Oscar trophy

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The 38th Academy Awards

April 18, 1966  •  Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica  •  Hosted by Bob Hope

5
Sound of Music Wins
10
Sound of Music Noms
The Sound of Music won 5 Oscars and became the highest-grossing film of its time
Lee Marvin won Best Actor playing a drunken gunfighter in the comedy Cat Ballou
Julie Christie won Best Actress for Darling in her breakout international role
Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
The Sound of Music
Robert Wise, producer
Darling
Doctor Zhivago
Ship of Fools
A Thousand Clowns
Best Director
Winner
Robert Wise
The Sound of Music
David Lean— Doctor Zhivago
John Schlesinger— Darling
Hiroshi Teshigahara— Woman in the Dunes
William Wyler— The Collector
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Lee Marvin
Cat Ballou
Richard Burton— The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Laurence Olivier— Othello
Rod Steiger— The Pawnbroker
Oskar Werner— Ship of Fools
Best Actress
Winner
Julie Christie
Darling
Julie Andrews— The Sound of Music
Samantha Eggar— The Collector
Elizabeth Hartman— A Patch of Blue
Simone Signoret— Ship of Fools
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Martin Balsam
A Thousand Clowns
Frank Finlay— Othello
John Mills— The Wrong Box
Telly Savalas— The Birdman of Alcatraz
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Shelley Winters
A Patch of Blue
Ruth Gordon— Inside Daisy Clover
Joyce Redman— Othello
Maggie Smith— Othello
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
Frederic Raphael
Darling
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Robert Bolt
Doctor Zhivago
Music
Best Score (Substantially Original)
Winner
Maurice Jarre
Doctor Zhivago
Best Score (Adaptation)
Winner
Irwin Kostal
The Sound of Music
Best Original Song
Winner
"The Shadow of Your Smile" — Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster
The Sandpiper
Technical
Best Cinematography (B&W)
Winner
Ernest Laszlo
Ship of Fools
Best Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Freddie Young
Doctor Zhivago
Best Film Editing
Winner
William Reynolds
The Sound of Music
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction (B&W)
Winner
Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish
Ship of Fools
Best Art Direction (Color)
Winner
John Box, Terence Marsh, Dario Simoni
Doctor Zhivago
Best Costume Design (B&W)
Winner
Julie Harris
Darling
Best Costume Design (Color)
Winner
Phyllis Dalton
Doctor Zhivago
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
James P. Corcoran, Fred Hynes
The Sound of Music
Best Visual Effects
Winner
John Stears
Thunderball
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
The Dot and the Line
MGM/Chuck Jones — a line falls in love with a dot
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
Sidney Glazier
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
The Shop on Main Street
Czechoslovakia — Jan Kadar