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Dimitri Tiomkin has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Tiomkin set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Howard Hawks
Director
10 shared titles · Only Angels Have Wings

Frank Capra
Director
10 shared titles · You Can't Take It with You

John Wayne
Actor
7 shared titles · Rio Bravo

Thomas Mitchell
Actor
6 shared titles · High Noon

Alfred Hitchcock
Director
6 shared titles · I Confess

Gary Cooper
Actor
5 shared titles · High Noon

Carl Foreman
Screenplay
5 shared titles · High Noon
Joseph Walker
Director of Photography
5 shared titles · Only Angels Have Wings

Walter Brennan
Actor
4 shared titles · The Westerner

John Ireland
Actor
4 shared titles · 55 Days at Peking

Russell Harlan
Director of Photography
4 shared titles · Land of the Pharaohs

Robert Riskin
Screenplay
4 shared titles · You Can't Take It with You
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