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The 38th Academy Awards
| 1966
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Monday, April 18, 1966
Honoring movies released in 1965
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Highlights
Best Picture
The Sound of Music
Robert Wise
Music Awards
Doctor Zhivago / The Sound of Music
Maurice Jarre / Irwin Kostal
Honorary Award
Bob Hope
Memorable Moments
Joanne Woodward and George Peppard
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Presenters at the first Oscars televised in color
Lee Marvin
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Best Actor winner for Cat Ballou
Julie Christie
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Best Actress winner for Darling
WINNERS & NOMINEES
Actor
Winner
Lee Marvin
Cat Ballou
Nominees
Richard Burton
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Nominees
Laurence Olivier
Othello
Nominees
Rod Steiger
The Pawnbroker
Nominees
Oskar Werner
Ship of Fools
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Martin Balsam
A Thousand Clowns
Nominees
Ian Bannen
The Flight of the Phoenix
Nominees
Tom Courtenay
Doctor Zhivago
Nominees
Michael Dunn
Ship of Fools
Nominees
Frank Finlay
Othello
Actress
Winner
Julie Christie
Darling
Nominees
Julie Andrews
The Sound of Music
Nominees
Samantha Eggar
The Collector
Nominees
Elizabeth Hartman
A Patch of Blue
Nominees
Simone Signoret
Ship of Fools
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Shelley Winters
A Patch of Blue
Nominees
Ruth Gordon
Inside Daisy Clover
Nominees
Joyce Redman
Othello
Nominees
Maggie Smith
Othello
Nominees
Peggy Wood
The Sound of Music
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Winner
Ship of Fools
Art Direction: Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: Joseph Kish
Nominees
King Rat
Art Direction: Robert Emmet Smith; Set Decoration: Frank Tuttle
Nominees
A Patch of Blue
Art Direction: George W. Davis, Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Charles S. Thompson
Nominees
The Slender Thread
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Jack Poplin; Set Decoration: Robert Benton, Joseph Kish
Nominees
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Edward Marshall; Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin
Art Direction (Color)
Winner
Doctor Zhivago
Art Direction: John Box, Terry Marsh; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni
Nominees
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Art Direction: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni
Nominees
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Art Direction: Richard Day, William Creber, David Hall; Set Decoration: Ray Moyer, Fred MacLean, Norman Rockett
Nominees
Inside Daisy Clover
Art Direction: Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Nominees
The Sound of Music
Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Ruby Levitt
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Winner
Ship of Fools
Ernest Laszlo
Nominees
In Harm's Way
Loyal Griggs
Nominees
King Rat
Burnett Guffey
Nominees
Morituri
Conrad Hall
Nominees
A Patch of Blue
Robert Burks
Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Doctor Zhivago
Freddie Young
Nominees
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Leon Shamroy
Nominees
The Great Race
Russell Harlan
Nominees
The Greatest Story Ever Told
William C. Mellor, Loyal Griggs
Nominees
The Sound of Music
Ted McCord
Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Winner
Darling
Julie Harris
Nominees
Morituri
Moss Mabry
Nominees
A Rage to Live
Howard Shoup
Nominees
Ship of Fools
Bill Thomas, Jean Louis
Nominees
The Slender Thread
Edith Head
Costume Design (Color)
Winner
Doctor Zhivago
Phyllis Dalton
Nominees
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Vittorio Nino Novarese
Nominees
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Vittorio Nino Novarese, Marjorie Best
Nominees
Inside Daisy Clover
Edith Head, Bill Thomas
Nominees
The Sound of Music
Dorothy Jeakins
Directing
Winner
The Sound of Music
Robert Wise
Nominees
The Collector
William Wyler
Nominees
Darling
John Schlesinger
Nominees
Doctor Zhivago
David Lean
Nominees
Woman in the Dunes
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
Sidney Glazier, Producer
Nominees
The Battle of the Bulge...The Brave Rifles
Laurence E. Mascott, Producer
Nominees
The Forth Road Bridge
Peter Mills, Producer
Nominees
Let My People Go
Marshall Flaum, Producer
Nominees
To Die in Madrid
To Die in Madrid
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
To Be Alive!
Francis Thompson, Producer
Nominees
Mural on Our Street
Kirk Smallman, Producer
Nominees
Ouverture
Mafilm Productions
Nominees
Point of View
Vision Associates Productions
Nominees
Yeats Country
Patrick Carey and Joe Mendoza, Producers
Film Editing
Winner
The Sound of Music
William Reynolds
Nominees
Cat Ballou
Charles Nelson
Nominees
Doctor Zhivago
Norman Savage
Nominees
The Flight of the Phoenix
Michael Luciano
Nominees
The Great Race
Ralph E. Winters
Foreign Language Film
Winner
The Shop on Main Street
Czechoslovakia
Nominees
Blood on the Land
Greece
Nominees
Dear John
Sweden
Nominees
Kwaidan
Japan
Nominees
Marriage Italian Style
Italy
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
William Wyler
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Winner
Edmond L. DePatie
Music (Music Score—substantially original)
Winner
Doctor Zhivago
Maurice Jarre
Nominees
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Alex North
Nominees
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Alfred Newman
Nominees
A Patch of Blue
Jerry Goldsmith
Nominees
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Michel Legrand, Jacques Demy
Music (Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)
Winner
The Sound of Music
Irwin Kostal
Nominees
Cat Ballou
DeVol
Nominees
The Pleasure Seekers
Lionel Newman, Alexander Courage
Nominees
A Thousand Clowns
Don Walker
Nominees
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Michel Legrand
Music (Song)
Winner
The Sandpiper
The Shadow Of Your Smile in "The Sandpiper" Music by Johnny Mandel; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Nominees
Cat Ballou
The Ballad Of Cat Ballou in "Cat Ballou" Music by Jerry Livingston; Lyrics by Mack David
Nominees
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
I Will Wait For You in "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Jacques Demy; English Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
Nominees
The Great Race
The Sweetheart Tree in "The Great Race" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Nominees
What's New Pussycat?
What's New Pussycat? in "What's New Pussycat?" Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David
Best Picture
Winner
The Sound of Music
Robert Wise, Producer
Nominees
Darling
Joseph Janni, Producer
Nominees
Doctor Zhivago
Carlo Ponti, Producer
Nominees
Ship of Fools
Stanley Kramer, Producer
Nominees
A Thousand Clowns
Fred Coe, Producer
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
The Dot and the Line
Chuck Jones and Les Goldman, Producers
Nominees
Clay or The Origin of Species
Eliot Noyes, Jr., Producer
Nominees
The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)
Emanuele Luzzati, Producer
Short Subject (Live Action)
Winner
The Chicken (Le Poulet)
Claude Berri, Producer
Nominees
Fortress of Peace
Lothar Wolff, Producer
Nominees
Skaterdater
Marshal Backlar and Noel Black, Producers
Nominees
Snow
Edgar Anstey, Producer
Nominees
Time Piece
Jim Henson, Producer
Sound
Winner
The Sound of Music
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director
Nominees
The Agony and the Ecstasy
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran, Sound Director
Nominees
Doctor Zhivago
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studio Sound Department, A. W. Watkins, Sound Director; and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director
Nominees
The Great Race
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director
Nominees
Shenandoah
Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
Sound Effects
Winner
The Great Race
Tregoweth Brown
Nominees
Von Ryan's Express
Walter A. Rossi
Special Visual Effects
Winner
Thunderball
John Stears
Nominees
The Greatest Story Ever Told
J. McMillan Johnson
Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
Winner
Doctor Zhivago
Robert Bolt
Nominees
Cat Ballou
Walter Newman, Frank R. Pierson
Nominees
The Collector
Stanley Mann, John Kohn
Nominees
Ship of Fools
Abby Mann
Nominees
A Thousand Clowns
Herb Gardner
Writing (Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)
Winner
Darling
Frederic Raphael
Nominees
Casanova '70
Age, Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Nominees
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Jack Davies, Ken Annakin
Nominees
The Train
Franklin Coen, Frank Davis
Nominees
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jacques Demy
A
The Agony and the Ecstasy
5 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni
- Cinematography (Color) - Leon Shamroy
- Costume Design (Color) - Vittorio Nino Novarese
- Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Alex North
- Sound - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran, Sound Director
B
The Battle of the Bulge...The Brave Rifles
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - Laurence E. Mascott, Producer
Blood on the Land
1 NOMINATION
- Foreign Language Film - Greece
C
Casanova '70
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Age, Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Cat Ballou
5 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Actor - Lee Marvin
- Film Editing - Charles Nelson
- Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - DeVol
- Music (Song) - The Ballad Of Cat Ballou in "Cat Ballou" Music by Jerry Livingston; Lyrics by Mack David
- Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Walter Newman, Frank R. Pierson
The Chicken (Le Poulet)
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (Live Action) - Claude Berri, Producer
Clay or The Origin of Species
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Cartoon) - Eliot Noyes, Jr., Producer
The Collector
3 NOMINATIONS
- Actress - Samantha Eggar
- Directing - William Wyler
- Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Stanley Mann, John Kohn
D
Darling
5 NOMINATIONS,
3 WINS
- * Actress - Julie Christie
- * Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Julie Harris
- * Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Frederic Raphael
- Directing - John Schlesinger
- Best Picture - Joseph Janni, Producer
Dear John
1 NOMINATION
- Foreign Language Film - Sweden
Doctor Zhivago
10 NOMINATIONS,
5 WINS
- * Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: John Box, Terry Marsh; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni
- * Cinematography (Color) - Freddie Young
- * Costume Design (Color) - Phyllis Dalton
- * Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Maurice Jarre
- * Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Robert Bolt
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Tom Courtenay
- Directing - David Lean
- Film Editing - Norman Savage
- Best Picture - Carlo Ponti, Producer
- Sound - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studio Sound Department, A. W. Watkins, Sound Director; and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director
The Dot and the Line
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (Cartoon) - Chuck Jones and Les Goldman, Producers
E
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Documentary (Feature) - Sidney Glazier, Producer
F
The Flight of the Phoenix
2 NOMINATIONS
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Ian Bannen
- Film Editing - Michael Luciano
The Forth Road Bridge
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - Peter Mills, Producer
Fortress of Peace
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Live Action) - Lothar Wolff, Producer
G
The Great Race
5 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Sound Effects - Tregoweth Brown
- Cinematography (Color) - Russell Harlan
- Film Editing - Ralph E. Winters
- Music (Song) - The Sweetheart Tree in "The Great Race" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
- Sound - Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director
The Greatest Story Ever Told
5 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Richard Day, William Creber, David Hall; Set Decoration: Ray Moyer, Fred MacLean, Norman Rockett
- Cinematography (Color) - William C. Mellor, Loyal Griggs
- Costume Design (Color) - Vittorio Nino Novarese, Marjorie Best
- Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Alfred Newman
- Special Visual Effects - J. McMillan Johnson
H
In Harm's Way
1 NOMINATION
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Loyal Griggs
I
Inside Daisy Clover
3 NOMINATIONS
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Ruth Gordon
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
- Costume Design (Color) - Edith Head, Bill Thomas
K
King Rat
2 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Robert Emmet Smith; Set Decoration: Frank Tuttle
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Burnett Guffey
Kwaidan
1 NOMINATION
- Foreign Language Film - Japan
L
Let My People Go
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - Marshall Flaum, Producer
M
Marriage Italian Style
1 NOMINATION
- Foreign Language Film - Italy
Morituri
2 NOMINATIONS
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Conrad Hall
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Moss Mabry
Mural on Our Street
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Kirk Smallman, Producer
O
Othello
3 NOMINATIONS
- Actor - Laurence Olivier
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Frank Finlay
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Joyce Redman, Maggie Smith
Ouverture
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Mafilm Productions
P
A Patch of Blue
5 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Actress in a Supporting Role - Shelley Winters
- Actress - Elizabeth Hartman
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: George W. Davis, Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Charles S. Thompson
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Robert Burks
- Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Jerry Goldsmith
The Pawnbroker
1 NOMINATION
- Actor - Rod Steiger
The Pleasure Seekers
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Lionel Newman, Alexander Courage
Point of View
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Vision Associates Productions
R
A Rage to Live
1 NOMINATION
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Howard Shoup
S
The Sandpiper
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Music (Song) - The Shadow Of Your Smile in "The Sandpiper" Music by Johnny Mandel; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Shenandoah
1 NOMINATION
- Sound - Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
Ship of Fools
8 NOMINATIONS,
2 WINS
- * Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: Joseph Kish
- * Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Ernest Laszlo
- Actor - Oskar Werner
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Michael Dunn
- Actress - Simone Signoret
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Bill Thomas, Jean Louis
- Best Picture - Stanley Kramer, Producer
- Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Abby Mann
The Shop on Main Street
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Foreign Language Film - Czechoslovakia
Skaterdater
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Live Action) - Marshal Backlar and Noel Black, Producers
The Slender Thread
2 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Jack Poplin; Set Decoration: Robert Benton, Joseph Kish
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Edith Head
Snow
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Live Action) - Edgar Anstey, Producer
The Sound of Music
10 NOMINATIONS,
5 WINS
- * Directing - Robert Wise
- * Film Editing - William Reynolds
- * Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Irwin Kostal
- * Best Picture - Robert Wise, Producer
- * Sound - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director
- Actress - Julie Andrews
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Peggy Wood
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Ruby Levitt
- Cinematography (Color) - Ted McCord
- Costume Design (Color) - Dorothy Jeakins
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
2 NOMINATIONS
- Actor - Richard Burton
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Edward Marshall; Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin
T
The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Cartoon) - Emanuele Luzzati, Producer
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Jack Davies, Ken Annakin
A Thousand Clowns
4 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Actor in a Supporting Role - Martin Balsam
- Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Don Walker
- Best Picture - Fred Coe, Producer
- Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Herb Gardner
Thunderball
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Special Visual Effects - John Stears
Time Piece
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Live Action) - Jim Henson, Producer
To Be Alive!
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Documentary (Short Subject) - Francis Thompson, Producer
To Die in Madrid
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - To Die in Madrid
The Train
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Franklin Coen, Frank Davis
U
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
4 NOMINATIONS
- Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Michel Legrand, Jacques Demy
- Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Michel Legrand
- Music (Song) - I Will Wait For You in "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Jacques Demy; English Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
- Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Jacques Demy
V
Von Ryan's Express
1 NOMINATION
- Sound Effects - Walter A. Rossi
W
What's New Pussycat?
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Song) - What's New Pussycat? in "What's New Pussycat?" Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David
Woman in the Dunes
1 NOMINATION
- Directing - Hiroshi Teshigahara
Y
Yeats Country
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Patrick Carey and Joe Mendoza, Producers
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