23rd Golden Globe Awards

23rd Golden Globe Awards

February 28, 1966

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Film - Drama:
Doctor Zhivago

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Film - Musical or Comedy:
The Sound of Music

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TV Show:
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The 23rd Golden Globe Awards, honouring the best in film for 1965 films, were held on 28 February 1966.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Actor - Drama

Omar Sharif - Doctor Zhivago

• Rex Harrison - The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Sidney Poitier - A Patch of Blue
• Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker
• Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou

• Jack Lemmon - The Great Race
• Jerry Lewis - Boeing Boeing
• Jason Robards - A Thousand Clowns
• Alberto Sordi - Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Best Actress - Drama

Samantha Eggar - The Collector

• Julie Christie - Darling
• Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue
• Simone Signoret - Ship of Fools
• Maggie Smith - Othello

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Julie Andrews – The Sound of Music

• Jane Fonda – Cat Ballou
• Barbara Harris – A Thousand Clowns
• Rita Tushingham – The Knack...and How to Get It
• Natalie Wood – Inside Daisy Clover

Best Director

David Lean - Doctor Zhivago

• Guy Green - A Patch of Blue
• John Schlesinger - Darling
• Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
• William Wyler - The Collector

Best Film - Drama

Doctor Zhivago

• The Collector
• The Flight of the Phoenix
• A Patch of Blue
• Ship of Fools

Best Film - Musical or Comedy

The Sound of Music

• Cat Ballou
• The Great Race
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
• A Thousand Clowns

Best Foreign Film (English language)

Darling

• The Knack ...and How to Get It
• The Leather Boys
• Ninety Degrees in the Shade
• Othello

Best Foreign Film (Foreign language)

Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti), Italy

• Always Further On (Tarahumara, cada vez más lejos), Mexico
• Circle of Love (La ronde), France
• Red Beard (Akahige), Japan
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg), France

Best Original Score

"Doctor Zhivago" - Maurice Jarre

• "Battle of the Bulge" - Benjamin Frankel
• "The Great Race" - Henry Mancini
• "The Sandpiper" - Johnny Mandel
• "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" -Riz Ortolani

Best Original Song

"Forget Domani" - The Yellow Rolls-Royce

• "Ballad of Cat Ballou" - Cat Ballou
• "The Shadow of Your Smile" - The Sandpiper
• "The Sweetheart Tree" - The Great Race
• "That Funny Feeling" - Tat Funny Feeling

Best Screenplay

Doctor Zhivago - Robert Bolt

• The Agony and the Ecstasy - Philip Dunne
• The Collector - John Kohn and Stanley Mann
• A Patch of Blue - Guy Green
• The Slender Thread - Stirling Silliphant

Best Supporting Actor

Oskar Werner - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

• Red Buttons - Harlow
• Frank Finlay - Othello
• Hardy Krüger - The Flight of the Phoenix
• Telly Savalas - Battle of the Bulge

Best Supporting Actress

Ruth Gordon - Inside Daisy Clover

• Joan Blondell - The Cincinnati Kid
• Joyce Redman - Othello
• Thelma Ritter - Boeing (707) Boeing (707)
• Peggy Wood - The Sound of Music

Award breakdown

Film

Winners (minimum 1 win)

• 5 / 5 Doctor Zhivago: Best Actor and Film - Drama, Best Director, Best Original Score & Best Screenplay
• 2 / 4 The Sound of Music: Best Actress and Film - Musical or Comedy
• 1 / 1 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: Best Supporting Actor
• 1 / 2 Inside Daisy Clover: Best Supporting Actress
• 1 / 2 The Yellow Rolls-Royce: Best Original Song
• 1 / 4 Cat Ballou: Best Actor - Musical or Comedy
• 1 / 4 The Collector: Best Actress - Drama

Losers (minimum 2 nominations)

• 0 / 2 Boeing Boeing
• 0 / 2 The Knack...and How to Get It
• 0 / 3 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
• 0 / 3 A Thousand Clowns
• 0 / 4 The Great Race
• 0 / 4 Othello