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The year 1957 in film involved some significant events. The Bridge on the River Kwai topped the year's box office in North America, France, and Germany, and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

See also: List of 1957 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten 1957 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1957
Rank Title Studio Domestic rentals
1 The Bridge on the River Kwai Columbia Pictures $15,000,000[1]
2 Peyton Place 20th Century Fox $11,000,000[1]
3 Sayonara Warner Bros. Pictures $10,500,000[1]
4 Search for Paradise Cinerama Releasing Corporation $6,500,000[1]
5 Old Yeller Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution $5,900,000[1]
6 Raintree County Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $5,830,000[2]
7 Island in the Sun
A Farewell to Arms 		20th Century Fox $5,000,000[3]
8 Pal Joey Columbia Pictures $4,700,000[3]
9 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Paramount Pictures $4,300,000[3]
10 Don't Go Near the Water Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $4,265,000[2]

Top-grossing films by country

The highest-grossing 1957 films in various countries.

Country Title Director Studio Revenue Admissions
France The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean Columbia Pictures — 13,481,750[4]
Germany The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean Columbia Pictures — 14,500,000[5]
India Mother India Mehboob Khan Mehboob Productions ₹80,000,000[6] ($17,000,000)[7] 100,000,000[8]
Italy The Ten Commandments Cecil B. DeMille Paramount Pictures — 16,800,000[9]
Japan Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War Kunio Watanabe Shintoho ¥800,000,000[10] ($2,220,000)[7] 20,000,000[11]
Soviet Union The Sisters Grigori Roshal Mosfilm 10,625,000 Rbls ($2,656,000)[n 1] 42,500,000[12]
United Kingdom The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean Columbia Pictures — 12,600,000[15]
United States and Canada The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean Columbia Pictures $27,200,000[16] 54,400,000[16]

Events

Awards

Category/Organization 15th Golden Globe Awards
February 22, 1958		 30th Academy Awards
March 26, 1958
Drama Comedy or Musical
Best Film The Bridge on the River Kwai Les Girls The Bridge on the River Kwai
Best Director David Lean
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Best Actor Alec Guinness
The Bridge on the River Kwai		 Frank Sinatra
Pal Joey		 Alec Guinness
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Best Actress Joanne Woodward
The Three Faces of Eve		 Kay Kendall
Les Girls
Taina Elg
Les Girls		 Joanne Woodward
The Three Faces of Eve
Best Supporting Actor Red Buttons
Sayonara
Best Supporting Actress Elsa Lanchester
Witness for the Prosecution		 Miyoshi Umeki
Sayonara
Best Foreign Language Film Confessions of Felix Krull
Tizoc
Woman in a Dressing Gown
Yellow Crow		 Nights of Cabiria

Top ten money making stars

Rank Actor/Actress
1. Rock Hudson
2. John Wayne
3. Pat Boone
4. Elvis Presley
5. Frank Sinatra
6. Kim Novak
7. Gary Cooper
8. William Holden
9. James Stewart
10. Jerry Lewis

1957 film releases

Notable films released in 1957

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Notes

  1. ^ 42.5 million Soviet tickets sold,[12] average ticket price of 25 kopecks,[13] 4 Rbls per US$ in 1957[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  3. ^ a b c "All-Time Top Grosses". Variety. January 4, 1961. p. 49. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  4. ^ "Bilan Annuel France – 1957". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Bilan Annuel Allemagne – 1957". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  6. ^ Box Office 1957, Box Office India, archived 22 September 2012
  7. ^ a b "Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. 1957. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-05-12. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  8. ^ Bahubali 2 Is The Biggest Hindi Blockbuster This Century Archived 24 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Box Office India, 8 June 2017
  9. ^ "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1957". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  10. ^ "天皇と映画～映画における、時代ごとの天皇観～". Cinema Today (in Japanese). April 28, 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  11. ^ "About". Okura Pictures. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Лидеры проката". KinoKultura (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
  13. ^ Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48 Archived 2018-05-10 at the Wayback Machine, Cornell University Press, 2011
  14. ^ "Archive". Central Bank of Russia. Archived from the original on 29 December 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  15. ^ "The Bridge on the River Kwai". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  16. ^ a b "The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  17. ^ "10-Day London Fest Films Preems Oct. 16". Variety. 9 October 1957. p. 14 – via Archive.org.

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