1965 in film explained

The year 1965 in film involved several significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office and winning five Academy Awards.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

See also: List of 1965 box office number-one films in the United States. The top ten 1965 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1965
RankTitle Distributor Domestic rentals
1The Sound of Music20th Century Fox$72,000,000[1]
2 Doctor ZhivagoMGM$43,000,000
3ThunderballUnited Artists / Eon$27,000,000
4Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines20th Century Fox$14,000,000[2]
5The Great RaceWarner Bros.$11,400,000[3]
6That Darn Cat!Buena Vista$9,500,000
7Cat BallouColumbia$9,300,000
8What's New Pussycat?United Artists$8,469,000
9ShenandoahUniversal$7,771,000
10Von Ryan's Express20th Century Fox$7,700,000

Events

Awards

Academy Awards

Best Picture

The Sound of Music – Argyle Enterprises, 20th Century Fox

Best Director

Robert WiseThe Sound of Music

Best Actor

Lee MarvinCat Ballou

Best Actress

Julie ChristieDarling

Best Supporting Actor

Martin BalsamA Thousand Clowns

Best Supporting Actress

Shelley WintersA Patch of Blue

Best Foreign Language Film

The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze), directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakia

BAFTA Film Awards

Best Film from Any Source

My Fair Lady

Best British Film

The Ipcress File

Golden Globe Awards

Drama:

Best Picture

Doctor Zhivago

Best Actor

Omar SharifDoctor Zhivago

Best Actress

Samantha EggarThe Collector

Comedy or Musical:

Best Picture

The Sound of Music

Best Actor

Lee MarvinCat Ballou

Best Actress

Julie AndrewsThe Sound of Music

Other

Best Supporting Actor

Oskar WernerThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Best Supporting Actress

Ruth GordonInside Daisy Clover

Best Director

David LeanDoctor Zhivago

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Knack ...and How to Get It, directed by Richard Lester, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (Sandra of a Thousand Delights), directed by Luchino Visconti, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Alphaville, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, France / Italy

1965 film releases

United States unless stated

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Notable films released in 1965

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Short film series

Births

Deaths

Film debuts

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Finler, Joel Waldo . 2003 . The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press . 978-1-903364-66-6 . 358–359.
  2. Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 229
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20080615024117/http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1965.shtml Top 20 Films of 1965 by Domestic Revenue