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Academy Award Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) 1959 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 1959 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor 1959 · Nominated
Academy Award Cinematography (Color) 1959 · Nominated
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The Old Man and the Sea. Jump to. 6 wins & 4 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1959 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Spencer Tracy. 1959 Nominee Oscar. Best Cinematography, Color. James Wong Howe. 1959 Winner Oscar. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Dimitri Tiomkin. Golden Globes, USA. 1959 Nominee Golden Globe.
The Old Man and the Sea is a 1958 American adventure drama film directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy. The screenplay by Peter Viertel was based on the 1952 novella of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. Dimitri Tiomkin won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the film.
- $5 million
- Leland Hayward
The 31st Academy Awards | 1959. Honoring movies released in 1958, RKO Pantages Theatre ... The Old Man and the Sea. 3 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN * Music (Music ...
Translated into nine languages by the end of 1952, The Old Man and the Sea remained on the New York Times bestseller list for six months. In 1953, it received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was the only work explicitly mentioned when Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
- Ernest Hemingway, Annemarie Horschitz-Horst
- September 1, 1952
- 1952
- Literary fiction
Awards And Honors: Pulitzer Prize. The Old Man and the Sea, short heroic novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1952 and awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It was his last major work of fiction. The story centres on an aging fisherman who engages in an epic battle to catch a giant marlin.
The Old Man and the Sea: Directed by John Sturges, Fred Zinnemann. With Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver, Richard Alameda. An old Cuban fisherman's dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea.