The year 1965 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | | 1. | The Sound of Music* | 20th Century Fox | $79,975,000 | | 2. | Doctor Zhivago | MGM | $60,954,000 | | 3. | Thunderball | United Artists | $28,621,000 | | 4. | Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines | 20th Century Fox | $14,000,000 | | 5. | That Darn Cat! | Disney | $12,628,000 | | 6. | The Great Race | Warner Brothers | $11,400,000 | | 7. | Cat Ballou | Columbia | $9,300,000 | | 8. | What's New Pussycat? | United Artists | $8,469,000 | | 9. | Shenandoah | Universal | $7,771,000 | | 10. | Von Ryan's Express | 20th Century Fox | $7,700,000 | (*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1965.shtml [edit] Awards Academy Awards: - Best Picture: The Sound of Music - Argyle, Twentieth Century-Fox
- Best Director: Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
- Best Actor: Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou
- Best Actress: Julie Christie - Darling
- Best Supporting Actor: Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns
- Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze), directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakia
BAFTA Film Awards: - Best Film from Any Source: My Fair Lady
- Best British Film: The IPCRESS File
Golden Globe Awards: - Drama:
- Best Picture: Doctor Zhivago
- Best Actor: Omar Sharif - Doctor Zhivago
- Best Actress: Samantha Eggar - The Collector
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: The Sound of Music
- Best Actor: Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou
- Best Actress: Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music
- Other
- Best Director: David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): - The Knack …and How to Get It, directed by Richard Lester, United Kingdom
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): - Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (Sandra of a Thousand Delights), directed by Luchino Visconti, Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): - Alphaville, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, France / Italy
[edit] Films released in 1965 - 36 Hours
- The Agony and the Ecstasy
- Alphaville, Golden Bear winner (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution')
- Battle of the Bulge
- Boeing Boeing
- Brainstorm
- La Bohème, by Franco Zeffirelli (see disambiguation)
- Bunny Lake Is Missing
- Carry On Cowboy
- Cat Ballou
- The Cincinnati Kid
- The Collector
- Darling
- A Devilish Homicide
- Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
- Dr. Who and the Daleks
- The Family Jewels, starring Jerry Lewis
- The Flight of the Phoenix
- For a Few Dollars More
- Frankenstein Conquers the World
- Gamera (also known as "Gamera, the Invincible")
- Girl Happy
- The Great Race
- The Greatest Story Ever Told
- Harlow
- Help!, starring The Beatles
- I'll Take Sweden starring Bob Hope
- In Harm's Way
- Invasion of Astro-Monster
- The Ipcress File
- Juliet of the Spirits
- King Rat
- The Knack …and How to Get It, Cannes Grand Prize
- La Loba
- Life at the Top
- Lord Jim
- The Loved One
- Major Dundee
- Mickey One
- Once a Thief
- Othello
- A Patch of Blue
- Pierrot le fou
- Planet of the Vampires
- Red Beard
- The Rounders
- The Saragossa Manuscript (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie)
- The Sandpiper
- The Satan Bug
- Shenandoah
- Ship of Fools
- The Shop on Main Street
- Signore & Signori Palme d'Or winner (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians)
- Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious
- The Sons of Katie Elder
- The Sound of Music
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- A Swingin' Summer
- That Darn Cat!
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
- A Thousand Clowns
- Thunderball
- The Train, starring Burt Lancaster
- Von Ryan's Express, a World War II action-adventure starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard
- The War Game
- What's New Pussycat?
- Willy McBean and his Magic Machine
- The World of Abbott and Costello, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Yo Yo
[edit] Short Film Series [edit] Births - January 1 - Lisa Roberts Gillan, actress
- January 22 - Diane Lane, actress
- February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor
- February 23 - Kristin Davis, actress Sex in the City
- March 25 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
- April 4 - Robert Downey Jr, actor
- May 31 - Brooke Shields, actress and model
- June 10 - Elizabeth Hurley, model and actress
- June 19 - Sean Marshall, American child actor and singer
- July 25 - Illeana Douglas, actress
- July 26 - Jeremy Piven, actor
- August 14 - Emmanuelle Béart, Cesar Award winning actress
- August 19 - Kyra Sedgwick, actress
- September 3 - Charlie Sheen, actor
- November 20 - Ben Stiller, actor
[edit] Deaths - January 14 - Jeanette MacDonald, 61 American actress, singer
- February 20 - Fred Immler, 84, German actor
- February 23 - Stan Laurel, 74, British actor
- March 6 - Margaret Dumont, 82, American comedic actress
- March 23 - Mae Murray, 75, American actress
- March 28 - Jack Hoxie, 80, Western actor
- April 8 - Lars Hanson, 78, Swedish actor
- April 10 - Linda Darnell, 41, American actress
- April 30 - Helen Chandler, 58, American actress
- June 7 - Judy Holliday, 43, American actress
- June 22 - David O. Selznick, 63, American producer
- June 23 - Mary Boland, 85, stage & film actress
- July 24 - Constance Bennett, 60, American actress
- July 28 - Minor Watson, 75, American actor
- August 6 - Nancy Carroll, 61, American actress
- September 8 - Dorothy Dandridge, 42, American actress, singer
- September 27 - Clara Bow, 60, American actress
- October 3 - Zachary Scott, 52, American actor
- October 18 - Henry Travers, 91, British actor
- October 21 - Marie McDonald, 42, American actress
- October 31 - Rita Johnson, 52, American actress
- November 15 - Natalie Kalmus, 77, advisor on film Technicolor process on numerous films
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