Morricone wasn’t there, so Tarantino took the stage and delivered a freakish, rambling acceptance speech.
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The Hateful Eight director got up to accept the award for Best Score in honor of his movie’s composer, Ennio Morricone. The award was presented by Jamie Foxx and Lily James and accepted by Tarantino on Morricone’s behalf, as the composer himself was not in attendance.
“Do you realize that Ennio Morricone, as far as I’m concerned, is my favorite composer?”
He added: “I’m talking Mozart, I’m talking Beethoven, I’m talking Schubert”. While everyone, including ourselves, latched on to the first part of Quentin Tarantino’s remarks, it’s what he says right after that really counts.
However, the composer had previously won two other Golden Globes and the director’s error was quickly picked up on social Twitter.
Jamie Foxx, who played the lead in Tarantino’s controversial “Django Unchained”, was not impressed. Although Morricone has never won an Academy Award for a specific movie, he did earn an honorary Oscar in 2007.
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