1965 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role Winner and Nominees

My Fair Lady

Rex Harrison

Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) presentable in high society.

Becket

Peter O’Toole

Becket

Richard Burton

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Peter Sellers

Zorba the Greek

Anthony Quinn