- Music films
- 101
- Music avg
- 6.76
- Peak run
- 1939’43
- 7+ run
- 6 films
Music films, by TMDB rating
The career
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
As a composer, films with 25+ votes
Dimitri by the numbers
Average
6.76
59 rated films
Vote weighted
6.89
bigger films count more
Median
6.9
half are better
Consistency
±0.72
rating spread
Career
38y
1933 to 1970
Total votes
25.9K
across every film
Best
8.3
It's a Wonderful Life
Worst
4.4
Whistle Stop
Newest first
Filmography
| 1970 |  Tchaikovsky | · | 10 |
| 1968 |  Great Catherine | · | 10 |
| 1967 |  The War Wagon | 6.8 | 233 |
| 1964 |  36 Hours | 7.1 | 78 |
| 1964 |  Circus World | 6.2 | 90 |
| 1964 |  The Fall of the Roman Empire | 6.5 | 240 |
| 1963 |  55 Days at Peking | 6.9 | 193 |
| 1961 |  Town Without Pity | · | 23 |
| 1961 |  The Guns of Navarone | 7.3 | 916 |
| 1960 | The Sundowners | 6.7 | 63 |
| 1960 |  The Alamo | 7.1 | 415 |
| 1960 |  The Unforgiven | 6.2 | 240 |
| 1959 |  Last Train from Gun Hill | 7.1 | 230 |
| 1959 |  The Young Land | · | 9 |
| 1959 |  Rio Bravo | 7.8 | 1,307 |
| 1958 | The Old Man and the Sea | 6.5 | 170 |
| 1957 |  Wild Is the Wind | · | 14 |
| 1957 |  Night Passage | 6.5 | 85 |
| 1957 |  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 7.0 | 403 |
| 1956 |  Friendly Persuasion | 6.6 | 148 |
Better together?
Dimitri Tiomkin's regulars
- Frank CapraComposer · 9 films · 7.43 avg
- Howard HawksComposer · 5 films · 7.11 avg
- Alfred HitchcockComposer · 4 films · 7.56 avg
- John SturgesComposer · 4 films · 6.82 avg
- Anatole LitvakComposer · 4 films · 6.30 avg
- Fred ZinnemannComposer · 3 films · 7.13 avg
- John HustonComposer · 3 films · 6.75 avg
- Mark RobsonComposer · 3 films · 6.30 avg
- Richard FleischerComposer · 2 films
- Otto PremingerComposer · 2 films · 6.93 avg
- William WylerComposer · 2 films · 6.87 avg
- Henry HathawayComposer · 2 films · 6.20 avg
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: Frank Capra and Dimitri Tiomkin movies · Howard Hawks and Dimitri Tiomkin movies · Alfred Hitchcock and Dimitri Tiomkin movies · John Sturges and Dimitri Tiomkin movies
Takes
On Dimitri Tiomkin
23 nominations, 4 wins
Awards record
- NominatedBest Song Score or Adaptation Score · Academy Awards 1972Adaptation Score by Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1965Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1964Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Original Song · Academy Awards 1964Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
- NominatedBest Original Song · Academy Awards 1962Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
- NominatedBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1962Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Original Song · Academy Awards 1961Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
- NominatedBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1961Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Original Song · Academy Awards 1960Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
- WonBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1959Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Original Song · Academy Awards 1958Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
- NominatedBest Original Song · Academy Awards 1957Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
- NominatedBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1957Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Original Song · Academy Awards 1955Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
- WonBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1955Dimitri Tiomkin
- WonBest Original Song · Academy Awards 1953Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
- WonBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1953Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1950Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1945Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1944Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Original Score · Academy Awards 1943Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Song Score or Adaptation Score · Academy Awards 1940Dimitri Tiomkin
- NominatedBest Song Score or Adaptation Score · Academy Awards 1938Columbia Studio Music Department, Morris Stoloff, head of department (Score by Dimitri Tiomkin)