Los Angeles, January 14 - Italy is pinning its Oscar hopes on music at the 2016 Academy Awards next month with the nomination of veteran composer Ennio Morricone for his score for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight and of Simple Song Number 3 composed by American David Lang for Paolo Sorrentino's film Youth. The score, which on Sunday won the 87-year-old composer his third Golden Globe, is up against the scores of Bridge of Spies, Carol, Sicario and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In the best song category Simple Song Number 3 is up against Manta Ray in Racing Extinction, Til it Happens to You in The Hunting Ground, Earned It in Fifty Shades of Grey and Writing's on the Wall in the recent 007 movie Spectre. The latter beat the song from the Sorrentino movie at the Golden Globes. The Academy Award ceremony is on February 28.