1957 in film



The year 1957 in film involved some significant events, with The Bridge on the River Kwai topping the year's box office and winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Events

 * October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.
 * Montgomery Clift suffers partial paralysis in his face after a car wreck while working on Raintree County.
 * Humphrey Bogart dies of throat cancer.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

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: 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

Romance films released in 1957

 * 1) The Cranes Are Flying