38th Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards | name = 38th
poster =
caption = Best Picture Winner: "The Sound of Music"
date = April 18, 1966
site = Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California
preshow =
host = Bob Hope
producer = Joe Pasternak
director = Richard Dunlap
network = ABC
last = 37th
next = 39th

The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on April 18 1966 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope.

The ceremony was telecast in color for the first time.

The two top films in the Best Picture Oscars race in 1965, "The Sound of Music" and "Doctor Zhivago", each had the same number of nominations (ten), and equally divided the same number of Oscars (five):

The top winner was 20th Century Fox's and Robert Wise's "The Sound of Music", Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical of the same name brought to the screen. It was the real-life story of unsuited postulant Maria (Julie Andrews) who left Austria's Nonnberg Abbey, became governess to seven motherless Von Trapp children, and helped lead the singing family out of Nazi-occupied Austria to Switzerland (and then to America).

Film

*Best Picture:The Sound of Music - Robert Wise, producer

Direction

*Achievement in Directing:Robert Wise for The Sound of Music

Acting

*Best Actor: Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou
*Best Actress: Julie Christie in Darling
*"'Best Supporting Actor: Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns
*"'Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue

Writing

*Best Original Screenplay: Darling written by Frederic Raphael
*Best Adapted Screenplay: Doctor Zhivago screenplay by Robert Bolt

Music

*Best Original Song: The Sandpiper - Johnny Mandel (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)- For the song "The Shadow of Your Smile"
*Best Original Score: Doctor Zhivago by Maurice Jarre