1957 (30th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1957 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) Sam Spiegel, Producer.

Best Actor

Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK, USA)

Best Actress

Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve, 20th Century-Fox.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Red Buttons in Sayonara, William Goetz Production; Warner Bros.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Miyoshi Umeki in Sayonara, William Goetz Production; Warner Bros.

Directing

The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) David Lean.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Sayonara, William Goetz Production; Warner Bros. Art direction by Ted Haworth; set decoration by Robert Priestley.

Cinematography

The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) Jack Hildyard.

Costume Design

Les Girls, Sol C. Siegel Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Orry-Kelly.

Documentary

(Feature)

Albert Schweitzer, Hill and Anderson Production; Louis de Rochemont Associates. (USA, France) Jerome Hill, Producer.

Film Editing

The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) Peter Taylor.

Foreign Language Film

The Nights of Cabiria, Dino De Laurentiis Production. (Italy, France)

Music

(Scoring)

The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) Malcolm Arnold.

(Song)

All the Way from The Joker Is Wild, A.M.B.L. Production; Paramount. Music by James Van Heusen; lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Birds Anonymous, Warner Bros. [Tweety and Sylvester Series] Edward Selzer, Producer.

(Live Action)

The Wetback Hound, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Larry Lansburgh, Producer.

Sound Recording

Sayonara, William Goetz Production; Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George Groves, Sound Director.

Special Effects

The Enemy Below, 20th Century-Fox. Audible effects by Walter Rossi.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman.

(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)

Designing Woman, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. George Wells.

Honorary Award

To Charles Brackett for outstanding service to the Academy. [ [Statuette]]

To B. B. Kahane for distinguished service to the motion picture industry. [ [Statuette]]

To Gilbert M. (“Broncho Billy”) Anderson, motion picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment. [ [Statuette]]

To the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers for their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Samuel Goldwyn

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class I)

To Todd-AO Corp. and Westrex Sound Services, Inc. for developing a method of producing and exhibiting wide-film motion pictures known as the Todd-AO System.

To the Motion Picture Research Council for the design and development of a high efficiency projection screen for drive-in theaters.

(Class II)

To the Société D’Optique et de Mécanique de Haute Précision for the development of a high speed vari-focal photographic lens.

To Harlan L. Baumbach, Lorand Wargo, Howard M. Little, and the Unicorn Engineering Corp. for the development of an automatic printer light selector.

(Class III)

To Charles E. Sutter, William B. Smith, Paramount Pictures Corp. and General Cable Corp. for the engineering and application to studio use of aluminum lightweight electrical cable and connectors.