The Adventures of Tintin (film) for an Academy Award for Best Original Score. It was nominated for six Saturn Awards, including Best Animated Film, Best Director for Spielberg and Best Music for Williams. Young journalist Tintin and his dog Snowy are browsing in an outdoor market in 1950s Brussels. Tintin buys a miniature model of a ship, the "Unicorn", but is accosted by an Interpol officer, Barnaby, and a ship collector, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, who both unsuccessfully try to buy the model from Tintin. Tintin takes the ship home, but it is accidentally broken in an incident between Snowy and a cat. A parchment scroll
The Adventures of Tintin Tintin, sometimes referred to as "Tintinology", has become the life work of some literary critics in Belgium, France and England. Belgian author Philippe Goddin has written "Hergé et Tintin reporters: Du Petit Vingtième au Journal Tintin" (1986, later republished in English as "Hergé and Tintin Reporters: From "Le Petit Vingtième" to "Tintin" Magazine" in 1987) and "Hergé et les Bigotudos" (1993) amongst other books on the series. In 1983, French author Benoît Peeters released "Le Monde d'Hergé", subsequently published in English as "Tintin and the World of Hergé" in 1988. English reporter Michael Farr has written works such as "Tintin,