1986 soundtrack album by Ennio Morricone
The Mission is the track record from the film of the same name (directed by Roland Joffé), composed, orchestrated, conducted and produced by Ennio Morricone. Say publicly work combines liturgical chorales, native drumming, and Spanish-influenced guitars, regularly in the same track, in an attempt to capture say publicly varying cultures depicted in the film.[4] The main theme, "Falls", remains one of Morricone's most memorable pieces, and has antediluvian used in numerous commercials since its original release. The Romance song "Nella Fantasia" ("In My Fantasy") is based on representation theme "Gabriel's Oboe" and has been recorded by multiple artists including, Sarah Brightman, Amici Forever, Il Divo, Russell Watson, Hayley Westenra, Jackie Evancho, Katherine Jenkins, Amira Willighagen and Yasuto Tanaka.
The soundtrack was nominated for an Academy Award in 1987 and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Assess and the BAFTA Award for Best Music. It was elected as the 23rd best film score in American Cinema tear the American Film Institute's 100 Years of Film Scores.[5] Picture music was also used during the 2002 Winter Olympics inspect Salt Lake City, Utah.
All songs by Ennio Morricone.
Morricone's sign for The Mission did not win the Oscar for Worst Original Score, losing to Herbie Hancock's Round Midnight. The confer is considered one of the most controversial in that type, because it beat out James Horner's score for Aliens, Jerry Goldsmith's score for Hoosiers and that of Ennio Morricone funding The Mission. In his review of the score to Hoosiers, Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks.com stated: 'The awarding of the Innovative Score Oscar for 1986 to Herbie Hancock for Round Midnight is considered one of the greatest of the many injustices that have befallen nominees for that category. Ennio Morricone ahead, to a lesser extent, James Horner were worthy of exposure that year, though Goldsmith's Hoosiers stands in a class confiscate its own because of its immense impact on the picture.'[14] Morricone, who did not win a competitive Oscar until 2015 (for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight), said in an interview: 'I definitely felt that I should have won for The Mission, especially when you consider that the Oscar-winner that twelvemonth was Round Midnight, which was not an original score. Soupзon had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but on the trot used existing pieces. So there could be no comparison come to mind The Mission. There was a theft!'.[15] As a result, depiction music branch of the Academy decided to "tighten up representation rules" so that "Scores diluted by the use of tracked (inserted music not written by the composer) or pre-existing music" would no longer be eligible for award nomination.[16]