The 30th Academy Awards (1957): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS

AWARDS

  • 10
  • 9
  • 8
  • 6
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 3
  • 3
  • 3
  • Sayonara
  • Peyton Place
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • An Affair To Remember
  • Funny Face
  • Pal Joey
  • Raintree County
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Les Girls
  • Wild Is the Wind
  • 7
  • 4
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Sayonara
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Birds Anonymous
  • Designing Woman
  • The Enemy Below
  • Les Girls
  • The Joker Is Wild
  • The Nights of Cabiria
  • The Three Faces of Eve
  • The Wetback Hound
  • NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND
  • Best Picture winner
  • Best Picture nominee
  • Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Motion Picture)

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai - Sam Spiegel
  • Peyton Place - Jerry Wald
  • Sayonara - William Goetz
  • 12 Angry Men - Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose
  • Witness for the Prosecution - Arthur Hornblow Jr.

DIRECTING

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai - David Lean
  • Peyton Place - Mark Robson
  • Sayonara - Joshua Logan
  • 12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet
  • Witness for the Prosecution - Billy Wilder

ACTOR

  • Marlon Brando - Sayonara
  • Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain
  • Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution
  • Anthony Quinn - Wild Is the Wind

ACTRESS

  • Deborah Kerr - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
  • Anna Magnani - Wild Is the Wind
  • Elizabeth Taylor - Raintree County
  • Lana Turner - Peyton Place
  • Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

  • Red Buttons - Sayonara
  • Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell to Arms
  • Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place
  • Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

  • Carolyn Jones - The Bachelor Party
  • Elsa Lanchester - Witness for the Prosecution
  • Hope Lange - Peyton Place
  • Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara
  • Diane Varsi - Peyton Place

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai - Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle [1]
  • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - John Lee Mahin, John Huston
  • Peyton Place - John Michael Hayes
  • Sayonara - Paul Osborn
  • 12 Angry Men - Reginald Rose

STORY AND SCREENPLAY (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen)

  • Designing Woman - George Wells
  • Funny Face - Leonard Gershe
  • Man of a Thousand Faces - Story by Ralph Wheelwright; Screenplay by R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
  • The Tin Star - Story by Barney Slater, Joel Kane; Screenplay by Dudley Nichols
  • Vitelloni - Story by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli; Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano

SONG

  • "An Affair To Remember" - An Affair To Remember - Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Harold Adamson, Leo McCarey
  • "All The Way" - The Joker Is Wild - Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
  • "April Love" - April Love - Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
  • "Tammy" - Tammy and the Bachelor - Music, Lyrics by Ray Evans, Jay Livingston
  • "Wild Is the Wind" - Wild Is the Wind - Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington

SCORING

  • An Affair To Remember - Hugo Friedhofer
  • Boy on a Dolphin - Hugo Friedhofer
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai - Malcolm Arnold
  • Perri - Paul Smith
  • Raintree County - Johnny Green

FILM EDITING

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai - Peter Taylor
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - Warren Low
  • Pal Joey - Viola Lawrence, Jerome Thoms
  • Sayonara - Arthur P. Schmidt, Philip W. Anderson
  • Witness for the Prosecution - Daniel Mandell

CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • An Affair To Remember - Milton Krasner
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai - Jack Hildyard
  • Funny Face - Ray June
  • Peyton Place - William Mellor
  • Sayonara - Ellsworth Fredricks

ART DIRECTION

  • Funny Face - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
  • Les Girls - Art Direction: William A. Horning, Gene Allen; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle
  • Pal Joey - Art Direction: Walter Holscher; Set Decoration: William Kiernan, Louis Diage
  • Raintree County - Art Direction: William A. Horning, Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
  • Sayonara - Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley

COSTUME DESIGN

  • An Affair To Remember - Charles LeMaire
  • Funny Face - Edith Head, Hubert de Givenchy
  • Les Girls - Orry-Kelly
  • Pal Joey - Jean Louis
  • Raintree County - Walter Plunkett

SOUND RECORDING

  • Les Girls - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Dr. Wesley C. Miller (Sound Director)
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - Paramount Studio Sound Department, George Dutton (Sound Director)
  • Pal Joey - Columbia Studio Sound Department, John P. Livadary (Sound Director)
  • Sayonara - Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George Groves (Sound Director)
  • Witness for the Prosecution - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director

SPECIAL EFFECTS

  • The Enemy Below - Audible Effects by Walter Rossi
  • The Spirit of St. Louis - Visual Effects by Louis Lichtenfield

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

  • The Devil Came at Night - West Germany
  • Gates of Paris - France
  • Mother India - India
  • The Nights of Cabiria - Italy
  • Nine Lives - Norway

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

  • Albert Schweitzer - Jerome Hill
  • On the Bowery - Lionel Rogosin
  • Torero! - Manuel Barbachano Ponce

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

  • Birds Anonymous - Edward Selzer
  • One Droopy Knight - William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
  • Tabasco Road - Edward Selzer
  • Trees and Jamaica Daddy - Stephen Bosustow
  • The Truth about Mother Goose - Walt Disney

SHORT SUBJECT (Live Action)

  • A Chairy Tale - Norman McLaren
  • City of Gold - Tom Daly
  • Foothold on Antarctica - James Carr
  • Portugal - Ben Sharpsteen
  • The Wetback Hound - Larry Lansburgh

HONORARY AWARDS

  • To B.B. Kahane for distinguished service to the motion picture industry.
  • To Charles Brackett for outstanding service to the Academy.
  • To Gilbert M. ('Broncho Billy') Anderson, motion picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment.
  • To The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers for their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry.

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

  • Samuel Goldwyn

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (Academy Award of Merit)

  • To THE MOTION PICTURE RESEARCH COUNCIL for the design and development of a high efficiency projection screen for drive-in theatres. [Projection]
  • To the TODD-AO CORP. and WESTREX CORP. for developing a method of producing and exhibiting wide-film motion pictures known as the Todd-AO System. [Systems]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

  • To HARLAN L. BAUMBACH, LORAND WARGO, HOWARD M. LITTLE and the UNICORN ENGINEERING CORP. for the development of an Automatic Printer Light Selector. [Laboratory]
  • To the SOCIT D'OPTIQUE ET DE MECANIQUE DE HAUTE PRECISION for the development of a high speed vari-focal photographic lens. [Lenses and Filters]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

  • To 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. [Stage Operations]

ACADEMY NOTES

  1. 2. Though Pierre Boulle received official screen credit, it was commonly known that blacklisted writers, Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, wrote the screenplay based on Mr. Boulle's novel (translated from the French). The Board of Governors, on December 11, 1984, voted posthumous Oscars to Wilson and Foreman and Academy records have been updated.