The 1966 Academy Awards were presented April 10, 1967 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
| Best Picture | Alfie, Lewis Gilbert, producer (Paramount) |
| A Man for All Seasons, Fred Zinnemann, producer (Columbia) |
| The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, Norman Jewison, producer (United Artists) |
| The Sand Pebbles, Robert Wise, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Ernest Lehman, producer (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Actor | Alan Arkin, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming |
| Richard Burton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Michael Caine, Alfie |
| Steve McQueen, The Sand Pebbles |
| Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons |
| Best Actress | Anouk Aimée, A Man and a Woman |
| Ida Kaminska, The Shop on Main Street |
| Lynn Redgrave, Georgy Girl |
| Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan! |
| Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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 Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Archive Photos |
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| Actor in a Supporting Role | Mako, The Sand Pebbles |
| James Mason, Georgy Girl |
| Walter Matthau, The Fortune Cookie |
| George Segal, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Robert Shaw, A Man for All Seasons |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Sandy Dennis, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Wendy Hiller, A Man for All Seasons |
| Jocelyne Lagarde, Hawaii |
| Vivien Merchant, Alfie |
| Geraldine Page, You're a Big Boy Now |
| Directing | Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up |
| Richard Brooks, The Professionals |
| Claude Lelouch, A Man and a Woman |
| Mike Nichols, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons |
| Writing | | Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium | Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons | | Richard Brooks, The Professionals | | Ernest Lehman, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | | Bill Naughton, Alfie | | William Rose, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming | | Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Michelangelo Antonioni, story; Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond, Blow-Up | | Robert Ardrey, Khartoum | | Clint Johnston and Don Peters, The Naked Prey | | Claude Lelouch, story; Pierre Uytterhoeven and Claude Lelouch, screenplay, A Man and a Woman | | Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, The Fortune Cookie |
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| Cinematography | | Black-and-White | Marcel Grignon, Is Paris Burning? | | Ken Higgins, Georgy Girl | | James Wong Howe, Seconds | | Joseph LaShelle, The Fortune Cookie | | Haskell Wexler, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | | Color | Conrad Hall, The Professionals | | Russell Harlan, Hawaii | | Ernest Laszlo, Fanastic Voyage | | Joseph MacDonald, The Sand Pebbles | | Ted Moore, A Man for All Seasons |
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| Art Direction | | Black-and-White | George W. Davis and Paul Groesse, art direction; Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt, set decoration, Mister Buddwing | | Willy Holt, art direction; Marc Frederix and Pierre Guffroy, set decoration, Is Paris Burning? | | Robert Luthardt, art direction; Edward G. Boyle, set decoration, The Fortune Cookie | | Luigi Scaccianoce, art direction, The Gospel According to St. Matthew | | Richard Sylbert, art direction; George James Hopkins, set decoration, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | | Color | Piero Gherardi, art direction, Juliet of the Spirits | | Alexander Golitzen and George C. Webb, art direction; John McCarthy and John Austin, set decoration, Gambit | | Boris Leven, art direction; Walter M. Scott, John Sturtevant and William Kiernan, set decoration, The Sand Pebbles | | Hal Pereira and Arthur Lonergan, art direction; Robert Benton and James Payne, set decoration, The Oscar | | Jack Martin Smith and Dale Hennesy, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss, set decoration, Fantastic Voyage |
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| Sound | MGM Studio Sound Dept., Grand Prix |
| Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., Hawaii |
| Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., The Sand Pebbles |
| Universal City Studio Sound Dept., Gambit |
| Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Music | | Song | “Alfie,” Alfie, Burt Bacharach, music; Hal David, lyrics | | “Born Free,” Born Free, John Barry, music; Don Black, lyrics | | “Georgy Girl,” Georgy Girl, Tom Springfield, music; Jim Dale, lyrics | | “My Wishing Doll,” Hawaii, Elmer Bernstein, music; Mack David, lyrics | | “A Time for Love,” An American Dream, Johnny Mandel, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics | | Original Music Score | John Barry, Born Free | | Elmer Bernstein, Hawaii | | Jerry Goldsmith, The Sand Pebbles | | Toshiro Mayuzumi, The Bible | | Alex North, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | | Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment | Luis Enrique Bacalov, The Gospel According to St. Matthew | | Elmer Bernstein, Return of the Seven | | Al Ham, Stop the World—I Want to Get Off | | Harry Sukman, The Singing Nun | | Ken Thorne, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
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| Film Editing | Hal Ashby and J. Terry Williams, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming |
| William B. Murphy, Fantastic Voyage |
| Sam O'Steen, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| William Reynolds, The Sand Pebbles |
| Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo, Grand Prix |
| Costume Design | | Black-and-White | Danilo Donati, The Gospel According to St. Matthew | | Danilo Donati, Mandragola | | Jocelyn Rickards, Morgan! | | Helen Rose, Mister Buddwing | | Irene Sharaff, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | | Color | Piero Gherardi, Juliet of the Spirits | | Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge, A Man for All Seasons | | Edith Head, The Oscar | | Dorothy Jeakins, Hawaii | | Jean Louis, Gambit |
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| Special Visual Effects | Art Cruickshank, Fantastic Voyage |
| Linwood G. Dunn, Hawaii |
| Sound Effects | Gordon Daniel, Grand Prix |
| Walter Rossi, Fantastic Voyage |
| Short Subjects | | Cartoon | The Drag (National Film Board of Canada; Favorite Films of California) | | Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (I Feel Special Series) (Hubley Studios; Paramount) | | The Pink Blueprint (Pink Panther Series) (Mirisch-Geoffrey-DePatie-Freleng; United Artists) | | Live Action | Turkey the Bridge (Samaritan Productions; Schoenfeld Films) | | Wild Wings (British Transport Films; Manson Distributing) | | The Winning Strain (Sports in Action Series) (Winik Films; Paramount) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | Adolescence (Marin Karmitz and Vladimir Forgency, producers; M.K. Productions) | | Cowboy (Ahnemann /Schlosser Productions; U.S. Information Agency) | | The Odds Against (Vision Associates Production; American Foundation Institute of Corrections) | | Saint Matthew Passion (Mafilm Studios Production; Hungarofilm) | | A Year Toward Tomorrow (Sun Dial Films, Inc.; Office of Economic Opportunity) | | Feature | The Face of Genius (WBZ-TV, Group W, Boston) | | Helicopter Canada (National Film Board of Canada Centennial Commission; National Film Board of Canada) | | Le Volcan Interdit (The Forbidden Volcano) (Cine Documents Tazieff; Athos Films) | | The Really Big Family (Alex Grasshoff, producer; David L. Wolper Production) | | The War Game (BBC Production for the British Film Institute; Pathé Contemporary Films) |
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| Foreign Language Film | The Battle of Algiers, Italy |
| Loves of a Blonde, Czechoslovakia |
| A Man and a Woman, France |
| Pharaoh, Poland |
| Three, Yugoslavia |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Robert Wise |
| Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | George Bagnall |
| Honorary Awards | To Y. Frank Freeman for unusual and outstanding service to the Academy during his 30 years in Hollywood |
| To Yakima Canutt for achievements as a stuntman and for developing safety devices to protect stuntmen everywhere |
