To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 novel by Harper Lee, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It was made into an Academy Award-winning motion picture starring Gregory Peck by director Robert Mulligan in 1962. A coming-of-age story, it is told from the point of view of Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, the young daughter of Atticus Finch, an educated lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama, a small town in the deep South of the United States. She is accompanied by her brother Jem and their mutual friend Dill.

Award nominations for the movie

• Academy Award for Best Picture
• BAFTA Award for Best Picture
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama
• Academy Award for Directing (Robert Mulligan)
• Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (Robert Mulligan)
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Mary Badham)
• Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Russell Harlan)
• Academy Award for Best Music, Score - Substantially Original (Elmer Bernstein)

It was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1995.

Related Topics:
Library of Congress - National Film Registry - 1995

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