The 23rd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1965, were held on 28 February 1966.
Winners and nominees
Film
Best Film - Drama
Best Film - Comedy or Musical
Best Actor - Drama
- Rex Harrison - The Agony and the Ecstasy
- Sidney Poitier - A Patch of Blue
- Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker
- Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools
Best Actress - Drama
Samantha Eggar - The Collector
- Julie Christie - Darling
- Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue
- Simone Signoret - Ship of Fools
- Maggie Smith - Othello
Best Actor - Comedy or Musical
- Jack Lemmon - The Great Race
- Jerry Lewis - Boeing Boeing
- Jason Robards - A Thousand Clowns
- Alberto Sordi - Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
Best Actress - Comedy or Musical
Julie Andrews – The Sound of Music
- Jane Fonda – Cat Ballou
- Barbara Harris – A Thousand Clowns
- Rita Tushingham – The Knack ...and How to Get It
- Natalie Wood – Inside Daisy Clover
Best Supporting Actor
Oskar Werner - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Red Buttons - Harlow
- Frank Finlay - Othello
- Hardy Krüger - The Flight of the Phoenix
- Telly Savalas - Battle of the Bulge
Best Supporting Actress
Ruth Gordon - Inside Daisy Clover
- Joan Blondell - The Cincinnati Kid
- Joyce Redman - Othello
- Thelma Ritter - Boeing Boeing
- Peggy Wood - The Sound of Music
Best Director
- Guy Green - A Patch of Blue
- John Schlesinger - Darling
- Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
- William Wyler - The Collector
Best Screenplay
- The Agony and the Ecstasy − Philip Dunne
- The Collector − John Kohn and Stanley Mann
- A Patch of Blue − Guy Green
- The Slender Thread − Stirling Silliphant
Best Foreign Film (English language)
Best Foreign Film (Foreign language)
Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti), Italy
- Always Further On (Tarahumara, cada vez más lejos), Mexico
- Circle of Love (La ronde), France
- Red Beard (Akahige), Japan
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg), France
Best Music, Original Score
"Doctor Zhivago" - Maurice Jarre
- "Battle of the Bulge" - Benjamin Frankel
- "The Great Race" - Henry Mancini
- "The Sandpiper" - Johnny Mandel
- "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" -Riz Ortolani
Best Original Song
"Forget Domani" - The Yellow Rolls-Royce
- "Ballad of Cat Ballou" - Cat Ballou
- "The Shadow of Your Smile" - The Sandpiper
- "The Sweetheart Tree" - The Great Race
- "That Funny Feeling" - That Funny Feeling
Television
Best TV Show
Best TV Star - Male
- Don Adams - Get Smart
- Ben Gazzara - Run for Your Life
- David McCallum - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Robert Vaughn - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Best TV Star - Female
- Patty Duke - The Patty Duke Show
- Mia Farrow - Peyton Place
- Dorothy Malone - Peyton Place
- Barbara Stanwyck - The Big Valley
Award breakdown
Film
Winners (minimum 1 win)
- 5 / 5 Doctor Zhivago: Best Actor and Film - Drama, Best Director, Best Original Score & Best Screenplay
- 2 / 4 The Sound of Music: Best Actress and Film - Musical or Comedy
- 1 / 1 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: Best Supporting Actor
- 1 / 2 Inside Daisy Clover: Best Supporting Actress
- 1 / 2 The Yellow Rolls-Royce: Best Original Song
- 1 / 4 Cat Ballou: Best Actor - Musical or Comedy
- 1 / 4 The Collector: Best Actress - Drama
Nominees (minimum 2 nominations)
- 0 / 2 Boeing Boeing
- 0 / 2 The Knack ...and How to Get It
- 0 / 3 Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
- 0 / 3 A Thousand Clowns
- 0 / 4 The Great Race
- 0 / 4 Othello