Tag Archives: Academy Awards

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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March 2022
High Noon in Belfast

Posted on March 21, 2022 by wsherk

Director Kenneth Branaugh’s introspective film on his childhood, Belfast, includes two scenes from High Noon (1952) and subsequently uses the film’s title song, “Do Not Forsake Me,” sung by Tex Ritter several times. Dimitri Tiomkin received Academy Awards for both … Read More…

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Academy YouTube channel uploads video of Tiomkin receiving Oscars® for High Noon

Posted on March 3, 2013 by wsherk

Earlier this year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences uploaded video of Walt Disney presenting the music categories at the 25th Academy Awards held at the RKO Pantages Theatre on March 19, 1953, honoring movies released in 1952. … Read More…

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