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. 3:10 to Yuma (dir: Delmer Daves)

5. The Tall T (dir: Budd Boetticher)

6. Paths of Glory (dir: Stanley Kubrick)

7. 12 Angry Men (dir: Sidney Lumet)

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

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

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

 Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Curse of the Demon (dir: Jacques Tourneur), Desk Set (dir: Walter Lang), Funny Face (dir: Stanley Donen), Kanal (dir: Andrzej Wajda), Les Girls (dir: George Cukor), Love in the Afternoon (dir: Billy Wilder), 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. Delmer Daves, 3:10 to Yuma
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. Glenn Ford, 3:10 to Yuma

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. Richard Boone, The Tall T
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. Felicia Farr, 3:10 to Yuma
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. 12 Angry Men — Reginald Rose
4. The Bridge on the River Kwai — Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman
5. 3:10 to Yuma — Halstead Welles and Elmore Leonard

Best Cinematography:
Throne of Blood — Asakazu Nakai
2. Funny Face — Ray June
3. 3:10 to Yuma — Charles Lawton Jr.
4. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? — Joe MacDonald
5. Sweet Smell of Success — James Wong Howe

Best Film Editing:
3:10 to Yuma — Al Clark
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:
12 Angry Men

Best First Feature:
Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men

Best Ensemble Cast: 
12 Angry Men (dir: Sidney Lumet; starring, in alphabetical order): Martin Balsam, Ed Begley, Edward Binns, Lee J. Cobb, John Fielder, Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman, E.G. Marshall, Joseph Sweeney, Jack Warden and Robert Webber

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

RECAP

W I N S:

Nights of Cabiria — 3, Throne of Blood — 3,
12 Angry Men — 2, A Face in the Crowd — 2, Sweet Smell of Success — 2, 3:10 to Yuma — 1, The Bridge On the River Kwai — 1, Desk Set — 1, Funny Face — 1, The Incredible Shrinking Man — 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,
3:10 to Yuma — 7, Throne of Blood — 7, A Face in the Crowd — 6, Funny Face — 6, Nights of Cabiria — 6, 12 Angry Men — 5, The Bridge On the River Kwai — 5, Desk Set — 3, Paths of Glory — 3, The Tall T — 3, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? — 3, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison — 2, Les Girls — 2, Love in the Afternoon — 2

the year-end project:
2024, 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