1957 in film
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Events
- October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Other movies released
- A Farewell to Arms
- An Affair to Remember
- Aparajito
- Friendly Persuasion
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf
- Island in the Sun
- Jailhouse Rock
- Jamboree
- La Grande strada azzurra
- Le Notti di Cabiria
- Loving You
- Nights of Cabiria
- Old Yeller
- Peyton Place
- Quatermass 2
- Sayonara
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- The Delinquents
- The Seventh Seal
- The Sweet Smell of Success
- The Three Faces of Eve
- Twelve Angry Men
- What's Opera, Doc?
- Young and Dangeroussv:Filmåret 1957
