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1957 in film

Overview of the events of 1957 in film

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.

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

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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]

Country	Title	Director	Studio	Revenue	Admissions
France	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	Columbia Pictures	—	13,481,750^[4]
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]

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

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

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