1957 Academy Awards

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The 1957 Academy Awards were presented March 26, 1958 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.

Best Motion Picture	The Bridge on the River Kwai, Sam Spiegel, producer (Columbia)
	Peyton Place, Jerry Wald, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)
	Sayonara, William Goetz, producer (Warner Bros.)
	12 Angry Men, Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose, producers (United Artists)
	Witness for the Prosecution, Arthur Hornblow, Jr., producer (United Artists)
Best Actor	Marlon Brando, Sayonara
	Anthony Franciosa, A Hatful of Rain
	Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai
	Charles Laughton, Witness for the Prosecution
	Anthony Quinn, Wild Is the Wind
Best Actress	Deborah Kerr, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
	Anna Magnani, Wild Is the Wind
	Elizabeth Taylor, Raintree County
	Lana Turner, Peyton Place
	Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve
	Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve Archive Photos
Actor in a Supporting Role	Red Buttons, Sayonara
	Vittorio de Sica, A Farewell to Arms
	Sessue Hayakawa, The Bridge on the River Kwai
	Arthur Kennedy, Peyton Place
	Russ Tamblyn, Peyton Place
Actress in a Supporting Role	Carolyn Jones, The Bachelor Party
	Elsa Lanchester, Witness for the Prosecution
	Hope Lange, Peyton Place
	Miyoshi Umeki, Sayonara
	Diane Varsi, Peyton Place
Directing	David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai
	Joshua Logan, Sayonara
	Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men
	Mark Robson, Peyton Place
	Billy Wilder, Witness for the Prosecution
Writing	Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, The Bridge on the River Kwai John Michael Hayes, Peyton Place John Lee Mahin and John Huston, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Paul Osborn, Sayonara Reginald Rose, 12 Angry Men Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli, story; Federico Fellini and Ennio Flaiano, screenplay, I Vitelloni Leonard Gershe, Funny Face Barney Slater and Joel Kane, story; Dudley Nichols, screenplay, The Tin Star George Wells, Designing Woman Ralph Wheelright, story; R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, screenplay, Man of a Thousand Faces
Cinematography	Ellsworth Fredericks, Sayonara
	Jack Hildyard, The Bridge on the River Kwai
	Ray June, Funny Face
	Milton Krasner, An Affair to Remember
	William Mellor, Peyton Place
Art Direction	Ted Haworth, art direction; Robert Priestley, set decoration, Sayonara
	Walter Holscher, art direction; William Kiernan and Louis Diage, set decoration, Pal Joey
	William A. Horning and Gene Allen, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle, set decoration, Les Girls
	William A. Horning and Urie McCleary, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt, set decoration, Raintree County
	Hal Pereira and George W. Davis, art direction; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer, set decoration, Funny Face
Sound Recording	Columbia Studio Sound Dept., Pal Joey
	MGM Studio Sound Dept., Les Girls
	Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
	Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., Witness for the Prosecution
	Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Sayonara
Music	Song “An Affair to Remember,” An Affair to Remember, Harry Warren, music; Harold Adamson and Leo McCarey, lyrics “All the Way,” The Joker Is Wild, James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics “April Love,” April Love, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics “Tammy,” Tammy and the Bachelor, Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, music and lyrics “Wild Is the Wind,” Wild Is the Wind, Dimitri Tiomkin, music; Ned Washington, lyrics Score Malcolm Arnold, The Bridge on the River Kwai Hugo Friedhofer, An Affair to Remember Hugo Friedhofer, Boy on a Dolphin Johnny Green, Raintree County Paul Smith, Perri
Film Editing	Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms, Pal Joey
	Warren Low, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
	Daniel Mandell, Witness for the Prosecution
	Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson, Sayonara
	Peter Taylor, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Costume Design	Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy, Funny Face
	Charles LeMaire, An Affair to Remember
	Jean Louis, Pal Joey
	Orry-Kelly, Les Girls
	Walter Plunkett, Raintree County
Special Effects	Louis Lichtenfield, visual, The Spirit of St. Louis
	Walter Rossi, audible, The Enemy Below
Short Subjects	Cartoon Birds Anonymous (Tweety and Sylvester Series) (Edward Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.) One Droopy Knight (Droopy Series) (William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, producers; MGM) Tabasco Road (Speedy Gonzales Series) (Edward Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.) Trees and Jamaica Daddy (Ham and Hattie Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia) The Truth About Mother Goose (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) Live Action Subjects A Chairy Tale (National Film Board of Canada; Kingsley International) City of Gold (National Film Board of Canada; Kingsley International) Foothold on Antarctica (World Wide Pictures; Lester A. Shoenfeld Films) Portugal (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) The Wetback Hound (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
Documentary	Short Subject No award given this year Feature Albert Schweitzer (Hill and Anderson Production; Louis de Rochemont Associates) On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin Productions; Film Representations, Inc.) Torero! (Producciones Barbachano Ponce; Columbia)
Foreign Language Film	The Devil Came at Night, Federal Republic of Germany—West
	Gates of Paris, France
	Mother India, India
	The Nights of Cabiria, Italy
	Nine Lives, Norway
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award	Samuel Goldwyn
Honorary Awards	To Charles Brackett for outstanding service to the academy
	To B. B. Kahane for distinguished service to the motion picture industry
	To Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson, motion picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment
	To the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers for their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry