The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1957.shtml

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai - Horizon, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actor: Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actress: Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve

Best Supporting Actor: Red Buttons - Sayonara

Best Supporting Actress: Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara

Best Foreign Language Film: Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria), directed by Federico Fellini, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actor: Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actress: Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Les Girls

Best Actor: Frank Sinatra - Pal Joey

Best Actress: Kay Kendall - Les Girls

Other

Best Director: David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Foreign Film: The Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull), W.Germany

Best Foreign Film: Tizoc, Mexico

Best Foreign Film: Woman In a Dressing Gown, United Kingdom

Best Foreign Film: Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu), Japan

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Friendly Persuasion, directed by William Wyler, United States

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Aparajito (aka The Unvanquished), directed by Satyajit Ray, India

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, United States

Films released in 1957

• The Abominable Snowman, starring Peter Cushing
• 12 Angry Men
• 20 Million Miles to Earth
• A King in New York
• The Abominable Snowman
• An Affair to Remember
• Amazing Colossal Man, The
• Aparajito
• April Love, a romance musical starring Shirley Jones
• The Astounding She-Monster
• Attack of the Crab Monsters
• The Bachelor Party
• Barnacle Bill
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street
• The Blood of Dracula
• Boy on a Dolphin
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Blue Murder at St Trinian's
• Brothers in Law
• The Burglar
• Carib Gold
• The Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull)
• The Cranes are Flying
• Crime of Passion
• The Curse of Frankenstein
• The Delicate Delinquent, Jerry Lewis' first film without Dean Martin
• The Delinquents
• Designing Woman
• Desk Set, starring Joan Blondell
• The Enemy Below, produced and directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchum
• A Face in the Crowd
• A Farewell to Arms
• The Enemy Below
• Fear Strikes Out
• Flesh and the Spur
• Funny Face
• Les Girls
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
• A Hatful of Rain
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
• I Was a Teenage Werewolf
• Island in the Sun
• Jailhouse Rock
• Jamboree
• Jeanne Eagels
• Jet Pilot
• Johnny Tremain and the Sons of Liberty, a Walt Disney production
• The Joker Is Wild
• A King in New York
• Kiss Them for Me
• La Grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road)
• Man of a Thousand Faces
• Mayabazar
• The Land Unknown
• The Little Hut
• Love in the Afternoon
• Loving You, Elvis Presley's second feature
• The Monolith Monsters
• The Monster That Challenged the World
• Night of the Demon, (Curse of the Demon)
• Night Passage, starring Jimmy Stewart
• Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria)
• Old Yeller
• Pal Joey (film mentioned in article)
• Perri
• Peyton Place
• The Pride and the Passion
• The Prince and the Showgirl
• Raintree County, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Lee Marvin
• Quatermass 2
• The Sad Sack, starring Jerry Lewis
• Sayonara
• The Search for Paradise
• The Seventh Seal
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (see also ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue)
• The Smallest Show on Earth
• The Snow Queen
• Something Of Value
• The Spanish Gardener
• The Spirit of St. Louis
• The Strange World of Planet X
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Tammy and the Bachelor
• The Three Faces of Eve
• The Tin Star
• Tizoc
• The Wayward Bus
• What's Opera, Doc?
• Wild Is the Wind
• Wild Strawberries
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
• Witness for the Prosecution
• Woman In a Dressing Gown
• Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu)
• Young and Dangerous
• Zero Hour!, starring Dana Andrews

Short film series

• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
• Daffy Duck (1937-1966)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)
• Droopy (1943-1958)
• Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)

Ending this year

• Popeye (1933-1957)

Births

• January 4 - Julian Sands, actor
• January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
• March 20 - Spike Lee, director, writer, actor, producer
• March 20 - Theresa Russell, actress
• April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
• August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor
• September 12 - Rachel Ward, actress
• September 10 - Rick Rosengrant, character

Deaths

• January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor
• May 12 - Erich von Stroheim, German director
• July 4 ? Judy Tyler, American actress
• July 24 - Sacha Guitry, French playwright, actor and director
• August 7 - Oliver Hardy, American actor
• October 29 - Louis B. Mayer, American producer
• December 11 - Musidora, French actress, director
• December 25 - Charles Pathé

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