Film year 1965

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Film year 1965
American film producer David O. Selznick died on June 22, 1965 . His greatest success was the film adaptation of Gone With the Wind .

Events

The American Film Institute is founded.
The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' poll 1965:
- Category - Male Film Star: Gold Pierre Brice , Silver Thomas Fritsch , Bronze Lex Barker
- Category - female film star: gold Marie Versini , silver Sophia Loren , bronze Doris Day

Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office by attendance (as of November 25, 2018):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	James Bond 007 - Fireball	11,250,000
2.	James Bond 007 - Goldfinger	10,250,000
3.	The daring men in their flying boxes	7,500,000
4th	Winnetou 3rd part	4,500,000
5.	Angélique, part 2	4,300,000
6th	Mary Poppins	4,006,488
7th	Our man from Istanbul	3,750,000
8th.	Poppy is also a flower	3,750,000
9.	Dr. med. Job Praetorius	3,500,000
10.	Shots from the violin case	3,500,000

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe ceremony will take place on February 8th at Coconut Grove.

Best Drama: Becket by Peter Glenville
Best Musical / Comedy: My Fair Lady by George Cukor
Best Actor (Drama): Peter O'Toole in Becket
Best Actress (Drama): Anne Bancroft in Bedroom Dispute
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins
Best Supporting Actor: No Prize Winner
Best Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead in Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Best Director: George Cukor for My Fair Lady
Cecil B. DeMille Award : James Stewart

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards will be held on April 5th at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium . The moderator is Bob Hope .

Best Film: My Fair Lady by George Cukor
Best Actor: Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
Best Actress: Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins
Best Director: George Cukor for My Fair Lady
Best supporting actor: Peter Ustinov in Topkapi
Best Supporting Actress: Lila Kedrova in Alexis Sorbas
Best black and white camera: Walter Lassally for Alexis Sorbas
Best Foreign Language Film: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Vittorio De Sica

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1965

The festival takes place from May 12th to May 28th. The jury under President Olivia de Havilland awards the following prizes:

Golden Palm : The certain trick from Richard Lester
Best Actor: Terence Stamp in The Catcher
Best Actress: Samantha Eggar in The Catcher
Best Director: Liviu Ciulei for The Forest of the Hanged

Berlin International Film Festival 1965

The festival takes place from June 25th to July 6th. The jury awards the following prizes:

Golden Bear : Lemmy Caution against Alpha 60 by Jean-Luc Godard
Best Actor: Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou
Best Actress: Madhur Jaffrey in Shakespeare Wallah
Best Director: Satyajit Ray for Charulata
Special jury award: Roman Polański for disgust

Venice Film Festival

The festival takes place from August 24th to September 6th. The jury awards the following prizes:

Golden Lion : Sandra from Luchino Visconti
Best Actor: Toshirō Mifune in Akahige
Best Actress: Annie Girardot in Three Rooms in Manhattan

German film award

Best film: The house on Karpfengasse
Best director: Kurt Hoffmann for Das Haus in Karpfengasse
Best leading actress: Jana Brejchová for Das Haus in Karpfengasse
Best leading actor: Wolfgang Kieling for the Davidswache police station
Best Supporting Actress: Tilla Durieux for Damned to Sin
Best supporting actor: Rudolf Forster for Wälsungenblut

British Film Academy Award

Best film: Dr. Strange or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb by Stanley Kubrick
British Actor: Richard Attenborough for Shots in Batasi and On a Gloomy Afternoon
Best foreign actor: Marcello Mastroianni for yesterday, today and tomorrow
Best British Actress: Audrey Hepburn for Charade
Best Foreign Actress: Anne Bancroft for Bedroom Dispute

Étoile de Cristal

Best film: Prize not awarded
Best Actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant in Mata Hari, Agent H.21
Best actress: Sylvie in The Undignified Old Woman
Best foreign film: Dr. Strange or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb by Stanley Kubrick
Best Foreign Actor: Peter O'Toole in Becket
Best Foreign Actress: Stefania Sandrelli in Seduction in Italian

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best film: Darling by John Schlesinger
Best director: John Schlesinger for Darling
Best Actor: Oskar Werner in The Ship of Fools
Best Actress: Julie Christie in Darling
Best foreign film: Julia and the Ghosts of Federico Fellini

National Board of Review

Best Film: The Eleanor Roosevelt Story by Richard Kaplan
Best director: John Schlesinger for Darling
Best Actor: Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou - You Should Hang in Wyoming and The Ship of Fools
Best Actress: Julie Christie in Doctor Zhivago
Best Supporting Actor: Harry Andrews in Michelangelo - Inferno and Ecstasy and A Bunch of Great Dogs
Best Supporting Actress: Joan Blondell in the Cincinnati Kid

Laurel Award

Best Action Drama: Goldfinger by Guy Hamilton
- Best Action Representation: Sean Connery in Goldfinger
Best Drama: The Insatiable by Edward Dmytryk
- Best Actor in a Drama : Richard Burton in Becket

Best Comedy: The Big Wolf Calls by Ralph Nelson

Best Actor in a Comedy: Jack Lemmon in How do you kill your wife?
Best Comedic Actress: Doris Day in Don't Send Me Flowers

Best Musical: Gold Digger Molly by Charles Walters

Best Actor in a Musical: Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
Best Actress in a Musical: Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins

Further film prizes and awards

Bodil : Gertrud von Carl Theodor Dreyer
Directors Guild of America Award : George Cukor for My Fair Lady , Jack L. Warner (Lifetime Achievement)
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Rainer Erler for transmigration of souls
Louis Delluc Prize : Life in the castle of Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Nastro d'Argento : The 1st Gospel - Matthew by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Dr. Strange or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb by Stanley Kubrick
Photoplay Award : My Songs - My Dreams by Robert Wise (Best Picture), Robert Vaughn (Most Popular Male Star), Dorothy Malone (Most Popular Female Star)
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : The 27th floor by Edward Dmytryk and Zlatá reneta by Otakar Vávra (Golden Shell)
Writers Guild of America Award : Mary Poppins (Best Musical), Becket (Best Drama), Dr. Strange or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb (Best Comedy), Sidney Buchman (Lifetime Achievement)

Birthdays

January to March

Julia Ormond (born January 4th)

Diane Lane (born January 22)

Julia Stemberger (born January 29)

Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25)

January

0January 1: Lisa Roberts Gillan , American actress
0January 4th: Yvan Attal , French actor and director
0January 4th: Julia Ormond , British actress
0January 8: Michelle Forbes , American actress
0January 9: Rhoda Griffis , American actress
0January 9: Joely Richardson , British actress
January 17th: DJ Caruso , American director
January 22nd: Diane Lane , American actress
January 29: Julia Stemberger , Austrian actress
January 30th: Julie McCullough , American actress

February

0February 1: Sherilyn Fenn , American actress
0February 3: Maura Tierney , American actress
0February 6: Dana Eskelson , American actress
0February 6th: Wolfgang Pissecker , Austrian actor
0February 6: Jan Svěrák , Czech director
0February 7th: Jason Gedrick , American actor
0February 7th: Chris Rock , American actor
0February 8: Mathilda May , French actress
0February 9: Darren Dalton , American actor
0February 9: Julie Warner , American actress
February 12: Christine Elise , American actress
February 12: Ewa Karlström , Swedish-German producer
February 15: Romuald Karmakar , German director
February 20: Ron Eldard , American actor
February 22nd: Scott Lowell , American actor
February 23: Kristin Davis , American actress
February 23: Sérgio Tréfaut , Portuguese director
February 24th: Alessandro Gassmann , Italian actor
February 26: Nicolas Böll , German actor and voice actor
February 27: Noah Emmerich , American actor

March

0March 3: Eric Da Re , American actor
0March 4th: Paul WS Anderson , American director
March 11: Wallace Langham , American actor
March 14th: Aamir Khan , Indian actor and director
March 14: Kevin Williamson , American screenwriter and producer
March 16: Belén Rueda , Spanish actress
March 23: Richard Grieco , American actor
March 24: Peter Jacobson , American actor
March 25: Sarah Jessica Parker , American actress
March 29th: Lara Wendel , American actress
March 30th: Juliet Landau , American actress
March 31: Jacqueline Kim , American actress
March 31: William McNamara , American actor

April to June

Tom Tykwer (born May 23)

Veronica Ferres (born June 10)

April

0April 1: Jane Adams , American actress
0April 1: Thomas Schmuckert , German actor and voice actor
0April 7th: Ralf Wengenmayr , German composer
0April 4: Robert Downey Jr. , American actor
0April 9: Mark Pellegrino , American actor
April 16: Jon Cryer , American actor
April 16: Martin Lawrence , American actor
April 17: William Mapother , American actor
April 21: Katja Burkard , German actress
April 26: Kevin James , American actor
April 27: Anna Chancellor , British actress
April 29: Vincent Ventresca , American actor
April 30: Adrian Pasdar , American actor

May

0May 6: Stephen Gaghan , American screenwriter and director
May 17: Paige Turco , American actress
May 23: Tom Tykwer , German director
May 24: John C. Reilly , American actor
May 31: Brooke Shields , American actress

June

June 10: Veronica Ferres , German actress
June 10: Elizabeth Hurley , British actress
June 11: Pamela Gidley , American actress († 2018)
June 12th: Cathy Tyson , British actress
June 18: Kim Dickens , American actress
June 19: Sadie Frost , British actress
June 21: Larry Wachowski , American director and screenwriter

July to September

Marion Mitterhammer (born August 8)

Emmanuelle Béart (born August 14)

July

0July 1: Roger Barton , American film editor
0July 1st: Harald Zwart , Norwegian director and producer
0July 3rd: Connie Nielsen , Danish actress
July 10: Alec Mapa , American actor
July 11th: Andreas Fröhlich , German actor and voice actor
July 16: Daryl Mitchell , American actor
July 17th: Santiago Segura , Spanish actor and director
July 17: Alex Winter , American actor and director
July 22nd: Patrick Labyorteaux , American actor
July 24: Doug Liman , American producer and director
July 24: Paul Ben-Victor , American actor
July 25: Illeana Douglas , American actress
July 26: Jeremy Piven , American actor

August

0August 1st: Judith Brandt , German voice actress and actress
0August 1st: Sam Mendes , British director
0August 6th: Juliane Köhler , German actress
0August 6: Jeremy Ratchford , Canadian actor
0August 8: Marion Mitterhammer , Austrian actress
August 10: Eric Thal , American actor
August 11: Embeth Davidtz , American actress
August 11: Viola Davis , American actress
August 12: Peter Krause , American actor
August 19: Kevin Dillon , American actor
August 19: Maria de Medeiros , Portuguese actress
August 19: Hans-Christian Schmid , German director and screenwriter
August 19: Kyra Sedgwick , American actress
August 21: Florian Flicker , Austrian documentary filmmaker, director and screenwriter († 2014)
August 23: Roger Avary , American director and screenwriter
August 24: Marlee Matlin , American actress
August 28: Amanda Tapping , Canadian actress
August 29: Ella Lemhagen , Swedish director
August 29: Dina Spybey , American actress

September

0September 3: Charlie Sheen , American actor
0September 8: Michelle Johnson , American actress
0September 9: Charles Esten , American actor
September 14: Daisy von Scherler Mayer , American director and screenwriter
September 14: Michelle Stafford , American actor
September 15th: Fernanda Torres , Brazilian actress
September 16: Katy Kurtzman , American actress
September 17: Bryan Singer , American director
September 19: Cheri Oteri , American actress
September 19: Alexandra Vandernoot , Belgian actress
September 20: Robert Rusler , American actor
September 21: Cheryl Hines , American actress
September 21: David Wenham , Australian actor
September 25: Matt Battaglia , American actor
September 27th: Maria Schrader , German actress
September 30th: Omid Djalili , British actor

October to December

Famke Janssen (born November 5)

Mads Mikkelsen (born November 22nd)

Ben Stiller (born November 30th)

Anke Engelke (born December 21)

October

0October 1: Ted King , American actor
0October 8: Peter Greene , American actor
October 10: Rebecca Pidgeon , American actress
October 11: Sean Patrick Flanery , American actor
October 11: Julianne McNamara , American actress
October 13: Philippe Torreton , French actor
October 16: Ann Eleonora Jørgensen , Danish actress
October 25: Mathieu Amalric , French actor and director
October 27: Michael O'Connor , British costume designer
October 28: Jami Gertz , American actress

November

0November 2nd: Shahrukh Khan , Indian Bollywood actor
0November 3: Merab Ninidze , Georgian actor
0November 4th: Kiersten Warren , American actress
0November 5th: Famke Janssen , Dutch actress
0November 9th: Maria von Blumencron , Austrian actress
0November 9: Karoline Eichhorn , German actress
November 16: Jeff Pinkner , American film producer and screenwriter
November 19: Douglas Henshall , Scottish actor
November 22nd: Mads Mikkelsen , Danish actor
November 23: Rodrigo Prieto , Mexican-American director
November 25th: Dougray Scott , British actor
November 30: Ben Stiller , American actor
November 30th: Andrew Tiernan , British actor

December

0December 3: Barbara Garrick , American actress
0December 3: Steve Harris , American actor
0December 3: Andrew Stanton , American director and screenwriter
0December 7th: Jeffrey Wright , American actor
December 14th: Ted Raimi , American actor
December 16: Nancy Valen , American actress
December 19: Gary Fleder , American director
December 21: Andy Dick , American actor
December 21: Michael Schenk , German actor
December 21: Anke Engelke , German actress
December 22nd: David S. Goyer , American screenwriter
December 22nd: Sergi López , Spanish actor
December 24th: Shirley Henderson , Scottish actress
December 26: Nadia Dajani , American actress
December 27th: Salman Khan , Indian actor
December 31: Gong Li , Chinese actress

Day unknown

Peter Hewitt , British screenwriter, producer and director
Hary Prinz , Austrian actor

deceased

Stan Laurel (1890-1965)

Leopoldine Konstantin (1886–1965)

Clara Bow (1905-1965)

Oskar Beregi (1876–1965)

Julia Serda (1875-1965)