The 1965 Academy Awards were presented April 18, 1966 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
| Best Picture | Darling, Joseph Janni, producer (Embassy Pictures Corp.) |
| Doctor Zhivago, Carlo Ponti, producer (MGM) |
| Ship of Fools, Stanley Kramer, producer (Columbia) |
| The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| A Thousand Clowns, Fred Coe, producer (United Artists) |
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| Best Actor | Richard Burton, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold |
| Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou |
| Laurence Olivier, Othello |
| Rod Steiger, The Pawnbroker |
| Oskar Werner, Ship of Fools |
| Best Actress | Julie Andrews, The Sound of Music |
| Julie Christie, Darling |
| Samantha Eggar, The Collector |
| Elizabeth Hartman, A Patch of Blue |
| Simone Signoret, Ship of Fools |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | Martin Balsam, A Thousand Clowns |
| Ian Bannen, The Flight of the Phoenix |
| Tom Courtenay, Doctor Zhivago |
| Michael Dunn, Ship of Fools |
| Frank Finlay, Othello |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Ruth Gordon, Inside Daisy Clover |
| Joyce Redman, Othello |
| Maggie Smith, Othello |
| Shelley Winters, A Patch of Blue |
| Peggy Wood, The Sound of Music |
| Directing | David Lean, Doctor Zhivago |
| John Schlesinger, Darling |
| Hiroshi Teshigahara, Woman in the Dunes |
| Robert Wise, The Sound of Music |
| William Wyler, The Collector |
| Writing | | Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium | Robert Bolt, Doctor Zhivago | | Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns | | Abby Mann, Ship of Fools | | Stanley Mann and John Kohn, The Collector | | Walter Newman and Frank R. Pierson, Cat Ballou | | Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Age, Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni and Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Casanova 70 | | Franklin Coen and Frank Davis, The Train | | Jack Davies and Ken Annakin, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines | | Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | | Frederic Raphael, Darling |
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| Cinematography | | Black-and-White | Robert Burks, A Patch of Blue | | Loyal Griggs, In Harm's Way | | Burnett Guffey, King Rat | | Conrad Hall, Morituri | | Ernest Laszlo, Ship of Fools | | Color | Russell Harlan, The Great Race | | Ted McCord, The Sound of Music | | William C. Mellor and Loyal Griggs, The Greatest Story Ever Told | | Leon Shamroy, The Agony and the Ecstasy | | Freddie Young, Doctor Zhivago |
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| Art Direction | | Black-and-White | Robert Clatworthy, art direction; Joseph Kish, set decoration, Ship of Fools | | George W. Davis and Urie McCleary, art direction; Henry Grace and Charles S. Thompson, set decoration, A Patch of Blue | | Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen and Edward Marshall, art direction; Josie MacAvin, set decoration, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | | Hal Pereira and Jack Poplin, art direction; Robert Benton and Joseph Kish, set decoration, The Slender Thread | | Robert Emmet Smith, art direction; Frank Tuttle, set decoration, King Rat | | Color | John Box and Terry Marsh, art direction; Dario Simoni, set decoration, Doctor Zhivago | | Robert Clatworthy, art direction; George James Hopkins, set decoration, Inside Daisy Clover | | Richard Day, William Creber and David Hall, art direction; Ray Moyer, Fred MacLean and Norman Rockett, set decoration, The Greatest Story Ever Told | | John DeCuir and Jack Martin Smith, art direction; Dario Simoni, set decoration, The Agony and the Ecstasy | | Boris Leven, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Ruby Levitt, set decoration, The Sound of Music |
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| Sound | MGM British Studio Sound Dept. and MGM Studio Sound Dept., Doctor Zhivago |
| Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., The Agony and the Ecstasy |
| Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept. and Todd-AO Sound Dept., The Sound of Music |
| Universal City Studio Sound Dept., Shenandoah |
| Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., The Great Race |
| Music | | Song | “The Ballad of Cat Ballou,” Cat Ballou, Jerry Livingston, music; Mack David, lyrics | | “I Will Wait for You,” The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Michel Legrand, music; Jacques Demy, lyrics | | “The Shadow of Your Smile,” The Sandpiper, Johnny Mandel, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics | | “The Sweetheart Tree,” The Great Race, Henry Mancini, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics | | “What's New, Pussycat?,” What's New, Pussycat?, Burt Bacharach, music; Hal David, lyrics | | Musical Score, Substantially Original | Jerry Goldsmith, A Patch of Blue | | Maurice Jarre, Doctor Zhivago | | Michel Legrand and Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | | Alfred Newman, The Greatest Story Ever Told | | Alex North, The Agony and the Ecstasy | | Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment | DeVol, Cat Ballou | | Irwin Kostal, The Sound of Music | | Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | | Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage, The Pleasure Seekers | | Don Walker, A Thousand Clowns |
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| Film Editing | Michael Luciano, The Flight of the Phoenix |
| Charles Nelson, Cat Ballou |
| William Reynolds, The Sound of Music |
| Norman Savage, Doctor Zhivago |
| Ralph E. Winters, The Great Race |
| Costume Design | | Black-and-White | Julie Harris, Darling | | Edith Head, The Slender Thread | | Moss Mabry, Morituri | | Howard Shoup, A Rage to Live | | Bill Thomas and Jean Louis, Ship of Fools | | Color | Phyllis Dalton, Doctor Zhivago | | Edith Head and Bill Thomas, Inside Daisy Clover | | Dorothy Jeakins, The Sound of Music | | Vittorio Nino Novarese, The Agony and the Ecstasy | | Vittorio Nino Novarese and Marjorie Best, The Greatest Story Ever Told |
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| Special Visual Effects | J. McMillan Johnson, The Greatest Story Ever Told |
| John Stears, Thunderball |
| Sound Effects Editing | Tregoweth Brown, The Great Race |
| Walter A. Rossi, Von Ryan's Express |
| Short Subjects | | Cartoon | Clay or the Origin of Species (Harvard University; Pathé Contemporary Films) | | The Dot and the Line (Chuck Jones and Les Goldman, producers; MGM) | | The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) (Giulio Gianni-Emanuele Luzzati; Allied Artists) | | Live Action | The Chicken (Le Poulet) (Renn Productions; Pathé Contemporary Films) | | Fortress of Peace (Lothar Wolff Productions for Farner-Looser Films; Cinerama) | | Skaterdater (Byway Productions; United Artists) | | Snow (British Transport Films in association with Geoffrey Jones, Ltd.; Manson Distributing) | | Time Piece (Muppets, Inc.; Pathé Contemporary Films) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | Mural on Our Street (Henry Street Settlement; Pathé Contemporary Films) | | Ouverture (Mafilm Studios Production; Hungarofilm-Pathé Contemporary Films) | | Point of View (Vision Associates Production; National Tuberculosis Association) | | To Be Alive! (Francis Thompson, producer; Johnson Wax) | | Yeats Country (Patrick Carey and Joe Mendoza, producers; Aengus Films for the Dept. of External Affairs of Ireland) | | Feature | The Battle of the Bulge…The Brave Rifles (Laurence E. Mascott, producer; Mascott Productions) | | The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (Sidney Glazier Production; American International) | | The Forth Road Bridge (Random Film Productions; Shell-Mex and B.P. Film Library) | | Let My People Go (Marshall Flaum, producer; David L. Wolper Productions) | | To Die in Madrid (Ancinex Productions; Altura Films International) |
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| Foreign Language Film | Blood on the Land, Greece |
| Dear John, Sweden |
| Kwaidan, Japan |
| Marriage Italian Style, Italy |
| The Shop on Main Street, Czechoslovakia |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | William Wyler |
| Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Edmond L. DePatie |
| Honorary Award | To Bob Hope for unique and distinguished service to our industry and the Academy |
