The two top films in the Best Picture Oscars race in 1965, The Sound of Music and
Doctor Zhivago, each had the same number of nominations (ten), and equally divided
the same number of Oscars (five):
The top winner was 20th Century Fox's and Robert Wise's The Sound of Music,
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical of the same name brought to the
screen. It was the real-life story of unsuited postulant Maria (Julie Andrews) who left
Austria's Nonnberg Abbey, became governess to seven motherless Von Trapp children,
and helped lead the singing family out of Nazi-occupied Austria to Switzerland (and
then to America).
The Sound of Music won Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Wise), Best Musical
Score, Best Editing, and Best Sound. [This win gave the musical genre consecutive
Best Picture wins - My Fair Lady (1964) had won the previous year.] The Sound of
Music also topped Gone With The Wind (1939) as the most commercially-successful,
money-grossing film to date - thereby saving its studio 20th Century Fox from
bankruptcy. Best Director and Best Picture winner Robert Wise had won the same two
awards four years earlier (for West Side Story (1961)), but now he didn't have to
share his Best Director award with Jerome Robbins.
The swoon-inducing romantic epic and spectacle, Doctor Zhivago, was British director
David Lean's follow-up to Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - a Russian epic and a colorful
film adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel. Doctor Zhivago won five Oscars: Best
Adapted Screenplay (Robert Bolt), Best Color Cinematography (Freddie Young), Best
Art Direction, Best Original Musical Score (Maurice Jarre), and Best Costume Design
(Phyllis Dalton). http://www.filmsite.org/aa65.html
Doctor Zhivago, each had the same number of nominations (ten), and equally divided
the same number of Oscars (five):
The top winner was 20th Century Fox's and Robert Wise's The Sound of Music,
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical of the same name brought to the
screen. It was the real-life story of unsuited postulant Maria (Julie Andrews) who left
Austria's Nonnberg Abbey, became governess to seven motherless Von Trapp children,
and helped lead the singing family out of Nazi-occupied Austria to Switzerland (and
then to America).
The Sound of Music won Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Wise), Best Musical
Score, Best Editing, and Best Sound. [This win gave the musical genre consecutive
Best Picture wins - My Fair Lady (1964) had won the previous year.] The Sound of
Music also topped Gone With The Wind (1939) as the most commercially-successful,
money-grossing film to date - thereby saving its studio 20th Century Fox from
bankruptcy. Best Director and Best Picture winner Robert Wise had won the same two
awards four years earlier (for West Side Story (1961)), but now he didn't have to
share his Best Director award with Jerome Robbins.
The swoon-inducing romantic epic and spectacle, Doctor Zhivago, was British director
David Lean's follow-up to Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - a Russian epic and a colorful
film adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel. Doctor Zhivago won five Oscars: Best
Adapted Screenplay (Robert Bolt), Best Color Cinematography (Freddie Young), Best
Art Direction, Best Original Musical Score (Maurice Jarre), and Best Costume Design
(Phyllis Dalton). http://www.filmsite.org/aa65.html
By the way, your photo contest was not only great fun, BUT I realized at the end of it
your "diabolic" purpose. I didn't know the year of the films on the flier and had to do
Web research. Since most of them were made in 1964, I looked that up, but I didn't
find a film and actor that met your criteria. Then I looked up some more of the films
and found one released in January, 1965. That meant the flier, even with a
preponderance of 1964 films, had to be published in 1965. From then on, it was easy.
Thanks for an enjoyable introduction to searching for genealogical facts. I'm only
beginning, but I am a Sherlockian and greatly look forward to solving some of the
"mysteries" of my ancestors. Charles Barber
I look at that site occasionally. We watch movies and I want to know where I saw the
actor or actress before or I know who the actor or actress is but my husband doesn’t
believe me. Dolores Martin
This was doubly interesting because the Sound of Music is my father-in-law's favorite
movie. Tom Pincince
I don’t follow the awards so closely, but, I know that sometimes the academy can be
quite fickle when it comes to this. Sometimes, when I see the awards I wonder why
anybody would be getting an award for “that” (whatever “that” seems to be), and then
I figure that maybe they know what they’re doing – but, maybe not! Go figure! It
must have been difficult to choose winners for 1965, as both the “Sound of Music”,
and “Dr. Zhivago” are great classic movies. They are both so different from what we
see on the screen today. Sometimes, I long to go back to the older social norms, but,
that’s not going to happen. A prolonged dose of that might go a long way to improving
some of today’s Hollywood productions. Okay – I’ll get off of my soapbox! LOL!
Kelly Fetherlin
I never realized how much "campaigning" the actors/actresses do for these awards until
Catherine Zeta-Jones won for "Chicago" a couple of years ago - I personally preferred
Queen Latifa! Elaine C. Hebert
Bless her heart, Julie Andrews missed getting Best Actress for Sound of Music in
1965. Julie Christie won it for Darling which is never reshown on TV! How fickle the
Academy! Also note that these would have been first run films in 1965 being shown at
a drive-in. When was the last time you saw that? For that matter when was the last
time you saw a drive in? We have one that is open for a few months of summer
but spends the rest of its life as the grounds for flea market.
The one that always bugged me was Paul Newman! They made up an award rather
than giving him one for the roles that just blew us away. Even though it is not a fun
one to watch, the movie he did about the drunken lawyer in The Verdict was great.
Sigh. As you say, politics. Kitty Huddleston
I was very aware that Julie was passed over for the role of Eliza in "My Fair Lady".
When I was in high school my father took us to see Julie Andrews in "My Fair Lady"
on Broadway. From then on, the ONLY Eliza was Julie Andrews. I was very
disappointed when Audrey Hepburn got the part in the movie. As a result I NEVER
wanted to see the film version (& have not see it). I have always felt that Julie Andrews
is a class act.
We also saw the original version of "Sound of Music" on Broadway. What a thrill! It
didn't bother me so much to have someone other than Mary Martin take the lead role in
the film version.
Thanks so much again for all the fun! A water-soaked Grace Hertz
(in the middle of Iowa's monsoon season!)
Ah, but I can't imagine anyone but Audrey playing in My Fair Lady. Julie Andrews just
isn't Eliza Doolitte. She's too frumpy compared to Audrey.
I am not a fan of Julie Andrews and I can't tell you why I am not a fan, it's on a gut
level. Her voice does not tickle my ear... I am not a soprano fan.
I read the plot outline for "Darling" and it sounds like something I want to rent...
However, it doesn't sound as thought the story line is "clean" enough to be a "Classic"..
I would like to see her acting in it... so I just added it to my queue at Net Flicks.
However, when I watch it will be another story... "Notes On A Scandal" is the nest
one up.
I wonder what toes Julie Andrews tread so heavily upon??? Suzan O. Farris
That was a pretty good year... I graduated from High School, had a horrible summer
thanks to my Dad, got "engaged" to my boyfriend, Dave, moved in with Aunt Ethel and
Uncle Russell in Broomall PA in September and started x-ray school at Brn Mawr.
Realized I wanted to go to parties at Villanova and broke off the engagement... The rest
of the year was fun. Suzan Farris (Again)
I googled a lot of the movies and saw what year they were released. Then I just
went to the Academy Awards for 1965. Most of those movies were released in '64.
The Elvis movie was 1965.
The Academy Award have always been political, except, when my girlfriends father
won for best charcter actor. He was the gorilla who carried Dorothy Lamour around in
the roadshows. Have no idea what year that was but we use to wear the gorilla suit,
which was very hot. Her father made it by hand! Sharon Martin
Yes, well, when I go back and look at some of the "best" movies of the year that got
Oscars since the awards were started, I'm always amazed at the number that I and
probably most people never heard of! Paula Harris
Arrived at this year by Checking the film Major Dundee which as distributed in the
spring of that year. It just so happens that 29 August falls on Sunday in that year.
Don Schulteis
Flyer was from 1965. The Sound of Music won the Academy Award for Best Picture
that year but Julie Andrews did not win Best Actress. How could that be?
Margaret Waterman
your "diabolic" purpose. I didn't know the year of the films on the flier and had to do
Web research. Since most of them were made in 1964, I looked that up, but I didn't
find a film and actor that met your criteria. Then I looked up some more of the films
and found one released in January, 1965. That meant the flier, even with a
preponderance of 1964 films, had to be published in 1965. From then on, it was easy.
Thanks for an enjoyable introduction to searching for genealogical facts. I'm only
beginning, but I am a Sherlockian and greatly look forward to solving some of the
"mysteries" of my ancestors. Charles Barber
I look at that site occasionally. We watch movies and I want to know where I saw the
actor or actress before or I know who the actor or actress is but my husband doesn’t
believe me. Dolores Martin
This was doubly interesting because the Sound of Music is my father-in-law's favorite
movie. Tom Pincince
I don’t follow the awards so closely, but, I know that sometimes the academy can be
quite fickle when it comes to this. Sometimes, when I see the awards I wonder why
anybody would be getting an award for “that” (whatever “that” seems to be), and then
I figure that maybe they know what they’re doing – but, maybe not! Go figure! It
must have been difficult to choose winners for 1965, as both the “Sound of Music”,
and “Dr. Zhivago” are great classic movies. They are both so different from what we
see on the screen today. Sometimes, I long to go back to the older social norms, but,
that’s not going to happen. A prolonged dose of that might go a long way to improving
some of today’s Hollywood productions. Okay – I’ll get off of my soapbox! LOL!
Kelly Fetherlin
I never realized how much "campaigning" the actors/actresses do for these awards until
Catherine Zeta-Jones won for "Chicago" a couple of years ago - I personally preferred
Queen Latifa! Elaine C. Hebert
Bless her heart, Julie Andrews missed getting Best Actress for Sound of Music in
1965. Julie Christie won it for Darling which is never reshown on TV! How fickle the
Academy! Also note that these would have been first run films in 1965 being shown at
a drive-in. When was the last time you saw that? For that matter when was the last
time you saw a drive in? We have one that is open for a few months of summer
but spends the rest of its life as the grounds for flea market.
The one that always bugged me was Paul Newman! They made up an award rather
than giving him one for the roles that just blew us away. Even though it is not a fun
one to watch, the movie he did about the drunken lawyer in The Verdict was great.
Sigh. As you say, politics. Kitty Huddleston
I was very aware that Julie was passed over for the role of Eliza in "My Fair Lady".
When I was in high school my father took us to see Julie Andrews in "My Fair Lady"
on Broadway. From then on, the ONLY Eliza was Julie Andrews. I was very
disappointed when Audrey Hepburn got the part in the movie. As a result I NEVER
wanted to see the film version (& have not see it). I have always felt that Julie Andrews
is a class act.
We also saw the original version of "Sound of Music" on Broadway. What a thrill! It
didn't bother me so much to have someone other than Mary Martin take the lead role in
the film version.
Thanks so much again for all the fun! A water-soaked Grace Hertz
(in the middle of Iowa's monsoon season!)
Ah, but I can't imagine anyone but Audrey playing in My Fair Lady. Julie Andrews just
isn't Eliza Doolitte. She's too frumpy compared to Audrey.
I am not a fan of Julie Andrews and I can't tell you why I am not a fan, it's on a gut
level. Her voice does not tickle my ear... I am not a soprano fan.
I read the plot outline for "Darling" and it sounds like something I want to rent...
However, it doesn't sound as thought the story line is "clean" enough to be a "Classic"..
I would like to see her acting in it... so I just added it to my queue at Net Flicks.
However, when I watch it will be another story... "Notes On A Scandal" is the nest
one up.
I wonder what toes Julie Andrews tread so heavily upon??? Suzan O. Farris
That was a pretty good year... I graduated from High School, had a horrible summer
thanks to my Dad, got "engaged" to my boyfriend, Dave, moved in with Aunt Ethel and
Uncle Russell in Broomall PA in September and started x-ray school at Brn Mawr.
Realized I wanted to go to parties at Villanova and broke off the engagement... The rest
of the year was fun. Suzan Farris (Again)
I googled a lot of the movies and saw what year they were released. Then I just
went to the Academy Awards for 1965. Most of those movies were released in '64.
The Elvis movie was 1965.
The Academy Award have always been political, except, when my girlfriends father
won for best charcter actor. He was the gorilla who carried Dorothy Lamour around in
the roadshows. Have no idea what year that was but we use to wear the gorilla suit,
which was very hot. Her father made it by hand! Sharon Martin
Yes, well, when I go back and look at some of the "best" movies of the year that got
Oscars since the awards were started, I'm always amazed at the number that I and
probably most people never heard of! Paula Harris
Arrived at this year by Checking the film Major Dundee which as distributed in the
spring of that year. It just so happens that 29 August falls on Sunday in that year.
Don Schulteis
Flyer was from 1965. The Sound of Music won the Academy Award for Best Picture
that year but Julie Andrews did not win Best Actress. How could that be?
Margaret Waterman
Date: 5 April
Host: Bob Hope (I)
Location: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA
Notes: For the first time, the Academy presents an award in the field of makeup.
BEST PICTURE
My Fair Lady (1964) - Jack L. Warner
Other Nominees:
Alexis Zorbas (1964) - Mihalis Kakogiannis
Becket (1964) - Hal B. Wallis
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -
Stanley Kubrick
Mary Poppins (1964) - Walt Disney; Bill Walsh (I)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
My Fair Lady (1964) - Rex Harrison (I)
Other Nominees:
Alexis Zorbas (1964) - Anthony Quinn (I)
Becket (1964) - Richard Burton (I)
Becket (1964) - Peter O'Toole (I)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -
Peter Sellers
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Mary Poppins (1964) - Julie Andrews (I)
Other Nominees:
Matrimonio all'italiana (1964) - Sophia Loren
Pumpkin Eater, The (1964) - Anne Bancroft (I)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) - Kim Stanley (I)
Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (1964) - Debbie Reynolds (I)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Topkapi (1964) - Peter Ustinov
Other Nominees:
Becket (1964) - John Gielgud
Best Man, The (1964) - Lee Tracy
My Fair Lady (1964) - Stanley Holloway
Seven Days in May (1964) - Edmond O'Brien
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alexis Zorbas (1964) - Lila Kedrova
Other Nominees:
Chalk Garden, The (1964) - Edith Evans (I)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) - Agnes Moorehead
My Fair Lady (1964) - Gladys Cooper (I)
Night of the Iguana, The (1964) - Grayson Hall
BEST DIRECTOR:
My Fair Lady (1964) - George Cukor
Other Nominees:
Alexis Zorbas (1964) - Mihalis Kakogiannis
Becket (1964) - Peter Glenville
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -
Stanley Kubrick
Mary Poppins (1964) - Robert Stevenson (I)
BEST WRTING, STORY AND SCREENPLAY
WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN
Father Goose (1964) - S.H. Barnett (story); Peter Stone (I) (screenplay); Frank Tarloff
(screenplay)
Other Nominees:
Compagni, I (1963) - Agenore Incrocci; Furio Scarpelli; Mario Monicelli
Hard Day's Night, A (1964) - Alun Owen
Homme de Rio, L' (1964) - Jean-Paul Rappeneau; Ariane Mnouchkine; Daniel
Boulanger; Philippe de Broca
One Potato, Two Potato (1964) - Orville H. Hampton (screenplay/story); Raphael
Hayes (screenplay)
BEST WRITING, SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL
FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM
Becket (1964) - Edward Anhalt
Other Nominees:
Alexis Zorbas (1964) - Mihalis Kakogiannis
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -
Stanley Kubrick; Peter George (III); Terry Southern
Mary Poppins (1964) - Bill Walsh (I); Don DaGradi
My Fair Lady (1964) - Alan Jay Lerner
For more 1965 awards, click here.
Host: Bob Hope (I)
Location: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA
Notes: For the first time, the Academy presents an award in the field of makeup.
BEST PICTURE
My Fair Lady (1964) - Jack L. Warner
Other Nominees:
Alexis Zorbas (1964) - Mihalis Kakogiannis
Becket (1964) - Hal B. Wallis
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -
Stanley Kubrick
Mary Poppins (1964) - Walt Disney; Bill Walsh (I)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
My Fair Lady (1964) - Rex Harrison (I)
Other Nominees:
Alexis Zorbas (1964) - Anthony Quinn (I)
Becket (1964) - Richard Burton (I)
Becket (1964) - Peter O'Toole (I)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -
Peter Sellers
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Mary Poppins (1964) - Julie Andrews (I)
Other Nominees:
Matrimonio all'italiana (1964) - Sophia Loren
Pumpkin Eater, The (1964) - Anne Bancroft (I)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) - Kim Stanley (I)
Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (1964) - Debbie Reynolds (I)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Topkapi (1964) - Peter Ustinov
Other Nominees:
Becket (1964) - John Gielgud
Best Man, The (1964) - Lee Tracy
My Fair Lady (1964) - Stanley Holloway
Seven Days in May (1964) - Edmond O'Brien
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alexis Zorbas (1964) - Lila Kedrova
Other Nominees:
Chalk Garden, The (1964) - Edith Evans (I)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) - Agnes Moorehead
My Fair Lady (1964) - Gladys Cooper (I)
Night of the Iguana, The (1964) - Grayson Hall
BEST DIRECTOR:
My Fair Lady (1964) - George Cukor
Other Nominees:
Alexis Zorbas (1964) - Mihalis Kakogiannis
Becket (1964) - Peter Glenville
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -
Stanley Kubrick
Mary Poppins (1964) - Robert Stevenson (I)
BEST WRTING, STORY AND SCREENPLAY
WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN
Father Goose (1964) - S.H. Barnett (story); Peter Stone (I) (screenplay); Frank Tarloff
(screenplay)
Other Nominees:
Compagni, I (1963) - Agenore Incrocci; Furio Scarpelli; Mario Monicelli
Hard Day's Night, A (1964) - Alun Owen
Homme de Rio, L' (1964) - Jean-Paul Rappeneau; Ariane Mnouchkine; Daniel
Boulanger; Philippe de Broca
One Potato, Two Potato (1964) - Orville H. Hampton (screenplay/story); Raphael
Hayes (screenplay)
BEST WRITING, SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL
FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM
Becket (1964) - Edward Anhalt
Other Nominees:
Alexis Zorbas (1964) - Mihalis Kakogiannis
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -
Stanley Kubrick; Peter George (III); Terry Southern
Mary Poppins (1964) - Bill Walsh (I); Don DaGradi
My Fair Lady (1964) - Alan Jay Lerner
For more 1965 awards, click here.
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| Answers: 1. 1965 2. The Sound of Music 3. Julie Andrews Best Actress for that year was Julie Christie for her role in the movie Darling. (Go figure.) Note that all the movies on the flyer came out in late 1964 or early 1965. August 1 1965 fell on a Sunday in 1965. |
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