The two top 1965 films in the Best Picture Oscars race were ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago’. Both the movies had ten nominations each, and also won five Oscars respectively. ‘The Sound of Music’ won Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Wise), Best Musical Score, Best Editing, and Best Sound Recording.
The movie was adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway musical. It was the real life story of a spirited postulant Maria, who left Austria’s Nonnberg Abbey, and became governess to seven motherless Von Trapp children. She eventually helped to lead the singing family out of Nazi-occupied Austria to Switzerland
‘The Sound of Music’ was a successful film at the time of its release. The movie also topped ‘Gone with the Wind’ as the most money-grossing film to date – thereby saving its studio, 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy.
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