1957 in film
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[edit] Events
- October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- The Ten Commandments
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Giant with James Dean
- Oklahoma!
- Pal Joey
- 7 Wonders of the World
- The Teahouse of the August Moon, starring Marlon Brando
[edit] 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
- 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
PALM 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
[edit] Films released in 1957
- 12 Angry Men
- 20 Million Miles to Earth
- The Abominable Snowman
- An Affair to Remember
- Amazing Colossal Man, The
- Aparajito
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Blue Murder at St Trinian's
- Brothers in Law
- The Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull)
- The Cranes are Flying
- The Delicate Delinquent, Jerry Lewis' first film without Dean Martin
- The Delinquents
- A Face in the Crowd
- A Farewell to Arms -(film mentioned in article)
- Funny Face
- Les Girls
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf
- Island in the Sun
- Jailhouse Rock
- Jamboree
- A King in New York
- La Grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road)
- The Little Hut
- Loving You
- Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria)
- Old Yeller
- Pal Joey -(film mentioned in article)
- Peyton Place
- The Pride and the Passion
- Quatermass 2
- The Sad Sack
- Sayonara
- The Search for Paradise
- The Seventh Seal
- Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (see also ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue)
- The Smallest Show on Earth
- Something Of Value
- The Spanish Gardener
- Sweet Smell of Success
- The Three Faces of Eve
- Tizoc
- What's Opera, Doc?
- Wild Strawberries
- Woman In a Dressing Gown
- Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu)
- Young and Dangerous
[edit] Short film series
Ending this year
[edit] Births
- January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
- January 15 - Julian Sands, actor
- 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
[edit] 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
