1965 in film

The year 1965 in film involved several significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office and winning five Academy Awards.

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1965 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1965
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 The Sound of Music 20th Century Fox $72,000,000[1]
2 Doctor Zhivago MGM $43,000,000[1]
3 Thunderball United Artists / Eon $27,000,000[1]
4 Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines 20th Century Fox $14,000,000[2]
5 The Great Race Warner Bros. $11,400,000[3]
6 That Darn Cat! Buena Vista $9,500,000[1]
7 Cat Ballou Columbia $9,300,000[1]
8 What's New Pussycat? United Artists $8,469,000[3]
9 Shenandoah Universal $7,771,000[3]
10 Von Ryan's Express 20th Century Fox $7,700,000[3]

Events

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Sound of Music – Argyle Enterprises, 20th Century Fox
Best Director: Robert WiseThe Sound of Music
Best Actor: Lee MarvinCat Ballou
Best Actress: Julie ChristieDarling
Best Supporting Actor: Martin BalsamA Thousand Clowns
Best Supporting Actress: Shelley WintersA 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 SharifDoctor Zhivago
Best Actress: Samantha EggarThe Collector
Comedy or Musical:
Best Picture: The Sound of Music
Best Actor: Lee MarvinCat Ballou
Best Actress: Julie AndrewsThe Sound of Music
Other
Best Supporting Actor: Oskar WernerThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Best Supporting Actress: Ruth GordonInside Daisy Clover
Best Director: David LeanDoctor 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

1965 film releases

United States unless stated

January–March

  • January 1965
    • January 8
      • Dear Brigitte
    • January 15
      • Baby the Rain Must Fall
    • January 28
  • February 1965
  • March 1965
    • March 2
    • March 5
      • Face of the Screaming Werewolf
      • The Rounders
    • March 6
    • March 15
    • March 21
      • Die! Die! My Darling! (U.K.)
    • March 24
      • John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
    • March 31
      • The Truth About Spring

April–June

July–September

October–December

Notable films released in 1965

United States unless stated

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  • The Early Bird, starring Norman Wisdom – (U.K.)
  • The Eleanor Roosevelt Story, a documentary directed by Richard Kaplan
  • Eric Soya's "17" (Sytten), starring Ole Søltoft and Ghita Nørby – (Denmark)

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  • Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (Zatōichi jigoku-tabi), directed by Kenji Misumi – (Japan)
  • Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (Zatōichi sakate-giri), directed by Kazuo Mori – (Japan)

Short film series

Births

  • January 1 - Dan Yeager, American actor, writer, producer and director
  • January 3 – Jens Albinus, Danish actor
  • January 4
  • January 5 - Vinnie Jones, British actor, producer and singer
  • January 8 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
  • January 9 – Joely Richardson, English actress
  • January 10 – Butch Hartman, American animator, writer, producer and director
  • January 12 - Rob Zombie, American singer-songwriter, filmmaker and actor
  • January 15 – James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
  • January 22
  • January 24 - Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian animator, director, producer and voice actor
  • January 27 – Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
  • January 28 - Lynda Boyd, Canadian actress, singer, musician and writer
  • January 31 - Matt McColm, American actor and stuntman
  • February 1 – Brandon Lee, American actor (d. 1993)
  • February 3 – Maura Tierney, American actress
  • February 5 - Jordi Caballero, Spanish actor, writer and producer
  • February 7
  • February 9
    • Darren Dalton, American actor, screenwriter and producer
    • Keith Wickham, British voice actor, comedian and screenwriter
  • February 12 - Christine Elise, American actress
  • February 13
  • February 17 - Michael Bay, American director and producer
  • February 18 – Dr. Dre, American music producer
  • February 20
    • Ron Eldard, American actor
    • Jim Zulevic, American actor, comedian, writer and radio host (d. 2006)
  • February 23 – Kristin Davis, American actress
  • February 27 - Noah Emmerich, American actor and director
  • March 4 - Stacy Edwards, American actress
  • March 9
    • Mike Pollock, American voice actor and former radio personality
    • Coolie Ranx, British-Jamaican actor and singer
  • March 11 - Wallace Langham, American actor
  • March 13 - Steve Bacic, Canadian actor
  • March 14
  • March 18 - Yul Vazquez, Cuban-American actor and musician
  • March 19 - Fred Stoller, American actor and stand-up comedian
  • March 23
  • March 25 – Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
  • March 31 – Steve Bing, American businessman, philanthropist and film producer (d. 2020)
  • April 1 - José Zúñiga, Honduran-American actor
  • April 3 - Angela Featherstone, actress and writer
  • April 4 – Robert Downey Jr., American actor
  • April 9 - Mark Pellegrino, American actor
  • April 11 - Lynn Ferguson, Scottish writer and actress
  • April 16
  • April 17
  • April 22 - Roman Coppola, American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer
  • April 25 - John Henson, American puppeteer (d. 2014)
  • April 26 – Kevin James, American actor and comedian
  • April 27 - Anna Chancellor, English actress
  • April 30 - Adrian Pasdar, American actor and voice artist
  • May 2 - Ari Lehman, American actor
  • May 3 - Rob Brydon, Welsh actor, comedian, presenter, singer and writer
  • May 10 - Kiyoyuki Yanada, Japanese voice actor (d. 2022)
  • May 12 - Anthony Brandon Wong, Australian actor
  • May 13 - Lari White, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2018)
  • May 16 - Vincent Regan, British actor
  • May 19 - Mikhail Gorevoy, Russian actor
  • May 23 – Liina Tennosaar, Estonian actress
  • May 24
  • May 27 – Zenobia Shroff, Indian-American actress and comedienne
  • May 28 - Alon Abutbul, Israeli actor
  • May 31
  • June 1 - Andrew Havill, English actor
  • June 8 - Frank Grillo, American actor
  • June 10 – Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress
  • June 18 – Kim Dickens, American actress
  • June 19 – Sean Marshall, American child actor and singer
  • June 22 - J. J. Cohen, American actor
  • June 24 - Richard Lumsden, English actor, writer, composer and musician
  • June 28 – Sonny Strait, American voice actor
  • July 1 - Tom Hodges, American actor and producer
  • July 3
  • July 4
    • Gérard Watkins, English-French actor, playwright, director and screenwriter
    • Tracy Letts, American actor, playwright and screenwriter
  • July 8
    • Corey Parker, American actor and acting coach
    • Lee Tergesen, American actor
  • July 9
  • July 11
    • Liane Curtis, American actress and musician
    • Pamela Gidley, American actress and model (d. 2018)
  • July 14 - Bibo Bergeron, French animator and director
  • July 16 - Daryl Mitchell, American actor and rapper
  • July 17
  • July 23 - Allison Abbate, American producer and animator
  • July 24
  • July 25 – Illeana Douglas, American actress
  • July 26 – Jeremy Piven, American actor
  • July 28 - James Biberi, Albanian-American actor
  • August 1 - Sam Mendes, British director, producer and screenwriter
  • August 4 - James Tupper, Canadian actor
  • August 5 - Scott William Winters, American actor
  • August 6
  • August 10 - Claudia Christian, American actress and singer
  • August 11
  • August 12 - Peter Krause, American actor, director and producer
  • August 16 - Brian McCann, American actor, comedian and writer
  • August 18 - Ikue Ōtani, Japanese actress, singer, voice actress and narrator
  • August 19
  • August 22 - Courtney Gains, American actor
  • August 24 – Marlee Matlin, American actress
  • August 25 - Kim Kold, Danish actor
  • August 31
    • Daniel Bernhardt, Swiss actor, model and martial artist
    • Jaime P. Gomez, American actor
  • September 3 – Charlie Sheen, American actor
  • September 4 - Michael Bentt, British-born American actor
  • September 6 - John Polson, Australian actor and director
  • September 9 - Constance Marie, American actress
  • September 13 - Jeff Ross, American stand-up comedian and actor
  • September 15 - Joe Chrest, American academic and actor
  • September 17
  • September 19 - Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
  • September 21
  • September 25 - Gordon Currie, Canadian-American actor
  • September 30 - Omid Djalili, British stand-up comedian, actor and writer of Iranian descent
  • October 1 - Cindy Margolis, American actress and model
  • October 8
  • October 10
  • October 11
  • October 14 – Steve Coogan, English actor
  • October 18 - Ralph Eggleston, American animator, art director, storyboard artist, writer, director and production designer (d. 2022)
  • October 19 – Merle Jääger, Estonian actress and poet
  • October 20 – William Zabka, American actor
  • October 22 - Valeria Golino, Italian actress and film director
  • October 25 – Mathieu Amalric, French actor and filmmaker
  • October 27 - Mohan Kapur, Indian actor and television host
  • October 28 - Jami Gertz, American actress
  • October 31 - Rob Rackstraw, British voice actor
  • November 2 – Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor
  • November 7 - Mike Henry, American actor, comedian, writer and producer
  • November 19 - Paul Weitz, American filmmaker and actor
  • November 21 – Alexander Siddig, Sudanese-English actor
  • November 22 - Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
  • November 23 - Don Frye, American actor
  • November 24 – Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
  • November 25 - Dougray Scott, Scottish actor
  • November 26 - Scott Adsit, American actor, comedian and writer
  • November 30
  • December 2 - Beatrice Macola, Italian actress (d. 2001)
  • December 3
  • December 7 – Jeffrey Wright, American actor
  • December 9 - Margaret Riley, producer (d. 2024)
  • December 14 - Ted Raimi, American character actor, director, comedian and writer
  • December 15 - Anjul Nigam, Indian-born American actor, producer and writer
  • December 16 – J.B. Smoove, American actor and comedian
  • December 19 - Jessica Steen, Canadian actress
  • December 21 – Andy Dick, American comedian, actor, musician and television and film producer
  • December 22 - David S. Goyer, American filmmaker
  • December 27 – Salman Khan, Indian actor
  • December 31 – Gong Li, Chinese actress

Deaths

Film debuts

References

  1. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 229
  3. Top 20 Films of 1965 by Domestic Revenue
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