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The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on April 18, 1966 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope.

The ceremony was broadcast on the ABC network and was the first to be broadcast in color.

The two most nominated films were The Sound of Music and Doctor Zhivago, each with ten nominations. Although both films ultimately won five awards, the winner of Best Picture was 20th Century Fox's and Robert Wise's The Sound of Music, adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical.

In the best actress category, Julie Christie (Darling) beat out Julie Andrews, who had won the previous year for Mary Poppins. Had Andrews won again for The Sound Of Music, she would have been the second actress to win the top trophy two years in a row. The first back-to-back best actress winner was Luise Rainer, who won in 1936 for The Great Ziegfeld and in 1937 for The Good Earth.

Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

The Sound of Music

• Doctor Zhivago
• Darling
• A Thousand Clowns
• Ship of Fools

Best Director

Robert Wise for The Sound of Music

• David Lean for Doctor Zhivago
• John Schlesinger for Darling
• William Wyler for The Collector
• Hiroshi Teshigahara for Woman in the Dunes

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou

• Laurence Olivier in Othello
• Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker
• Oskar Werner in Ship of Fools
• Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Julie Christie in Darling

• Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music
• Elizabeth Hartman in A Patch of Blue
• Simone Signoret in Ship of Fools
• Samantha Eggar in The Collector

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns

• Frank Finlay in Othello
• Tom Courtenay in Doctor Zhivago
• Michael Dunn in Ship of Fools
• Ian Bannen in The Flight of the Phoenix

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue

• Ruth Gordon in Inside Daisy Clover
• Maggie Smith in Othello
• Peggy Wood in The Sound of Music
• Joyce Redman in Othello

Best Original Screenplay

Darling - Frederic Raphael

• Casanova 70 - Agenore Incrocci , Furio Scarpelli , Mario Monicelli , Tonino Guerra , Giorgio Salvioni and Suso Cecchi d'Amico
• Les parapluies de Cherbourg - Jacques Demy
• The Train - Franklin Coen and Frank Davis
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Jack Davies and Ken Annakin

Best Adapted Screenplay

Doctor Zhivago - Robert Bolt

• A Thousand Clowns - Herb Gardner
• Cat Ballou - Walter Newman and Frank Pierson
• Ship of Fools - Abby Mann
• The Collector - Stanley Mann and John Kohn

Best Cinematography, Black & White

Ship of Fools

• A Patch of Blue
• In Harm's Way
• King Rat
• Morituri

Best Cinematography, Color

Doctor Zhivago

• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• The Great Race
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• The Sound of Music

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White

Ship of Fools

• A Patch of Blue
• King Rat
• The Slender Thread
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

Doctor Zhivago

• Inside Daisy Clover
• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• The Sound of Music

Best Costume Design, Black & White

Darling

• A Rage to Live
• Ship of Fools
• Morituri
• The Slender Thread

Best Costume Design, Color

Doctor Zhivago

• Inside Daisy Clover
• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• The Sound of Music

Best Sound

The Sound of Music

• Doctor Zhivago
• Shenandoah
• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• The Great Race

Best Film Editing

The Sound of Music

• Cat Ballou
• Doctor Zhivago
• The Great Race
• The Flight of the Phoenix

Best Effects, Sound Effects

The Great Race

• Von Ryan's Express

Best Effects, Special Visual Effects

Thunderball

• The Greatest Story Ever Told

Best Music, Original Song

The Shadow of Your Smile from The Sandpiper - Music by Johnny Mandel and Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

• The Ballad of Cat Ballou from Cat Ballou - Music by Johnny Livingston and Lyrics by Mack David
• I Will Wait for You from Les parapluies de Cherbourg - Music by Michel Legrand and Lyrics by Jacques Demy
• The Sweetheart Tree from The Great Race - Music by Henry Mancini and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
• What's New Pussycat from What's New Pussycat? - Music by Burt Bacharach and Lyrics by Hal David

Best Music, Score - Substantially Original

Doctor Zhivago - Maurice Jarre

• A Patch of Blue - Jerry Goldsmith
• Les parapluies de Cherbourg - Michel Legrand and Jacques Demy
• The Agony and the Ecstasy - Alex North
• The Greatest Story Ever Told - Alfred Newman

Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment

The Sound of Music - Irwin Kostal

• Les parapluies de Cherbourg - Michel Legrand
• Cat Ballou - Frank De Vol
• A Thousand Clowns - Don Walker
• The Pleasure Seekers - Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects

The Chicken

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

To Be Alive!

Best Documentary, Features

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story

Best Foreign Language Film

Obchod na korze - Czechoslovakia

• Kwaidan - Japan
• Kare John - Sweden
• Matrimonio all'italiana - Italy
• Blood on the Land - Greece

Honorary Award

Bob Hope - For unique and distinguished service to our industry and the Academy (gold medal)

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

William Wyler

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Edmond L. DePatie

Breakdown

• The Sound of Music - 5/10
• Doctor Zhivago - 5/10
• Darling - 3/5
• Ship of Fools - 2/8
• Cat Ballou - 1/5
• A Thousand Clowns - 1/4
• The Sandpiper - 1/1
• A Patch of Blue - 1/5
• The Agony and the Ecstasy - 0/5
• The Great Race - 1/5
• The Greatest Story Ever Told - 0/5
• Thunderball - 1/1