37th Academy Awards
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{{Infobox film awards
| number = 37
| award = Academy Awards
| date = April 5, 1965
| site = Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California
| host = Bob Hope
| producer = Joe Pasternak
| director = Richard Dunlap
| best_picture = My Fair Lady
| most_wins = My Fair Lady (8)
| most_nominations = Mary Poppins (13)
| network = ABC
| duration =
| last = 36th
| next = 38th
}}
The 37th Academy Awards were held on April 5, 1965, to honor film achievements of 1964. The ceremony was produced by MGM's Joe Pasternak and hosted, for the 14th time, by Bob Hope.
The Best Picture winner, George Cukor's My Fair Lady, was an adaptation of a 1956 stage musical of the same name, which was itself based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, which had been nominated for Best Picture in 1938. Audrey Hepburn was controversially not nominated for Best Actress for her starring role as Eliza Doolittle;
{{cite book |last1=Wallechinsky |first1=David |last2=Wallace |first2=Irving |date=1975 |title=The People's Almanac |url=https://archive.org/details/peoplesalmanac00wall/page/842/mode/2up |location=Garden City, New York |publisher=Doubleday & Company, Inc. |page=843 |isbn=0-385-04060-1}} the unpopularity of her replacing Julie Andrews—who had originated the role on Broadway, and who was seen by producer Jack Warner as having lacked star quality—as well as the revelation that the majority of her singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon (which wasn't approved by Hepburn herself) were seen as the main reasons for the snub. This was said to have "split the committee into two camps, pro and con, for and against the two ladies", and even led to talk of a write-in campaign for Hepburn. Despite her having not been nominated, Hepburn was in attendance at the ceremony, with camera work playing up the tension between the two considerably. Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar, but My Fair Lady was said to have "made off awfully well, too."
The ceremony saw the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, William J. Tuttle for 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, albeit as an Honorary Award; it would not become a competitive category until 1981.
This year was the first in which three films received 10 or more nominations (repeated at the 50th, 92nd and 96th Academy Awards), and the only time in Oscar history that three films received 12 or more nominations: Becket and My Fair Lady each received 12, while Mary Poppins received 13. Also, the five Best Director nominees corresponded to their films in the Best Picture category, for only the second occurrence throughout the era (1944–2008) in Oscar history, where the latter category was limited to five nominees only.
Becket tied the record set by Johnny Belinda for most Oscars losses with 11 (both movies won 1 out of 12 nominations). It was later equalled by The Turning Point in 1977 (0 for 11), The Color Purple in 1985 (0 for 11), The Power of the Dog in 2021 (1 for 12), and Emilia Pérez in 2024 (2 for 13).
Awards
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| caption2 = George Cukor, Best Director winner
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| caption3 = Rex Harrison, Best Actor winner
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| caption4 = Julie Andrews, Best Actress winner
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| caption5 = Peter Ustinov, Best Supporting Actor winner
| image6 = Lila Kedrova (1965).jpg
| caption6 = Lila Kedrova, Best Supporting Actress winner
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| caption7 = Richard M. Sherman, Best Song and Best Music Score - Substantially Original co-winner
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| caption8 = Robert B. Sherman, Best Song and Best Music Score - Substantially Original co-winner
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| caption9 = André Previn, Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment winner
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| caption10 = Cecil Beaton, Best Costume Design, Color winner and Best Art Direction, Color co-winner
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| caption11 = Walter Lassally, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White winner
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Nominations were announced on February 23, 1965. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1965 |title=The 37th Academy Awards (1965) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-24 |work=oscars.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031093059/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1965 |archive-date=2014-10-31 }}{{cite web|title=The Official Academy Awards Database|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/}} Select "1964" in the "Award Year(s)" drop-down menu and press "Search".
=Honorary Award=
- To William Tuttle for his outstanding make-up achievement for 7 Faces of Dr. Lao.
Presenters and performers
The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.{{Cite book |last=Wiley |first=Mason |title=Inside Oscar: the unofficial history of the Academy Awards |last2=Bona |first2=Damien |date=1996 |publisher=Ballantine Books |isbn=978-0-345-40053-6 |edition=10. anniversary rev. ed., with new chapters on the winners, heartbreaks, and behind-the-scenes surprises |location=New York, NY |pages=374}}
=Presenters=
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Name | Role |
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{{sortname|Hank|Simms|nolink=0}} | Announcer for the 37th Academy Awards |
{{sortname|Arthur|Freed}} (AMPAS President) | Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony |
{{sortname|Claudia|Cardinale}} Steve McQueen | Presenters of the awards for Best Sound |
{{sortname|Angie|Dickinson}} | Presenter of the award for Best Sound Effects |
{{sortname|Alain|Delon}} | Presenter of the award for Best Special Visual Effects |
{{sortname|Angela|Lansbury}} | Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor |
{{sortname|Jimmy|Durante}} Martha Raye | Presenters of the awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject |
Merle Oberon | Presenter of the awards for Best Live Action Short Subject and Best Short Subject — Cartoons |
{{sortname|Greer|Garson}} Dick Van Dyke | Presenters of the awards for Best Costume Design |
{{sortname|Debbie|Reynolds}} | Presenter of the awards for Best Music Score — Substantially Original and Best Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment |
{{sortname|Anthony|Franciosa}} | Presenter of the Scientific or Technical Awards |
{{sortname|Rex|Harrison}} | Presenter of the award for Best Foreign Language Film |
{{sortname|Rosalind|Russell}} | Presenter of the Honorary Award to William Tuttle |
{{sortname|Karl|Malden}} | Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress |
{{sortname|Richard|Chamberlain}} Vince Edwards | Presenters of the award for Best Film Editing |
{{sortname|Rock|Hudson}} Jean Simmons | Presenters of the awards for Best Cinematography |
{{sortname|Elizabeth|Ashley}} Macdonald Carey | Presenters of the awards for Best Art Direction |
{{sortname|Gene|Kelly}} | Introducer of the performance of the tribute to Cole Porter |
{{sortname|Fred|Astaire}} | Presenter of the award for Best Song |
{{sortname|Deborah|Kerr}} | Presenter of the awards for Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
{{sortname|Audrey|Hepburn}} | Presenter of the award for Best Actor |
{{sortname|Sidney|Poitier}} | Presenter of the award for Best Actress |
{{sortname|Joan|Crawford}} | Presenter of the award for Best Director |
{{sortname|Gregory|Peck}} | Presenter of the award for Best Picture |
=Performers=
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Name | Role | Performed | |
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{{sortname|Johnny|Green}} Roger Edens | Musical arrangers | Orchestral | |
{{sortname|The|New Christy Minstrels}} | Performers | "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins | |
{{sortname|Andy|Williams}} | Performer | "Dear Heart" from Dear Heart | |
{{sortname|Patti|Page}} | Performer | "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" from Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | |
{{sortname|Nancy|Wilson|Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)}} | Performer | "My Kind of Town" from Robin and the 7 Hoods | |
{{sortname|Jack|Jones|Jack Jones (singer)}} | Performer | "Where Love Has Gone" from Where Love Has Gone | |
{{sortname|Judy|Garland}} | Performer | Cole Porter Medley: "Use Your Imagination" "Night and Day" "I Get a Kick Out of You" "You're the Top" "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" "Don't Fence Me In" "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" "It's De-Lovely" "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" "So in Love" "From This Moment On" "Night and Day" (reprise) | |
{{sortname | Academy Awards Orchestra|nolink=0}} | Performers | "That's Entertainment" during the closing credits |
Multiple nominations and awards
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These films had multiple nominations:
- 13 nominations: Mary Poppins
- 12 nominations: Becket and My Fair Lady
- 7 nominations: Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte and Zorba the Greek
- 6 nominations: The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- 4 nominations: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and The Night of the Iguana
- 3 nominations: Father Goose
- 2 nominations: The Americanization of Emily, A Hard Day's Night, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Seven Days in May, and What a Way to Go!
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The following films received multiple awards.
- 8 wins: My Fair Lady
- 5 wins: Mary Poppins
- 3 wins: Zorba the Greek
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See also
References
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