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Tiomkin received twenty-two Academy Award nominations and won four Oscars, three for Best Original Score for High Noon, The High and the Mighty and The Old Man and the Sea, and one for Best Original Song for "The Ballad of High Noon" from the former film.
Mar 30, 2015 · Dimitri Tiomkin, with his Oscar for “The High and the Mighty.” Sixty years ago, Dimitri Tiomkin made a memorable acceptance speech on one of the earliest televised Academy Awards ceremonies, broadcast live on March 30, 1955.
Fans of American classics immediately recognize the main theme from ‘Alamo’ (1960). But, few people know that this music was written by Russian composer Dmitri Tiomkin!
- Anna Popova
He won a hallowed place in the pantheon of the most successful and productive composers in American film history, earning himself four Oscars and sixteen Academy Awards nominations. He was born Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin on May 10, 1894, in Kremenchug,...
- May 10, 1894
- November 11, 1979
May 7, 2013 · The fact that it didn’t win the Best Picture Oscar® owes everything to the politics of McCarthyism of the time and nothing to the merits of the picture that did end up winning the Best Picture Oscar® that year, The Greatest Show on Earth, unquestionably the lousiest movie to ever
Dimitri Tiomkin, with his Oscar for “The High and the Mighty.” In light of all the wonderful scores and songs written over a 40-year career, it may come as a surprise that Tiomkin’s fame was cemented by a single incident, thanks to the then-budding medium of television.
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May 16, 2023 · The songs that Dmytro wrote for the films were wildly popular and were nominated 22 times for the most prestigious award in US cinema. The Ukrainian won an Oscar for four of his compositions: 1953 for the best music for the movie “It’s at Noon”; 1953 for Best Song for the same movie (the song “Don’t Leave Me, My Darling”)
