1957 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Nights of Cabiria (dir: Federico Fellini)

2. Sweet Smell of Success (dir: Alexander Mackendrick)

3. Throne of Blood (dir: Akira Kurosawa; International/UK Release Date)

4. Paths of Glory (dir: Stanley Kubrick)

5. The Tall T (dir: Budd Boetticher)

6. A Face in the Crowd (dir: Elia Kazan)

7. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (dir: Frank Taschlin)

8. The Bridge on the River Kwai (dir: David Lean)

9. Kanal (dir: Andrzej Wajda)

10. Funny Face (dir: Stanley Donen)

 Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 3:10 to Yuma (dir: Delmer Daves), 12 Angry Men (dir: Sidney Lumet), Curse of the Demon (dir: Jacques Tourneur), Desk Set (dir: Walter Lang), Les Girls (dir: George Cukor), A Man Escaped (dir: Robert Bresson; US Release Date), On the Bowery (dir: Lionel Rogosin), The Tarnished Angels (dir: Douglas Sirk), and Tokyo Twilight (dir: Yasujiro Ozu)

Best Picture: The Nights of Cabiria
Director: Federico Fellini Producers: Dino De Laurentiis
US Distributor: Lopert Films

Best Director:
Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood
2. Elia Kazan, A Face in the Crowd
3. Federico Fellini, The Nights of Cabiria
4. Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory
5. Budd Boetticher, The Tall T

Best Actor:
Tony Curtis, Sweet Smell of Success
2. Andy Griffith, A Face in the Crowd
3. Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory
4. Toshiro Mifune, Throne of Blood
5. Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actress:
Giulietta Masina, The Nights of Cabiria
2. Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face
3. Katharine Hepburn, Desk Set
4. Patricia Neal, A Face in the Crowd
5. Deborah Kerr, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Best Supporting Actor:
Burt Lancaster, Sweet Smell of Success
2. George Macready, Paths of Glory
3. Lee J. Cobb, 12 Angry Men
4. Van Heflin, 3:10 to Yuma
5. Sessue Hayakawa, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Supporting Actress:
Joan Blondell, Desk Set
2. Kay Thompson, Funny Face
3. Betsy Drake, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
4. Isuzu Yamada, Tokyo Twilight
5. Kay Kendall, Les Girls

Best Original Screenplay: 
A Face in the Crowd — Budd Schulberg
2. Kanal — Jerry Stefan Stawinski
3. Tokyo Twilight — Yasujiro Ozu and Kogo Noda
4. Funny Face — Leonard Gershe
5. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison — John Lee Mahin and John Huston

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Nights of Cabiria — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano
2. Sweet Smell of Success — Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai — Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman
4. Throne of Blood — Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryûzô Kikushima and Akira Kurosawa
5. 12 Angry Men — Reginald Rose

Best Cinematography:
Throne of Blood — Asakazu Nakai
2. Funny Face — Ray June
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai — Jack Hildyard
4. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? — Joe MacDonald
5. Sweet Smell of Success — James Wong Howe

Best Film Editing:
Paths of Glory — Eva Kroll
2. Nights of Cabiria — Leo Catozzo
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai — Peter Taylor
4. A Man Escaped — Raymond Lamy
5. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? — Hugh S. Fowler

Best Original Score:
The Bridge on the River Kwai – Malcolm Arnold
2. The Nights of Cabiria — Nino Rota
3. Sweet Smell of Success — Elmer Bernstein
4. Peyton Place — Franz Waxman
5. Throne of Blood — Masaru Sato

Best Production Design:
Funny Face — Hal Pereira, George W. Davis, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
2. Throne of Blood — Yoshiro Muraki
3. Desk Set — Maurice Ransford, Lyle Wheeler, Paul S. Fox, and Walter M. Scott
4. Love in the Afternoon — Alexandre Trauner and Oliver Emert
5. Sweet Smell of Success — Edward Carrere and Edward Boyle

Best Costume Design:
Throne of Blood — Taiki Mori
2. Raintree Country — Walter Plunkett
3. Les Girls — Orry-Kelly
4. Funny Face — Edith Head
5. Love in the Afternoon — Jay A. Morley, Jr.

Best Visual Effects:
The Incredible Shrinking Man

Best Sound:
A Face in the Crowd

Best Ensemble Cast:
3:10 to Yuma

Best First Feature:
Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men

Best Ensemble Cast: 
3:10 to Yuma (dir: Delmar Daves; in alphabetical order): Sheridan Comerate, Leora Dana, Robert Ellenstein, Robert Emhardt, Felicia Farr, Glenn Ford (pictured), Van Heflin (pictured), Richard Jaeckel, Henry Jones, George Mitchell, and Ford Rainey

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men

RECAP

W I N S:

Nights of Cabiria — 3, Throne of Blood — 3,
A Face in the Crowd — 2, Sweet Smell of Success — 2, 3:10 to Yuma — 1, 12 Angry Men — 1, Bridge Over River Kwai — 1, Desk Set — 1, Funny Face — 1, The Incredible Shrinking Man — 1, Paths of Glory — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S:

Sweet Smell of Success — 8, Throne of Blood — 8,
Bridge Over the River Kwai — 7, Funny Face — 7, A Face in the Crowd — 6, Nights of Cabiria — 6, Paths of Glory — 5, 12 Angry Men — 3, Desk Set — 3, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? — 3, 3:10 to Yuma — 2, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison — 2, Kanal — 2, Les Girls — 2, Love in the Afternoon — 2, The Tall T — 2, Tokyo Twilight — 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s