Tag Archives: Academy Awards acceptance speech

September 2022
Dimitri Tiomkin at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Posted on September 11, 2022 by wsherk

Dimitri Tiomkin, a four-time Academy Award-winning composer, left behind an enviable musical legacy. When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in mid-city Los Angeles one year ago Tiomkin’s 1955 Academy Awards acceptance speech was chosen for inclusion in the … Read More…

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July 2021
 More letters from Leonid Kinskey to Dimitri and Olivia Tiomkin

Posted on August 15, 2021 by wsherk

Leonid Kinskey, best known for portraying the character Sascha the bartender in the film Casablanca, sent three letters to Dimitri (“Dimochka”) and Olivia Tiomkin in March and April 1977. Similar to the letters previously profiled from 1978, these letters are filled … Read More…

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60th anniversary of Tiomkin’s famous Academy Awards acceptance speech, March 30, 2015

Posted on March 16, 2015 by wsherk

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. “Tiomkin Tops Hope” proclaimed the trade publication Variety the following day. Tiomkin “hit the laugh … Read More…

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