1957 in film

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of the Year 3 Academy Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Other Movies Released

Events

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

1. Island in the Sun
2. Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley
3. I Was a Teenage Werewolf
4. The Delinquents
5. Le Notti di Cabiria
6. Aparajito
7. La Grande strada azzurra
8. Young and Dangerous

• 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

• January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
• January 15 - Julian Sands, actor
• April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
• August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor
• September 12 - Rachel Ward, actress

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

• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Peyton Place