Luis Enriquez Bacalov

Luis Enriquez Bacalov (1933-2017) was an Argentine-born composer who spent most of his career in Italy. Born in Buenos Aires, he wrote scores for spaghetti westerns, crime films and art cinema, and he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Il Postino in 1996. He died in Rome. Bacalov received his first Oscar nomination for Pier Paolo Pasolini's Il Vangelo secondo Matteo. He scored the western Django (1966), Damiano Damiani's horror drama La strega in amore (1966) and the crime films Milano calibro 9 (1972) and Il Boss (1973).