1957 in film - Definition and Overview

Events

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

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. Seven Wonders of the World
7. Teahouse of the August Moon

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai - Horizon, Columbia
• Best Actor: Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Best Actress: Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve

Births

• January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
• January 15 - Julian Sands, actor
• 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

Deaths

• January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, actor
• July 4 – Judy Tyler, actress
• July 24 - Sacha Guitry, French playright, actor and director
• August 7 - Oliver Hardy, American actor

Other movies released

• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Peyton Place
• Old Yeller
• Island in the Sun
• Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley & Judy Tyler
• I Was a Teenage Werewolf
• The Delinquents
• Le Notti di Cabiria
• Aparajito
• La Grande strada azzurra
• Young and Dangerous
• Twelve Angry Men
• Aparajito, Golden Lion winner
• Friendly Persuasion, Palm d'Or winner
• The Seventh Seal, by director Ingmar Bergman
• An Affair to Remember
• A Farewell to Arms
• The Three Faces of Eve
• Nights of Cabiria
• Sayonara with Marlon Brando
• The Sweet Smell of Success
• What's Opera, Doc? with Bugs Bunny
• Quatermass 2