Winner 
38th Academy Awards
The 1965 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.
Ceremony at a glance
Best Picture went to The Sound of Music. The winning leader is Doctor Zhivago with 5 wins. The most nominated title is Doctor Zhivago with 10 nominations. 31 winners named across 30 categories.
Most awarded titles
- Doctor Zhivago 5 wins10 nominations
- The Sound of Music 5 wins10 nominations
- Darling 3 wins5 nominations
- Ship of Fools 2 wins8 nominations
- A Patch of Blue 1 win5 nominations
Best Picture Nominees
The major races
The Sound of Music took Picture; Doctor Zhivago controlled the board. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 20 nominees in all.
- A Thousand Clowns Fred Coe
- Darling Joseph Janni
- Doctor Zhivago Carlo Ponti
- Ship of Fools Stanley Kramer
Complete Ceremony Ledger
The winner in every category. Open the full ballot to see every nominee.
26 categories127 records31 winners
1 winner5 records
4 more nominees in the full ballot
The Sound of Music
Credit: Robert Wise
1 winner5 records
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The Sound of Music
Credit: Robert Wise
1 winner5 records
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Darling
Credit: Frederic Raphael
1 winner5 records
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Doctor Zhivago
Credit: Robert Bolt
1 winner5 records
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The Shop on Main Street
Credit: Czechoslovakia
1 winner5 records
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Doctor Zhivago
Credit: Maurice Jarre
1 winner5 records
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1 winner5 records
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The Sound of Music
Credit: William Reynolds
1 winner2 records
1 more nominee in the full ballot
Thunderball
Credit: John Stears
1 winner5 records
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Ship of Fools
Credit: Ernest Laszlo
1 winner5 records
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Doctor Zhivago
Credit: Freddie Young
1 winner5 records
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Darling
Credit: Julie Harris
1 winner5 records
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Doctor Zhivago
Credit: Phyllis Dalton
1 winner5 records
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To Be Alive!
Credit: Francis Thompson
1 winner5 records
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The Sound of Music
Credit: Irwin Kostal
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
1 winner5 records
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The Chicken (Le Poulet)
Credit: Claude Berri
1 winner2 records
1 more nominee in the full ballot
The Great Race
Credit: Tregoweth Brown
1 winner5 records
Ceremony Highlights
Winner Cat Ballou
Winner A Patch of Blue
Winner The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
Winner To Be Alive!
Winner The Shop on Main Street
Winner The Sandpiper
Winner The Dot and the Line
Winner The Chicken (Le Poulet)
Winner The Great Race
Winner Thunderball
Othello
The Pawnbroker
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Categories in this ceremony
Winner Circle
The Sound of Music
Robert Wise
Julie Christie
Lee Marvin
Shelley Winters
Martin Balsam
Darling
Doctor Zhivago
The Shop on Main Street
Doctor Zhivago
The Shadow Of Your Smile
William Reynolds
John Stears
Art Direction: Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: Joseph Kish
Art Direction: John Box, Terry Marsh; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni
Ernest Laszlo
Freddie Young
Julie Harris
Phyllis Dalton
Sidney Glazier, Producer
Francis Thompson, Producer
Bob Hope
William Wyler
Edmond L. DePatie
Irwin Kostal
ARTHUR J. HATCH
Stefan Kudelski
Chuck Jones and Les Goldman, Producers
Claude Berri, Producer
Tregoweth Brown
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director
Sortable ledger
Every nomination from this ceremony as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.