1965 in film

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The year 1965 in film involved some significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office.

Independent - New Hollywood or American New Wave Films in 1965

Summer Children

Events

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

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

Films released in 1965

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• 36 Hours, starring James Garner, Rod Taylor Eva Marie Saint

A

• Abashiri Prison, starring Ken Takakura - (Japan)
• The Agony and the Ecstasy, directed by Carol Reed, starring Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison
• Alphaville, (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution'), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Eddie Constantine - Golden Bear winner - (France)
• Arzoo - (India)
• The Ashes, directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)

B

• Battle of the Bulge, starring Henry Fonda and Robert Shaw
• The Bedford Incident, starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier - (U.S./U.K.)
• Boeing Boeing, starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis
• La Bohème - (West Germany)
• Brainstorm, directed by William Conrad, starring Anne Francis and Jeffrey Hunter
• Bunny Lake Is Missing, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Laurence Olivier and Carol Lynley - (U.K.)

C

• The Camp Followers (Le soldatesse), starring Anna Karina - (Italy)
• Carry On Cowboy - (U.K.)
• Casanova 70, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Virna Lisi - (Italy)
• Cat Ballou, starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin
• Chimes at Midnight (aka Falstaff), directed by and starring Orson Welles with Jeanne Moreau and John Gielgud - (International)
• Chronicle of a Boy Alone (Crónica de un niño solo) - (Argentina)
• The Cincinnati Kid, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld, Joan Blondell
• The Collector, directed by William Wyler, starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar - (U.K./U.S.A.)

D

• Darling, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Laurence Harvey, Dirk Bogarde, Julie Christie - (U.K.)
• A Devilish Homicide - (South Korea)
• Doctor Zhivago, directed by David Lean, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness -- winner of 5 Academy Awards - (U.K.)
• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors - (U.K.)
• Dr. Who and the Daleks, starring Peter Cushing - (U.K.)

E-F

• The Early Bird, starring Norman Wisdom - (U.K.)
• The Family Jewels, starring Jerry Lewis
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, directed by Russ Meyer
• Ferry Cross the Mersey, starring Gerry and the Pacemakers - (U.K.)
• Fists in the Pocket (I pugni in tasca) - (Italy)
• The Flight of the Phoenix, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Hardy Kruger
• For a Few Dollars More, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood - (Italy)
• Frankenstein Conquers the World - (Japan)
• Funny Things Happen Down Under, starring Olivia Newton-John - (Australia)

G

• Gamera (also known as "Gamera, the Invincible") - (Japan)
• Girl Happy
• The Great Race, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Ross Martin
• The Greatest Story Ever Told, directed by George Stevens, starring Max von Sydow and Charlton Heston
• Guide, directed by Vijay Anand - (India)
• Gumnaam (Unknown) - (India)

H

• Happiness (Le bonheur), directed by Agnes Varda - (France)
• Harlow, starring Carroll Baker
• Help!, directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles - (U.K.)
• A High Wind in Jamaica, starring Anthony Quinn and James Coburn - (U.K.)
• The Hill, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery - (U.K.)
• The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga - (Brazil)
• How to Murder Your Wife, starring Jack Lemmon and Virna Lisi

I

• I'll Take Sweden, starring Bob Hope
• In Harm's Way, starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde, Tom Tryon, Henry Fonda
• Inside Daisy Clover, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Christopher Plummer
• Intimate Lighting (Intimní osvětlení), directed by Ivan Passer - (Czechoslovakia)
• Invasion of Astro-Monster - (Japan)
• The Ipcress File, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Michael Caine - BAFTA Award for Best British Film - (U.K.)

J

• Juliet of the Spirits, directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy/France)

K

• King Rat, starring George Segal
• The Knack …and How to Get It, directed by Richard Lester, starring Ray Brooks, Rita Tushingham, Michael Crawford - Cannes Grand Prize - (U.K.)

L

• Life at the Top, starring Laurence Harvey - (U.K.)
• The Liquidator, directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Rod Taylor and Trevor Howard (U.K.)
• La Loba - (Mexico)
• Lord Jim, starring Peter O'Toole - (U.K./U.S.)
• Love Has Many Faces, starring Lana Turner, Hugh O'Brian, Cliff Robertson, Ruth Roman, Stefanie Powers
• The Loved One, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Paul Williams, Liberace
• Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky), directed by Milos Forman - (Czechoslovakia)

M

• Major Dundee, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Charlton Heston
• The Man from Button Willow
• Man is Not a Bird (Čovek nije tica) - (Yugoslavia)
• Marriage on the Rocks, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Deborah Kerr
• Mickey One, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie
• Mirage, starring Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
• The Monkey King - (China)
• Morituri, starring Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner

N

• The Nanny, starring Bette Davis - (U.K.)

O

• Once a Thief, starring Alain Delon and Ann-Margret - (U.S./France)
• Operation Crossbow, starring Sophia Loren - (U.K.)
• Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures, starring Aleksandr Demyanenko - (U.S.S.R.)
• Othello, directed by Stuart Burge, starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay - (U.K.)

P

• A Patch of Blue, starring Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman, Shelley Winters
• Pierrot le fou, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina - (France)
• Planet of the Vampires - (Italy)

R

• Red Beard, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
• Repulsion, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Catherine Deneuve - (U.K.)
• The Round-Up (Szegénylegények), directed by Miklós Jancsó - (Hungary)
• The Rounders, starring Glenn Ford

S

• Sandra (Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Claudia Cardinale - (Italy)
• São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima - (Brazil)
• The Saragossa Manuscript (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie), starring Zbigniew Cybulski - (Poland)
• The Sandpiper, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint
• Sands of the Kalahari - (U.K.)
• The Satan Bug
• Shakespeare Wallah, directed by James Ivory, starring Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey
• She, starring Ursula Andress and Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
• Shenandoah, starring James Stewart
• Ship of Fools, starring Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin, Michael Dunn, José Ferrer
• The Shop on Main Street, directed by Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, starring Ida Kaminska - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - (Czechoslovakia)
• Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious
• The Sleeping Car Murders (Compartiment tueurs), directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret - (France)
• The Slender Thread, starring Sidney Poitier
• The Sons of Katie Elder, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne and Dean Martin
• The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer -- winner of 5 Oscars and 2 Golden Globes
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom - (U.K.)
• Story of a Prostitute (Shunpuden) - (Japan)
• A Swingin' Summer
• Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken), directed by Hideo Gosha - (Japan)

T

• Ten Little Indians, starring Shirley Eaton, Hugh O'Brian, Daliah Lavi - (U.K.)
• That Darn Cat! starring Dean Jones
• Thirty Three - (U.S.S.R.)
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, directed by Ken Annakin, starring Stuart Whitman and Sarah Miles - (U.K.)
• A Thousand Clowns, starring Jason Robards, Barry Gordon, Martin Balsam, Barbara Harris
• Thunderball, starring Sean Connery as James Bond with Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi, Adolfo Celi - (U.K.)
• Tokyo Olympiad, a documentary directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)

U

• Up from the Beach

V

• A Very Special Favor, starring Rock Hudson and Leslie Caron
• Viva Maria!, directed by Louis Malle, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau - (France)
• Von Ryan's Express, starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard

W

• Waqt, starring Sunil Dutt - (India)
• The War Game, a TV docu-drama directed by Peter Watkins - (U.K.)
• The War Lord, starring Charlton Heston
• What's New Pussycat?, directed by Clive Donner, starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine
• Willy McBean and his Magic Machine
• The World of Abbott and Costello, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Y

• Yo Yo - (France)

Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
• Goofy (1965)

Births

• January 1 - Lisa Roberts Gillan, actress
• January 9 - Joely Richardson, actress
• January 22 - Diane Lane, actress
• January 27 - Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
• February 7 - Chris Rock, stand up comic and actor
• February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor
• February 18 - Dr. Dre, music producer
• 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 3 - Connie Nielsen, actress
• July 25 - Illeana Douglas, actress
• July 26 - Jeremy Piven, actor
• August 19 - Kyra Sedgwick, actress
• September 3 - Charlie Sheen, actor
• November 21 - Alexander Siddig, actor
• November 30 - Ben Stiller, actor

Deaths

• January 14 - Jeanette MacDonald, 61 American actress, singer
• February 10 - Arnold Manoff, 50 American screenwriter
• 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
• May 5 - John Waters, 71, screenwriter and director
• 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

Film Debuts

• Woody Allen
• Ed Asner
• John Boorman - director
• Sonny & Cher
• Michael Gambon
• Derek Jacobi

References