The Sound of Music: 1965 Best Picture

The Best Picture winner at the 38th Academy Awards was “The Sound of Music”, starring Julie Andrews, 1964’s Best Actress winner for “Mary Poppins.” But it was Julie Christie who picked up the Best Actress award for “Darling”, also a best picture nominee.

Also nominated for Best Picture was “Doctor Zhivago” with just as many nominations (10) and wins (5) as “The Sound of Music”. The other two films nominated were “A Thousand Clowns” and “Ship of Fools”, Viven Leigh’s last film. (Simone Signoret was nominated for Best Actress for that one).

Other films of the year with multiple nominations were: “The Agony and the Ectasy”, “Cat Ballou”, “The Great Race”, “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, “Patch of Blue”, “Othello”, “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”, “Inside Daisy Clover”, “King Rat”, “The Spy who Came in From the Cold” and “The Pawnbroker”.

In terms of top grossing films, “Thunderball” starring Sean Connery; Disney’s “That Darn Cat!” starring Hayley Mills and Dean Jones; and “Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines” with an all star cast, were right behind “The Sound of Music” and “Dr. Zhivago”.

Jeopardy! clues on “The Sound of Music”
CINEMA MANIA $200: In this 1965 film, a family on the run from Nazis sings at the Salzburg Music Festival
MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS (SORT OF) $800: 1965 Rodgers & Hammerstein film: “Honk Honk, Toot Toot, Drum Drum, Strum Strum”
MOVIES TO THE MAX $400: Max Detweiler is the impresario character who enters a family in music festival in this beloved 1965 film
THE FILM VAULT $100: Brigitta, Marta & Gretl are 3 of the Von Trapp children in this 1965 Oscar winner

More 1965 movie clues:
2 FIRST NAMES $1000: He won a 1965 Oscar for his dual role as a gunfighter & his evil, noseless twin brother in “Cat Ballou”
’60s POP MUSIC $1600: The 1965 film “Ferry Cross” this starring Gerry & the Pacemakers featured 9 songs written by Gerry
FOLK MUSIC $2000: Glenn Yarbrough, formerly with the Limeliters, had his only top 40 hit with this title song of a 1965 Steve McQueen film
OSCAR! OSCAR! $1600: Julie Christie won an Oscar as a beautiful but empty woman in this “endearing” 1965 film
PUT ON YOUR JAMIES $400: Thaddaeus in the 1965 film “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, he got his greatest role ever in 1972 as Max Klinger
THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $100: They made their film debut in “Wild on the Beach” in 1965, the same year they recorded “I Got You, Babe”
FUNNY WESTERNS $600: Jane Fonda played a schoolteacher who turns into an outlaw in this 1965 film
PLAYING DOCTOR $200: He played physician & poet Yuri Zhivago in a 1965 film
CLOWNING AROUND $500: This “Born Yesterday” star co-wrote the title tune for the 1965 film “A Thousand Clowns”
SHAKESPEARE $2,200 (Daily Double): Maggie Smith earned a 1965 Oscar nomination for playing Desdemona in this Laurence Olivier film
5-LETTER WORDS $1000: A 1965 Richard Lester film told you “How to Get It”
“EVER”S $800: This 1965 movie begins with the birth of Jesus
BLUE LITERATURE $2000: Elizabeth Kata wrote the novel this “of Blue” on which a 1965 Sidney Poitier movie was based
THE BEATLES $800: John Lennon said this 1965 movie title tune was one of his favorites, in part because he wrote it about himself
THE MISFITS $200: 1965’s “The Outlaws Is Coming” was the last movie featuring this wacky trio of comedy misfits
CREATURE FEATURES $1200: In a 1965 movie set in Africa, Clarence was a “cross-eyed” one of these