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Best Picture
 THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (Won 7 Awards) - Horizon, Columbia. Produced by Sam Spiegel
 PEYTON PLACE - Wald, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Jerry Wald
SAYONARA - Goetz, Warner Bros. Produced by William Goetz
12 ANGRY MEN - Orion-Nova, UA. Produced by Henry Fonda & Reginald Rose
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION - Small-Hornblow, UA. Produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Actor
Marlon Brando in SAYONARA
Anthony Franciosa in A HATFUL OF RAIN
Alec Guinness in THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Charles Laughton in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
Anthony Quinn in WILD IS THE WIND
Actress
Deborah Kerr in HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON
Anna Magnani in WILD IS THE WIND
Elizabeth Taylor in RAINTREE COUNTY
Lana Turner in PEYTON PLACE
Joanne Woodward in THE THREE FACES OF EVE
Supporting Actor
Red Buttons in SAYONARA
Vittorio De Sica - A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Sessue Hayakawa in THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Arthur Kennedy in PEYTON PLACE
Russ Tamblyn in PEYTON PLACE
Supporting Actress
Carolyn Jones in THE BACHELOR PARTY
Elsa Lanchester in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
Hope Lange in PEYTON PLACE
Miyoshi Umeki in SAYONARA
Diane Varsi in PEYTON PLACE
Director
David Lean for THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Joshua Logan for SAYONARA
Sidney Lumet for 12 ANGRY MEN
Mark Robson for PEYTON PLACE
Billy Wilder for WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
Writing: Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Rules changed this year to two Awards for Writing instead of three Awards as previously given.
George Wells - DESIGNING WOMAN
Leonard Gershe - FUNNY FACE
Ralph Wheelright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts - MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES
Barney Slater, Joel Kane & Dudley Nichols - THE TIN STAR
Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano & Tullio Pinelli - I VITELLONI
Writing: Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Rules changed this year to two Awards for Writing instead of three Awards as previously given.
Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson (blacklisted at the time, awarded in 1985) & Carl Foreman (blacklisted at the time, awarded in 1985) THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
John Lee Mahin & John Huston - HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON
John Michael Hayes - PEYTON PLACE
Paul Osborn - SAYONARA
Reginald Rose - 12 ANGRY MEN
Foreign Language Film
Rules changed in 1957: Award given to the Production Company, not the individual producer.
NACHTS, WENN DER TEUFEL KAM (THE DEVIL CAME AT NIGHT, West Germany)
PORTE DES LILAS (GATES OF PARIS, France)
BHARAT MATA (MOTHER INDIA, India)
LE NOTTI DE CABIRIA (NIGHTS OF CABIRIA, Italy)
NI LIV (NINE LIVES, Norway)
Art Direction/Set Decoration
Rules changed this year to one Award instead of separate Awards for Black & White and Color.
Hal Pereira & George W. Davis - Art Direction, Sam M. Comer & Ray Moyer - Set Decoration FUNNY FACE
William A. Horning & Gene Allen - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis & Richard Pefferle - Set Decoration LES GIRLS
Walter Holscher - Art Direction, William R. Kiernan & Louis Diage - Set Decoration PAL JOEY
William A. Horning & Urie McCleary - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis & Hugh Hunt - Set Decoration RAINTREE COUNTY
Ted Haworth - Art Direction, Robert Priestley - Set Decoration SAYONARA
Cinematography
Rules changed this year to one Award for Cinematography instead of separate awards for Black & White and Color.
Milton Krasner - AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
Jack Hildyard - THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Ray June - FUNNY FACE
William C. Mellor - PEYTON PLACE
Ellsworth Fredericks - SAYONARA
Costume Design
Rules changed this year to one Award for Costume Design instead of separate Awards for Black & White and Color.
Charles LeMaire - AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
Edith Head & Hubert De Givenchy - FUNNY FACE
Orry-Kelly - LES GIRLS
Jean Louis - PAL JOEY
Walter Plunkett - RAINTREE COUNTY
Documentary (Features)
Jerome Hill - Producer ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Lionel Rogosin - Producer ON THE BOWERY
Manuel Barbachano Ponce - Producer TORERO!
Documentary (Short Subjects)
No Award given for 1957.
Film Editing
Peter Taylor - THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Warren Low - GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL
Viola Lawrence & Jerome Thoms - PAL JOEY
Arthur P. Schmidt & Philip W. Anderson - SAYONARA
Daniel Mandell - WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
Music: Score
Rules changed this year to one Award for Music Scoring instead of separate Awards for Scoring Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Hugo Friedhofer - AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
Hugo Friedhofer - BOY ON A DOLPHIN
Malcolm Arnold - THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Paul Smith - PERRI
Johnny Green - RAINTREE COUNTY
Music: Song
Dimitri Tiomkin - Music, Ned Washington - Lyrics WILD IS THE WIND "Wild is the Wind"
Ray Evans & Jay Livingston - Music & Lyrics TAMMY AND THE BACHELOR "Tammy"
Sammy Fain - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics APRIL LOVE "April Love"
Jimmy Van Heusen - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics THE JOKER IS WILD "All The Way" 
Harry Warren - Music, Harold Adamson & Leo McCarey - Lyrics AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER "An Affair To Remember"
Short Subjects (Cartoons)
Rules changed this year to two Awards for Short Subjects instead of three as previously given.
Edward Selzer - Producer BIRDS ANONYMOUS
William Hanna & Joseph Barbera - Producers ONE DROOPY KNIGHT
Edward Selzer - Producer TABASCO ROAD
Stephen Bosustow - Producer TREES AND JAMAICA DADDY
Walt Disney - Producer THE TRUTH ABOUT MOTHER GOOSE
Short Subjects (Live Action Subjects)
Rules changed this year to two Awards for Short Subjects instead of three as previously given.
Norman McLaren - Producer A CHAIRY TALE
Tom Daly - Producer CITY OF GOLD
James Carr - Producer FOOTHOLD ON ANTARCTICA
Ben Sharpsteen - Producer PORTUGAL
Larry Lansburgh - Producer THE WETBACK HOUND
Sound
Prior to 1957 (30th Year) known as "Sound Recording"
George Dutton (Paramount Studio Sound Department) GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL
Dr. Wesley C. Miller (MGM Studio Sound Department) LES GIRLS
John P. Livadary (Columbia Studio Sound Department) PAL JOEY
George Groves (Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department) SAYONARA
Gordon E. Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
Special Effects
Walter Rossi - Special Effects (Audible) THE ENEMY BELOW
Louis Lichtenfield - Special Effects (Visual) THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
Todd-AO Corporation & Westrex Corporation - 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 theatres.
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 (Unicorn Engineering Corporation) - For the development of an automatic printer light selector.
Class III (Citation):
 Charles E. Sutter & William Bryson Smith (Paramount Pictures Corporation) & General Cable Corporation - For the engineering and application to studio use of aluminum lightweight electrical cable and connectors.
Honorary and Other Awards
Charles Brackett - For outstanding service to the Academy. Winner presented a Statuette.
B. B. Kahane - For distinguished service to the motion picture industry. Winner presented a Statuette.
Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson - Motion Picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment. Winner presented a Statuette.
Society Of Motion Picture And Television Engineers - For their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No award given for 1957.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Samuel Goldwyn
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FIRSTS
· The movie industry produced the TV broadcast with no commercial interruptions.
· The entire show was broadcast live from the Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles.
· Academy members were made entirely responsible for nominations. Voting categories were trimmed down to 23 by consolidating the Writing Awards and combining "Color" and "Black and White" categories.
· Miyoshi Umeki was the first Asian actress to win an Oscar®. She won for her film debut.
· Diane Varsi and director Sidney Lumet were nominated for their film debuts.
· No nominations for Documentary Short Subject.
RULE CHANGES
· In Cinematography, Art Direction and Costume Design categories, no distinction is made between Black & White and Color films. For Music Scoring, no distinction made between musical and non-musical films. Separate categories of One-Reel and Two-Reel Short Subjects combined into "Live Action Subjects." "Motion Picture Story" and "Screenplay - Original" joined as "Story and Screenplay."
· "Sound Recording" becomes "Sound."
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Paths of Glory, A Face in the Crowd, Funny Face
Director: Elia Kazan - A Face in the Crowd, Stanley Kubrick - Paths of Glory
Actor: Tony Curtis - Sweet Smell of Success, Kirk Douglas - Paths of Glory
Actress: Marlene Dietrich - Witness for the Prosecution
Supporting Actor: Errol Flynn - The Sun Also Rises
Song: "Jailhouse Rock," "Treat Me Nice"
ROLE REVERSALS
· Alec Guinness wasn't David Lean's first choice. His Oscar®- winning role had been earmarked for either Noël Coward or Charles Laughton (who later remarked, "I never understood the part until I saw Guinness play it.")
· Judy Garland and Jean Simmons passed on The Three Faces of Eve before Joanne Woodward got her first look at the script.
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID...
· Deborah Kerr's nomination was her fourth unsuccessful bid.
· Paul Newman would have to wait 29 years before bringing home a matching Oscar® to his wife, Joanne Woodward.
· Best Supporting nominee Sessue Hayakawa's unsuccessful bid was the only loss that prevented a sweep for The Bridge on the River Kwai team.
UNMENTIONABLES
· Mike Todd, last year's Best Picture winner and husband of nominee Elizabeth Taylor, was killed in a plane crash four days before the Awards ceremony. Taylor wept, "I was supposed to be with him but I had a cold."
· Quick to follow Todd were former Paramount chief Don Hartman and Columbia's "prince of darkness" Harry Cohn.
· Billy Wilder, commenting on his directing nom for Witness for the Prosecution: "To give an Academy Award to a man who directs a play is like giving the removalists who took Michelangelo's Pieta from the Vatican to the New York World's Fair a first award in sculpture."
· Three-and-a-half months of filming on location in Ceylon cost Kwai director David Lean his wife. She sued for divorce on grounds of desertion.
· The screenplay for Kwai was yet another "front" job. Pierre Boule, who had written the novel on which the film was based, accepted the British Academy Award and told the audience that he hadn't written all of the screenplay. Hollywood scuttlebutt had it that the real authors were blacklistees Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson.
· Awards show producer Jerry Wald issued a fashion dictum: A ban on the latest rage from Paris -- sack dresses.
· Kwai's Adapted Screenplay Award was accepted by Kim Novak, who hurried off and told reporters, "This is the closest I'll ever come to one of these."
· Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster ended their performance of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen's "It's Great Not to Be Nominated" with a spectacular stunt: Douglas did a handstand over Lancaster, who then held him aloft while dancing offstage.
· The televised portion of the evening ended after the Best Picture Award. The show had run long by six minutes, so Bette Davis's presentation of Honorary Awards to Charles Brackett and Broncho Billy Anderson was not broadcast. Davis was not pleased, especially since the Academy had found time earlier in the show for Donald Duck to narrate a history of film. "My segment was six minutes in length," she later complained to the press. "Unfortunately, that was also the length of Mr. Donald Duck's bit of film, and they chose Donald Duck. You always have to settle for less on TV."
· The Academy's first post-ceremony Governor's Ball was held at the Bali Room of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
· When Lana Turner and her daughter Cheryl returned to their suite at the Bel-Air Hotel after the Governor's Ball, Johnny Stompanato, Turner's boyfriend, was waiting for her. He beat Turner -- still wearing her diamonds -- for not taking him to the show.
· Ten nights later, in Turner's Beverly Hills home, Cheryl interrupted another fight between the couple by stabbing Stompanato to death with a knife from the cutlery set he had bought for the new house. The murder made headlines, but young Cheryl was acquitted.
· In Italy, the hottest ticket of the year was a bootleg copy of the Rock Hudson-Mae West duet of "Baby, It's Cold Outside."
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