38th Academy Awards

38th Academy Awards
38th Academy Awards
Date	April 18, 1966
Site	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California
Hosted by	Bob Hope
Produced by	Joe Pasternak
Directed by	Richard Dunlap
Highlights
Best Picture	The Sound of Music
Most awards	Doctor Zhivago and The Sound of Music (5)
Most nominations	Doctor Zhivago and The Sound of Music (10)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
	← 37th; Academy Awards; 39th →;

The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on April 18, 1966, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope.

The ceremony was broadcast on the ABC network and was the first to be broadcast live in color.

The two most nominated films were The Sound of Music and Doctor Zhivago, each with ten nominations and five wins. The winner of Best Picture was 20th Century Fox's and Robert Wise's The Sound of Music, adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical. Both movies are in the top 10 inflation-adjusted commercially successful films ever made,^[1] and both would appear 33 years later on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the 20th Century.

The Sound of Music was the first Best Picture winner without a writing nomination since Hamlet; it would be the last until Titanic at the 70th Academy Awards.

Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Johnson, attended the Academy Awards presentation and was escorted by actor George Hamilton.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface^[2]

Best Picture	Best Director
*The Sound of Music* Darling Doctor Zhivago Ship of Fools A Thousand Clowns	Robert Wise – The Sound of Music David Lean – Doctor Zhivago John Schlesinger – Darling William Wyler – The Collector Hiroshi Teshigahara – The Woman in the Dunes
Best Actor	Best Actress
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	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	Best Supporting Actress
Martin Balsam – A Thousand Clowns Ian Bannen – The Flight of the Phoenix Tom Courtenay – Doctor Zhivago Michael Dunn – Ship of Fools Frank Finlay – Othello	Shelley Winters – A Patch of Blue Ruth Gordon – Inside Daisy Clover Joyce Redman – Othello Maggie Smith – Othello Peggy Wood – The Sound of Music
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Darling – Frederic Raphael Casanova 70 – Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni and Suso Cecchi d'Amico The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Jacques Demy The Train – Franklin Coen and Frank Davis Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines – Jack Davies and Ken Annakin	Doctor Zhivago – Robert Bolt A Thousand Clowns – Herb Gardner Cat Ballou – Walter Newman and Frank Pierson Ship of Fools – Abby Mann The Collector – Stanley Mann and John Kohn
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Original Song
The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia) Kwaidan (Japan) Dear John (Sweden) Marriage Italian-Style (Italy) Blood on the Land (Greece)	*"The Shadow of Your Smile" from The Sandpiper* – music by Johnny Mandel, lyrics by Paul Francis Webster** "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" from Cat Ballou – music by Jerry Livingston, lyrics by Mack David "I Will Wait for You" from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – music by Michel Legrand, lyrics by Jacques Demy "The Sweetheart Tree" from The Great Race – music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny Mercer "What's New Pussycat?" from What's New Pussycat? –music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles The Forth Road Bridge Let My People Go: The Story of Israel Mourir à Madrid	To Be Alive! Mural on Our Street Nyitany Point of View Yeats Country
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
The Chicken – Claude Berri Fortress of Peace – Lothar Wolff Skaterdater Snow Time Piece – Jim Henson	The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics Clay or the Origin of Species The Thieving Magpie
Best Original Score	Best Adaptation or Treatment Score
Doctor Zhivago – Maurice Jarre A Patch of Blue – Jerry Goldsmith The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Michel Legrand and Jacques Demy The Agony and the Ecstasy – Alex North The Greatest Story Ever Told – Alfred Newman	The Sound of Music – Irwin Kostal The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Michel Legrand Cat Ballou – Frank De Vol A Thousand Clowns – Don Walker The Pleasure Seekers – Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
The Great Race – Treg Brown Von Ryan's Express – Walter Rossi	*The Sound of Music* – James Corcoran, Fred Hynes Shenandoah – Waldon O. Watson Doctor Zhivago – A.W. Watkins, Franklin Milton The Agony and the Ecstasy – James Corcoran The Great Race – George Groves
Best Art Direction, Black and White	Best Art Direction, Color
Ship of Fools – Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish King Rat – Robert Emmet Smith, Frank Tuttle A Patch of Blue – George Davis, Urie McCleary, Henry Grace, Charles S. Thompson The Slender Thread – Hal Pereira, Jack Poplin, Robert R. Benton, Joseph Kish and Elliot Scott; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Robert R. Benton The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Ted Marshall, Josie MacAvin	Doctor Zhivago – John Box, Terence Marsh, Dario Simoni The Agony and the Ecstasy – John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Dario Simoni The Greatest Story Ever Told – Richard Day, William Creber, David S. Hall (posthumous nomination), Ray Moyer, Fred M. MacLean, Norman Rockett Inside Daisy Clover – Robert Clatworthy, George James Hopkins The Sound of Music – Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, Ruby Levitt
Best Cinematography, Black and White	Best Cinematography, Color
Ship of Fools – Ernest Laszlo In Harm's Way – Loyal Griggs King Rat – Burnett Guffey Morituri – Conrad Hall A Patch of Blue – Robert Burks	Doctor Zhivago – Freddie Young The Agony and the Ecstasy – Leon Shamroy The Great Race – Russell Harlan The Greatest Story Ever Told – William C. Mellor (posthumous nomination) and Loyal Griggs The Sound of Music – Ted D. McCord
Best Costume Design, Black and White	Best Costume Design, Color
Darling – Julie Harris Morituri – Moss Mabry A Rage to Live – Howard Shoup Ship of Fools – Jean Louis and Bill Thomas The Slender Thread – Edith Head	Doctor Zhivago – Phyllis Dalton The Agony and the Ecstasy – Vittorio Nino Novarese The Greatest Story Ever Told – Marjorie Best and Vittorio Nino Novarese Inside Daisy Clover – Edith Head and Bill Thomas The Sound of Music – Dorothy Jeakins
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
The Sound of Music – William H. Reynolds Cat Ballou – Charles Nelson Doctor Zhivago – Norman Savage The Flight of the Phoenix – Michael Luciano The Great Race – Ralph E. Winters	Thunderball – John Stears The Greatest Story Ever Told – J. McMillan Johnson

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

William Wyler

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Edmond L. DePatie

Breakdown

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

10 nominations: Doctor Zhivago and The Sound of Music
8 nominations: Ship of Fools
5 nominations: The Agony and the Ecstasy, Cat Ballou, Darling, The Great Race, The Greatest Story Ever Told and Patch of Blue
4 nominations: Othello, A Thousand Clowns and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
3 nominations: The Collector and Inside Daisy Clover
2 nominations: The Flight of the Phoenix, King Rat, Morituri, The Slender Thread and The Spy who Came in From the Cold

The following films received multiple awards.

5 wins: Doctor Zhivago and The Sound of Music
3 wins: Darling
2 wins: Ship of Fools

Presenters and performers

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

Name	Role
Hank Simms	Announcer for the 38th Academy Awards
Arthur Freed (AMPAS President)	Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony
Patty Duke George Hamilton	Presenters of the award for Best Sound
Dorothy Malone	Presenter of the award for Best Visual Effects
Lila Kedrova	Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Yvette Mimieux	Presenter of the award for Best Sound Effects
Lana Turner	Presenter of the Costume Design Awards
Milton Berle Phyllis Diller	Presenters of the Documentary Awards
Don Knotts Elke Sommer	Presenters of the Short Subjects Awards
Peter Ustinov	Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Jason Robards	Presenter of the award for Best Film Editing
Warren Beatty Debbie Reynolds	Presenters of the award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Angie Dickinson	Presenter of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Edmond L. DePatie
Richard Johnson Kim Novak	Presenters of the award for Best Cinematography
James Coburn Virna Lisi	Presenters of the Music Awards
Gregory Peck	Presenter of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Natalie Wood	Presenter of the award for Best Original Song
Shirley MacLaine	Presenter of the award for Best Director
George Peppard Joanne Woodward	Presenters of the Writing Awards
Arthur Freed	Presenter of the Irving J. Thalberg Memorial Award to William Wyler
Julie Andrews	Presenter of the award for Best Actor
Rex Harrison	Presenter of the award for Best Actress
Arthur Freed	Presenter of the Honorary Gold Medal to Bob Hope
Jack Lemmon	Presenter of the award for Best Picture

Performers

Name	Role	Performed
Johnny Green	Musical arranger Conductor	Orchestral
Academy Awards Chorus	Performers	“The Academy Awards Song (Mr. Oscar)” during the opening presentation
The Smothers Brothers	Performers	"The Ballad of Cat Ballou" from Cat Ballou
Michel Legrand Jane Morgan	Performers	"I Will Wait for You" from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Barbara McNair	Performer	"The Shadow of Your Smile" from The Sandpiper
Robert Goulet	Performer	"The Sweetheart Tree" from The Great Race
Liza Minnelli	Performer	"What's New Pussycat?" from What's New Pussycat?

References

^ "All Time Box Office Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation". Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
^ "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-24.

[1] "All Time Box Office Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation". Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 2012-08-14.

[Oscars1966-2] "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-24.

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