The Sound of Music (movie)

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical movie. It was directed by Robert Wise. It stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The movie is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music. The songs were written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical was based on the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The movie is about a young woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the seven children of a naval officer widower. The Sound of Music contains several popular songs, including "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", "Sixteen Going on Seventeen", and the title song, "The Sound of Music".

The Sound of Music
Directed by	Robert Wise
Screenplay by	Ernest Lehman
Story by	Maria von Trapp (uncredited)
Based on	The Sound of Music by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Produced by	Robert Wise
Starring	Julie Andrews Christopher Plummer
Cinematography	Ted D. McCord
Edited by	William H. Reynolds
Music by	Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II Irwin Kostal (score)
Production companies	Argyle Enterprises, Inc.
Distributed by	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date	March 2, 1965 (1965-03-02) (US)
Running time	174 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$8.2 million[2][3]
Box office	$286.2 million[2]

The Sound of Music was shot on location in Salzburg, Austria; the state of Bavaria in Germany; and at the 20th Century Fox studios in California, USA. The movie won five Academy Awards including Best Picture. It displaced Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all-time. The cast album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the movie for preservation in the National Film Registry as it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".