38th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1966)

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• Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 18, 1966
• For films released in: 1965

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 38th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

• Darling
  Joseph Janni [Producer]
• Doctor Zhivago
  Carlo Ponti [Producer]
• Ship of Fools
  Stanley Kramer [Producer]
• The Sound of Music
  Robert Wise [Producer]
• A Thousand Clowns
  Fred Coe [Producer]

Best Directing

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Foreign Language Film

• Blood on the Land
• Dear John
• Kwaidan
• Marriage Italian Style
• The Shop on Main Street

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• King Rat
  Robert Emmet Smith [Art Direction] and Frank Tuttle [Set Decoration]
• A Patch of Blue
  George W. Davis [Art Direction], Urie McCleary [Art Direction], Henry Grace [Set Decoration] and Charles S. Thompson [Set Decoration]
• Ship of Fools
  Robert Clatworthy [Art Direction] and Joseph Kish [Set Decoration]
• The Slender Thread
  Hal Pereira [Art Direction], Jack Poplin [Art Direction], Robert Benton [Set Decoration] and Joseph Kish [Set Decoration]
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
  Hal Pereira [Art Direction], Tambi Larsen [Art Direction], Edward Marshall [Art Direction] and Josie MacAvin [Set Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• The Agony and the Ecstasy
  John DeCuir [Art Direction], Jack Martin Smith [Art Direction] and Dario Simoni [Set Decoration]
• Doctor Zhivago
  John Box [Art Direction], Terry Marsh [Art Direction] and Dario Simoni [Set Decoration]
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
  Richard Day [Art Direction], William Creber [Art Direction], David Hall [Art Direction], Ray Moyer [Set Decoration], Fred MacLean [Set Decoration] and Norman Rockett [Set Decoration]
• Inside Daisy Clover
  Robert Clatworthy [Art Direction] and George James Hopkins [Set Decoration]
• The Sound of Music
  Boris Leven [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] and Ruby Levitt [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• In Harm's Way
  Loyal Griggs
• King Rat
  Burnett Guffey
• Morituri
  Conrad Hall
• A Patch of Blue
  Robert Burks
• Ship of Fools
  Ernest Laszlo

Best Cinematography (Color)

• The Agony and the Ecstasy
  Leon Shamroy
• Doctor Zhivago
  Freddie Young
• The Great Race
  Russell Harlan
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
  William C. Mellor and Loyal Griggs
• The Sound of Music
  Ted McCord

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Darling
  Julie Harris
• Morituri
  Moss Mabry
• A Rage to Live
  Howard Shoup
• Ship of Fools
  Bill Thomas and Jean Louis
• The Slender Thread
  Edith Head

Best Costume Design (Color)

• The Agony and the Ecstasy
  Vittorio Nino Novarese
• Doctor Zhivago
  Phyllis Dalton
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
  Vittorio Nino Novarese and Marjorie Best
• Inside Daisy Clover
  Edith Head and Bill Thomas
• The Sound of Music
  Dorothy Jeakins

Best Documentary (Feature)

• The Battle of the Bulge...The Brave Rifles
  Laurence E. Mascott
• The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
  Sidney Glazier
• The Forth Road Bridge
  Peter Mills
• Let My People Go
  Marshall Flaum
• To Die in Madrid
  Frédéric Rossif

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• Mural on Our Street
  Kirk Smallman
• Ouverture
  Mafilm Productions
• Point of View
  Vision Associates Productions
• To Be Alive!
  Francis Thompson
• Yeats Country
  Patrick Carey and Joe Mendoza

Best Film Editing

• Cat Ballou
  Charles Nelson
• Doctor Zhivago
  Norman Savage
• The Flight of the Phoenix
  Michael Luciano
• The Great Race
  Ralph E. Winters
• The Sound of Music
  William Reynolds

Best Music (Scoring of Music - adaptation or treatment)

• 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 Legrand

Best Music (Score - substantially original)

• 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 Legrand and Jacques Demy

Best Music (Song)

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

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Clay or The Origin of Species
  Eliot Noyes Jr.
• The Dot and the Line
  Chuck Jones and Les Goldman
• The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)
  Emanuele Luzzati

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

• The Chicken (Le Poulet)
  Claude Berri
• Fortress of Peace
  Lothar Wolff
• Skaterdater
  Marshal Backlar and Noel Black
• Snow
  Edgar Anstey
• Time Piece
  Jim Henson

Best Sound

• The Agony and the Ecstasy
  20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and James P. Corcoran [Sound Director]
• Doctor Zhivago
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studio Sound Department, A.W. Watkins [Sound Director], Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Franklin E. Milton [Sound Director]
• The Great Race
  Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and George R. Groves [Sound Director]
• Shenandoah
  Universal City Studio Sound Department and Waldon O. Watson [Sound Director]
• The Sound of Music
  20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran [Sound Director], Todd-AO Sound Department and Fred Hynes [Sound Director]

Best Sound Effects

• The Great Race
  Tregoweth Brown
• Von Ryan's Express
  Walter A. Rossi

Best Special Visual Effects

• The Greatest Story Ever Told
  J. McMillan Johnson
• Thunderball
  John Stears

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

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

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen)

• Casanova '70
  Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni and Suso Cecchi d'Amico
• Darling
  Frederic Raphael
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes
  Jack Davies and Ken Annakin
• The Train
  Franklin Coe and Frank Davis
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  Jacques Demy