Date: April 18, 1966
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Lee Marvin for Cat Ballou
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Julie Christie for Darling
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Martin Balsam for A Thousand Clowns
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Shelley Winters for A Patch of Blue
Best Director
- Robert Wise for The Sound of Music
Best Original Story & Screenplay
- Frederic Raphael for Darling
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Robert Bolt for Doctor Zhivago
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Freddie Young for Doctor Zhivago
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Ernest Laszlo for Ships of Fools
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
- Robert Clatworthy & Joseph Kish for Ship of Fools
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Colour
- John Box, Terence Marsh, & Dario Simoni for Doctor Zhivago
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
- Julie Harris for Darling
Best Costume Design, Colour
- Phyllis Dalton for Doctor Zhivago
Best Sound
- James Corcoran for The Sound of Music
Best Film Editing
- William Reynolds for The Sound of Music
Best Sound Effects
- Treg Brown for The Great Race
Best Special Visual Effects
- John Stears for Thunderball
Best Original Song
- Johnny Mandel (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for “The Shadow of Your Smile” from The Sandpiper
Best Substantially Original Score
- Maurice Jarre for Doctor Zhivago
Best Music, Scoring of Adaptation or Treatment
- Irwin Kostal for The Sound of Music
Best Short Subject, Live-Action Subjects
- Claude Berri for Le poulet
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Chuck Jones & Les Goldman for The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Francis Thompson for To Be Alive!
Best Documentary, Features
- Sidney Glazier for The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
Best Foreign Language Film
- The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia)
Honourary Award
- Bob Hope