1965 in film

Events

Top grossing films

North America

1. Mary Poppins
2. The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews
3. Goldfinger
4. My Fair Lady
5. What's New Pussycat
6. Shenandoah
7. The Sandpiper
8. Father Goose

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: The Sound of Music – Argyle, Twentieth Century-Fox
• Best Actor: Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou
• Best Actress: Julie Christie – Darling

Births

• January 1 – Lisa Roberts Gillan, actress
• February 11 – Stephen Gregory, actor
• April 4 – Robert Downey Jr, actor
• May 31 – Brooke Shields, actress
• June 10 – Elizabeth Hurley, actress
• July 25 – Illeana Douglas, actress
• July 26 – Jeremy Piven, actor
• August 14 – Emmanuelle Béart, Cesar Award winning actress
• September 9 – Adam Sandler, American actor, comedian
• November 20 – Ben Stiller, actor

Deaths

• January 14 – Jeanette MacDonald, actress, singer
• February 23 – Stan Laurel, British actor.
• March 6 – Margaret Dumont, comedic actress
• July 24 – Constance Bennett, actress

Other movies released

• Help!, starring The Beatles
• Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness
• Thunderball
• For a Few Dollars More
• The Great Race
• The Sons of Katie Elder
• Girl Happy
• The Legend of Blood Mountain
• Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie
• Report
• A Thousand Clowns
• Zorba the Greek
• Those Magnificient Men in Their Flying Machines
• The Ipcress File
• Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• The Knack...And How to Get It, Cannes Grand Prize
• Alphaville, Golden Bear winner
• Cat Ballou
• The Shop on Main Street
• Juliet of the Spirits
• Darling
• Ship of Fools
• The Spy who Came in From the Cold
• The Agony and the Ectasy