Academy Awards 1966 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen	Best Screenplay based on material from another medium
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Best Music Score – substantially original
Best Scoring of Music – adaptation or treatment	Best Song
Best Sound Effects	Best Sound
Best Art Direction (Color)	Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Best Cinematography (Color)	Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Best Costume Design (Color)	Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Best Film Editing	Best Special Visual Effects

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Best Picture

• A Thousand Clowns
• Darling
• Doctor Zhivago
• Ship of Fools
• The Sound of Music

Best Director

• Darling (John Schlesinger)
• Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
• The Collector (William Wyler)
• The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)

Best Actor

• Cat Ballou (Lee Marvin)
• Othello (Laurence Olivier)
• Ship of Fools (Oskar Werner)
• The Pawnbroker (Rod Steiger)
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (Richard Burton)

Best Actress

• A Patch of Blue (Elizabeth Hartman)
• Darling (Julie Christie)
• Ship of Fools (Simone Signoret)
• The Collector (Samantha Eggar)
• The Shop on Main Street (Ida Kaminska)
• The Sound of Music (Julie Andrews)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• A Thousand Clowns (Martin Balsam)
• Doctor Zhivago (Tom Courtenay)
• Othello (Frank Finlay)
• Ship of Fools (Michael Dunn)
• The Flight of the Phoenix (Ian Bannen)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• A Patch of Blue (Shelley Winters)
• Inside Daisy Clover (Ruth Gordon)
• Othello (Maggie Smith)
• Othello (Joyce Redman)
• The Sound of Music (Peggy Wood)

Best Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen

• Casanova 70
• Darling
• The Train
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25h 11min

Best Screenplay based on material from another medium

• A Thousand Clowns
• Cat Ballou
• Doctor Zhivago
• Ship of Fools
• The Collector

Best Foreign Language Film

• Blood on the Land (Greece)
• Dear John (Sweden)
• Kwaidan (Japan)
• The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia)

Best Documentary Feature

• Let My People Go: The Story of Israel
• The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles
• The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
• The Forth Road Bridge
• To Die in Madrid

Best Documentary Short

• Mural on Our Street
• Ouverture
• Point of View
• To Be Alive!
• Yeats Country

Best Live Action Short Subject

• Fortress of Peace
• Le poulet
• Skaterdater
• Snow
• Time Piece

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Clay or the Origin of Species
• La gazza ladra
• The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

Best Music Score – substantially original

• A Patch of Blue
• Doctor Zhivago
• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• The Greatest Story Ever Told

Best Scoring of Music – adaptation or treatment

• A Thousand Clowns
• Cat Ballou
• The Pleasure Seekers
• The Sound of Music

Best Song

• Cat Ballou ("The Ballad of Cat Ballou")
• The Great Race ("The Sweetheart Tree")
• The Sandpiper ("The Shadow of Your Smile")
• What's New Pussycat ("What's New, Pussycat?")

Best Sound Effects

• The Great Race
• Von Ryan's Express

Best Sound

• Doctor Zhivago
• Shenandoah
• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• The Great Race
• The Sound of Music

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Doctor Zhivago
• Inside Daisy Clover
• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• The Sound of Music

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• A Patch of Blue
• King Rat
• Ship of Fools
• The Slender Thread
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Doctor Zhivago
• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• The Great Race
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• The Sound of Music

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• A Patch of Blue
• In Harm's Way
• King Rat
• Morituri
• Ship of Fools

Best Costume Design (Color)

• Doctor Zhivago
• Inside Daisy Clover
• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• The Sound of Music

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• A Rage to Live
• Darling
• Morituri
• Ship of Fools
• The Slender Thread

Best Film Editing

• Cat Ballou
• Doctor Zhivago
• The Flight of the Phoenix
• The Great Race
• The Sound of Music

Best Special Visual Effects

• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Thunderball