1965 IN FILM

The year '1965 in film' involved some significant events.

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1965

Short Film Series

Births

Deaths

Events

Top grossing films

:North America
# ''The Sound of Music''
# ''Mary Poppins''
# ''Goldfinger''
# ''My Fair Lady''
# ''What's New Pussycat?''
# ''Shenandoah''
# ''The Sandpiper''
# ''Father Goose''

Awards

'Academy Awards:'
:Best Picture: '''The Sound of Music''' - Argyle, Twentieth Century-Fox
:Best Director: 'Robert Wise' - ''The Sound of Music''
:Best Actor: 'Lee Marvin' - ''Cat Ballou''
:Best Actress: 'Julie Christie' - ''Darling''
:Best Supporting Actor: 'Martin Balsam' - ''A Thousand Clowns''
:Best Supporting Actress: 'Shelley Winters' - ''A Patch of Blue''
:Best Foreign Language Film: '''The Shop on Main Street''' (''Obchod na korze''), directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakia
'Golden Globe Awards:'
:'Drama:'
:Best Picture: '''Doctor Zhivago'''
:Best Actor: 'Omar Sharif' - ''Doctor Zhivago''
:Best Actress: 'Samantha Eggar' - ''The Collector''
:'Musical or comedy:'
:Best Picture: '''The Sound of Music'''
:Best Actor: 'Lee Marvin' - ''Cat Ballou''
:Best Actress: 'Julie Andrews' - ''The Sound of Music''
:'Other'
:Best Director: 'David Lean' - ''Doctor 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

Films released in 1965

★ ''36 Hours''

★ ''A Patch of Blue''

★ ''A Thousand Clowns''

★ ''The Agony and the Ecstasy''

★ ''Alphaville'', Golden Bear winner (''Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution')

★ ''Boeing Boeing''

★ ''La Boheme'', by Franco Zeffirelli (see disambiguation)

★ ''Cat Ballou''

★ ''The Collector''

★ ''Darling''

★ ''Doctor Zhivago'', starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness

★ ''Dr. Terror's House of Horrors''

★ ''Dr. Who and the Daleks''

★ ''The Family Jewels'', starring Jerry Lewis

★ ''The Flight of the Phoenix''

★ ''For a Few Dollars More''

★ ''Girl Happy''

★ ''The Great Race''

★ ''The Greatest Story Ever Told''

★ ''Help!'', starring The Beatles

★ ''Invasion of Astro-Monster''

★ ''The IPCRESS File''

★ ''Juliet of the Spirits''

★ ''The Knack...and How to Get It'', Cannes Grand Prize

★ ''La Loba''

★ ''Life at the Top''

★ ''Planet of the Vampires''

★ ''The Rounders''

★ ''The Saragossa Manuscript'' (''Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie'')

★ ''The Sandpiper''

★ ''Shenandoah''

★ ''Ship of Fools''

★ ''The Shop on Main Street''

★ ''Signore & Signori'' Palme d'Or winner (''The Birds, the Bees and the Italians'')

★ ''The Sons of Katie Elder''

★ ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold''

★ ''The Sound of Music''

★ ''That Darn Cat!''

★ ''Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines''

★ ''Thunderball''

★ ''What's New Pussycat?''

★ ''The World of Abbott and Costello'', starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Short Film Series

★ ''Looney Tunes'' (1930-1969)

★ ''Merrie Melodies'' (1931-1969)

★ ''Speedy Gonzales'' (1953-1968)

★ ''Goofy'' ('1965')

Births

★ January 1 - Lisa Roberts Gillan, actress

★ February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor

★ April 4 - Robert Downey Jr, actor

★ May 31 - Brooke Shields, actress

★ June 10 - Elizabeth Hurley, actress

★ July 25 - Illeana Douglas, actress

★ July 26 - Jeremy Piven, actor

★ August 14 - Emmanuelle Béart, Cesar Award winning actress

★ November 20 - Ben Stiller, actor

Deaths

★ January 14 - Jeanette MacDonald, actress, singer

★ February 23 - Stan Laurel, British actor

★ March 6 - Margaret Dumont, comedic actress

★ March 28 - Jack Hoxie, Western actor

★ April 8 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor

★ July 24 - Constance Bennett, actress