1959 Academy Awards – Music (Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) Winner and Nominees

The Old Man and the Sea

Dimitri Tiomkin

An old Cuban fisherman’s dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea. Based on Ernest Hemingway’s story.

Separate Tables

David Raksin

The Big Country

Jerome Moross

The Young Lions

Hugo Friedhofer

White Wilderness

Oliver Wallace