1966 (39th Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1966 (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
Best Actor
Best Actress
Actor in a Supporting Role
Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie, Phalanx-Jalem-Mirisch Corporation of Delaware Production; United Artists.Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
Art Direction-Set Decoration
(Black-and-White)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Chenault Productions; Warner Bros. Art direction by Richard Sylbert; set decoration by George James Hopkins.(Color)
Fantastic Voyage, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Jack Martin Smith and Dale Hennesy; set decoration by Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss.Cinematography
(Black-and-White)
(Color)
Costume Design
(Black-and-White)
(Color)
A Man for All Seasons, Highland Films, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK) Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge.Documentary
(Feature)
The War Game, BBC Production for the British Film Institute; Pathe Contemporary Films. (UK) Peter Watkins, Producer.(Short Subject)
A Year Toward Tomorrow, Sun Dial Films, Inc.; Office of Economic Opportunity. Edmond A. Levy, Producer.Film Editing
Grand Prix, Douglas-Lewis-John Frankenheimer-Cherokee Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo.Foreign Language Film
A Man and a Woman, Les Films 13 Production; Allied Artists. (France)Music
(Original Music Score)
(Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Melvin Frank Production; United Artists. (USA, UK) Ken Thorne.(Song)
Born Free from Born Free, Open Road Films, Ltd.-Atlas Films, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK) Music by John Barry; lyrics by Don Black.Short Subjects
(Cartoons)
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature, Hubley Studios; Paramount. [I Feel Special Series] John Hubley and Faith Hubley, Producers.(Live Action)
Sound
Grand Prix, Douglas-Lewis-John Frankenheimer-Cherokee Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director.Sound Effects
Grand Prix, Douglas-Lewis-John Frankenheimer-Cherokee Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Gordon Daniel.Special Visual Effects
Writing
(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)
A Man and a Woman, Les Films 13 Production; Allied Artists. (France) Story by Claude Lelouch; screenplay by Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven.Honorary Award
To Y. Frank Freeman for unusual and outstanding service to the Academy during his thirty years in Hollywood. [ [Statuette]]To Yakima Canutt for achievements as a stunt man and for developing safety devices to protect stunt men everywhere. [ [Statuette]]Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Scientific or Technical Award
(Class II)
To Mitchell Camera Corporation for the design and development of the Mitchell Mark II 35mm Portable Motion Picture Reflex Camera.To Arnold & Richter KG for the design and development of the Arriflex 35mm Portable Motion Picture Reflex Camera.(Class III)
To Panavision, Incorporated for the design of the Panatron Power Inverter and its application to motion picture camera operation.To Carroll Knudson for the production of a Composer’s Manual for Motion Picture Music Synchronization.To Ruby Raksin for the production of a Composer’s Manual for Motion Picture Music Synchronization.