Since I resurrected Oscar Revisionism last week, I'm going to try to keep it going. So, for 1965, in the decade of the Hollywood musical, perhaps one of the most famous, The Sound of Music, took home the Oscar for Best Picture over Russian war opus Doctor Zhivago. Its star Julie Christie won her Best Actress Oscar for another Best Picture nominee, Darling. Also in the mix were the Jason Robards romantic comedy A Thousand Clowns and the star-studded Ship of Fools. But, what if the field had been expanded to ten? What else would have lost to The Sound of Music? The year was filled with cold war spys, World War II action films, some really huge races, and a couple of ingenues figuring it all out.
The Winner
The Sound of MusicOne of most beloved musicals of all time places a nun in the Austrian Alps only to have her fall in love with wealthy single father. She then must contend with the Nazi regime, with only the power of the alive hills to give her strength. Having won the previous year for Mary Poppins, Andrews wouldn't enjoy a ReOscaring.
Total Wins/Nominations: 5 wins (Picture, Director, Film Editing, Adapted Score, Sound), 5 nominations (Actress, Supporting Actress, Color Cinematography, AD, Costumes)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA winner, Golden Globe (Comedy) winner, NBR, WGA winner
Distributor: TCFFC
Release Date: 2. March
Domestic Box Office: One of the highest grossing films of all time.
Budget: $8.2M (IMDb)
Current RT: 84%
Current IMDb: 7.9
Doctor Zhivago Russian Civil War epic romance starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie based on the Boris Pasternak novel directed by David Lean.
Total Wins/Nominations: 5 wins (Adapted Screenplay, Score, Color Cinematography, AD, Costumes), 5 nominations (Picture, Director, Actor, Film Editing, Sound)
Other Awards/Nominations: BAFTA, Golden Globe (Drama) winner, NBR, Laurel Awards (Drama) winner, Cannes
Distributor: MGM
Release Date: 22. September
Domestic Box Office: Huge
Budget: $111M (IMDb)
Current RT: 85%
Current IMDb: 8.0
Darling Drama about a young model (Julie Christie) confronting hard truths about social hypocrisy in 1960s London.
Total Wins/Nominations: 3 wins (Original Screenplay, Actress, B&W Costumes), 2 nominations (Picture, Director)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, NBR, NYFCC winner
Distributor: Embassy Pictures Corporation
Release Date: 3. August
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 75%
Current IMDb: 7.1
Ship of Fools Ensemble drama starring Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, and Lee Marvin set aboard a German ocean liner leaving Mexico.
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 wins (B&W Cinematography, AD), 6 nominations (Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Actress, Actor, Supporting Actor, B&W Costumes)
Other Awards/Nominations: NBR, Golden Globe (Drama), WGA
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: 29. July
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 81%
Current IMDb: 7.1
A Thousand ClownsRom-com starring Jason Robards as a man forced to deal with life.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (Supporting Actor), 3 nominations (Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Adapted Score)
Other Awards/Nominations: NBR, Golden Globe (Comedy)
Distributor: United Artists
Release Date: 13. December
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 67%
Current IMDb: 7.5
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A Patch of Blue Interracial romantic drama starring Sidney Poitier.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (Supporting Actress), 4 nominations (Actress, Score, B&W AD, Cinematography)
Other Awards/Nominations: Laurel Awards (Drama), Golden Globe (Drama)
Distributor: MGM
Release Date: 10. December
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: $0.8M (IMDb)
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 7.9
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)French-musical starring Catherine Deneuve as a young lass making her way through life.
Total Wins/Nominations: 5 nominations (Foreign Language Film, Original Screenplay, Song, Score, Adapted Score)
Other Awards/Nominations: Cannes Winnre
Distributor: Landau Releasing Organization (LRO)
Release Date: 16. December 1964
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 98%
Current IMDb: 7.8
Cat Ballou
Jane Fonda plays the title character in this comic western about a woman who hires a gunman for protection.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (Actor), 4 nominations (Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Son, Adapted Score)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, Laurel Awards (Comedy) winner, Golden Globe (Comedy), Berlin, WGA
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: 24. June
Domestic Box Office: $20M (Wikipedia)
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 6.8
The Collector Perhaps a precursor to The Silence of the Lambs, William Wyler directed this thriller about a butterfly enthusiast (Terrence Stamp) who adds a woman (Samantha Eggar) to his collection. Kind of cool to contemplate that it may have gotten in.
Total Wins/Nominations: 3 nominations (Director, Adapted Screenplay, Actress)
Other Awards/Nominations: Laurel Awards (Drama) 5thPlace, Cannes, Golden Globe (Drama), WGA
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: 17. June
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 7.5
The Agony and the Ecstasy This Carol Reed drama has Charlton Heston playing Michelangelo to Rex Harrison’s Pope Julius II.
Total Wins/Nominations: 5 nominations (Score, Sound, Color Cinematography, AD, Costumes)
Other Awards/Nominations: NBR
Distributor: TCFFC
Release Date: 7. October
Domestic Box Office: $4M (IMDb)
Budget: $7.2M (Wikipedia)
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 6.9
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold The very first film John le Carré adaptation from the thinking man’s Ian Fleming.
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 nominations (Actor, B&W AD)
Other Awards/Nominations: NBR, BAFTA, WGA
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: 16. December
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 83%
Current IMDb: 7.6
The Greatest Story Ever Told The title says it all, no? Was the George Stevens epic great enough to make it for that year’s Oscar Top Ten?
Total Wins/Nominations: 5 nominations (Score, Visual Effects, Color Cinematography, AD, Costume Design)
Other Awards/Nominations: NBR
Distributor: United Artists
Release Date: 15. February
Domestic Box Office: $12M (Wikipedia)
Budget: $20M (IMDb)
Current RT: 37%
Current IMDb: 6.3
The PawnbrokerA Holocaust survivor rebuilds his life in New York in this Sidney Lumet drama that took on the censorboard (and won).
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 nomination (Actor)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, Berlin, Laurel Awards (Drama) 4th Place, WGA winner
Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures
Release Date: 20. April
Domestic Box Office: $3M (Wikipedia)
Budget: $0.9M (Wikipedia)
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 7.8
OthelloShakespeare classic about the titular Moor manipulated into a murderous fit of jealousy starring Laurence Olivier complete in, omg, blackface.
Total Wins/Nominations: 4 nominations (Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor)
Other Awards/Nominations: N/A
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: 15. December
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 80%
Current IMDb: 7.4
Suna no Onna (Woman in the Dunes)Japanese film about an entomologist who stumbles upon a widow, with whom he has trouble escaping and they contend with being surrounded by sand.
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 nominations (Director, Foreign Language Film)
Other Awards/Nominations: Cannes
Distributor: Pathé Contemporary Films
Release Date: 25. October 1964
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 8.4
King RatWorld War II POW survival drama starring George Segal.
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 nominations (B&W Cinematography, AD)
Other Awards/Nominations: N/A
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: 27. October
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 7.6
The Train World War II action film involving the French verses the Germans during an art heist.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 nomination (Original Screenplay)
Other Awards/Nominations: NBR, BAFTA
Distributor: United Artists
Release Date: 7. March
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: $6.7M (IMDb)
Current RT: 86%
Current IMDb: 7.8
Shenandoah Pacifist Civil War drama starring James Stewart.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 nomination (Sound)
Other Awards/Nominations: Laurel Awards (Drama) 3rdPlace
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Release Date: 3. June
Domestic Box Office: $17.2M (IMDb)
Budget: N/A
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 7.3
Bond, James Bond. One of only two in the franchise to win an Oscar.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (Visual Effects)
Other Awards/Nominations: Laurel Awards (Action-Drama) winner
Distributor: United Artists
Release Date: 21. December
Domestic Box Office: $64M (IMDb)
Budget: $9M (IMDb)
Current RT: 88%
Current IMDb: 7.0
The Flight of the PhoenixJames Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, and Ernest Borgnine must survive the Saharan desert after their aircraft crashes.
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 nominations (Supporting Actor, Film Editing)
Other Awards/Nominations: Golden Globe (Drama)
Distributor: TCFFC
Release Date: 15. December
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: $5.4M (Wikipedia)
Current RT: 88%
Current IMDb: 7.6
MorituriWorld War II naval drama set in India starring Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner.
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 nominations (B&W Cinematography, Costumes)
Other Awards/Nominations: N/A
Distributor: TCFFC
Release Date: 25. August
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: $6.3M (Wikipedia)
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 6.9
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines A comedy set in the early 1900s about an air race across the English Channel.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 nomination (Original Screenplay)
Other Awards/Nominations: Laurel Awards (Comedy) 4thPlace, Golden Globe (Comedy)
Distributor: TCFFC
Release Date: 16. June
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: $5.6M (IMDb) - $6.5M (Wikipedia)
Current RT: 71%
Current IMDb: 6.9
The Great Race Blake Edwards early 1900s-set comedy with self-explanatory title with an all-star cast including Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, and Peter Falk.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (Sound Effects), 4 nominations (Film Editing, Song, Sound, Color Cinematography)
Other Awards/Nominations: Laurel Awards (Comedy), Golden Globe (Comedy)
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: 1. July
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: $12M (IMDb) – considered most expensive comedy ever produced up until that point.
Current RT: 77%
Current IMDb: 7.1
The Ipcress FileAnother, lesser known version from another thinking man’s Ian Fleming?
Total Wins/Nominations: 0
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, Cannes
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Release Date: 2. August
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 7.3
Casanova 70Marcello Mastroianni plays a lothario who can’t settle down in this Italian comedy.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 nomination (Original Screenplay)
Other Awards/Nominations: N/A
Distributor: Embassy Pictures Corporation
Release Date: 20. July
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 6.2
Inside Daisy CloverRomance starring Natalie Wood and Robert Redford about a starry-eyed young woman hoping to make it in Tinsel Town
Total Wins/Nominations: 3 nominations (Supporting Actress, Color AD, Costumes)
Other Awards/Nominations: N/A
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: December
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: $4.5M (IMDb)
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 6.3
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (Documentary)
Other Awards/Nominations: NBR winner
Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures
Release Date: 8. November
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 6.7
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