- 38th Academy Awards
Infobox Academy Awards | name = 38th
poster =
caption = Best Picture Winner: "The Sound of Music"
date =April 18 ,1966
site =Santa Monica Civic Auditorium inSanta Monica, California
preshow =
host =Bob Hope
producer =Joe Pasternak
director =Richard Dunlap
network = ABC
last = 37th
next = 39thThe 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on
April 18 1966 at theSanta Monica Civic Auditorium inSanta Monica, California . They were hosted byBob Hope .The ceremony was telecast in color for the first time.
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'sNonnberg 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).Film
*Best Picture:The Sound of Music -
Robert Wise , producerDirection
*Achievement in Directing:
Robert Wise for The Sound of MusicActing
*Best Actor:
Lee Marvin inCat Ballou
*Best Actress:Julie Christie in Darling
*"'Best Supporting Actor:Martin Balsam inA Thousand Clowns
*"'Best Supporting Actress:Shelley Winters inA Patch of Blue Writing
*Best Original Screenplay: Darling written by
Frederic Raphael
*Best Adapted Screenplay: Doctor Zhivago screenplay byRobert Bolt Music
*Best Original Song:
The Sandpiper -Johnny Mandel (music);Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)- For the song "The Shadow of Your Smile"
*Best Original Score: Doctor Zhivago byMaurice Jarre
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