1965 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Repulsion (dir: Roman Polanski)

2. Onibaba (dir: Kaneto Shindo; US Release Date)

3. Kwaidan (dir: Masaki Kobayashi)

4. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (dir: Russ Meyer)

5. The Battle of Algiers (dir: Gillo Pontecorvo)

6. A Patch of Blue (dir: Guy Green)

7. The Sound of Music (dir: Robert Wise)

8. The Hill (dir: Sidney Lumet)

9. The Bedford Incident (dir: James B. Harris)

10. Blood and Black Lace (dir: Mario Bava; US Release Date)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): A Charlie Brown Christmas (dir: Bill Melendez), Bunny Lake Is Missing (dir: Otto Preminger), Chimes at Midnight (dir: Orson Welles), The Cincinnati Kid (dir: Norman Jewison), Darling (dir: John Schlesinger), The Diary of a Chambermaid (dir: Luis Buñuel; US Release Date), The Flight of the Phoenix (dir: Robert Aldrich), The Knack… And How to Get It (dir: Richard Lester), The Pawnbroker (dir: Sidney Lumet), Pierrot le Fou (dir: Jean-Luc Godard), Red Desert (dir: Michelangelo Antonioni), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (dir: Martin Ritt), and The Whip and the Flesh (dir: Mario Bava; US Release Date)

Best Picture: Repulsion
Director: Roman Polanski Producer: Gene Gutowski
US Distributor: Royal Films International

Best Director:
Roman Polanksi, Repulsion
2. Masaki Kobayashi, Kwaidan
3. Kaneto Shindo, Onibaba
4. Russ Meyer, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
5. Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers

Best Actor:
Sidney Poitier, A Patch of Blue
2. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pierrot le Fou
3. Harry Andrews, The Hill
4. Sean Connery, The Hill
5. Richard Burton, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Best Actress:
Catherine Deneuve, Repulsion
2. Rita Tushingham, The Knack... And How to Get It
3. Julie Andrews, The Sound of Music
4. Jeanne Moreau, The Diary of a Chambermaid
5. Elizabeth Hartman, A Patch of Blue

Best Supporting Actor:
Richard Widmark, The Bedford Incident
2. John Gielgud, Chimes at Midnight
3. Ossie Davis, The Hill
4. Richard Attenborough, The Flight of the Phoenix
5. Ian Bannen, The Hill

Best Supporting Actress:
Shelley Winters, A Patch of Blue
2. Ruth Gordon, Inside Daisy Clover
3. Ann-Margret, The Cincinnati Kid
4. Joan Blondell, The Cincinnati Kid
5. Martita Hunt, Bunny Lake Is Missing

Best Original Screenplay: 
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! — Jack Moran and Russ Meyer
2. Repulsion — Roman Polanski, Gerard Brach and David Stone
3. Pierrot le Fou — Jean-Luc Godard
4. Onibaba — Kaneto Shindo
5. Darling — Frederic Raphael, John Schlesinger, and Joseph Janni

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Diary of a Chambermaid — Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière
2. The Hill — Ray Rigby
3. Chimes at Midnight — Orson Welles
4. A Patch of Blue — Guy Green
5. The Bedford Incident — James Poe

Best Cinematography: 
Kwaidan — Yoshio Miyajima
2. Juliet of the Spirits — Gianni Di Venanzo
3. Blood and Black Lace — Ubaldo Terzano and Mario Bava
4. Repulsion — Gilbert Taylor
5. Red Desert — Carlo Di Palma

Best Film Editing: 
The Battle of Algiers — Mario Serandrei and Mario Morra
2. A Patch of Blue — Rita Roland
3. Repulsion — Alastair McIntyre
4. Pierrot le Fou — Agnes Guillemot
5. Juliet of Spirits — Ruggero Mastroianni

Best Original Score:
A Charlie Brown Christmas — Vince Guaraldi
2. Kwaidan — Toru Takemitsu
3. Doctor Zhivago — Maurice Jarre
4. The Battle of Algiers — Ennio Morricone and Gillo Pontecorvo
5. A Patch of Blue — Jerry Goldsmith

Best Production Design:
Kwaidan — Shigemasa Toda and Dai Arakwa
2. Doctor Zhivago — John Box and Dario Simoni
3. Alphaville — Pierre Guffroy
4. Juliet of the Spirits — Giantito Burchiellaro, Luciano Riccieri, Emanuele Taglietti, and Vito Anzalone
5. The Sound of Music — Boris Leven, Ruby Levitt, and Walter M. Scott

Best Costume Design:
Juliet of the Spirits — Piero Gheradi
2. Kwaidan — Masahiro Kato
3. Doctor Zhivago — Phyllis Dalton
4. Darling — Julie Harris
5. Chimes at Midnight — Orson Welles

Best Visual Effects:
Thunderball

Best Sound:
The Sound of Music

Best Ensemble Cast:
The Hill

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
James B. Harris, The Bedford Incident

Best Ensemble Cast: 
The Hill (dir: Sidney Lumet; in alphabetical order): Harry Andrews (pictured), Ian Bannen, Norman Bird, Tony Caunter, Sean Connery (pictured), Ossie Davis, Howard Goorney, Ian Hendry, Roy Kinnear, Alfred Lynch,  Neil McCarthy and Michael Redgrave

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Eric Portman, Sidney Poitier, and Richard Widmark (left to right) in James B. Harris’ The Bedford Incident

RECAP

W I N S :

Repulsion — 3,
The Bedford Incident — 2, Kwaidan — 2, A Patch of Blue — 2, The Battle of Algiers — 1, A Charlie Brown Christmas — 1, Diary of a Chambermaid — 1, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! — 1, The Hill — 1, Juliet of the Spirits — 1, Sound of Music — 1, Thunderball — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

A Patch of Blue — 7,
The Hill — 6, Kwaidan — 6, Repulsion — 6, The Battle of Algiers— 4, Juliet of the Spirits — 4, The Sound of Music — 4, The Bedford Incident — 3, Chimes at Midnight — 3, Doctor Zhivago — 3, Faster Pussycat, Kill!! Kill!! — 3, Onibaba – 3, Pierrot le Fou — 3, Blood and Black Lace – 2, The Cincinnati Kid — 2, Darling — 2, Diary of a Chambermaid — 2,

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Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s