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Dimitri Tiomkin
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Dimitri Tiomkin

Musician · born May 22, 1899 · died 1979

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Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution.

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  1. 53Received the Academy Award for Best Original SongMarch 19, 1953
  2. ~61Received the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score1960
  3. ~62Received the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song1961

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