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

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 twentieth century.

The Sound of Music was the first Best Picture winner without a screenwriting nomination since Hamlet; it would be the last until Titanic at the 70th Academy Awards. Othello became the third film (of four to date) to receive four acting nominations without one for Best Picture.

Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. 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
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Best Foreign Language Film Best Song
Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short Subject
Best Short Subject, Live Action Best Short Subject, Cartoons
Best Music Score - Substantially Original Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment
Best Sound Effects Best Sound
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White Best Art Direction, Color
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Best Cinematography, Color
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Best Costume Design, Color
Best Film Editing Best Special Visual Effects

Honorary Award

  • Bob Hope "for unique and distinguished service to our industry and the Academy."

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Breakdown

Multiple nominations and awards

Presenters and performers

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

Presenters

NameRole
Hank SimmsAnnouncer 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 MalonePresenter of the award for Best Special Visual Effects
Lila KedrovaPresenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Yvette MimieuxPresenter of the award for Best Sound Effects
Lana TurnerPresenter 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 UstinovPresenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Jason RobardsPresenter of the award for Best Film Editing
Warren Beatty
Debbie Reynolds
Presenters of the awards for Best Art Direction
Angie DickinsonPresenter of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Edmond L. DePatie
Richard Johnson
Kim Novak
Presenters of the awards for Best Cinematography
James Coburn
Virna Lisi
Presenters of the Music Awards
Gregory PeckPresenter of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Natalie WoodPresenter of the award for Best Song
Shirley MacLainePresenter of the award for Best Director
George Peppard
Joanne Woodward
Presenters of the Writing Awards
Arthur FreedPresenter of the Irving J. Thalberg Memorial Award to William Wyler
Julie AndrewsPresenter of the award for Best Actor
Rex HarrisonPresenter of the award for Best Actress
Arthur FreedPresenter of the Honorary Gold Medal to Bob Hope
Jack LemmonPresenter of the award for Best Picture

Performers

NameRolePerformed
Johnny GreenMusical arranger and conductorOrchestral
Academy Awards ChorusPerformers“The Academy Awards Song (Mr. Oscar)” during the opening presentation
The Smothers BrothersPerformers"The Ballad of Cat Ballou" from Cat Ballou
Michel Legrand
Jane Morgan
Performers"I Will Wait for You" from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Barbara McNairPerformer"The Shadow of Your Smile" from The Sandpiper
Robert GouletPerformer"The Sweetheart Tree" from The Great Race
Liza MinnelliPerformer"What's New Pussycat?" from What's New Pussycat?

See also

References

  1. "All Time Box Office Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation". Boxofficemojo.com. Archived from the original on 2009-05-04. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
  2. "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-11. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
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