Film Data For 1957

The Film Daily's Top Ten Pictures

1) Around the World in 80 Days (1956)- 179 votes
2) Sayonara- 162
3) 12 Angry Men- 137
4) Peyton Place- 129
5) A Hatful of Rain- 119
6) Les Girls- 105
7) A Face in the Crowd- 95
8) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison- 94
9) Don't Go Near the Water- 84
10) The Pajama Game- 78

The Honor Roll
11) Love in the Afternoon- 77
12) Raintree County- 73
13) Pal Joey- 69
14) Written on the Wind (1956)- 68
15) A Farewell to Arms- 65
16) The Spirit of St. Louis- 61
17) La Strada (1954)- 59
18) The Great Man (1956)- 58
19) Funny Face- 57
      Man of a Thousand Faces- 57
21) Witness for the Prosecution- 52
22) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral- 50
      The Sun Also Rises- 50
24) Operation Mad Ball- 48

25) Old Yeller- 47
26) Time Limit- 43
27) The Joker is Wild- 37
28) Tammy and the Bachelor- 35
29) Designing Woman- 33
30) Silk Stockings- 27
31) Full of Life- 25
32) The Silent World- 24
33) Battle Hymn- 23
      Fear Strikes Out- 23
      The Prince and the Showgirl- 23
36) Perri- 22
      The Hunchback of Notre Dame- 22
38) The Tin Star- 20
      3:10 to Yuma- 20
      The Bridge on the River Kwai- 20 (ranked #1 in 1958)
41) Paths of Glory- 17
      The Green Man- 17
43) Pursuit of the Graf Spee- 15
44) Westward Ho the Wagons!- 12
45) The Gold of Naples- 11
46) An Affair to Remember- 10
                                      

Filmdom’s Famous Fives of 1957 (No numbers were given for the rest of the categories, although I believe the Film Daily lists them in the order of preference).

The Best Performances by Male Stars
1) Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd
2) James Cagney in Man of a Thousand Faces
3) James Stewart in The Spirit of St. Louis
4) Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men
5) Montgomery Clift in Raintree County (tied with)
    Rock Hudson in Written on the Wind
    David Niven in Around the World in 80 Days

The Best Performances by Female Stars
1) Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve
2) Eva Marie Saint in A Hatful of Rain
3) Carroll Baker in Baby Doll (1956)
4) Elizabeth Taylor in Raintree County
5) Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember (tied with)
    Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Best Performances by Supporting Actors
1) Ed Wynn in The Great Man (1956)
2) Robert Stack in Written on the Wind (1956)
3) Anthony Franciosa in A Hatful of Rain
4) Errol Flynn in The Sun Also Rises
5) Cantinflas in Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Best Performances by Supporting Actresses
1) Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind (1956)
2) Mildred Dunnock in Baby Doll (1956)
3) Carolyn Jones in The Bachelor Party
4) Carol Haney in The Pajama Game
5) Eva Marie Saint in Raintree County                                             

Best Performances by Juvenile Actors

1) Sal Mineo in Dino
2) Michael Ray in The Tin Star
3) Tommy Kirk in Old Yeller
4) Hal Stalmaster in Johnny Tremain (tied with)
    James MacArthur in The Young Stranger
5) Malcom Broderick in Man on Fire

Best Performances by Juvenile Actresses
1) Luana Patten in Johnny Tremain
2) Sandra Dee in Until They Sail
3) Susan Kohner in Dino
4) Reiko Oyama in Stopover Tokyo
5) Patty McCormack in All Mine to Give

The Year's Outstanding Directors
1) Michael Anderson for Around the World in 80 Days
2) Elia Kazan for A Face in the Crowd (tied with)
    Elia Kazan for Baby Doll (1956)
4) Fred Zinnemann for A Hatful of Rain (tied with)
    Sidney Lumet for 12 Angry Men

The Year's Best Photographed Pictures
1) Lionel Lindon for Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
2) Ray June for Funny Face
3) Franz Planer for The Pride and the Passion
4) Edmond Sechan for The Silent World
5) Robert Surtees for Raintree Country

The Best Screenplays of the Year
1) Reginald Rose for 12 Angry Men
2) James Poe, John Farrow and S.J. Perelman for Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
3) Michael V. Gazzo and Alfred Hayes for A Hatful of Rain
4) Delmer Daves and Leo McCarey for An Affair to Remember
5) Paddy Chayefsky for The Bachelor Party

"Finds of the Year"
1) Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve
2) Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd
3) Anthony Franciosa in A Hatful of Rain
4) Kay Kendall in Les Girls
5) Ernie Kovacs in Operation Mad Ball
                                                

The National Board of Review (Voting results announced in December, 1957. Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001).

The Top Ten Pictures (in order of preference)
1) The Bridge on the River Kwai
2) Twelve Angry Men
3) The Spirit of St. Louis
4) The Rising of the Moon
5) Albert Schweitzer
6) Funny Face
7) The Bachelor Party
8) The Enemy Below
9) A Hatful of Rain
10) A Farewell to Arms

Best Director
David Lean for The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actor
Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actress
Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve and No Down Payment

Best Supporting Actor
Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Supporting Actress
Dame Sybil Thorndike for The Prince and the Showgirl

Best Foreign Film
Ordet (Denmark)
Gervaise (France)
Torero! (Mexico)
The Red Ballon (France)
A Man Escaped (France)
                                        

The New York Film Critics (Winners announced on December 30, 1957. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001 and Donald Lyons, "The Lights of New York," Film Comment, March-April, 1993).

Best Picture
The Bridge on the River Kwai (13 votes ballot II)
Runner-up: Twelve Angry Men (2 votes)
3rd Place: Sayonara (1 vote)

Best Director
David Lean in The Bridge on the River Kwai (13 votes on ballot III)
Runner-up: Sidney Lumet for Twelve Angry Men (3 votes)

Best Actor
Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (10 votes on ballot VI)
Runner-up: Marlon Brando in Sayonara (6 votes)

Best Actress
Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (12 votes on ballot V)
Runner-up: Eva Marie Saint in A Hatful of Rain (3 votes)
3rd Place: Kay Kendall in Les Girls (1 vote)

Best Foreign Film
Gervaise (1956- France)

The Golden Globes (Nominations announced on January 20, 1958. Awards presented on February 22, 1958. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001). (Winners in bold print).

Best Drama
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sayonara
Twelve Angry Men
Wild is the Wind
Witness for the Prosecution

Best Comedy or Musical
Don't Go Near the Water
Les Girls
Love in the Afternoon
Pal Joey
Silk Stockings

Best Motion Picture Promoting International Understanding
The Happy Road

Best Director
David Lean for The Bridge on the River Kwai
Joshua Logan for Sayonara
Sidney Lumet for Twelve Angry Men
Billy Wilder for Witness for the Prosecution
Fred Zinnemann for A Hatful of Rain

Best Actor, Drama
Marlon Brando in Sayonara
Henry Fonda in Twelve Angry Men
Anthony Franciosa in A Hatful of Rain
Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai
Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution

Best Actress, Drama
Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution
Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Anna Magnani in Wild is the Wind
Eva Marie Saint in A Hatful of Rain
Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical

Maurice Chevalier in Love in the Afternoon
Glenn Ford in Don't Go Near the Water
David Niven in My Man Godfrey
Tony Randall in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Frank Sinatra in Pal Joey

Best Actress, Comedy or Muscial
Cyd Charisse in Silk Stockings
Taina Elg in Les Girls
Audrey Hepburn in Love in the Afternoon
Kay Kendall in Les Girls
Jean Simmons in This Could Be the Night

Best Supporting Actor
Red Buttons in Sayonara
Lee J. Cobb in Twelve Angry Men
Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai
Nigel Patrick in Raintree County
Ed Wynn in The Great Man (1956)
                                      
Best Supporting Actress
Mildred Dunnock in Peyton Place
Elsa Lanchester in Witness for the Prosecution
Hope Lange in Peyton Place
Heather Sears in The Story of Esther Costello
Miyoshi Umeki in Sayonara

Other Winners:

Best Foreign Films
The Confessions of Felix Krull (Germany)
Tizoc (Mexico)
Woman in a Dressing Gown (England)
Yellow Crow (Japan)

World Film Favorites
Tony Curtis
Doris Day

Most Promising Newcomers- Male
James Garner
John Saxon
Patrick Wayne

Most Promising Newcomers- Female
Sandra Dee
Carolyn Jones
Diane Varsi

Best Film Choreography
Le Roy Prinz

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Buddy Adler

Special Achievement Awards
Zsa Zsa Gabor (Most Glamorous Actress)
Hugo Friedhofer (For Bettering the Standard of Motion Picture Music)
Bob Hope (Ambassador of Good Will)
Jean Simmons (Most Versatile Actress)

British Academy Awards (Source: "The BAFTA Film Awards" 1989, edited by Bo Smith). (Winners in bold print).

Best Film From Any Source and Best British Film

The Bachelor Party (U.S.)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Great Britain)- won both awards
Celui Qui Doit Mourir (Italy/France)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (U.S.)
A Man is Ten Feet Tall (Edge of the City) (U.S.)
Pather Panchali (India)
Paths Of Glory (U.S.)
Porte des Lilas (France/Italy)
The Prince and the Showgirl (G.B.)
The Shiralee (G.B.)
That Night (U.S.)
The Tin Star (U.S.)
3:10 to Yuma (U.S.)
Twelve Angry Men (U.S.)
Windom's Way (G.B.)

Best British Actor
Peter Finch in Windom's Way
Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai
Trevor Howard in Manuela
Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl
Michael Redgrave in Time Without Pity

Best British Actress
Deborah Kerr in Tea and Sympathy
Heather Sears in The Story of Esther Costello
Sylvia Syms in Woman in a Dressing Gown

Best Foreign Actor
Richard Basehart in Time Limit
Pierre Brasseur in Porte des Lilas
Tony Curtis in The Sweet Smell of Success
Henry Fonda in Twelve Angry Men
Jean Gabin in Pig Across Paris
Robert Mitchum in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Sidney Poitier in A Man is Ten Feet Tall (Edge of the City)
Ed Wynn in The Great Man

Best Foreign Actress
Augusta Dabney in That Night
Katharine Hepburn in The Rainmaker
Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl
Lili Palmer in Is Anna Anderson Anastasia?
Eva Marie Saint in A Hatful of Rain
Simone Signoret in The Witches of Salem
Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve

Most Promising Newcomer
Eric Barker in Brothers in Law
Mylene Demongeot in The Witches of Salem
Elvi Hale in True as a Turtle
James MacArthur in The Young Stranger
Keith Michell in True as a Turtle

Best British Screenplay
Arthur Laurents for Anastasia
Jack Whittingham for The Birthday Present
Pierre Boulle (blacklisted writers Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman actually penned the screenplay, based on Boulle's novel) for The Bridge on the River Kwai
John Kruse and C. Raker Endfield for Hell Drivers
William Rose and John Eldridge for The Man in the Sky
Terence Rattigan for The Prince and the Showgirl
William Rose and John Eldridge for The Smallest Show on Earth
Charles Kaufman for The Story of Esther Costello
Jill Craigie for Windom's Way
Ted Willis for Woman in a Dressing Gown

Best Documentary
City of Gold (Canada)
Every Day Except Christmas (G.B.)
Holiday (G.B.)
Journey Into Spring (G.B.)
The USA in the Thirties (U.S.)

Special Award
A Chairy Tale (Canada)
Introducing Telex (G.B.)
Successful Instruction

Best Animated Film
Earth is a Battlefield (G.B.)
La Bergere et le Ramoneur (France)
The Magic Fluke (U.S.)
Pan-Tele-Tron (G.B.)

United Nations Award
The Happy Road (U.S./France)
Like Paradise (G.B.)
Out (United Nations)                              

The Academy Awards (Nominations were announced on February 18, 1958. Awards were presented on March 26, 1958. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001 and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar, 1984). (Winners in bold print).

Best Picture
The Bridge on the River Kwai, Horizon, Columbia. Produced by Sam Spiegel.
Peyton Place, Wald, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Jerry Wald.
Sayonara, Goetz, Warner Bros. Produced by William Goetz.
Twelve Angry Men, Orion-Nova, UA. Produced by Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose.
Witness for the Prosecution, Small-Hornblow, UA. Produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.

Best Director
David Lean for The Bridge on the River Kwai (Horizon, Columbia).
Joshua Logan for Sayonara (Goetz, Warner Bros.).
Sidney Lumet for Twelve Angry Men (Orion-Nova, UA).
Mark Robson for Peyton Place (Wald, 20th Century-Fox).
Billy Wilder for Witness for the Prosecution (Small-Hornblow, UA).

Best Actor
Marlon Brando in Sayonara (Goetz, Warner Bros.).
Anthony Franciosa in A Hatful of Rain (20th Century-Fox).
Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (Horizon, Columbia).
Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution (Small-Hornblow, UA).
Anthony Quinn in Wild is the Wind (Wallis, Paramount).
                                            

Best Actress

Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Anna Magnani in Wild is the Wind (Wallis, Paramount).
Elizabeth Taylor in Raintree County (MGM).
Lana Turner in Peyton Place (Wald, 20th Century-Fox).
Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve (20th Century-Fox).

Best Supporting Actor
Red Buttons in Sayonara (Goetz, Warner Bros.).
Vittorio De Sica in A Farewell to Arms (Selznick, 20th Century-Fox).
Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai (Horizon, Columbia).
Arthur Kennedy in Peyton Place (Wald, 20th Century-Fox).
Russ Tamblyn in Peyton Place (Wald, 20th Century-Fox).

Best Supporting Actress
Carolyn Jones in The Bachelor Party (Norma, UA).
Elsa Lanchester in Witness for the Prosecution (Small-Hornblow, UA).
Hope Lange in Peyton Place (Wald, 20th Century-Fox).
Miyoshi Umeki in Sayonara (Goetz, Warner Bros.).
Diane Varsi in Peyton Place (Wald, 20th Century-Fox).

Best Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium
The Bridge on the River Kwai, Horizon, Columbia. Pierre Boulle (blacklisted writers Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman actually adapted Boulle's novel for the screen).
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, 20th Century Fox. John Lee Mahin and John Huston.
Peyton Place, 20th Century Fox. John Michael Hayes.
Sayonara, Goetz, Warner Bros. Paul Osborn.

Twelve Angry Men, Orion-Nova, UA. Reginald Rose.

Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Designing Woman, MGM. George Wells.
Funny Face, Paramount. Leonard Gershe.
Man of a Thousand Faces, U-I. Ralph Wheelwright; R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts.
The Tin Star, Perlberg-Seaton, Paramount. Barney Slater and Joel Kane; Dudley Nichols.
Vitelloni (1953), API-Janus (Italian). Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli.

Best Cinematography
An Affair to Remember, Wald, 20th Century Fox. Milton Krasner.

The Bridge on the River Kwai, Horizon, Columbia. Jack Hildyard.
Funny Face, Paramount. Ray June.

Peyton Place, Wald, 20th Century Fox. William Mellor.
Sayonara, Goetz, Warner Bros. Ellsworth Fredericks.

Art Direction-Set Direction
Funny Face, Paramount. Hal Pereira and George W. Davis; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer.
Les Girls, Siegel, MGM. William A. Horning and Gene Allen; Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle.
Pal Joey, Essex-Sidney, Columbia. Walter Holscher; William Kiernan and Louis Diage.
Raintree County, MGM. William A. Horning and Urie McCleary; Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt.
Sayonara, Goetz, Warner Bros. Ted Haworth; Robert Priestley.

Best Sound
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Wallis, Paramount. Paramount Studio Sound Department; George Dutton, sound director.
Les Girls, Siegel, MGM. MGM Studio Sound Department; Wesley C. Miller, sound director.

Pal Joey, Essex-Sidney, Columbia. Columbia Studio Sound Dept.; John P. Livadary, sound director.

Sayonara, Goetz, Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept.; George Groves, sound director.

Witness for the Prosecution, Small-Hornblow, UA. Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department; Gordon Sawyer, sound director.

Best Song
"An Affair to Remember" (An Affair to Remember, Wald, 20th Century-Fox); Music by Harry Warren. Lyrics by Harold Adamson and Leo McCarey.
"All the Way" (The Joker is Wild, Paramount); Music by James Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
"April Love" (April Love, 20th Century-Fox); Music by Sammy Fain. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
"Tammy" (Tammy and the Bachelor, U-I); Music and Lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston.
"Wild is the Wind" (Wild is the Wind, Wallis, Paramount); Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Lyrics by Ned Washington.

Best Score
An Affair to Remember, Wald, 20th Century Fox. Hugo Friedhofer.

Boy on a Dolphin, 20th Century-Fox. Hugo Friedhofer.
The Bridge on the River Kwai, Horizon, Columbia. Malcolm Arnold.
Perri, Disney, Buena Vista. Paul Smith.
Raintree County, MGM. Johnny Green.

Best Film Editing
The Bridge on the River Kwai, Horizon, Columbia. Peter Taylor.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Wallis, Paramount. Warren Low. 
Pal Joey, Essex-Sidney, Columbia. Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thomas.
Sayonara, Goetz, Warner Bros. Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson.

Witness for the Prosecution, Small-Hornblow, UA. Daniel Mandell.

Best Costume Design
An Affair to Remember, Wald, 20th Century Fox. Charles LeMaire.
Funny Face, Paramount. Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy.
Les Girls, Siegel, MGM. Orry-Kelly.
Pal Joey, Essex-Sidney, Columbia. Jean Louis.
Raintree County, MGM. Walter Plunkett.

Best Special Effects

The Enemy Below, 20th Century-Fox. Walter Rossi.
The Spirit of St. Louis, Hayward-Wilder, Warner Bros. Louis Lichtenfield. 

Best Short Subject Cartoon
Birds Anonymous, Warner Bros. Edward Selzer, producer.
One Droopy Knight, MGM. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, producers.
Tabasco Road, Warner Bros. Edward Selzer, producer.
Trees and Jamaica Daddy, UPA, Columbia. Stephen Bosustow, producer.
The Truth About Mother Goose, Disney, Buena Vista. Walt Disney, producer.

Best Live Action Short Subject
A Charity Tale, National Film Board of Canada. Kingsley International. Norman McLaren, producer.
City of Gold, National Film Board of Canada. Kingsley International. Tom Daly, producer.

Foothold on Antarctica, World Wide Pictures, Schoenfeld Films. James Carr, producer.
Portugal, Disney, Buena Vista. Ben Sharpsteen, producer.
The Wetback Hound, Disney, Buena Vista. Larry Lansburgh, producer.

Best Documentary Short Subject

Not given this year.

Best Documentary Feature
Albert Schweitzer, Hill and Anderson Prod., Louis de Rochemont Assocs. Jerome Hill, producer.
On the Bowery, Rogosin, Film Representations, Inc. Lionel Rogosin, producer.
Torero!, Producciones Barbachano Ponce, Columbia (Mexican). Manuel Barbachano Ponce, producer.

Best Foreign-Language Film
The Devil Came at Night (Germany)
Gates of Paris (France)
Mother India (India)
The Nights of Cabiria (Italy)
Nine Lives (Norway)

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Samuel Goldwyn

Honorary Awards
Charles Brackett for outstanding service to the Academy (statuette).

B.B. Kahane for distinguished service to the motion picture industry (statuette).

Gilbert M. ("Broncho Billy") Anderson, motion picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment (statuette).

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers for their contribution to the advancement of the motion picture industry (statuette).

Scientific or Technical

Class I (Statuette)

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

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

Class II (Plaque)

Societe D'Optique et de Mecanique de Haute Precision for the development of a high speed vari-focal photographic lens.

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

Class III (Citation)

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. 

                                    

Screen Directors Guild of America (Best Director awarded February 8, 1958 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001).

Best Director
David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Finalists:
Joshua Logan, Sayonara

Sidney Lumet, Twelve Angry Men

Mark Robson, Peyton Place

Billy Wilder, Witness for the Prosecution

Other directors mentioned:

George Cukor, Les Girls

Stanley Donen, Funny Face

Jose Ferrer, The Great Man (1956)

John Huston, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Elia Kazan, A Face in the Crowd

Stanley Kramer, The Pride and the Passion

Anthony Mann, Men in War

Leo McCarey,  An Affair to Remember

Robert Mulligan, Fear Strikes Out

John Sturges, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Billy Wilder, Love in the Afternoon

Fred Zinnemann, A Hatful of Rain

Writers Guild of America (Nominations were announced in February 10, 1958. Awards were presented on March 12th at the Moulin Rouge restaurant in Los Angeles. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards). (Winners in bold print).

Best Written Drama

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, John Huston, based on the novel by Charles Shaw

Paths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick, Calder Williangham, Jim Thompson, based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb

Peyton Place, John Michael Hayes, based on the novel by Grace Metalious

Sayonara, Paul Osborn, based on the novel by James A. Michener

Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose

Best Written Comedy

Designing Woman, George Wells, based on a suggestion by Helen Rose

Don't Go Near the Water, Dorothy Kingsley, George Wells, based on the novel by William Brinkley

Love in the Afternoon, Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, based on the novel Ariane, by Claude Anet

Operation Mad Ball, Arthur Carter, Jed Harris, Blake Edwards, based on the play by Arthur Carter

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Frank Tashlin, based on the play by George Axelrod

Best Written Musical

Funny Face, Leonard Gershe

The Joker is Wild, Oscar Saul, based on the book by Art Cohn about the life of Joe E. Lewis

Les Girls, John Patrick, story by Vera Caspary

The Pajama Game, George Abbott, Richard Bissell, based on the novel 7 1/2 cents by Richard Bissell

Pal Joey, Dorothy Kingsley, based on the play by John O'Hara

Laurel Award

John Lee Mahin

Berlin Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Picture: First Prize:

Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, USA)

Best Direction:

Mario Monicelli, Fathers and Sons

Best Actor:

Pedro Infante, Tizoc

Best Actress:

Yvonne Mitchell, Woman in a Dressing Gown

Best Feature Documentary:

Secrets of Life (1956- Walt Disney, USA)

Best Short Documentaries:

1) Far-Off People (Italy)

2) The Last Paradise (1955- Italy)

    One Thousand Small Characters (Germany)

    Plitvice Lakes (Yugoslavia)

Catholic Film Office Award:

Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, USA)

     

Cannes Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film:

Friendly Persuasion (1956- William Wyler, USA)

Best Director:

Robert Bresson, A Condemned Man Escapes (1956)

Best Actor:

John Kitzmiller, Valley of Peace (1956)

Best Actress:

Giulietta Masina, Night of Cabiria

Special Prizes:

The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)

Best Documentary

The Roof of Japan (Japan) and Qivitog (1956- Denmark) (tied)

Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film, Lion of St. Mark:

Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, India)

Best Actor:

Anthony Franciosa, A Hatful of Rain

Best Actress:

Dzidra Ritenberg, Malva (USSR)

Silver Prize Winner:

White Nights (Luchino Visconti, Italy)

Catholic Office Award:

A Hatful of Rain (USA)

International Film Critics Award:

A Hatful of Rain (USA)

Most Cooperative Performer at the Festival:

Esther Williams

San Giorgio Prize:

Something of Value (USA)

The New York Times Ten Best List (in chronological order)
The Great Man (1956)

Funny Face

Twelve Angry Men

The Green Man (1956)

A Hatful of Rain

Silk Stockings

Love in the Afternoon

Les Girls

Sayonara

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Foreign Films:

We Are All Murderers (1952- France)

Gold of Naples (1954- Italy)

The Red Ballon (1956- France)

Torero! (1956- Mexico)

Passionate Summer (1956- France)

The Last Bridge (1954- Germany)

Cabiria (Italy)

Gervaise (1956- France)

Ordet (1955- Denmark)

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955- Sweden)

Time Magazine's Ten Best List (in chronological order)

Full of Life (1956)

Twelve Angry Men

Sweet Smell of Success

Love in the Afternoon

A Hatful of Rain

The Pajama Game

Les Girls

Paths of Glory

The Bridge of the River Kwai

Foreign:

Gold of Naples (1954)

The Devil's General (1955)

The Last Bridge (1954)

The Golden Laurel Awards- 1958 (Published in the Motion Picture Exhibitor magazine on September 10, 1958. A poll of film buyers from the US and Canada. Mainly covers 1957 films)

Top Drama
1) Peyton Place (1957)
2) Sayonara (1957)
3) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
4) Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
5) Majorie Morningstar (1958)

Top Comedy
1) Love in the Afternoon (1957)
2) Don't Go Near the Water (1957)
3) Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
4) Teacher's Pet (1958)
5) Designing Woman (1957)

Top Musical
1) Pal Joey (1957)
2) Les Girls (1957)
3) April Love (1957)
4) The Pajama Game (1957)
5) Silk Stockings (1957)

Top Action Drama
1) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
2) 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
3) The Enemy Below (1957)
4) Baby Faced Nelson (1957)
5) Night Passage (1957)                                                          

Top General Entertainment
Old Yeller (1957)

Other Nominees:
South Pacific (1958)- Special Merit Award
Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich (1958)- Special Merit Award

Top Director
1) Fred Zinnemann
2) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
3) George Sidney
4) Michael Curtiz
5) Edward Dmytryk
6) Richard Brooks
7) Douglas Sirk
8) Raoul Walsh
9) Anthony Mann
10) Henry Koster

Top Producer/Director
1) Cecil B. DeMille
2) Alfred Hitchcock
3) George Stevens
4) Mervyn LeRoy
5) William Wyler
6) Stanley Kramer
7) Billy Wilder
8) Leo McCarey
9) John Huston
10) Anatole Litvak

Top Producer
1) Buddy Adler
2) Walt Disney
3) Jerry Wald
4) Sam Spiegel
5) Pandro S. Berman
6) Darryl F. Zanuck
7) Arthur Freed
8) Joe Pasternak
9) Samuel G. Engel
10) Charles Brackett

Top Male Dramatic Performance
1) Marlon Brando in The Young Lions (1958)
2) Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
3) Lee J. Cobb in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
4) Anthony Quinn in Wild is the Wind (1957)
5) Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Sucess (1957)

                     
Top Female Dramatic Performance
1) Elizabeth Taylor in Raintree County (1957)
2) Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
3) Eva Marie Saint in A Hatful of Rain (1957)
4) Lana Turner in Peyton Place (1957)
5) Natalie Wood in Majorie Morningstar (1958)

Top Male Comedy Performance
1) Glenn Ford in Don't Go Near the Water (1957)
2) Jack Lemmon in Operation Mad Ball (1957)
3) Clark Gable in Teacher's Pet (1958)
4) Gig Young in Teacher's Pet (1958)
5) Mickey Shaughnessy in Don't Go Near the Water (1957)

Top Female Comedy Performance
1) Audrey Hepburn in Love in the Afternoon (1957)
2) Debbie Reynolds in Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
3) Lauren Bacall in Designing Woman (1957)
4) Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
5) Eva Gabor in Don't Go Near the Water (1957)

Top Male Musical Performance
1) Frank Sinatra in Pal Joey (1957)
2) Pat Boone in April Love (1957)
3) John Raitt in The Pajama Game (1957)
4) Fred Astaire in Funny Face (1957)
5) Gene Kelly in Les Girls (1957)

Top Female Comedy Performance
1) Mitzi Gaynor in Les Girls (1957)
2) Cyd Charisse in Silk Stockings (1957)
3) Ann Blyth in The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
4) Kay Kendall in Les Girls (1957)
5) Shirley Jones in April Love (1957)

                        

Top Male Action Star

1) Burt Lancaster in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
2) Robert Mitchum in The Enemy Below (1957)
3) Mickey Rooney in Baby Faced Nelson (1957)
4) Van Heflin in 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
5) Kirk Douglas in The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

Top Male Supporting Performance
1) Red Buttons in Sayonara (1957)
2) Arthur Kennedy in Peyton Place (1957)
3) Ricardo Montalban in Sayonara (1957)
4) Adolphe Menjou in Paths of Glory (1957)
5) Lee Marvin in Raintree County (1957)

Top Female Supporting Performance
1) Carolyn Jones in Majorie Morningstar (1958)
2) Agnes Moorehead in Raintree County (1957)
3) Diane Varsi in Peyton Place (1957)
4) Barbara Nichols in Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
5) Betty Field in Peyton Place (1957)

Top Male Star
1) Rock Hudson
2) Marlon Brando
3) Frank Sinatra
4) William Holden
5) James Stewart
6) Gary Cooper
7) John Wayne
8) Burt Lancaster
9) Jerry Lewis
10) Bing Crosby
11) Cary Grant
12) Glenn Ford
13) Bob Hope
14) Jeff Chandler
15) Randolph Scott

Top Female Star
1) Doris Day
2) Ingrid Bergman
3) Kim Novak
4) Elizabeth Taylor
5) Audrey Hepburn
6) Susan Hayward
7) Ava Gardner
8) Deborah Kerr
9) Dorothy Malone
10) Debbie Reynolds
11) Lauren Bacall
12) Sophia Loren
13) Natalie Wood
14) Marilyn Monroe
15) Eleanor Parker

Top New Male Personality
1) Pat Boone
2) Anthony Franciosa
3) Red Buttons
4) Lee Philips
5) Curd (a.k.a. Curt) Jurgens
6) Tony Randall
7) Ernie Kovacs
8) John Raitt
9) Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
10) Dick Sargent

Top New Female Personality
1) Joanne Woodward
2) Hope Lange
3) Lee Remick
4) Diane Varsi
5) Suzy Parker
6) Taina Elg
7) Patricia Owens
8) Inger Stevens
9) Susan Kohner
10) Dolores Michaels

Top Music Composer
1) Max Steiner for Majorie Morningstar (1958)
2) Franz Waxman for Sayonara (1957)
3) Johnny Green for Raintree County (1957)
4) Bronislau Kaper for The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
5) Hugo Friedhofer for An Affair to Remember (1957)

Top Music Director
1) Ray Heindorf for Majorie Morningstar (1958)
2) Morris Stoloff for Pal Joey (1957)
3) Andre Previn for Silk Stockings (1957)
4) Lionel Nemwan for April Love (1957)
5) Nelson Riddle for Merry Widow (1958)

The Top Ten Box-Offices Stars of 1957 (According to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Rock Hudson
2) John Wayne
3) Pat Boone
4) Elvis Presley
5) Frank Sinatra
6) Gary Cooper
7) William Holden
8) James Stewart
9) Jerry Lewis
10) Yul Brynner

The Next Fifteen:
11) Kim Novak
12) Deborah Kerr
13) Debbie Reynolds
14) Marlon Brando
15) Burt Lancaster
16) Glenn Ford
17) Doris Day
18) Cary Grant
19) Clark Gable
20) Elizabeth Taylor
21) Audie Murphy
22) Jeff Chandler
23) June Allyson
24) Ingrid Bergman
25) Kirk Douglas

1957's Top Ten "Stars of Tomorrow" (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Anthony Perkins
2) Sophia Loren
3) Jayne Mansfield
4) Don Murray
5) Carroll Baker
6) Martha Hyer
7) Elvis Presley
8) Anita Ekberg
9) Paul Newman
10) John Kerr

The Next Fifteen:
11) Harry Belafonte
12) Jo Van Fleet
13) Julie London
14) Anthony Franciosa
15) Vera Miles
16) Kathryn Grant
17) John Saxon
18) Andy Griffith
19) Dorothy Dandridge
20) Barbara Rush
21) Earl Holliman
22) John Forsythe
23) Anna Maria Alberghetti
24) Fess Parker
25) Rita Moreno

Britain's Top Ten British Box-Office Stars of 1957 (according to the Motion Picture Herald's poll of Britain's film exhibitors)
1) Dirk Bogarde
2) Kenneth More
3) Peter Finch
4) John Gregson
5) Norman Wisdom
6) John Mills
7) Stanley Baker
8) Ian Carmichael
9) Jack Hawkins
10) Belinda Lee

Britain's Top Ten International Box-Office Stars of 1957 (according to the Motion Picture Herald's poll of Britain's film exhibitors)
1) Dirk Bogarde
2) Kenneth More
3) Burt Lancaster
4) Rock Hudson
5) Peter Finch
6) Jeff Chandler
7) John Gregson
8) Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
9) Norman Wisdom
10) Yul Brynner

The Top Box-Office Hits of 1957 (According to Variety Weekly, January 8, 1958. Includes actual and estimated domestic rentals to theaters in U.S. and Canada, not box-office takes, which would be higher. If the final first-run rental take for films gaining $4,000,000 or more in rentals varies from the total originally listed in 1958, I'm showing that figure after the 1958 total. Final first-run rentals data comes from Variety's January 10, 1962 "All-Time Top Film Grosses" list (only films taking $4,000,000 or more in rentals were mentioned on the "All-Time" list; unfortunately, I have no data for films with a final gross under $4,000,000 that may have ended up with a higher take than shown below). Occasionally a film will end up on the "All-Time" list with a lower rental box-office take than when the film originally appeared on the yearly list of top box-office films. This is due to the estimated rentals, which were sometimes revised to a lower amount for the All-Time list).

1) The Ten Commandments (1956) $18,500,000 (final first-run rentals of $34,200,000)
2) Around the World in 80 Days (1956) $16,200,000
3) Giant (1956) $12,000,000
4) Pal Joey $6,700,000 (final first-run rentals of $4,700,000)
5) Seven Wonders of the World (1956) $6,500,000 (final first-run rentals of $9,300,000)
6) Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) $5,600,000
7) The Pride and the Passion $5,500,000 (final first-run rentals of $4,500,000)
8) Anastasia (1956) $5,000,000
     Island in the Sun $5,000,000
10) Love Me Tender (1956) $4,500,000
11) Written on the Wind (1956) $4,400,000
12) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral $4,300,000
13) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison $4,200,000

14) April Love $4,000,000
      Jailhouse Rock $4,000,000
16) Battle Hymn $3,900,000
17) An Affair to Remember $3,850,000
18) Bernadine $$3,700,000
      Loving You $3,700,000
20) The Sun Also Rises $3,500,000
       The Sad Sack $3,500,000
22) The Delicate Delinquent $3,400,000
23) Hollywood or Bust (1956) $3,300,000
24) Jeanne Eagels $3,100,000
25) Tammy and the Bachelor $3,000,000
      The Joker is Wild $3,000,000
27) Boy on a Dolphin $2,800,000
      The Girl Can't Help It (1956) $2,800,000
29) Westward Ho, The Wagons (1956) $2,750,000
30) Night Passage $2,600,000
      The Spirit of St. Louis $2,600,000
32) The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) $2,500,000
      Band of Angels $2,500,000
      The Pajama Game $2,500,000
      The D.I. $2,500,000
      Funny Face $2,500,000
37) Man of a Thousand Faces $2,400,000
38) Baby Doll (1956) $2,300,000

39) Sweet Smell of Success $2,250,000
      Designing Woman $2,250,000
      Silk Stockings $2,250,000
      Wings of Eagles $2,250,000
      The Hunchback of Notre Dame $2,250,000
      The King and Four Queens (1956) $2,250,000
45) Something of Value $2,200,000
46) The Rainmaker (1956) $2,100,000
47) Fire Down Below $2,050,000
48) Love in the Afternoon $2,000,000
      The Little Hut $2,000,000
50) Operation Mad Ball $1,850,000
      3:10 to Yuma $1,850,000
52) Kiss Them for Me $1,800,000
53) Beau James $1,750,000
      The Wayward Bus $1,750,000
      Man on Fire $1,750,000
      The Opposite Sex 91956) $1,750,000
      Perri $1,750,000
58) Desk Set $1,700,000
59) Lust for Life (1956) $1,600,000
60) The Bachelor Party $1,500,000
      Men in War $1,500,000
      The Prince and the Showgirl $1,500,000
      The True Story of Jesse James $1,500,000
      A Hatful of Rain $1,500,000
     Gun Glory $1,500,000
66) You Can't Run Away From It $1,450,000

67) The Incredible Shrinking Man $1,430,000
      The Tattered Dress $1,430,000
      Rock Pretty Baby $1,430,000
70) Zarak (1956) $1,400,000
      The Tin Star $1,400,000
      The Girl He Left Behind (1956) $1,400,000
      Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter $1,400,000
      The Three Faces of Eve $1,400,000
      Julie (1956) $1,400,000
      Interlude $1,400,000
77) Stopover Tokyo $1,350,000
78) The Iron Petticoat (1956) $1,300,000
      Until They Sail $1,300,000
      Full of Life $1,300,000
      Joe Butterfly $1,300,000
82) Time Limit $1,250,000
      Baby Face Nelson $1,250,000
84) Three Violent People $1,200,000
      Omar Khayyam $1,200,000
      No Down Payment $1,200,000
      Don't Knock the Rock $1,200,000
88) Guns of Fort Petticoat $1,080,000
89) The Story of Esther Costello $1,075,000
90) House of Numbers $1,050,000
91) 12 Angry Men $1,000,000
92) Ten Thousand Bedrooms $1,000,000
93) 4 Girls in Town $1,000,000
94) Gun for a Coward $1,000,000
95) Mr. Cory $1,000,000
96) The Kettles on the Farm $1,000,000
97) The Devil's Hairpin $1,000,000

All-Time Top Film Grosses (Source: Variety, January 9th, 1957)
Includes actual domestic rentals to theaters in U.S. and Canada, not box-office takes, which would be higher. From the Variety post:

    "When a feature film grosses $4,000,000 or over, in domestic (United States and Canadian) rentals, that's blockbusting. Variety's annual revised lineup of such tall-stakes releases is presented herewith, updated to include the 1956 starters and, as regards previous years' entries, revised where (a) newly-added reissue money requires the raising of earlier estimates or (b) over-estimates in past demand downward adjustment.

      Some smash 1956 boxoffice performers are excluded for the reason they're not in circulation widely enough at this time to gauge the ultimate total grosses. In this group are "80 Days Around the World," (sic) "Ten Commandments," "Giant," "Seven Wonders of the World," "Oklahoma" and, perhaps, others.
   
     Still omitted from the record is D. W. Griffith's 1915 "Birth of a Nation," official records of which were not kept. Here are the standings (authority: this publication)."

1. Gone With the Wind (Selznick-MGM) (1939) $33,500,000 (includes reissues)
2) The Robe (20th) (1953) $17,500,000
3) The Greatest Show on Earth (Par) (1952) $12,800,000
4) From Here to Eternity (Col) (1953) $12,500,000
    This is Cinerama (Cinerama) (1952) $12,500,000
6) White Christmas (Par) (1954) $12,000,000
7) Duel in the Sun (Selznick) (1946) $11,300,000
    The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) (Goldwyn-RKO) $11,300,000
9) Quo Vadis (MGM) (1951) $10,500,000
10) Cinerama Holiday (Cinerama) (1955) $10,000,000
11) Samson and Delilah (Par) (1950) $9,000,000
      Guys and Dolls (Goldwyn- MGM) (1955) $9,000,000
13) The Caine Mutiny (Col) (1954) $8,700,000
14) The King and I (20th) (1956) $8,500,000
      Mister Roberts (WB) (1955) $8,500,000
      This is the Army (WB) (1943) $8,500,000
17) Battle Cry (WB) (1955) $8,000,000
      The Bells of St., Mary's (RKO) (1945) $8,000,000
      The Jolson Story (Col) (1946) $8,000,000
      Shane (Par) (1953) $8,000,000
      20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Disney-BV) (1954) $8,000,000
22) Trapeze (UA) (1956) $7,500,000
23) How to Marry a Millionaire (20th) (1953) $7,200,000
24) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney-RKO) (1937) $7,150,000 (includes reissues)

25) Not as a Stranger (UA) (1955) $7,100,000
      David and Bathsheba (20th) (1951) $7,100,000
27) The Glenn Miller Story (U) (1954) $7,000,000
28) High Society (MGM) (1956) $6,500,000
      I'll Cry Tomorrow (MGM) (1955) $6,500,000
      The Country Girl (Par) (1954) $6,500,000
      Going My Way (Par) (1944) $6,500,000
      The Lady and the Tramp (Disney-BV) (1955) $6,500,000
      The Snows of Kilimanjaro (20th) (1952) $6,500,000
34) Picnic (Col) (1955) $6,300,000
      For Whom the Bells Toll (Par) (1943) $6,300,000
36) War and Peace (Par) (1956) $6,250,000
37) Welcome Stranger (Par) (1947) $6,100,000
38) Hans Christian Andersen (Goldwyn-RKO) (1952) $6,000,000
      To Hell and Back (U) (1955) $6,000,000
      The High and the Mighty (WB) (1954) $6,000,000
      Ivanhoe (MGM) (1952) $6,000,000
      Peter Pan (Disney-RKO) (1953) $6,000,000
      The Sea Chase (WB) (1955) $6,000,000
      Sergeant York (WB) (1941) $6,000,000
      The Seven Year Itch (20th) (1955) $6,000,000
      A Star is Born (WB) (1954) $6,000,000
      Strategic Air Command (Par) (1955) $6,000,000
      The Tall Men (20th) (1955) $6,000,000
49) Life With Father (WB) (1947) $5,900,000

50) Blue Skies (Par) (1946) $5,700,000
51) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (MGM) (1954) $5,600,000
52) The Egg and I (U) (1947) $5,550,000
53) The Big Parade (MGM) (1925) $5,500,000
      House of Wax (WB) (1953) $5,500,000
55) The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) $5,300,000
      Rear Window (Par) (1954) $5,300,000
57) The Blackboard Jungle (MGM) (1955) $5,250,000
      Unconquered (Par) (1947) $5,250,000
      The Yearling (MGM) (1946) $5,250,000
60) Moby Dick (WB) (1956) $5,200,000
      Magnificent Obsession (U) (1954) $5,200,000
      Meet Me in St. Louis (MGM) (1944) $5,200,000
      Mogambo (MGM) (1953) $5,200,000
      Showboat (MGM) (1951) $5,200,000
65) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (20th) (1953) $5,100,000
66) The Outlaw (RKO) (1946) $5,075,000
67) Forever Amber (20th) (1947) $5,050,000
68) East of Eden (WB) (1955) $5,000,000
      Green Dolphin Street (MGM) (1947) $5,000,000
      Jolson Sings Again (Col) (1949) $5,000,000
      Moulin Rouge (UA) (1952) $5,000,000
      Mrs. Miniver (MGM) (1942) $5,000,000
      There's No Business Like Show Business (20th) (1954) $5,000,000
      The Razor's Edge (20th) (1946) $5,000,000

      The Red Shoes (E-L) (1948) $5,000,000
      The Song of Bernadette (20th) (1943) $5,000,000
      Three Coins in the Fountain (20th) (1954) $5,000,000
      Vera Cruz (UA) (1955) $5,000,000
      A Man Called Peter (20th) (1955) $5,000,000
80) Spellbound (Selznick- UA) (1945) $4,975,000
81) Since You Went Away (Selznick-UA) (1944) $4,950,000
82) King Solomon's Mines (MGM) (1950) $4,825,000
83) The Searchers (WB) (1956) $4,800,000
      Notorious (KO) (1946) $4,800,000
      Yankee Doodle Dandy (WB) (1942) $4,800,000
86) Salome (Col) (1953) $4,750,000
87) Battleground (MGM) (1949) $4,700,000
      Dragnet (WB) (1954) $4,700,000
89) Annie Get Your Gun (MGM) (1950) $4,650,000
90) The Green Years (MGM) (1946) $4,600,000
91) The Conqueror (RKO) (1956) $4,500,000
      Rebel Without A Cause (WB) (1955) $4,500,000
      Anchors Aweigh (MGM) (1945) $4,500,000
      The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (RKO) (1947) $4,500,000
      The Bridges of Toko-Ri (Par) (1954) $4,500,000
      To Catch a Thief (Par) (1955) $4,500,000
      Easy to Wed (MGM) (1946) $4,500,000
      The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (MGM) (1921) $4,500,000
      The Great Caruso (MGM) (1951) $4,500,000

      The Paleface (Par) (1948) $4,500,000
      Random Harvest (MGM) (1942) $4,500,000
      Road to Rio (Par) (1947) $4,500,000
      Road to Utopia (Par) (1945) $4,500,000
      Thrill of a Romance (MGM) (1945) $4,500,000
      Till the Clouds Roll By (MGM) (1946) $4,500,000
      The Valley of Decision (MGM) (1945) $4,500,000
      Desiree (20th) (1954) $4,500,000
108) Easter Parade (MGM) (1948) $4,450,000
109) Cheaper By the Dozen (20th) (1950) $4,425,000
110) Two Years Before the Mast (Par) (1946) $4,400,000
        Knights of the Round Table (MGM) (1954) $4,400,000
112) The Man With the Golden Arm (UA) (1955) $4,350,000
        The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (20th) (1956) $4,350,000
        Red River (UA) (1948) $4,350,000
        The Hucksters (MGM) (1947) $4,350,000
        The Harvey Girls (MGM) (1946) $4,350,000
        Stage Door Canteen (UA) (1943) $4,350,000
118) The Lost Weekend (Par) (1945) $4,300,000
        Sailor Beware (Par) (1952) $4,300,000
120) Cinderella (Disney-RKO) (1950) $4,275,000
121) Bus Stop (20th) (1956) $4,250,000
        Adventure (MGM) (1945) $4,250,000
        The Egyptian (20th) (1954) $4,250,000
        Saratoga Trunk (WB) (1945) $4,250,000

         A Streetcar Named Desire (WB) (1951) $4,250,000
        Demetrius and the Gladiators (20th) (1954) $4,250,000
        Living it Up (Par) (1954) $4,250,000
        30 Seconds Over Tokyo (MGM) (1944) $4,250,000
129) The Rose Tattoo (Par) (1955) $4,200,000
        Hollywood Canteen (WB) (1944) $4,200,000
        The Three Musketeers (MGM) (1948) $4,200,000
        Weekend at the Waldorf (MGM) (1945) $4,200,000
        On the Waterfront (Col) (1954) $4,200,000
134) Father of the Bride (MGM) (1950) $4,150,000
135) The Bad Seed (WB) (1956) $4,100,0000
        The Man Who Knew too Much (Par) (1956) $4,100,000
        The African Queen (UA) (1951) $4,100,000
        Hondo (WB) (1953) $4,100,000
        Joan of Arc (RKO) (1948) $4,100,000
        Johnny Belinda (WB) (1948) $4,100,000
        I Was a Male War Bride (20th) (1949) $4,100,000
        Love Me or Leave Me (MGM) (1955) $4,100,000
        Margie (20th) (1946) $4,100,000
        Mother Wore Tights (20th) (1947) $4,100,000
        The Snake Pit (20th) (1948) $4,100,000
        Deep in My Heart (MGM) (1954) $4,100,000
147) Cass Timberlane (MGM) (1948) $4,050,000
        State Fair (20th) (1945) $4,050,000
149) Friendly Persuasion (UA) (1956) $4,000,000

        An American in Paris (MGM) $4,000,000
        Ben-Hur (MGM) (1925) $4,000,000
        The Dolly Sisters (20th) 1945) $4,000,000
        The Emperor Waltz (Par) (1948) $4,000,000
        Holiday in Mexico (MGM) (1948) $4,000,000
        Jumping Jumps (Par) (1952) $4,000,000
        The Kid From Brooklyn (Goldwyn-RKO) (1946) $4,000,000
        The Left Hand of God (20th) (1955) $4,000,000
        The Long, Long Trailer (MGM) (1954) $4,000,000
        Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (20th) (1955) $4,000,000
        The Moon is Blue  (UA) (1953) $4,000,000
        Night and Day (WB) (1946) $4,000,000
        Reap the Wild Wind (Par) (1942) $4,000,000
        Sabrina (Par) (1954) $4,000,000
        Sands of Iwo Jima (Rep) (1949) $4,000,000
        The Seven Little Foys (Par) (1955) $4,000,000
        The Singing Fool (WB) (1928) $4,000,000
        Smoky (20th) (1946) $4,000,000
        Ziegfeld Follies (MGM) (1945) $4,000,000

Boxoffice Magazine's Blue Ribbon Award Winners for 1957 (films deemed "most suitable for family entertainment"):

January- The Ten Commandments (1956)
February- The Rainmaker (1956)
March- Battle Hymn
April- The Spirit of St. Louis
May- Boy on a Dolphin
June- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 
July- Tammy and the Bachelor
August- An Affair to Remember
September- The Pajama Game
October- Man of a Thousand Faces
November- Les Girls
December- April Love
                                  

Harvard Lampoon's Movie Worst Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Ten Worst:

Raintree County

The Pride and the Passion

Peyton Place

Island in the Sun

Jeanne Eagels

Funny Face

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Sun Also Rises

Pal Joey

April Love

Worst Actor:

Rock Hudson, A Farewell to Arms

Worst Actress:

Kim Novak, Jeanne Eagels; Pal Joey

Worst Supporting Actor:

McGeorge Bundy, To the Age That is Waiting

Worst Supporting Actress:

Joan Collins, Island in the Sun

The Janos Kadar Award:

Tyrone Power for his superlatively impotent performance in The Sun Also Rises

Better-Things-for-Better-Living-Through-Chemistry: A Commendation:

To the producers of A Hatful of Rain for giving the movie industry a long overdue shot in the arm

The Wayward Bus Award:

Jayne Mansfield for her outstanding

The "Any Connection?" Prize:

Rita Hayworth, Fire Down Below; Bing Crosby, Man on Fire

The Most Deceptive Title:

Something of Value

The Elsa Maxwell Award:

Given for the first time in thirty-seven years to The Bachelor Party as the most unattractive social event of the season

The Suzy Parker Award:

For the most inauspicious male debut: Pat Boone, Bernadine

The Pat Boone Award:

For the most inauspicious female debut: Suzy Parker, Kiss Them for Me

Most Outrageous Case of On-Screen Discrimination Toward a Minority:

Walt Disney's ruthless suppression of the Weasels and Martens in Perri

The Gloria Swanson Award for the Most Unexpected Comeback:

James Dean, The James Dean Story

What the Bachelor Party Needed Most:

Les Girls

Special Commendation:

Kay Kendall for rescuing Les Girls from the dismal mediocrity which only Gene Kelly can add to a picture

Most Telling Argument for Birth Control:

Full of Life (1956)

Most Appalling Example of the Inadequacy of Our Present Social Security Program:

Fred Astaire, forced once more out of retirement to don his high-heeled tap shoes and pursue Audrey Hepburn before an ill-focused camera lens in Funny Face

The Marquis De Sade Award:

Operation Madball

"Oh Yeah?" Department:

The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

The Emilio Boscoe Award:

Natalie Wood whose saccharine, whining caricatures of American girlhood have, in film after tedious film, raised her above the obstacles of talented competition, first-draft scripts, pubescent co-stars, and sleepy directors to the top of the Hollywood heap

The Roscoe Award:

Jean Seberg, who, having allowed her ambition to outstrip her inability, has risen from student to starlet in little over a year, and demonstrated that she can be both soporific as a saint and insipid as a sinner

The Worst-Film-of-the-Century Award:

This award, given once every hundred years, is presented for the century 1857-1957 to Otto Preminger's Saint Joan