1965 (38th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1965 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

The Sound of Music, Argyle Enterprises Production; 20th Century-Fox. Robert Wise, Producer.

Best Actor

Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou, Harold Hecht Productions; Columbia.

Best Actress

Julie Christie in Darling, Anglo-Amalgamated, Ltd. Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (UK)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns, Harrell Production; United Artists.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue, Pandro S. Berman-Guy Green Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Directing

The Sound of Music, Argyle Enterprises Production; 20th Century-Fox. Robert Wise.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

Ship of Fools, Columbia. Art direction by Robert Clatworthy; set decoration by Joseph Kish.

(Color)

Doctor Zhivago, Sostar S.A.-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Ltd. Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (USA, Italy, UK, Liechtenstein) Art direction by John Box and Terry Marsh; set decoration by Dario Simoni.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

Ship of Fools, Columbia. Ernest Laszlo.

(Color)

Doctor Zhivago, Sostar S.A.-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Ltd. Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (USA, Italy, UK, Liechtenstein) Freddie Young.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

Darling, Anglo-Amalgamated, Ltd. Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (UK) Julie Harris.

(Color)

Doctor Zhivago, Sostar S.A.-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Ltd. Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (USA, Italy, UK, Liechtenstein) Phyllis Dalton.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story, Sidney Glazier Production; American International Pictures. Sidney Glazier, Producer.

(Short Subject)

To Be Alive!, Johnson Wax. Francis Thompson, Producer.

Film Editing

The Sound of Music, Argyle Enterprises Production; 20th Century-Fox. William Reynolds.

Foreign Language Film

The Shop on Main Street, Ceskoslovensky Film Company Production; Prominent Films. (Czechoslovakia)

Music

(Music Score—substantially original)

Doctor Zhivago, Sostar S.A.-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Ltd. Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (USA, Italy, UK, Liechtenstein) Maurice Jarre.

(Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)

The Sound of Music, Argyle Enterprises Production; 20th Century-Fox. Irwin Kostal.

(Song)

The Shadow of Your Smile from The Sandpiper, Filmways-Venice Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music by Johnny Mandel; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

The Dot and the Line, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Chuck Jones and Les Goldman, Producers.

(Live Action)

The Chicken (Le Poulet), Renn Productions; Pathe Contemporary Films. (France) Claude Berri, Producer.

Sound

The Sound of Music, Argyle Enterprises Production; 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director.

Sound Effects

The Great Race, Patricia-Jalem-Reynard Production; Warner Bros. Tregoweth Brown.

Special Visual Effects

Thunderball, Albert R. Broccoli-Harry Saltzman Production; United Artists. (UK) John Stears.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

Doctor Zhivago, Sostar S.A.-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Ltd. Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (USA, Italy, UK, Liechtenstein) Robert Bolt.

(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)

Darling, Anglo-Amalgamated, Ltd. Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (UK) Frederic Raphael.

Honorary Award

To Bob Hope for unique and distinguished service to our industry and the Academy. [ [Gold Medal]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Edmond L. DePatie

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

William Wyler

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Arthur J. Hatch of the Strong Electric Corporation subsidiary of General Precision Equipment Corporation, for the design and development of an Air Blown Carbon Arc Projection Lamp.

To Stefan Kudelski for the design and development of the Nagra portable 1/4" tape recording system for motion picture sound recording.