The year 1957 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Leading Star | Studio | Gross | | 1. | The Bridge on the River Kwai | William Holden | Columbia | $17,195,000 | | 2. | Peyton Place | Lana Turner | 20th Century Fox | $17,100,000 | | 3. | Sayonara | Marlon Brando | Warner Brothers | $10,500,000 | | 4. | Old Yeller* | | Disney | $10,050,000 | | 5. | Raintree County | Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor | MGM | $5,963,000 | | 6. | A Farewell to Arms
Island in the Sun | Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones
James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge | 20th Century Fox | $5,000,000 | | 7. | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Jayne Mansfield | 20th Century Fox | $4,865,000 | | 8. | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Pal Joey | Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas
Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth | Paramount
Columbia | $4,700,000 | | 9. | Don't Go Near the Water | Glenn Ford | MGM | $4,474,000 | (*) After theatrical re-issue(s) [edit] 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
[edit] Films released in 1957 - The Abominable Snowman, starring Peter Cushing
- 12 Angry Men, starring Henry Fonda
- 20 Million Miles to Earth
- A King in New York
- The Abominable Snowman
- An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr
- 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, starring Don Murray
- Barnacle Bill
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street
- The Blood of Dracula
- Boy on a Dolphin
- The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring William Holden and Alec Guiness
- Blue Murder at St Trinian's
- Brothers in Law
- The Burglar, starring Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield. (Filmed in 1955 but released in 1957 due to the sudden popularity of Jayne Mansfield).
- Carib Gold
- The Careless Years
- The Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull)
- The Cranes are Flying
- Crime of Passion
- The Curse of Frankenstein
- Decision at Sundown
- The Delicate Delinquent, Jerry Lewis' first film without Dean Martin
- The Delinquents
- Designing Woman, starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall
- Desk Set, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
- The Enemy Below, produced and directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchum
- A Face in the Crowd
- A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones
- The Enemy Below
- Fear Strikes Out
- Flesh and the Spur
- Funny Face, starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire
- Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly with Kay Kendall and Mitzi Gaynor
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- The Girl In Black Stockings, starring Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft and Mamie Van Doren
- A Hatful of Rain, starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray and Anthony Franciosa
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf
- Island in the Sun, starring Dorothy Dandridge, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins and Harry Belafonte
- Jailhouse Rock
- Jamboree
- Jeanne Eagels, starring Kim Novak
- Jet Pilot, starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh
- Johnny Tremain and the Sons of Liberty, a Walt Disney production
- The Joker Is Wild
- A King in New York
- Kiss Them for Me, starring Cary Grant and Jayne Mansfield
- La Grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road)
- Man of a Thousand Faces, biographical film about Lon Chaney, starring James Cagney and Dorothy Malone
- Mayabazar
- The Mysterians
- The Land Unknown
- The Little Hut, starring Ava Gardner
- Love in the Afternoon, starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier
- 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 James Stewart
- Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria)
- Old Yeller
- Pal Joey, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak
- Perri
- Peyton Place, starring Lana Turner
- The Pride and the Passion, starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren
- The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier (who also directed).
- Raintree County, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Eva Marie Saint
- Quatermass 2
- The Sad Sack, starring Jerry Lewis
- Sayonara, starring Marlon Brando
- The Search for Paradise
- The Seventh Seal
- Silk Stockings
- 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 Story of Esther Costello, starring Joan Crawford and Heather Sears
- The Strange World of Planet X
- Sweet Smell of Success
- Tammy and the Bachelor
- The Three Faces of Eve, starring Joanne Woodward
- The Tin Star
- Tizoc
- The Wayward Bus, starring Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins and Dan Dailey
- The Unholy Wife, starring Diana Dors and Rod Steiger
- Untamed Youth, starring Mamie Van Doren
- What's Opera, Doc?
- Wild Is the Wind
- Wild Strawberries
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, starring Jayne Mansfield (in her signature film reprising her Broadway role).
- Witness for the Prosecution, starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton
- Woman in a Dressing Gown
- Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu)
- Young and Dangerous
- Zero Hour!, starring Dana Andrews
[edit] Short film series Ending this year [edit] Births - January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
- February 19 - Ray Winstone, actor
- March 20 - Spike Lee, director, writer, actor, producer
- March 20 - Theresa Russell, actress
- March 29 - Christopher Lambert, actor
- April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
- June 23 - Frances McDormand, actress
- July 13 - Cameron Crowe, director & screenwriter
- August 9 - Melanie Griffith, actress
- August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor
- September 12 - Rachel Ward, actress
- September 10 - Rick Rosengrant, character
- September 21 - Ethan Coen, director, producer, screenwriter & editor
- December 13 - Steve Buscemi, actor
[edit] Deaths - January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor
- March 25 - Max Ophuls, German director, (b. 1902)
- 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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