemporary composers. He produced Titanic (1997), Braveheart (1995), The Legend of Zorro (2005), and Avatar (2009). Hans Zimmer (1955- ) Zimmer is recognised as one of Hollywood s most innovative composers integrating electronic music with traditional orchestral arrangements. He has won seven Oscars, among them Rainman Gladiator The Lion King and The Last Samurai.