Dimitri Tiomkin
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Born May 10, 1894 · Kremenchug, Poltava governorate, Russian Empire
Died November 11, 1979
Also known as Димитрий Темкин · Димитрий Тёмкин
Biography
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in St. Petersburg, Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, after the stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood, where he became best known for his scores for Western films, including Duel in the Sun, Red River, High Noon, The Big Sky, 55 Days at Peking, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and Last Train from Gun Hill, as well as his work with director Frank Capra. Tiomkin received 22 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.
Awards & recognition
- Golden Globe Award — Best Original Song · 1961
- Golden Globe Award — Best Original Score · 1960
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1959
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1955
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1953
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- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 1953
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Order of Isabella the Catholic
- Academy Award — Best Original Song Score · 1972 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Score · 1965 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 1964 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Score · 1964 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 1962 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1962 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 1961 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1961 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 1960 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1959 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 1958 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 1957 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1957 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1955 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Song · 1955 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1953 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1950 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1945 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1944 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1943 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment · 1940 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
It's a Wonderful Life
Dial M for Murder
Rio Bravo
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
High Noon
Strangers on a Train
Giant
Peking Express
Shadow of a Doubt
You Can't Take It with You
Let There Be Light
The Guns of Navarone
Red River
Meet John Doe
Only Angels Have Wings
The Alamo
Last Train from Gun Hill
I Confess
War Comes to America
The Westerner
36 Hours
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
The Men
The Dark Mirror
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
The Corsican Brothers
Lost Horizon
Mad Love
55 Days at Peking
Town Without Pity
Cyrano de Bergerac
D.O.A.
The Battle of Russia
The War Wagon
The Sundowners
The Young Land
Why We Fight: The Battle of China
Friendly Persuasion
The Thing from Another World
Champion
Mackenna's Gold
The Steel Trap
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Old Man and the Sea
Night Passage
The Big Sky
Angel on My Shoulder
Land of the Pharaohs
The Command
The Unforgiven