38th Annual Academy Awards Results and Commentary (1966)

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• Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 18, 1966
• For films released in: 1965
• Host(s): Bob Hope (video)

• Nominations List

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Bob Hope hosted the first color broadcast of the Oscars as the 38th Annual Academy Awards took place on Monday, April 18th, 1966.

One of the evening’s highlights featured dancers Cyd Charisse and James Mitchell performing to the music of George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein.

The Sound of Music and Doctor Zhivago both entered the night with ten nominations and both left with five Oscars, with The Sound of Music taking home Best Picture and Best Director for Robert Wise.

Julie Christie took home Best Actress for Darling, while Lee Marvin’s performance in Cat Ballou — playing two characters in the Western spoof — earned him Best Actor. Upon accepting his award, Marvin said, “I think half of this belongs to a horse somewhere out in the valley.”

Results

Best Picture

• The Sound of Music
  Robert Wise [Producer]

Best Directing

• The Sound of Music
  Robert Wise

Best Actor

• Cat Ballou
  Lee Marvin

Best Actress

• Darling
  Julie Christie

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• A Thousand Clowns
  Martin Balsam

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• A Patch of Blue
  Shelley Winters

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Shop on Main Street

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Ship of Fools
  Robert Clatworthy [Art Direction] and Joseph Kish [Set Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Doctor Zhivago
  John Box [Art Direction], Terry Marsh [Art Direction] and Dario Simoni [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Ship of Fools
  Ernest Laszlo

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Doctor Zhivago
  Freddie Young

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Darling
  Julie Harris

Best Costume Design (Color)

• Doctor Zhivago
  Phyllis Dalton

Best Documentary (Feature)

• The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
  Sidney Glazier

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• To Be Alive!
  Francis Thompson

Best Film Editing

• The Sound of Music
  William Reynolds

Best Music (Scoring of Music - adaptation or treatment)

• The Sound of Music
  Irwin Kostal

Best Music (Score - substantially original)

• Doctor Zhivago
  Maurice Jarre

Best Music (Song)

• The Sandpiper "The Shadow of Your Smile"
  Johnny Mandel [Music by] and Paul Francis Webster [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• The Dot and the Line
  Chuck Jones and Les Goldman

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

• The Chicken (Le Poulet)
  Claude Berri

Best Sound

• The Sound of Music
  20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran [Sound Director], Todd-AO Sound Department and Fred Hynes [Sound Director]

Best Sound Effects

• The Great Race
  Tregoweth Brown

Best Special Visual Effects

• Thunderball
  John Stears

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

• Doctor Zhivago
  Robert Bolt

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen)

• Darling
  Frederic Raphael

Honorary Award

• Bob Hope
  Note: …for unique and distinguished service to our industry and the Academy.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• William Wyler

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Edmond L. DePatie

Scientific or Technical Award (Class II)

• Arthur J. Hatch [of the Strong Electric Corporation subsidiary of General Precision Equipment Corporation]
  Note: …for the design and development of an Air Blown Carbon Arc Projection Lamp.
• Stefan Kudelski
  Note: …for the design and development of the Nagra portable 1/4 inch tape recording system for motion picture sound recording.