1957 in film

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The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1957
5 Short film series
6 Births
7 Deaths
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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
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
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 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
Jeanne Eagels
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, 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[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