1957 in Film - Awards

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