The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay by Ernest Lehman, based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, itself drawn from Maria von Trapp's 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. The film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr and Eleanor Parker, and set in Salzburg, Austria, it is a fictionalized retelling of Maria von Trapp's years as governess to seven children, her marriage to their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and the family's escape during the 1938 Anschluss.
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Did The Sound of Music win the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Yes. It won Best Picture at the ceremony of April 18, 1966.
Yes. The Academy Awards ceremony held on April 18, 1966, which honored movies released in 1965, lists The Sound of Music as its Best Picture winner, with Robert Wise named beside the film in that category.
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The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman.
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The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman.
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The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay by Ernest Lehman, based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, itself drawn from Maria von Trapp's 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.
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The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman.
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The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman.
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