Film year 1957

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Film year 1957
The American actor Humphrey Bogart died on January 14, 1957 .

Events

• The youth magazine BRAVO awards the BRAVO Otto reader award for the first time . In the male film star category, the gold award was won by James Dean , silver by Horst Buchholz , and bronze by Burt Lancaster . Among the female film stars, Maria Schell wins ahead of Gina Lollobrigida and Romy Schneider .

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe will be presented on February 28 at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles.

• Best Drama: Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Joseph Anderson
• Best musical: The King and I by Walter Lang
• Best Actor (Drama): Kirk Douglas in Vincent van Gogh - A Life of Passion
• Best Actress (Drama): Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia
• Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Cantinflas in Around the World in 80 Days
• Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Deborah Kerr in The King and Me
• Best Supporting Actor: Earl Holliman in The Rainmaker
• Best supporting actress: Eileen Heckart in Böse Saat
• Best Director: Elia Kazan for Baby Doll
• Cecil B. DeMille Award : Mervyn LeRoy

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards will be held on March 27 at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles . The moderator is Jerry Lewis . This year, for the first time, a regular Oscar will be awarded in the category of best foreign language film.

• Best Film: Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Joseph Anderson
• Best Actor: Yul Brynner in The King and Me
• Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia
• Best Director: George Stevens for Giants
• Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn in Vincent van Gogh - A Life of Passion for his portrayal of Paul Gauguin
• Best Supporting Actress: Dorothy Malone in Written In The Wind
• Best foreign language film: La Strada - The Song of the Street by Federico Fellini

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1957

The Cannes festival runs from May 2nd to May 17th. The jury under President André Maurois selects the following winners:

• Golden Palm : Alluring Temptation by William Wyler
• Best Actor: John Kitzmiller in The Valley of Peace
• Best Actress: Giulietta Masina in The Nights of Cabiria
• Best Director: Robert Bresson, for A Condemned Man Has Escaped
• Special Jury Prize: The Canal by Andrzej Wajda and The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman

Berlin International Film Festival 1957

The festival in Berlin has existed since 1951. This year it joins the ranks of the A-festivals. The festival takes place from June 21st to July 2nd. An international jury selects the winners:

• Golden Bear : The Twelve Jurors of Sidney Lumet
• Best Actor: Pedro Infante in Tizoc
• Best Actress: Yvonne Mitchell in The Woman in a Dressing Gown
• Best director: Mario Monicelli for Padri i figli
• Best music: Ravi Shankar for Kabuliwala

Venice Film Festival

The Venice Festival runs from August 25th to September 8th. The jury under President René Clair selects the following winners:

• Golden Lion : Apu's Path to Life: The Invincible by Satyajit Ray
• Silver Lion: White Nights by Luchino Visconti
• Best Actor: Anthony Franciosa in Poisonous Snow
• Best actress: Dsidra Ritenbergs in Malwa

German film award

• Best film: The Captain von Köpenick
• Best director: Helmut Käutner for Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
• Best Actress: Lilli Palmer for Anastasia, the last daughter of the Tsar
• Best Actor: Heinz Rühmann for Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
• Best supporting actor: Hannes Messemer for Rose Bernd

British Film Academy Award

• Best film: Gervaise by René Clément
• British Best Actor: Peter Finch for March Through Hell
• Best Foreign Actor: François Périer for Gervaise
• Best British Actress: Virginia McKenna for March through Hell
• Best Foreign Actress: Anna Magnani for The Tattooed Rose

Étoile de Cristal

• Best Film: A Condemned Man Escaped by Robert Bresson
• Best Actor: Bourvil in Two Men, a Pig and the Night of Paris
• Best actress: Maria Casarès in Le théâtre national populaire
• Best foreign film: Sehnsucht by Luchino Visconti
• Best Foreign Actor: Henry Fonda in War and Peace
• Best foreign actress: Alida Valli in longing

New York Film Critics Circle Award

• Best film: The Bridge on the Kwai by David Lean
• Best director: David Lean for Die Brücke am Kwai
• Best Actor: Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the Kwai
• Best Actress: Deborah Kerr in The Sailor and the Nun
• Best foreign film: Gervaise by René Clément

National Board of Review

• Best film: The Bridge on the Kwai by David Lean
• Best director: David Lean for Die Brücke am Kwai
• Best Actor: Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the Kwai
• Best Actress: Joanne Woodward in Eva with the three faces and the window without a curtain
• Best Supporting Actor: Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Best Supporting Actress: Sybil Thorndike in The Prince and the Dancer
• Best foreign language film: Das Wort von Carl Theodor Dreyer

Further film prizes and awards

• German critic award : Ottomar Domnick
• Directors Guild of America Award : George Stevens for Giants , King Vidor and Donald Crisp (awards for their life's work)
• Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Kurt Hoffmann for directing confessions by the impostor Felix Krull
• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival : Under the mantle of the night of Amit Moitra and Sombhu Mitra
• Louis Delluc Prize : Elevator to the scaffold of Louis Malle
• Nastro d'Argento : The red signal from Pietro Germi and Moby Dick from John Huston
• Photoplay Award : The Great Love of My Life by Leo McCarey (Best Film), Rock Hudson (Most Popular Male Star), Deborah Kerr (Most Popular Female Star)
• German Film Critics' Prize : Endstation Liebe by Georg Tressler
• Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Grandmother Sabella of Dino Risi (Golden Shell)
• Writers Guild of America Award: The King and I (Best Musical), Alluring Temptation (Best Drama), Around the World in 80 Days (Best Comedy), Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (Lifetime Achievement)

Birthdays

January to March

Jaco Van Dormael (born February 9)

Spike Lee (born March 20)

Christopher Lambert (born March 29)

January

• 0January 1: Jennifer Edwards , American actress
• 0January 1: Luis Guzmán , American actor
• 0January 1: Madolyn Smith Osborne , American actress
• 0January 2nd: Joanna Pacuła , Polish actress
• January 12: John Lasseter , American animated film director and producer
• January 15: Mario van Peebles , American actor and director
• January 25: Jenifer Lewis , American actress
• January 28: Harley Jane Kozak , American actress
• January 28: Mirjana Karanović , Serbian actress

February

• 0February 1: Cylk Cozart , American actor
• 0February 6: Kathy Najimy , American actress
• 0February 9: Jaco Van Dormael , Belgian director
• February 10: Briony McRoberts , British actress († 2013)
• February 13: Karl Künstler , Austrian actor
• February 16: LeVar Burton , American actor
• February 19: Ray Winstone , British actor
• February 20: Martha Lavey , American actress († 2017)
• February 21st: Stijn Coninx , Belgian director
• February 22: Luca Bercovici , American actor
• February 27: Timothy Spall , British actor

March

• 0March 2nd: Heinrich Schafmeister , German actor
• 0March 2: Dito Tsintsadze , Georgian director and screenwriter
• 0March 8: Cynthia Rothrock , American actress
• 0March 9: Mark Mancina , American composer
• March 14: Faith Minton , American actress
• March 15: Joaquim de Almeida , Portuguese-American actor
• March 15: Christopher Murray , American actor
• March 15: Park Overall , American actress
• March 15th: Sergio Stivaletti , Italian makeup artist
• March 17th: Richard Kwietniowski , British director
• March 17: Laurene Landon , American actress
• March 20: Vanessa Bell Calloway , American actress
• March 20: Spike Lee , American director
• March 20: Theresa Russell , American actress
• March 20: Chris Wedge , American animation director
• March 23: Amanda Plummer , American actress
• March 24th: Sophie Barjac , Belgian actress
• March 24th: László I. Kish , Swiss actor, director and author
• March 26th: Aktan Abdykalykow , Kyrgyz director
• March 26th: Oliver Hirschbiegel , German director
• March 29: Christopher Lambert , American actor
• March 30th: Michael Lehmann , American director
• March 30: Paul Reiser , American actor
• March 31: Marc McClure , American actor

April to June

Daniel Day-Lewis (born April 29)

April

• 0April 4th: Aki Kaurismäki , Finnish director
• April 14: Lothaire Bluteau , Canadian actor
• April 17th: Nick Hornby , British writer
• April 23: Dominique Horwitz , German actor
• April 29: Daniel Day-Lewis , British actor

May

• 0May 5th: Peter Howitt , British director and actor
• 0May 9: Paolo Barzman , French-American director
• May 13: Alan Ball , American screenwriter
• May 21: Judge Reinhold , American actor
• May 21: Renée Soutendijk , Dutch actress
• May 26: Margaret Colin , American actress
• May 28: Leah Ayres , American actress
• May 29: Ted Levine , American actor
• May 29: Mohsen Makhmalbaf , Iranian director
• May 31: Gabriel Barylli , Austrian actor
• May 31: Kyle Secor , American actor

June

• 0June 9th: Tobias Meister , German actor, voice actor and dialogue book author
• June 14: Bradley J. Anderson , American costume designer († 2000)
• June 14: Jay Roach , American director and producer
• June 17th: Joachim Król , German actor
• June 19: Karl Walter Lindenlaub , German cameraman
• June 23: Frances McDormand , American actress
• June 26th: Jan Schütte , German director
• June 29th: María Conchita Alonso , American actress

July to September

Ulrich Tukur (born July 29)

Melanie Griffith (born August 9)

July

• 0July 1: Lisa Blount , American actress († 2010)
• July 12th: Mel Harris , American actress
• July 13: Cameron Crowe , American director
• July 16: Faye Grant , American actress
• July 17: Alexandr Petrov , Russian director and animator
• July 20: Donna Dixon , American actress
• July 21: Jon Lovitz , American actor
• July 23: Rufus Beck , German actor and radio play speaker
• July 25th: Olivia Silhavy , Austrian actress
• July 26: Nana Visitor , American actress
• July 29: Ulrich Tukur , German actor
• July 29th: Daniel Werner , German actor and speaker
• July 30: Victor Slezak , American actor

August

• 0August 1: Laura Johnson , American actress
• 0August 1st: Stefan Gubser , Swiss actor
• 0August 5: Faith Prince , American actress
• 0August 9: Melanie Griffith , American actress
• August 12: Isaach De Bankolé , French actor
• August 17: Tim Bagley , American actor
• August 18th: Carole Bouquet , French actress
• August 18: Denis Leary , American actor
• August 19: Martin Donovan , American actor
• August 25: Simon McBurney , British actor
• August 25: Kai Taschner , German actor
• August 27: Jean-Yves Berteloot , French actor
• August 28: Rick Rossovich , American actor
• August 28: Daniel Stern , American actor

September

• 0September 4: Patricia Tallman , American actress
• 0September 8: Heather Thomas , American actress
• 0September 9: Rebecca Völz , German actress
• September 10: Kate Burton , American actress
• September 12: Rachel Ward , British actress
• September 16: Assumpta Serna , Spanish actress
• September 21: Hanns-Georg Rodek , German journalist and film critic
• September 24: Brad Bird , American director and screenwriter
• September 25: Michael Madsen , American actor
• September 28: Harris Savides , American cameraman († 2012)
• September 30th: Fran Drescher , American actress

October to December

Dolph Lundgren (born November 3)

Steve Buscemi (born December 13)

October

• 0October 4th: Bill Fagerbakke , American actor
• 0October 5: Bernie Mac , American actor
• 0October 9: Stanley Kwan , Chinese director
• October 11th: Dawn French , British actress
• October 15: Mira Nair , Indian director
• October 15: Stacy Peralta , American director
• October 17: Lawrence Bender , American producer
• October 19: William O'Leary , American actor
• October 27: Tsai Ming-Liang , Sino-Malay director
• October 28: Christian Berkel , German actor
• October 29: Dan Castellaneta , American actor
• October 30: Kevin Pollak , American actor

November

• 0November 3rd: Dolph Lundgren , Swedish actor
• 0November 6: Lori Singer , American actress
• November 13th: Hermine Huntgeburth , German director
• November 17th: Dani Levy , Swiss director
• November 18: Marie Colbin , Austrian actress
• November 20: Sophie Lorain , Canadian actress
• November 24th: Denise Crosby , American actress
• November 24th: Alfons Haider , Austrian actor
• November 27: Kevin O'Connell , American sound engineer
• November 27: Callie Khouri , American screenwriter and director
• November 30th: Nancy Everhard , American actress

December

• 0December 1st: Lü Yue , Chinese cameraman
• December 10: Michael Clarke Duncan , American actor († 2012)
• December 12: Robert Lepage , Canadian director
• December 13: Steve Buscemi , American actor
• December 19: Cyril Collard , French director, actor and screenwriter
• December 21: Rolf Kanies , German film and theater actor
• December 25th: Douglas Wolfsperger , German director

Day unknown

• Giuseppe Gaudino , Italian documentary filmmaker and set designer
• Roberto Giannarelli , Italian director

deceased

Erich von Stroheim († May 12)

Oliver Hardy († August 7th)

Käthe Dorsch († December 25th)

January to June

• 0January 6th: Viggo Larsen , Danish actor and director (* 1880)
• January 14: Humphrey Bogart , American actor (* 1899)
• January 26: Helene Costello , American actress (* 1906)

• 0February 4: Erich Ponto , German actor (* 1884)

• 0March 5: William Cameron Menzies , American director and production designer (* 1896)
• March 11: Albert Florath , German actor (* 1888)
• March 12: Josephine Hull , American actress (* 1877)
• March 13: Paul Bildt , German actor (* 1885)
• March 25: Max Ophüls , German director (* 1902)
• March 31: Gene Lockhart , Canadian actor (* 1891)

• 0April 2: Joseph Massolle , German sound engineer (* 1889)
• 0April 5: Gustaf Hedberg , Swedish actor (* 1911)
• 0April 8: Dorothy Sebastian , American actress (* 1903)

• 0May 4th: Katie Johnson , British actress (* 1878)
• May 12: Erich von Stroheim , Austrian actor and director (* 1885)
• May 29: James Whale , British director (* 1889)

• June 28: Kurt Schulz , German cameraman (* 1912)

July to December

• July 13: Kurt Vespermann , German actor (* 1887)
• July 24th: Sacha Guitry , French actor and screenwriter (* 1885)

• 0August 4th: Maria Carmi , Italian actress (* 1880)
• 0August 7: Oliver Hardy , American actor (* 1892)

• September 14: Alfred Neugebauer , Austrian actor (* 1888)
• September 18: Augusto Genina , Italian director (* 1892)

• October 18: Willy A. Kleinau , German actor (* 1907)
• October 18: Rolf Pinegger , German actor (* 1873)
• October 29: Louis B. Mayer , American producer (* 1885)

• 0November 2: Georg Asagaroff , Russian director (* 1892)
• 0November 3: Charles Brabin , American director (* 1883)
• November 30th: Fred F. Sears , American director and actor (born 1913)

• 0December 4: Ernst Proeckl , Austrian actor and director (* 1888)
• December 13: Georg Pahl , German actor and radio play speaker (* 1893)
• December 24th: Norma Talmadge , American actress (* 1894)
• December 25th: Käthe Dorsch , German actress (* 1890)

See also

Portal: Film  - Overview of Wikipedia content on film

Web links

Commons : 1957 Film Year  - collection of images, videos and audio files