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38th Academy Awards
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award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1965
Key facts
- Date
- April 18, 1966
- Site
- Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California
- Hosted by
- Bob Hope
- Produced by
- Joe Pasternak
- Directed by
- Richard Dunlap
- Best picture
- The Sound of Music
- Most awards
- Doctor Zhivago and The Sound of Music (5)
- Most nominations
- Doctor Zhivago and The Sound of Music (10)
- Network
- ABC
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 39th Academy Awards
- Follows
- 37th Academy Awards
- Location
- California
- Producer
- Joe Pasternak
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1966
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- point in time
- 1966-04-18
- edition number
- 38
- presenter
- Bob Hope
- awarded for period
- 1965-00-00
- broadcast by
- American Broadcasting Company
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Encyclopedic overview
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, and were the first Oscars to be broadcast live in color. Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, attended the ceremony, escorted by actor George Hamilton.
The most successful films of the year were The Sound of Music and Doctor Zhivago, each with ten nominations and five wins, with the former winning Best Picture. Both films are in the top 10 inflation-adjusted commercially successful films ever made, and both would go on to appear on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the twentieth century.
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