Oscar Nominations and Winners (1965)

Best Picture

• Darling
• Doctor Zhivago
• Ship of Fools
• The Sound of Music
• A Thousand Clowns

Best Director

• David Lean (Doctor Zhivago)
• John Schlesinger (Darling)
• Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes)
• Robert Wise (The Sound of Music)
• William Wyler (The Collector)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Richard Burton (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou)
• Laurence Olivier (Othello)
• Rod Steiger (The Pawnbroker)
• Oskar Werner (Ship of Fools)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Martin Balsam (A Thousand Clowns)
• Ian Bannen (The Flight of the Phoenix)
• Tom Courtenay (Doctor Zhivago)
• Michael Dunn (Ship of Fools)
• Frank Finlay (Othello)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music)
• Julie Christie (Darling)
• Samantha Eggar (The Collector)
• Elizabeth Hartman (A Patch of Blue)
• Simone Signoret (Ship of Fools)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Ruth Gordon (Inside Daisy Clover)
• Joyce Redman (Othello)
• Maggie Smith (Othello)
• Shelly Winters (A Patch of Blue)
• Peggy Wood (The Sound of Music)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Cat Ballou (Walter Newman and Frank R. Pierson)
• The Collector (Stnaley Mann and John Kohn)
• Doctor Zhivago (Robert Bolt)
• Ship of Fools (Abby Mann)
• A Thousand Clowns (Herb Gardner)

Best Original Story and Screenplay

• Casanova '70 (Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni and Suso Cecchi D'Amico)
• Darling (Frederic Raphael)
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machies (Jack Davies and Ken Annakin)
• The Train (Franklin Coen and Frank Davis)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Blood on the Land (Greece)
• Dear John (Sweden)
• Kwaidan (Japan)
• Marriage Italian Style (Italy)
• The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia)

Art Direction (Black and White)

• King Rat
• A Patch of Blue
• Ship of Fools
• The Slender Thread
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Art Direction (Color)

• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Doctor Zhivago
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Inside Daisy Clover
• The Sound of Music

Cinematography (Black and White)

• In Harm's Way
• King Rat
• Morituri
• A Patch of Blue
• Ship of Fools

Cinematography (Color)

• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Doctor Zhivago
• The Great Race
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• The Sound of Music

Costume Design (Black and White)

• Darling
• Morituri
• A Rage to Live
• Ship of Fools
• The Slender Thread

Costume Design (Color)

• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Doctor Zhivago
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Inside Daisy Clover
• The Sound of Music

Documentary Feature

• The Battle of the Bulge...The Brave Rifles
• The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
• The Fourth Road Bridge
• Let My People Go
• To Die in Madrid

Documentary Short Subject

• Mural on Our Street
• Ouverture
• Point of View
• To Be Alive!
• Yeats Country

Film Editing

• Cat Ballou
• Doctor Zhivago
• The Flight of the Phoenix
• The Great Race
• The Sound of Music

Adaptation Score

• Cat Ballou (DeVol)
• The Pleasure Seekers (Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage)
• The Sound of Music (Irwin Kostal)
• A Thousand Clowns (Don Walker)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Michel Legrad)

Original Score

• The Agony and the Ecstasy (Alex North)
• Doctor Zhivago (Maurice Jarre)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (Alfred Newman)
• A Patch of Blue (Jerry Goldsmith)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Michel Legrad and Jacques Demy)

Original Song

• "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" (Cat Ballou) Music by Jerry Livingston. Lyrics by Mack David.
• "I Will Wait for You" (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) Music by Michel Legrand. Lyrics by Jacques Demy.
• "The Shadow of Your Smile" (The Sandpiper) Music by Johnny Mandel. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.
• "The Sweetheart Tree" (The Great Race) Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
• "What's New Pussycat?" (What's New Pussycat?) Music by Burt Bacharach. Lyrics by Hal David.

Animated Short Film (Cartoons)

• Clay or the Origin of Species
• The Dot and the Line
• The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)

Live Action Short Film

• The Chicken (La Poulet)
• Fortress of Peace
• Skaterdater
• Snow
• Time Piece

Sound

• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Doctor Zhivago
• The Great Race
• Shenandoah
• The Sound of Music

Sound Effects

• The Great Race
• Von Ryan's Express

Visual Effects

• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Thunderball