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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)

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, 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

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 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

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

Film Debuts

• Sean Connery
• Robert Loggia
• Rip Torn