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The 38th Academy Awards - 1965

By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide

The thirty-eight Academy Awards ceremony was held on Monday, April 18, 1966 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony televised in color. Bob Hope hosted the event.

The 1965 Academy Award Winners

Picture: The Sound of Music
Actor: Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou)
Actress: Julie Christie (Darling)
Supporting Actor: Martin Balsam (A Thousand Clowns)
Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters (A Patch of Blue)
Director: Robert Wise (The Sound of Music)
Adapted Screenplay: Robert Bolt (Doctor Zhivago)
Original Screenplay: Frederic Raphael (Darling)
Song: "The Shadow of Your Smile" (The Sandpiper)
Score: Doctor Zhivago (Original) / The Sound of Music (Adaptation)
Cinematography: Ship of Fools (Black and White) / Doctor Zhivago (Color)
Costume Design: Darling (Black and White) / Doctor Zhivago (Color)
Art / Set Decoration: Ship of Fools (Black and White) / Doctor Zhivago (Color)
Film Editing: The Sound of Music
Foreign Language Film: The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia)
Sound: The Sound of Music
Sound Effects: The Great Race
Visual Effects: Thunderball
Short Films: The Dot and the Line (Cartoons) / The Chicken (Le Poulet) (Live Action)
Documentaries: To Be Alive! (Short) / The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (Feature)

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