The Sound of Music | |
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10 Nominations / 5 Wins | |
Year | 1965 |
Director | Robert Wise |
Writer | Ernest Lehman |
Starring | Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, Eleanor Parker |
38th Academy Awards |
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian postulant in Salzburg, Austria, in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. After bringing love and music into the lives of the family, she marries the officer and, together with the children, finds a way to survive the loss of their homeland to the Nazis.
Wins
- Best Picture — Robert Wise
- Best Director — Robert Wise
- Best Film Editing — William H. Reynolds
- Best Original Score — Irwin Kostal
- Best Sound Mixing — James P. Corcoran, Fred Hynes
Nominations
- Best Picture — Robert Wise
- Best Director — Robert Wise
- Best Film Editing — William H. Reynolds
- Best Original Score — Irwin Kostal
- Best Sound Mixing — James P. Corcoran, Fred Hynes
- Best Actress — Julie Andrews
- Best Art Direction (Color) — Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, Ruby R. Levitt
- Best Supporting Actress — Peggy Wood
- Best Costume Design (Color) — Dorothy Jeakins
- Best Cinematography (Color) — Ted D. McCord