1957_in_film

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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

North America

1. The Ten Commandments
2. Around the World in Eighty Days
3. Giant with James Dean
4. Oklahoma!
5. Pal Joey
6. 7 Wonders of the World
7. The Teahouse of the August Moon, starring Marlon Brando
8. Moby Dick
9. Jailhouse Rock (film) Starring Elvis Presley
10. Loving You Starring Elvis Presley
11. Old Yeller

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

• 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
• The Astounding She-Monster
• Attack of the Crab Monsters
• Barnacle Bill
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street
• 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
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
• I Was a Teenage Werewolf
• Island in the Sun
• Jailhouse Rock
• Jamboree
• Jeanne Eagels
• A King in New York
• La Grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road)
• Mayabazar
• The Land Unknown
• 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, 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
• 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

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
• January 15 - Julian Sands, actor
• 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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