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Oscar acceptance speech for best score in 1955:
I would like to thank Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov.Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Tiomkin
Born: May 10, 1894
Died: November 11, 1979 (aged 85)
Bio: Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian-American film score composer and conductor. Musically trained in Russia, he was best known for his western scores, including Duel in the Sun, Red River, High Noon, The Big Sky, Gunfight at the O.K.
Known for:
- High Noon (1952)
- The Alamo (1960)
- Rio Bravo (1959)
- The Guns of Navarone (1961)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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