The year 1957 in film involved some significant events. The Bridge on the River Kwai topped the year's box office in North America, France, and Germany, and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1957 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
+ Highest-grossing films of 1957 Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals 1 The Bridge on the River Kwai Columbia $15,000,000 2 Peyton Place 20th Century Fox $11,000,000 3Sayonara Warner Bros. $10,500,000 4Search for Paradise Cinerama Releasing $6,500,000 5 Old Yeller Buena Vista $5,900,000 6 Raintree County MGM $5,830,000. 7Island in the SunA Farewell to Arms 20th Century Fox $5,000,000 8 Pal Joey Columbia $4,700,000 9 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Paramount $4,300,000 10 Don't Go Near the Water MGM $4,265,000
Top-grossing films by country The highest-grossing 1957 films in various countries.
Country Title Director Studio Revenue Admissions France The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean Columbia Pictures 13,481,750 West Germany The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean Columbia Pictures 14,500,000 India Mother India Mehboob Khan Mehboob Productions Box Office 1957, Box Office India, archived 22 September 2012 () 100,000,000Bahubali 2 Is The Biggest Hindi Blockbuster This Century , Box Office India, 8 June 2017 Italy The Ten Commandments Cecil B. DeMille Paramount Pictures 16,800,000 Japan Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War Kunio Watanabe Shintoho () 20,000,000 Soviet Union The Sisters Grigori Roshal Mosfilm 10,625,000 Rbls ($2,656,000) 42,500,000 United Kingdom The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean Columbia Pictures 12,600,000 United States and Canada The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean Columbia Pictures $27,200,000 54,400,000
Events January 14 – Legendary actor Humphrey Bogart dies at the age of 57 in Los Angeles from esophageal cancer. Best known for his appearances in classic films such as The Petrified Forest, Dead End, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Sabrina; as well as for To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep co-starring with his wife Lauren Bacall; Bogart was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age and won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The African Queen. He was named as one of the greatest actors of all-time by the American Film Institute. February 1 – US studio RKO ceases domestic distribution of feature films, which is taken over by Universal Pictures. May – Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal wins the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. June 6 – Jerry Lewis appears in his first film without Dean Martin in The Delicate Delinquent. June – United Artists rejoins the Motion Picture Association of America, following an expansion of the MPAA code appeals board members. The board had previously denied The Man With the Golden Arm a Production Code seal in 1955, leading UA to quit the MPAA. October 2 – Raintree County is the first film shot in MGM Camera 65. October 16 – First London Film Festival held at the newly opened National Film Theatre. December 6 – Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries is released in Sweden. It goes on to win the Golden Bear at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1959.
Awards Category/Organization 15th Golden Globe AwardsFebruary 22, 1958 30th Academy AwardsMarch 26, 1958 Drama Comedy or Musical Best Film The Bridge on the River Kwai Les Girls The Bridge on the River Kwai Best Director David LeanThe Bridge on the River Kwai Best Actor Alec GuinnessThe Bridge on the River Kwai Frank SinatraPal Joey Alec GuinnessThe Bridge on the River Kwai Best Actress Joanne WoodwardThe Three Faces of Eve Kay KendallLes GirlsTaina ElgLes Girls Joanne WoodwardThe Three Faces of Eve Best Supporting Actor Red ButtonsSayonara Best Supporting Actress Elsa LanchesterWitness for the Prosecution Miyoshi UmekiSayonara Best Foreign Language Film Confessions of Felix KrullTizocWoman in a Dressing GownYellow Crow Nights of Cabiria
1957 film releases February 14 - Cinderella (re-release) July 3 - Bambi (re-release)
Notable films released in 1957 United States unless stated
# 3:10 to Yuma, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin 8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements, directed by Jean Cocteau 10th of May (Der 10. Mai) – (Switzerland) 12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, E.G. Marshall 1918 – (Finland) 20 Million Miles to Earth, starring William Hopper, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen
A Aasha, starring Kishore Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Asha Parekh – (India) The Abominable Snowman, starring Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker – (GB) Across the Bridge, starring Rod Steiger – (GB) The Admirable Crichton, starring Kenneth More and Diane Cilento – (GB) An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr All Mine to Give, starring Glynis Johns and Cameron Mitchell And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) – (U.S.S.R.) April Love, starring Shirley Jones and Pat Boone The Auntie from Chicago (I theia ap' to Chicago) – (Greece)
B Baby Face Nelson, starring Mickey Rooney Back Again, directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, written by Yusuf Sibai, starring Shoukry Sarhan, Mariam Fakhr Eddine and Salah Zulfikar – (Egypt) The Bachelor Party, directed by Delbert Mann, written by Paddy Chayefsky, starring Don Murray Band of Angels, starring Clark Gable and Yvonne De Carlo Barnacle Bill, starring Alec Guinness – (GB) The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring John Gielgud and Jennifer Jones – (GB) Beau James, a biopic starring Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Alexis Smith La Bestia humana (The Human Beast) – (Argentina) The Big Land, starring Alan Ladd and Virginia Mayo Bitter Victory, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Richard Burton – (France/US) The Black Scorpion, starring Mara Corday, with special effects by Willis O'Brien Blue Murder at St Trinian's, starring Terry-Thomas and Joyce Grenfell – (GB) El Bolero de Raquel, starring Cantinflas, Manola Saavedra and Flor Silvestre – (Mexico) Bombers B-52, starring Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt Boy on a Dolphin, starring Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb, Sophia Loren The Bridge on the River Kwai, directed by David Lean, starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa – winner of 7 Oscars, 3 BAFTAS and 3 Golden Globes – (GB) Brothers in Law, starring Richard Attenborough and Ian Carmichael – (GB) 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 The Careless Years, starring Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, Barbara Billingsley City of Gold – (Canada) Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull) – (West Germany) Country Hotel (Rong Raem Narok) – (Thailand) The Cranes Are Flying (Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikhail Kalatozov – winner of the Palme d'Or – (U.S.S.R.) Crime of Passion, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr The Crucible (Les Sorcières de Salem), starring Simone Signoret and Yves Montand – (France/East Germany) The Curse of Frankenstein, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee – (GB)
D The D.I., directed by and starring Jack Webb The Deadly Mantis, starring Craig Stevens and William Hopper Decision at Sundown, starring Randolph Scott The Delicate Delinquent, starring Jerry Lewis (his first film without Dean Martin) and Darren McGavin The Delinquents, directed by Robert Altman Designing Woman, starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall Desk Set, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young The Devil's Hairpin, starring Cornel Wilde Do Aankhen Barah Haath (Two Eyes, Twelve Hands) – (India) Don Quixote (Don Kikhot) – (U.S.S.R.) Don't Go Near the Water, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis Drango, starring Jeff Chandler Duped Till Doomsday (Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag) – (East Germany)
E Early Morning Chill (五更寒), directed by Yan Jizhou – (China) Edge of the City, directed by Martin Ritt, starring John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee The Enemy Below, produced and directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Theodore Bikel, David Hedison
F A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan, written by Budd Schulberg, starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau Les Fanatiques (The Fanatics), starring Pierre Fresnay and Michel Auclair – (France) A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister (Wakare no chatsumi-uta shimai-hen) – (Japan) Fathers and Sons (Padri e figli), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Vittorio De Sica – (Italy) Fear Strikes Out, starring Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden Fire Down Below, starring Rita Hayworth and Robert Mitchum The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga), directed by Arne Sucksdorff – (Sweden) Forty Guns, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Gene Barry Funny Face, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson
G The Garment Jungle, starring Lee J. Cobb and Gia Scala The Gates of Paris (Porte des Lilas), directed by René Clair – (France/Italy) Gateway of India, starring Madhubala – (India) The Giant Claw, starring Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday The Girl in Black Stockings, starring Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren The Girl in the Kremlin, starring Lex Barker and Zsa Zsa Gabor The Girl Most Likely, starring Jane Powell and Cliff Robertson Les Girls, aka Cole Porter's Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Mitzi Gaynor La grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road) – (Italy) Gun for a Coward, starring Fred MacMurray Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
H The Halliday Brand, starring Joseph Cotten and Viveca Lindfors A Hatful of Rain, directed by Fred Zinnemann, 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, directed by John Huston, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum The Helen Morgan Story, starring Paul Newman and Ann Blyth Hell Drivers, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan – (GB) Hour of Decision, starring Jeff Morrow and Hazel Court – (GB) The House of the Angel (La Casa del ángel) – (Argentina)
I I Am Waiting (Ore wa matteru ze) – (Japan) The Incredible Shrinking Man, directed by Jack Arnold, starring Grant Williams Interlude, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring June Allyson Island in the Sun, starring Dorothy Dandridge, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Harry Belafonte Istanbul, starring Errol Flynn
J Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley Jamboree, featuring Dick Clark, Frankie Avalon, Fats Domino Jeanne Eagels, starring Kim Novak Jet Pilot, starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh Joe Butterfly, starring Audie Murphy and Burgess Meredith Johnny Tremain, starring Hal Stalmaster and Sebastian Cabot The Joker Is Wild, starring Frank Sinatra, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Mitzi Gaynor
K Kabuliwala (aka The Man) – (India) Kanał, directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland) Kathputli (Puppet), directed by Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose, starring Vyjayanthimala and Balraj Sahni – (India) A King in New York, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin – (GB) Kiss Them for Me, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Suzy Parker
L The Land Unknown, starring Jock Mahoney Legend of the Lost, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar Let's Be Happy, starring Vera-Ellen and Tony Martin – (GB) The Little Hut, starring Ava Gardner – (GB/US) Lizzie, starring Eleanor Parker and Joan Blondell