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The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.

• Montgomery Clift suffers partial paralyzation in his face after a car wreck while working on Raintree County (film).

• 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: 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

U.S.A. unless stated

• 3:10 to Yuma, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin
• 5 Steps to Danger, starring Sterling Hayden and Ruth Roman
• 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements, director Jean Cocteau
• 12 Angry Men, starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, E.G. Marshall
• 1918 - (Finland)
• 20 Million Miles to Earth

A

• Aasha, starring Kishore Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Asha Parekh - (India)
• The Abominable Snowman, starring Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
• Across the Bridge, starring Rod Steiger - (U.K.)
• The Admirable Crichton, starring Kenneth More and Diane Cilento - (U.K.)
• An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr
• After the Ball - (U.K.)
• Amazing Colossal Man, The
• And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) - (U.S.S.R.)
• April Love, starring Shirley Jones and Pat Boone
• The Astounding She-Monster
• Attack of the Crab Monsters, directed by Roger Corman
• At the Stroke of Nine, directed by Lance Comfort (U.K.)

B

• Baby Face Nelson, starring Mickey Rooney
• The Bachelor Party, starring Don Murray
• Barnacle Bill, starring Alec Guinness - (U.K.)
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring John Gielgud - (U.K.)
• Bitter Victory, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Richard Burton - (France/U.S.)
• Blue Murder at St Trinian's - (U.K.)
• Boy on a Dolphin, starring Alan Ladd and Sophia Loren
• The Bridge on the River Kwai, directed by David Lean, starring William Holden and Alec Guinness - winner of 7 Oscars, 3 BAFTAS and 3 Golden Globes - (U.K.)
• Brothers in Law - (U.K.)
• The Brothers Rico starring Richard Conte
• The Burglar, starring Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield (filmed in 1955 but released in 1957 due to sudden popularity of Mansfield)

C

• Carib Gold
• The Careless Years
• The Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull) - (West Germany)
• The Cranes are Flying (Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikhail Kalatozov - winner of the Palme d'Or - (U.S.S.R.)
• Crime of Passion
• The Crucible (Les Sorcières de Salem), starring Simone Signoret and Yves Montand - (France/East Germany)
• The Curse of Frankenstein - (U.K.)

D

• The D.I., directed by and starring Jack Webb
• Decision at Sundown, starring Randolph Scott
• The Delicate Delinquent, starring Jerry Lewis (his first film without Dean Martin)
• The Delinquents, directed by Robert Altman
• Designing Woman, starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall
• Desk Set, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell
• Do Aankhen Barah Haath - (India)
• Don Quixote (Don Kikhot) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Don't Go Near the Water, starring Glenn Ford
• Drango, starring Jeff Chandler

E-F

• Edge of the City, starring Sidney Poitier and John Cassavetes
• The Enemy Below, produced and directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchum
• A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau
• A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones
• A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister - (Japan)
• Fear Strikes Out, starring Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden
• Fire Down Below, starring Rita Hayworth and Robert Mitchum
• Flesh and the Spur
• Forty Guns, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Gene Barry
• Funny Face, starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire

G-H

• The Gates of Paris (Porte des Lilas), directed by René Clair - (France/Italy)
• The Girl in Black Stockings, starring Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren
• Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly with Kay Kendall and Mitzi Gaynor
• La grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road) - (Italy)
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
• The Halliday Brand, starring Joseph Cotten and Viveca Lindfors
• A Hatful of Rain, starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa
• He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir), directed by Jules Dassin - (France)
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
• Hell Drivers, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Herbert Lom, Patrick McGoohan and William Hartnell - (U.K.)

I-J

• I Am Waiting (Ore wa matteru ze) - (Japan)
• I Was a Teenage Werewolf
• The Incredible Shrinking Man, directed by Jack Arnold
• Island in the Sun, starring Dorothy Dandridge, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Harry Belafonte
• Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley
• Jamboree
• Jeanne Eagels, starring Kim Novak
• Jet Pilot, starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh
• Johnny Tremain, a Walt Disney production
• The Joker Is Wild, starring Frank Sinatra

K-L

• Kabuliwala - (India)
• Kathputli, directed by Amiya Chakrabarty and Nitin Bose, starring Vyjayanthimala and Balraj Sahni - (India)
• A King in New York, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin - (U.K.)
• Kiss Them for Me, starring Cary Grant and Jayne Mansfield
• The Land Unknown
• Les Fanatiques - (France)
• The Little Hut, starring Ava Gardner - (U.K./U.S.)
• Love in the Afternoon, starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
• Loving You, starring Elvis Presley
• The Lower Depths (Donzoko), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)

M-N

• Man of a Thousand Faces, biographical film about Lon Chaney, starring James Cagney and Dorothy Malone
• Mayabazar - (India)
• Mayerling, a TV film starring Audrey Hepburn
• Men in War
• The Monolith Monsters
• The Monster That Challenged the World
• Mother India - (India)
• The Mysterians - (Japan)
• The Naked Truth, starring Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
• Naya Daur, directed by B. R. Chopra, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala - (India)
• Night of the Demon, (Curse of the Demon), directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews - (U.K.)
• Night Passage, starring James Stewart
• Nightfall
• Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)

O-P

• Old Yeller
• The One That Got Away - (U.K.)
• Operation Mad Ball, starring Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs
• An Osaka Story - (Japan)
• The Pajama Game, starring Doris Day
• Pal Joey, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak
• Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas
• Perri
• Peyton Place, starring Lana Turner and Hope Lange
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Pride and the Passion, starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
• The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier (who also directed)
• Pyaasa, directed by and starring Guru Dutt - (India)

Q-R

• Quatermass 2 - (U.K.)
• Raintree County, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint

S

• The Sad Sack, starring Jerry Lewis
• Saint Joan, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jean Seberg - (U.K./U.S.)
• Sayonara, starring Marlon Brando, Red Buttons, Miyoshi Umeki
• The Search for Paradise
• The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow - (Sweden)
• Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
• Silk Stockings, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse
• The Singing Ringing Tree (Das singende, klingende Bäumchen) - (East Germany)
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (see also ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue)
• The Smallest Show on Earth, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna and Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
• The Snow Queen (Snezhnaya koroleva) a Russian animated film
• Something Of Value
• The Spirit of St. Louis, starring James Stewart
• The Story of Esther Costello, starring Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi and Heather Sears - (U.K.)
• The Strange One, starring Ben Gazzara and George Peppard
• The Strange World of Planet X
• Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander MacKendrick, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis

T-V

• The Tall T, starring Randolph Scott and Richard Boone
• Tammy and the Bachelor
• The Three Faces of Eve, starring Joanne Woodward
• Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jō), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
• Time Limit, directed by Karl Malden and starring Richard Widmark
• The Tin Star starring Anthony Perkins
• Tizoc - (Mexico)
• Tumsa Nahin Dekha - (India)
• The Unholy Wife, starring Diana Dors and Rod Steiger
• Untamed Youth, starring Mamie Van Doren

W-Z

• The Wayward Bus, starring Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins, Dan Dailey
• White Nights (Le Notti Bianche), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Maria Schell and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• Whom God Forgives - (Spain)
• Wild Is the Wind
• Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Victor Sjostrom - (Sweden)
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, starring Jayne Mansfield (in her signature film reprising her Broadway role)
• The Wings of Eagles, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (their 4th film together)
• Witness for the Prosecution, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
• Woman in a Dressing Gown, directed by J. Lee Thompson - (U.K.)
• Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu) - (Japan)
• 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, English actor
• February 28 - John Turturro, actor, writer & director
• March 20 - Vanessa Bell Calloway, actress
  • Spike Lee, director, producer, writer & actor
  • Theresa Russell, actress
• March 29 - Christopher Lambert, French actor
• March 30 - Paul Reiser, actor & comedian
• April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, English-born actor
• May 5 - Richard E. Grant, English actor
• May 21 - Judge Reinhold, actor
• June 23 - Frances McDormand, actress
• July 9 - Kelly McGillis, actress
• July 13 - Cameron Crowe, director & screenwriter
• August 9 - Melanie Griffith, actress
• August 18 - Denis Leary, actor, comedian & writer
• August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author & actor
• August 28 - Rick Rossovich, actor
  • Daniel Stern, actor
• September 12 - Rachel Ward, English actress
• September 21 - Ethan Coen, director, producer, screenwriter & editor
• October 5 - Bernie Mac, actor & stand-up comedian (died 2008)
• November 3- Dolph Lundgren,Swedish actor and director
• December 10 - Michael Clarke Duncan, actor
• December 13 - Steve Buscemi, actor

Deaths

• January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor
• March 25 - Max Ophuls, German director, (born 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
• Alain Delon
• Catherine Deneuve
• Andy Griffith
• Robert Loggia
• Lee Remick