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Last updated February 23, 2025

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events. The Bridge on the River Kwai topped the year's box office in North America, France, and Germany, and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1957 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1957
Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic rentals
1	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Columbia	$15,000,000^[1]
2	Peyton Place	20th Century Fox	$11,000,000^[1]
3	Sayonara	Warner Bros.	$10,500,000^[1]
4	Search for Paradise	Cinerama Releasing	$6,500,000^[1]
5	Old Yeller	Buena Vista	$5,900,000^[1]
6	Raintree County	MGM	$5,830,000^[2]
7	Island in the Sun A Farewell to Arms	20th Century Fox	$5,000,000^[3]
8	Pal Joey	Columbia	$4,700,000^[3]
9	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral	Paramount	$4,300,000^[3]
10	Don't Go Near the Water	MGM	$4,265,000^[2]

Top-grossing films by country

The highest-grossing 1957 films in various countries.

Country	Title	Director	Studio	Revenue	Admissions
France	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	Columbia Pictures	—	13,481,750^[4]
West Germany	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	Columbia Pictures	—	14,500,000^[5]
India	Mother India	Mehboob Khan	Mehboob Productions	₹80,000,000^[6] ($17,000,000)^[7]	100,000,000^[8]
Italy	The Ten Commandments	Cecil B. DeMille	Paramount Pictures	—	16,800,000^[9]
Japan	Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War	Kunio Watanabe	Shintoho	¥800,000,000^[10] ($2,220,000)^[7]	20,000,000^[11]
Soviet Union	The Sisters	Grigori Roshal	Mosfilm	10,625,000 Rbls ($2,656,000)^{[n 1]}	42,500,000^[12]
United Kingdom	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	Columbia Pictures	—	12,600,000^[15]
United States and Canada	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	Columbia Pictures	$27,200,000^[16]	54,400,000^[16]

Events

January 14 – Legendary actor Humphrey Bogart dies at the age of 57 in Los Angeles from esophageal cancer. Best known for his appearances in classic films such as Dead End , The Maltese Falcon , Casablanca , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Sabrina , and for To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep co-starring with his wife Lauren Bacall; Bogart was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age and won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The African Queen . In addition, he was named as 1 of the greatest actors of all-time.
February 1 – RKO ceases domestic distribution of feature films which is taken over by Universal Pictures.
May – Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal wins the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.
June 6 – Jerry Lewis appears in his first film without Dean Martin in The Delicate Delinquent .
June – United Artists rejoins the Motion Picture Association of America, following an expansion of the MPAA code appeals board members. The board had previously denied The Man With the Golden Arm a Production Code seal in 1955, leading UA to quit the MPAA.
October 2 – Raintree County is the first film shot in MGM Camera 65.
October 16 – First London Film Festival held at the newly opened National Film Theatre.^[17]
December 6 – Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries is released in Sweden. It goes on to win the Golden Bear at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1959.

Awards

Category/Organization	15th Golden Globe Awards February 22, 1958		30th Academy Awards March 26, 1958
Category/Organization	Drama	Comedy or Musical	30th Academy Awards March 26, 1958
Best Film	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Les Girls	The Bridge on the River Kwai
Best Director	David Lean The Bridge on the River Kwai
Best Actor	Alec Guinness The Bridge on the River Kwai	Frank Sinatra Pal Joey	Alec Guinness The Bridge on the River Kwai
Best Actress	Joanne Woodward The Three Faces of Eve	Kay Kendall Les Girls Taina Elg Les Girls	Joanne Woodward The Three Faces of Eve
Best Supporting Actor	Red Buttons Sayonara
Best Supporting Actress	Elsa Lanchester Witness for the Prosecution		Miyoshi Umeki Sayonara
Best Foreign Language Film	Confessions of Felix Krull Tizoc Woman in a Dressing Gown Yellow Crow		Nights of Cabiria

Top ten money making stars

Rank	Actor/Actress
1.	Rock Hudson
2.	John Wayne
3.	Pat Boone
4.	Elvis Presley
5.	Frank Sinatra
6.	Kim Novak
7.	Gary Cooper
8.	William Holden
9.	James Stewart
10.	Jerry Lewis

1957 film releases

February 14 - Cinderella (re-release)
July 3 - Bambi (re-release)

Notable films released in 1957

United States unless stated

Y

Yagyu Secret Scrolls (Yagyu Bugeicho), starring Toshiro Mifune – Japan
Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu) – (Japan)
Young and Dangerous , starring Mark Damon

Z

Zero Hour! , starring Dana Andrews, Sterling Hayden, Linda Darnell, Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, dramatic basis for later spoof Airplane!

Short film series

Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Terrytoons (1930–1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
Woody Woodpecker (1941–1972)
Droopy (1943–1958)
Noveltoons (1943–1967)
The Nearsighted Mister Magoo (1950–1959)
Casper the Friendly Ghost (1950–1959)
Herman and Katnip (1952–1959)
Chilly Willy (1953–1972)

Ending this year

Births

January 1 - Meagen Fay, American actress
January 5 - Jeep Swenson, South African-American professional wrestler, stuntman, and actor (d. 1997)
January 8 - Ron Cephas Jones, American actor (d. 2023)
January 12 – John Lasseter, American animator, director, producer, and writer
January 15 – Mario Van Peebles, American actor and director
January 16 - Ricardo Darin, Argentine actor
January 17
- Keith Chegwin, English television presenter and actor (d. 2017)
- Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian, and author
January 19 - Roger Ashton-Griffiths, English character actor, screenwriter and director
January 21 - Gregory Paul Martin, British writer and actor
January 24 - Adrian Edmondson, English comedian, actor, musician, and television presenter
January 25 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress, comedian, singer and activist
January 27 - Danny Aiello III, American stunt performer, stunt coordinator, director, and actor (d. 2010)
January 28 - Harley Jane Kozak, American actress
January 29 - Diane Delano, American character actress (d. 2024)
February 1 - Cylk Cozart, American actor, director, writer and producer
February 6
- Kathy Najimy, American actress
- Robert Townsend, American actor, director and writer
February 14 - Ken Wahl, American actor
February 16 – LeVar Burton, American actor, director, producer, and author
February 19 – Ray Winstone, English actor
February 22 - Robert Bathurst, English actor
February 26 - C. J. Graham, American actor
February 27 – Timothy Spall, English actor
February 28 – John Turturro, American actor, writer and director
March 4 - Mykelti Williamson, American actor
March 6
- Eddie Deezen, American actor and comedian
- Alex McArthur, American actor
March 8
- David Paul, American actor (d. 2020)
- Peter Paul, former American actor and producer
- Cynthia Rothrock, American actress
March 9 - Oliver Stritzel, German actor
March 13 - Daniel Licht, American composer (d. 2017)
March 15
- Park Overall, American actress
- David Silverman, American animator
March 20
- Amy Aquino, American actress
- Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress
- Spike Lee, American director, producer, writer and actor
- Theresa Russell, American actress
- Chris Wedge, American director, producer, and voice actor
March 21 - Haydn Gwynne, English actress (d. 2023)
March 23
- Teresa Ganzel, American actress
- Amanda Plummer, American actress
March 27 - Stephen Dillane, English actor
March 28 – Paul Eiding, American actor, voice actor, and voice instructor
March 29 – Christopher Lambert, French actor
March 30
- Michael Lehmann, American director
- Tawny Moyer, American actress
March 31 - Marc McClure, American actor
April 4 – Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish director
April 12 – Suzzanne Douglas, American actress (d. 2021)
April 13
- Gary Kroeger, American actor and announcer
- Saundra Santiago, American actress
April 14 - Richard Jeni, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
April 23 – Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (d. 2014)
April 25 - Esther Scott, American actress
April 27 - Robert Curtis Brown, American actor
April 29 – Daniel Day-Lewis, English actor
May 4 - John Akomfrah, Ghanaian-born British filmmaker
May 5 – Richard E. Grant, English actor
May 7 - Ned Bellamy, American actor
May 10 - Alex Jennings, English actor
May 13 - Mark Heap, English actor and comedian
May 15 - Dan Patrick, American sportscaster, radio personality and actor
May 17 - Whip Hubley, American actor
May 21 – Judge Reinhold, American actor
May 23 - Mark Arnold, American actor
May 29
- Ted Levine, American actor
- Oliver Muirhead, English character actor
May 30 - Aire Koop, Estonian actress
June 1 – Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish director and screenwriter
June 8 - Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress
June 10 - Robert Clohessy, American actor
June 14 - Jay Roach, American filmmaker
June 17
- Sam Douglas, British actor
- Jon Gries, American actor
- Phyllida Lloyd, English director and producer
June 18
- Ralph Brown, English actor and writer
- Andrea Evans, American actress
June 19 - Michael Maloney, British actor
June 23 – Frances McDormand, American actress
June 29 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
July 2 - Bret Hart, Canadian-American pro wrestler
July 5 - James Tillis, American former professional boxer and actor
July 9 – Kelly McGillis, American actress
July 12 - Christopher Quinten, British actor
July 13 – Cameron Crowe, American director and screenwriter
July 20 – Donna Dixon, American actress, wife of Dan Aykroyd
July 21
- Sulev Keedus, Estonian director and screenwriter
- Jon Lovitz, American actor, comedian and singer
July 26 – Nana Visitor, American actress
July 27 - Bill Engvall, American actor and stand-up comedian
July 28 - Lisa Freeman, American author and actress
July 30 - Victor Slezak, American actor
August 1 - Taylor Negron, American actor, comedian and writer (d. 2015)
August 2 - Mojo Nixon, American musician and actor (d. 2024)
August 5
- Jerry Lambert, American actor
- Joanne Samuel, Australian actress
August 9 – Melanie Griffith, American actress
August 15 - Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor
August 16 – Laura Innes, American actress
August 17 - Ken Kwapis, American film and television director
August 18
- Carole Bouquet, French actress
- Denis Leary, American actor, comedian and writer
August 19 - Martin Donovan, American actor
August 24 – Stephen Fry, English comedian, author and actor
August 25 - Simon McBurney, English actor
August 26 - Ewan Stewart, Scottish actor
August 27 - Đơn Dương, Vietnamese actor (d. 2011)
August 28
- Rick Rossovich, American actor
- Daniel Stern, American actor
September 1 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
September 2 - Steve Porcaro, American composer
September 10 – Kate Burton, American actress
September 12
- Rachel Ward, English actress
- Hans Zimmer, German composer
September 19 - Mark Acheson, Canadian actor
September 21 – Ethan Coen, American director, producer, screenwriter and editor
September 23
- Rosalind Allen, New Zealand actress
- Rosalind Chao, American actress
September 24 – Brad Bird, American animator, director, writer and actor
September 25 – Michael Madsen, American actor
September 30 – Fran Drescher, American actress
October 4
- Bill Fagerbakke, American actor and voice actor
- Marilyn Norry, Canadian actress
October 5 – Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
October 11
- Dawn French, English actress, comedian and writer
- Eric Keenleyside, Canadian actor
October 12
- Clémentine Célarié, French actress
- Camilla and Carey More, English twin actresses
October 13 - Marc Macaulay, American actor
October 17 – Lawrence Bender, American film producer
October 23 - Elizabeth D'Onofrio, American actress
October 24 – John Kassir, American actor and comedian
October 25 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
October 28
- Betsy Aidem, American actress
- Christian Berkel, German actor
October 29
- Dan Castellaneta, American actor, voice actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- Scott Thomson, American actor
October 30 – Kevin Pollak, American actor
November 3 – Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor and director
November 5 - Elizabeth Bracco, American actress
November 6
- Cam Clarke, American voice actor and singer
- Lori Singer, American actress and cellist
November 7 - Christopher Knight, American actor
November 15 - Ray McKinnnon, American actor, screenwriter, director and producer
November 18 - Joey Miyashima, American actor
November 19
- Ofra Haza, Israel singer, songwriter and actress (d. 2000)
- Tom Virtue, American actor
November 24 – Denise Crosby, American actress
November 30 - Gary Lewis, Scottish actor
December 3 - Valérie Quennessen, French actress (d. 1989)
December 10 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012)
December 12 - Higgins, American dog actor (d. 1975)
December 13
- Steve Buscemi, American actor
- Billy Van Zandt, American actor
December 19
- John Gulager, American actor and director
- Michael Milhoan, American actor
December 21 – Ray Romano, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and voice actor
December 29 – Brad Grey, American television and film producer (d. 2017)

Deaths

January 14 – Humphrey Bogart, 57, American actor, Casablanca , The Maltese Falcon , Key Largo , The Caine Mutiny
January 19 – Sheila Terry, 46, American actress, The Sphinx , The Silk Express
January 26 – William Eythe, 38, American actor, The Song of Bernadette , The House on 92nd Street
February 19 – Märta Torén, 31, Swedish actress, Sirocco , One Way Street
March 25 – Max Ophüls, 54, German director, The Earrings of Madame de... , Lola Montès
March 31
- Harry Depp, 74, American actor, The Love Girl , Inez from Hollywood
- Gene Lockhart, 65, Canadian actor, Miracle on 34th Street , Algiers
April 3 – Ned Sparks, 73, Canadian actor, 42nd Street , Imitation of Life
April 8 – Dorothy Sebastian, 53, American actress, Spite Marriage , Our Dancing Daughters
April 27 – Paweł Owerłło, 87, Polish actor, Pan Tadeusz
May 7 – Charles King, 62, American actor, Outlaws of the Plains , Adventures of Sir Galahad
May 9 – Ezio Pinza, 64, Italian singer and actor, Tonight We Sing , Mr. Imperium
May 12 – Erich von Stroheim, 71, Austrian actor, director, Sunset Boulevard , La Grande Illusion
May 29 – James Whale, 67, British director, Frankenstein , The Invisible Man
June 12 – Robert Alton, 51, American choreographer and director, White Christmas , Pagan Love Song
July 3 – Judy Tyler, 24, American actress, Jailhouse Rock , Bop Girl Goes Calypso
July 15 – George Cleveland, 71, Canadian actor, Carson City , Fort Defiance
July 24 – Sacha Guitry, 72, French playwright, actor and director, Confessions of a Cheat , A Crime in Paradise
August 7 – Oliver Hardy, 65, American actor, The Flying Deuces , Sons of the Desert
August 9 – Konrad Tom, 70, Polish actor, screenwriter, director and singer, His Excellency, The Shop Assistant
August 12 – Tim Whelan, 63, American director, The Thief of Bagdad , The Divorce of Lady X
September 1 – Helen Haye, 83, Indian-British actress, The 39 Steps , Richard III
September 19 – Edvard Persson, 69, Swedish actor, South of the Highway , Kalle's Inn
October 20 – Jack Buchanan, 66, British actor, Auld Lang Syne , The Band Wagon
October 29 – Louis B. Mayer, 73, Russian-American producer and studio executive, Greed , That's Entertainment!
November 7 – Dina Romano, 81, Italian actress, The Materassi Sisters
November 17 – Cora Witherspoon, 67, American actress, The Bank Dick , Libeled Lady
November 25 – Raymond Griffith, 62, American actor, Hands Up! , All Quiet on the Western Front
November 29 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 60, Austrian composer, Anthony Adverse , The Adventures of Robin Hood
November 30 – Fred F. Sears, 44, American director, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers , Rock Around the Clock
December 11 – Musidora, 58, French actress, director, Les Vampires , Judex
December 15 – Alfonso Bedoya, 53, Mexican actor, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , The Big Country
December 24 – Norma Talmadge, 63, American actress, New York Nights , Secrets
December 25 – Charles Pathé, 94, French producer, writer, The Conquest of the Pole
December 27 – Alan Bridge, 66, American actor, The Stranger from Texas , Cross My Heart

Film debuts

Norman Alden – Hear Me Good
Alan Arkin – Calypso Heat Wave
Jean-Paul Belmondo – On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Françoise Brion – Love in the Afternoon
Bruno Cremer – Send a Woman When the Devil Fails
Bernard Cribbins – Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Alain Delon – Send a Woman When the Devil Fails
Catherine Deneuve – The Twilight Girls
Anthony Franciosa – This Could Be the Night
Ben Gazzara – The Strange One
William Hickey – A Hatful of Rain
Bill Hunter – The Shiralee
Clifton James – The Strange One
Sally Kellerman – Reform School Girl
Burt Kwouk – Windom's Way
Paul Maxwell – Death in Small Doses
David McCallum – Ill Met by Moonlight
John McGiver – The Man in the Raincoat
George Peppard – The Strange One
Lee Remick – A Face in the Crowd
Jean Seberg – Saint Joan
Patsy Smart – The Flying Scot
Liv Ullmann – Fjols til fjells
Ray Walston – Kiss Them for Me
Adam West – Voodoo Island

Notes

↑ 42.5 million Soviet tickets sold,^[12] average ticket price of 25 kopecks,^[13] 4 Rbls per US$ in 1957^[14]

References

1 2 3 4 5 Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
1 2 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
1 2 3 "All-Time Top Grosses". Variety. January 4, 1961. p. 49. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
↑ "Bilan Annuel France – 1957". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
↑ "Bilan Annuel Allemagne – 1957". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
↑ Box Office 1957, Box Office India, archived 22 September 2012
1 2 "Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business . University of British Columbia. 1957. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-05-12. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
↑ Bahubali 2 Is The Biggest Hindi Blockbuster This Century Archived 24 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine , Box Office India, 8 June 2017
↑ "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1957". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
↑ "天皇と映画～映画における、時代ごとの天皇観～". Cinema Today (in Japanese). April 28, 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
↑ "About". Okura Pictures . Retrieved 25 January 2019.
1 2 "Лидеры проката". KinoKultura (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
↑ Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48 Archived 2018-05-10 at the Wayback Machine , Cornell University Press, 2011
↑ "Archive". Central Bank of Russia . Archived from the original on 29 December 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
↑ "The Bridge on the River Kwai". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
1 2 "The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 12 December 2018.
↑ "10-Day London Fest Films Preems Oct. 16". Variety . 9 October 1957. p. 14 – via Archive.org.

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[15] 42.5 million Soviet tickets sold,^[12] average ticket price of 25 kopecks,^[13] 4 Rbls per US$ in 1957^[14]

[Finler-1] 1 2 3 4 5 Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[Mannix-2] 1 2 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[1961AllTime-3] 1 2 3 "All-Time Top Grosses". Variety. January 4, 1961. p. 49. Retrieved April 24, 2019.

[4] "Bilan Annuel France – 1957". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[5] "Bilan Annuel Allemagne – 1957". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[boi57-6] Box Office 1957, Box Office India, archived 22 September 2012

[Sauder-7] 1 2 "Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business . University of British Columbia. 1957. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-05-12. Retrieved 8 February 2019.

[hindi-8] Bahubali 2 Is The Biggest Hindi Blockbuster This Century Archived 24 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine , Box Office India, 8 June 2017

[9] "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1957". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[10] "天皇と映画～映画における、時代ごとの天皇観～". Cinema Today (in Japanese). April 28, 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2020.

[11] "About". Okura Pictures . Retrieved 25 January 2019.

[kinokultura-12] 1 2 "Лидеры проката". KinoKultura (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.

[moscow7-13] Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48 Archived 2018-05-10 at the Wayback Machine , Cornell University Press, 2011

[russia-14] "Archive". Central Bank of Russia . Archived from the original on 29 December 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2009.

[16] "The Bridge on the River Kwai". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.

[kwai-17] 1 2 "The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[1st-18] "10-Day London Fest Films Preems Oct. 16". Variety . 9 October 1957. p. 14 – via Archive.org.

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