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.

Awards for the movie

• Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding
• Academy Award for Best Actor (Gregory Peck)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama (Gregory Peck)
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead, Oliver Emert)
• Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay (Horton Foote)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Elmer Bernstein)