List of 1965 box office number-one films in the United States

This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1965 per Variety's weekly National boxoffice survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.

Number-one films

Mary Poppins became the highest grossing film of 1965. But its reign at the #1 spot occurred in late 1964, it never reached #1 during 1965.

#	Week ending	Film	Notes	Ref
1	January 6, 1965	Goldfinger		[1]
2	January 13, 1965		Goldfinger grossed over $700,000 in the cities sampled	[1]
3	January 20, 1965		Goldfinger grossed $580,000 from 19 key cities	[2]
4	January 27, 1965		Goldfinger grossed $500,000 from the cities sampled	[3]
5	February 3, 1965		Goldfinger grossed $580,000 from 19 key cities	[4]
6	February 10, 1965		Goldfinger grossed $470,000 from the cities sampled	[5]
7	February 17, 1965	My Fair Lady	My Fair Lady returned to number one in its 17th week of release	[6]
8	February 24, 1965			[7]
9	March 3, 1965			[8]
10	March 10, 1965			[9]
11	March 17, 1965			[10]
12	March 24, 1965			[11]
13	March 31, 1965			[12]
14	April 7, 1965	The Sound of Music	The Sound of Music reached number one in its fifth week of release	[13]
15	April 14, 1965			[14]
16	April 21, 1965	My Fair Lady	My Fair Lady returned to number one in its 26th week of release	[15]
17	April 28, 1965	The Sound of Music	The Sound of Music returned to number one in its eighth week of release	[16]
18	May 5, 1965			[17]
19	May 12, 1965			[18]
20	May 19, 1965			[19]
21	May 26, 1965			[20]
22	June 2, 1965			[21]
23	June 9, 1965			[22]
24	June 16, 1965			[23]
25	June 23, 1965	The Yellow Rolls-Royce		[24]
26	June 30, 1965			[25]
27	July 7, 1965	What's New Pussycat?	What's New Pussycat? reached number one in its second week of release	[26]
28	July 14, 1965			[27]
29	July 21, 1965	The Sound of Music	The Sound of Music returned to number one in its 20th week of release	[28]
30	July 28, 1965	The Sandpiper	The Sandpiper reached number one in its fifth week of release	[29]
31	August 4, 1965			[30]
32	August 11, 1965	The Sound of Music	The Sound of Music returned to number one in its 23rd week of release	[31]
33	August 18, 1965		The Sound of Music grossed close to $500,000 in the cities sampled	[32]
34	August 25, 1965			[33]
35	September 1, 1965			[34]
36	September 8, 1965			[35]
37	September 15, 1965			[36]
38	September 22, 1965			[37]
39	September 29, 1965			[38]
40	October 6, 1965			[39]
41	October 13, 1965			[40]
42	October 20, 1965	The Great Race		[41]
43	October 27, 1965			[42]
44	November 3, 1965	The Sound of Music	The Sound of Music returned to number one in its 35th week of release	[43]
45	November 10, 1965			[44]
46	November 17, 1965			[45]
47	November 24, 1965			[46]
48	December 1, 1965			[47]
49	December 8, 1965			[48]
50	December 15, 1965			[49]
51	December 22, 1965			[50]
52	December 29, 1965	Thunderball	Thunderball grossed over $1.4 million in the key cities sampled	[51]

Highest-grossing films

The highest-grossing films during the calendar year based on theatrical rentals were as follows:

Rank	Title	Distributor	Rental[52]
1	Mary Poppins	Buena Vista	$26,500,000[53][54]
2	The Sound of Music	20th Century Fox	$20,000,000
3	Goldfinger	United Artists	$19,700,000
4	My Fair Lady	Warner Bros.	$14,000,000[55][56]
5	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	United Artists	$7,500,000[57][58]
6	What's New Pussycat?		$7,150,000
7	Shenandoah	Universal Pictures	$7,000,000
8	The Sandpiper	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$6,400,000
9	Father Goose	Universal Pictures	$6,000,000
10	Von Ryan's Express	20th Century Fox	$5,600,000

See also

• List of American films — American films by year
• Lists of box office number-one films