Eight years later, Morricone received his second Oscar nomination for The Mission.[10] He also received Oscar nominations for his scores to The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991), Malèna (2000), and The Hateful Eight (2016).[11] In February 2016, Morricone won his first and only competitive Academy Award for his score to The Hateful Eight.[12]
Morricone and Alex North are the only composers to receive the Academy Honorary Award since its introduction in 1928.[13] He received the award in February 2007, "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music."[14] In conjunction with the honor, Morricone released a tribute album, We All Love Ennio Morricone, that included as its centerpiece Celine Dion's rendition of "I Knew I Loved You" (based on "Deborah's Theme" from Once Upon a Time in America), which she performed at the ceremony. Behind-the-scenes studio production and recording footage of "I Knew I Loved You" can be viewed in the debut episode of the QuincyJones.com Podcast.[15] The lyric, as with his Love Affair, had been written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Morricone's acceptance speech was in his native Italian tongue and was interpreted by Clint Eastwood.[16]
Morricone was nominated seven times for a Grammy Award. In 2009 The Recording Academy inducted his score for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[20]