1957 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees
The AwardWentTo archive contains 95 Academy Award records for the 1957 film year, covering 46 films and including 20 wins.
Years follow the source film eligibility/dataset year, which may differ from the ceremony calendar year. Counts describe film-linked archive records, including historical and special-award context where supplied.
Best Picture result
- ★ The Bridge on the River KwaiSam Spiegel, Producer
5 Best Picture award records for this film year. See the full result · Best Picture history
Acting category results
Leading winning films
Ranked by winning records in this film-year selection.
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
7 wins from 8 award records
- Sayonara
4 wins from 10 award records
- Les Girls
1 win from 3 award records
- Albert Schweitzer
1 win from 1 award record
- Birds Anonymous
1 win from 1 award record
- Designing Woman
1 win from 1 award record
Category winners
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- ★ The Bridge on the River Kwai — Colonel Nicholson
- ★ Sayonara — Joe Kelly
- ★ The Three Faces of Eve — Eve White/Eve Black/Jane
- ★ Sayonara — Katsumi
- ★ Sayonara
- ★ The Joker Is Wild — All The Way
- ★ Sayonara
Nominations and award records by category
Showing 95 of 95 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.
Best Picture
- ★ The Bridge on the River Kwai IMDB — Sam Spiegel, Producer
- Peyton Place IMDB — Jerry Wald, Producer
- Sayonara IMDB — William Goetz, Producer
- 12 Angry Men IMDB — Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose, Producers
- Witness for the Prosecution IMDB — Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Producer
Best Actor
- ★ The Bridge on the River Kwai IMDB — Alec GuinnessColonel Nicholson
- Sayonara IMDB — Marlon BrandoMajor Lloyd Gruver
- A Hatful of Rain IMDB — Anthony FranciosaPolo
- Witness for the Prosecution IMDB — Charles LaughtonSir Wilfrid Robarts
- Wild Is the Wind IMDB — Anthony QuinnGino
Best Supporting Actor
- ★ Sayonara IMDB — Red ButtonsJoe Kelly
- A Farewell to Arms IMDB — Vittorio De SicaMajor Alessandro Rinaldi
- The Bridge on the River Kwai IMDB — Sessue HayakawaSaito
- Peyton Place IMDB — Arthur KennedyLucas Cross
- Peyton Place IMDB — Russ TamblynNorman Page
Best Actress
- ★ The Three Faces of Eve IMDB — Joanne WoodwardEve White/Eve Black/Jane
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison IMDB — Deborah KerrSister Angela
- Wild Is the Wind IMDB — Anna MagnaniGioia
- Raintree County IMDB — Elizabeth TaylorSusanna Drake
- Peyton Place IMDB — Lana TurnerConstance MacKenzie
Best Supporting Actress
- ★ Sayonara IMDB — Miyoshi UmekiKatsumi
- The Bachelor Party IMDB — Carolyn JonesThe Existentialist
- Witness for the Prosecution IMDB — Elsa LanchesterMiss Plimsoll
- Peyton Place IMDB — Hope LangeSelena Cross
- Peyton Place IMDB — Diane VarsiAllison MacKenzie
Art Direction
- ★ Sayonara IMDB — Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley
- Funny Face IMDB — Art Direction: Hal Pereira, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
- Les Girls IMDB — Art Direction: William A. Horning, Gene Allen; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle
- Pal Joey IMDB — Art Direction: Walter Holscher; Set Decoration: William Kiernan, Louis Diage
- Raintree County IMDB — Art Direction: William A. Horning, Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
Cinematography
Costume Design
- ★ Les Girls IMDB — Orry-Kelly
- An Affair to Remember IMDB — Charles LeMaire
- Funny Face IMDB — Edith Head, Hubert de Givenchy
- Pal Joey IMDB — Jean Louis
- Raintree County IMDB — Walter Plunkett
Best Director
Documentary Feature
- ★ Albert Schweitzer IMDB — Jerome Hill, Producer
- On the Bowery IMDB — Lionel Rogosin, Producer
- Torero! IMDB — Manuel Barbachano Ponce, Producer
Film Editing
- ★ The Bridge on the River Kwai IMDB — Peter Taylor
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral IMDB — Warren Low
- Pal Joey IMDB — Viola Lawrence, Jerome Thoms
- Sayonara IMDB — Arthur P. Schmidt, Philip W. Anderson
- Witness for the Prosecution IMDB — Daniel Mandell
International Feature Film
- ★ The Nights of Cabiria IMDB — Italy
- The Devil Came at Night IMDB — West Germany
- Gates of Paris IMDB — France
- Mother India IMDB — India
- Nine Lives IMDB — Norway
Original Song
- ★ The Joker Is Wild IMDB — Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy CahnAll The Way
- An Affair to Remember IMDB — Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Harold Adamson and Leo McCareyAn Affair To Remember
- April Love IMDB — Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis WebsterApril Love
- Tammy and the Bachelor IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay LivingstonTammy
- Wild Is the Wind IMDB — Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned WashingtonWild Is The Wind
Music (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)
Animated Short Film
- ★ Birds Anonymous IMDB — Edward Selzer, Producer
- One Droopy Knight IMDB — William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Producers
- Tabasco Road IMDB — Edward Selzer, Producer
- Trees and Jamaica Daddy IMDB — Stephen Bosustow, Producer
- The Truth about Mother Goose IMDB — Walt Disney, Producer
Live Action Short Film
- ★ The Wetback Hound IMDB — Larry Lansburgh, Producer
- A Chairy Tale IMDB — Norman McLaren, Producer
- City of Gold IMDB — Tom Daly, Producer
- Foothold on Antarctica IMDB — James Carr, Producer
- Portugal IMDB — Ben Sharpsteen, Producer
Sound Recording
- ★ Sayonara IMDB — Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George Groves, Sound Director
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral IMDB — Paramount Studio Sound Department, George Dutton, Sound Director
- Les Girls IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Dr. Wesley C. Miller, Sound Director
- Pal Joey IMDB — Columbia Studio Sound Department, John P. Livadary, Sound Director
- Witness for the Prosecution IMDB — Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director
Visual Effects
- ★ The Enemy Below IMDB — Audible Effects by Walter Rossi
- The Spirit of St. Louis IMDB — Visual Effects by Louis Lichtenfield
Adapted Screenplay
- ★ The Bridge on the River Kwai IMDB — Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle
Source context
NOTE: Though Pierre Boulle received official screen credit, it was commonly known that blacklisted writers, Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, wrote the screenplay based on Mr. Boulle's novel (translated from the French). The Board of Governors, on December 11, 1984, voted posthumous Oscars to Wilson and Foreman and Academy records have been updated.
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison IMDB — John Lee Mahin, John Huston
- Peyton Place IMDB — John Michael Hayes
- Sayonara IMDB — Paul Osborn
- 12 Angry Men IMDB — Reginald Rose
Original Screenplay
- ★ Designing Woman IMDB — George Wells
- Funny Face IMDB — Leonard Gershe
- Man of a Thousand Faces IMDB — Story by Ralph Wheelwright; Screenplay by R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
- The Tin Star IMDB — Story by Barney Slater, Joel Kane; Screenplay by Dudley Nichols
- Vitelloni IMDB — Story by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli; Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano
Nominated films and other recorded entries
46 films represented in the 1957 archive selection.
- 12 Angry Men
- A Chairy Tale
- A Farewell to Arms
- A Hatful of Rain
- Albert Schweitzer
- An Affair to Remember
- April Love
- Birds Anonymous
- Boy on a Dolphin
- City of Gold
- Designing Woman
- Foothold on Antarctica
- Funny Face
- Gates of Paris
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- Les Girls
- Man of a Thousand Faces
- Mother India
- Nine Lives
- On the Bowery
- One Droopy Knight
- Pal Joey
- Perri
- Peyton Place
- Portugal
- Raintree County
- Sayonara
- Tabasco Road
- Tammy and the Bachelor
- The Bachelor Party
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- The Devil Came at Night
- The Enemy Below
- The Joker Is Wild
- The Nights of Cabiria
- The Spirit of St. Louis
- The Three Faces of Eve
- The Tin Star
- The Truth about Mother Goose
- The Wetback Hound
- Torero!
- Trees and Jamaica Daddy
- Vitelloni
- Wild Is the Wind
- Witness for the Prosecution
About these award records
This independent archive groups film-linked award records by film, credited name, category and eligibility year. The film year can differ from the year the ceremony took place. Ceremony numbers are shown where supplied by the records.
Each distinct performance, song or award credit remains a separate record, even when it belongs to the same film. Shared credits stay together. A person's page covers the name shown, without combining aliases or shared credits into a complete career total.
Totals can include honorary, special and historical awards alongside competitive nominations. Awards without a linked film are outside these page totals. Source notes and uncertain records are retained; category comparisons omit groups with unresolved notes, ties or conflicting identities.
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