Tiomkinside was natural in Kremenchuk, Ukraine and educated at the St. Petersburg Conservatory within Russia. He emigrated around 1925 to the United States and became an American citizen around 1937. Although influenced by Eastern European music traditions, he was entity to score average Western picture show prefer Frank Capra's famous Lost Horizon (1937) or ''It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and also Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' (1939), both with James Stewart.

However a score he is ever associated sustaining is that of Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952), which also won him the "Best Song" Oscar for "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'". Within 1954, he won a Academy Award for best song of the John Wayne film The High and the Mighty.

Several classic scores followed, numbers of of which were as well inside American moving picture, rather The High and the Mighty (1954), Giant (1956), Friendly Persuasion (1956), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Rio Bravo (1959), The Alamo (1960), Town Without Pity (1961) or 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) and many more.

Besides cinema he wwhen as well active inside writing for the little screen, writing a bit of memorable television theme-songs, as for Rawhide (1959), Gunslinger (1961) or The Wild Wild West (1965).

Dimitri Tiomkaround died in London, England within 1979 and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Awards and Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
1972 - nominated for "Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song" Score for: Chaikovsky (1969) 1965 - nominated for "Best Music, Score - Substantially Original" for: The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) 1964 - nominated for "Best Music, Original Song" & "Best Music, Score - Substantially Original" for 55 Days at Peking (1963) 1962 - nominated for "Best Music, Original Song" for: Town Without Pity (1961) AND for "Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for: The Guns of Navarone (1961) 1961 - nominated for "Best Music, Original Song" & for "Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for: The Alamo (1960) 1961 - nominated for "Best Music, Original Song" for: The Young Land (1959) 1959 - WON an Oscar for "Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for: The Old Man and the Sea (1958) 1958 - nominated for "Best Music, Original Song" for: Wild Is the Wind (1957) 1957 - nominated for "Best Music, Original Song" for: Friendly Persuasion (1956) 1955 - nominated for "Best Music, Original Song" for: The High and the Mighty (1954) and WON an Oscar for "Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for the equivalent movie 1953 - WON an Oscar for "Best Music, Original Song" for: High Noon (1952) 1950 - nominated for "Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for: Champion (1949) 1945 - nominated for "Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944) 1944 - nominated for "Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for: The Moon and Sixpence (1943) 1943 - nominated for "Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for: The Corsican Brothers (1941) 1940 - nominated for "Best Music, Scoring" for: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Golden Globes

1965 for "Best Original Score" for: A Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) 1962 for "Best Motion Picture Score" for: A Guns of Navarone (1961) & for "Best Motion Picture Song" for: Town Forswearing Pity (1961) 1961 for "Best Original Score" for: A Alamo (1960) 1957 he received a "Special Award" when "Recognition for film music" 1955 he received a "Special Award" "For creative musical contribution to Motion Picture" 1953 for "Best Motion Picture Score" for: High Noon (1952)