1957 in film
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Events
- October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.
Top grossing films
- North America
- The Ten Commandments
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Giant with James Dean
- Oklahoma!
- Pal Joey
- Seven Wonders of the World
- Teahouse of the August Moon
Academy Awards
- 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
Births
- January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
- January 15 - Julian Sands, actor
- March 20 - Theresa Russell, actress
- April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
- August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor
- September 12 - Rachel Ward, actress
Deaths
- January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, actor
- July 4 – Judy Tyler, actress
- July 24 - Sacha Guitry, French playright, actor and director
- August 7 - Oliver Hardy, American actor
Other movies released
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Peyton Place
- Old Yeller
- Island in the Sun
- Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley & Judy Tyler
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf
- The Delinquents
- Le Notti di Cabiria
- Aparajito
- La Grande strada azzurra
- Young and Dangerous
- Twelve Angry Men
- Aparajito, Golden Lion winner
- Friendly Persuasion, Palm d'Or winner
- The Seventh Seal, by director Ingmar Bergman
- An Affair to Remember
- A Farewell to Arms
- The Three Faces of Eve
- Nights of Cabiria
- Sayonara with Marlon Brando
- The Sweet Smell of Success
- What's Opera, Doc? with Bugs Bunny
- Quatermass 2