The Last of the Mohicans book, film and television franchise, the character Hawkeye Pierce is given his nickname by his father, after Hawk-eye from "The Last of the Mohicans". A main character in the original and subsequent film adaptation, Hawkeye, as portrayed by Alan Alda, is the central character in the long-running TV series. A number of films have been based on the lengthy book, making various cuts, compressions, and changes. The American adaptations include: The 1920 film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. According to the director Michael Mann,
Shawn Pierce Shawn Pierce Shawn Pierce is a television score composer. Pierce is a graduate of the Berklee College Of Music in Boston, where he majored in Film Scoring. He has worked as a music editor and composer on various TV series, garnering three Leo Award nominations for work on "The Dead Zone". In 2006, he provided the music for the Canadian documentary series "Recreating Eden", for which he received a Gemini nomination (Best Original Music for a Lifestyle/Practical Information or Reality Program or Series 2008). For the film "A Wrinkle in Time" (2003), Pierce and Patric Caird were nominated for a