1965 in film
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
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Actors |
Gross |
| 1. |
The Sound of Music |
20th Century Fox |
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer |
$79,975,000 |
| 2. |
Doctor Zhivago |
MGM |
Omar Sharif and Julie Christie |
$60,954,000 |
| 3. |
Thunderball |
United Artists |
Sean Connery, Claudine Auger and Adolfo Celi |
$28,621,000 |
| 4. |
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines |
20th Century Fox |
Stuart Whitman and Sarah Miles |
$14,000,000 |
| 5. |
A Thousand Clowns |
United Artists |
Jason Robards and Barbara Harris |
$12,628,000 |
| 6. |
The Great Race |
Warner Bros. |
Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood |
$11,400,000 |
| 7. |
Cat Ballou |
Columbia |
Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin |
$9,300,000 |
| 8. |
What's New Pussycat? |
United Artists |
Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole and Ursula Andress |
$8,469,000 |
| 9. |
Shenandoah |
Universal |
James Stewart |
$7,771,000 |
| 10. |
Von Ryan's Express |
20th Century Fox |
Frank Sinatra |
$7,700,000 |
(*) 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
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B
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
I
- I'll Take Sweden, starring Bob Hope
- In Harm's Way, starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, 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
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
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P
R
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
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Short Film Series
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
- 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