1957 in film

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pt:Predefinição:Anos no cinema The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1957 5 Short film series 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

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

[edit] 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

[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
• 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)
• 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 Pathéde:Filmjahr 1957

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