Fixing the Oscars – 1965

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Best Picture: English Language

THE WINNER: The Sound of Music (original winner)

- Chimes at Midnight
- Repulsion
- Doctor Zhivago (original nominee)
- The Hill

Best Picture: Non-English Language

THE WINNER: The Battle of Algiers (original nominee)

- Pierrot le Fou
- The Shop on Main Street (original foreign winner)
- Tokyo Olympiad
- Alphaville

Best Actor

THE WINNER: Richard Burton (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) (original nominee)

- Orson Welles (Chimes at Midnight)
- Terence Stamp (The Collector)
- Jean-Paul Belmondo (Pierrot le Fou)
- Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou) (original winner)

Best Actress

THE WINNER: Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music) (original nominee)

- Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion)
- Giulietta Masina (Juliet of the Spirits)
- Anna Karina (Pierrot le Fou)
- Julie Christie (Darling) (original winner)
- Hana Brejchova (Loves of a Blonde)

Best Supporting Actor

THE WINNER: Rod Steiger (Doctor Zhivago)

- Toshiro Mifune (Red Beard)
- Frank Finlay (Othello) (original nominee)
- Ian Bannen (The Hill)
- John Gielgud (Chimes at Midnight)

Best Supporting Actress

THE WINNER: Sylvia Pinal (Simon of the Desert)

- Shelley Winters (A Patch of Blue) (original winner)
- Luciana Paluzzi (Thunderball)
- Margaret Rutherford (Chimes at Midnight)
- Eleanor Parker (The Sound of Music)

Best Director

THE WINNER: Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) (original winner)

- Roman Polanski (Repulsion)
- Jean-Luc Godard (Pierrot le Fou)
- Orson Welles (Chimes at Midnight)
- Jean-Luc Godard (Alphaville)
- Kon Ichikawa (Tokyo Olympiad)

Best Screenplay

THE WINNER: Gerard Brach, Roman Polanski, David Stone (Repulsion)

- Orson Welles (Chimes at Midnight)
- Stanley Mann, John Kohn (The Collector) (original nominee)
- Frederic Raphael (Darling) (original winner)
- Ladislav Grosman, Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos (The Shop on Main Street)

Best Cinematography: Color

THE WINNER: Ted D. McCord (The Sound of Music) (original nominee)

- Freddie Young (Doctor Zhivago) (original winner)
- Shigeo Hayashida, Kazuo Miyagawa, Shigeichi Nagano, Kenichi Nakamura, Tadashi Tanaka (Tokyo Olympiad)
- Raoul Coutard (Pierrot le Fou)
- Russell Harlan (The Great Race) (original nominee)
- Joseph F. Biroc (The Flight of the Phoenix)

Best Cinematography: Black and White

THE WINNER: Gilbert Taylor (Repulsion)

- Edmond Richard (Chimes at Midnight)
- Raoul Coutard (Alphaville)
- Ernest Laszlo (Ship of Fools) (original winner)
- Rakai Sato, Asakazu Nakai (Red Beard)
- Hiroshi Murai (Samurai Assassin)

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

THE WINNER: Maurice Jarre (Doctor Zhivago) (original winner)

- Ennio Morricone (For a Few Dollars More)
- John Barry (Thunderball)
- Burt Bacharach (What’s New, Pussycat?)
- Frank De Vol (The Flight of the Phoenix)
- Toshiro Mayuzumi (Tokyo Olympiad)

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