Events

Top grossing films (U.S.)

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

Best Film from Any Source: My Fair Lady

Best British Film: The IPCRESS File

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

The Knack …and How to Get It, directed by Richard Lester, United Kingdom

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (Sandra of a Thousand Delights), directed by Luchino Visconti, Italy

Alphaville, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, France / Italy

Films released in 1965

• 36 Hours
• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Alphaville, Golden Bear winner (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution')
• Battle of the Bulge
• Boeing Boeing
• Brainstorm
• La Bohème, by Franco Zeffirelli (see disambiguation)
• Bunny Lake Is Missing
• Carry On Cowboy
• Cat Ballou, starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin
• The Cincinnati Kid, starring Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld and Joan Blondell
• The Collector, starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar
• Darling, starring Laurence Harvey, Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie
• A Devilish Homicide
• Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness
• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
• Dr. Who and the Daleks
• The Family Jewels, starring Jerry Lewis
• The Flight of the Phoenix, starring James Stewart
• For a Few Dollars More
• Frankenstein Conquers the World
• Gamera (also known as "Gamera, the Invincible")
• Girl Happy
• The Great Race, starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Harlow, starring Carroll Baker
• Help!, starring The Beatles
• I'll Take Sweden starring Bob Hope
• In Harm's Way
• Invasion of Astro-Monster
• The Ipcress File
• Juliet of the Spirits
• King Rat
• The Knack …and How to Get It, Cannes Grand Prize
• La Loba
• Life at the Top
• Lord Jim
• The Loved One
• Major Dundee
• Mickey One, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie
• Once a Thief
• Othello, starring Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith
• A Patch of Blue, starring Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman and Shelley Winters
• Pierrot le fou
• Planet of the Vampires
• Red Beard
• The Rounders
• The Saragossa Manuscript (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie)
• The Sandpiper
• The Satan Bug
• Shenandoah
• Ship of Fools, starring Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin and Jose Ferrer
• The Shop on Main Street, starring Ida Kaminska
• Signore & Signori Palme d'Or winner (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians)
• Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious
• The Slender Thread
• The Sons of Katie Elder
• The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, starring Richard Burton
• A Swingin' Summer
• That Darn Cat!
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
• A Thousand Clowns, starring Jason Robards and Barbara Harris
• Thunderball, starring Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi and Adolfo Celi
• The Train, starring Burt Lancaster
• A Very Special Favor, starring Rock Hudson and Leslie Caron
• Viva Maria!, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau
• Von Ryan's Express, a World War II action-adventure starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard
• The War Game
• What's New Pussycat?
• Willy McBean and his Magic Machine
• The World of Abbott and Costello, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Yo Yo

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 22 - Diane Lane, actress
• February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor
• 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 25 - Illeana Douglas, actress
• July 26 - Jeremy Piven, actor
• August 14 - Emmanuelle Béart, Cesar Award winning actress
• August 19 - Kyra Sedgwick, actress
• September 3 - Charlie Sheen, actor
• November 20 - Ben Stiller, actor

Deaths

• January 14 - Jeanette MacDonald, 61 American actress, singer
• 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

• Ed Asner