1957 CinSpec Awards

Winners indicated (*). I still need to see films like A Hatful of Rain, A King in New York, Designing Woman, A Farewell to Arms, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, The Lower Depths, The Tin Star, Jailhouse Rock, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Fire Down Below, Island in the Sun, The Story of Esther Costello, Band of Angels, The Joker is Wild, Decision at Sundown, The Comedian, Better Victory, The Delinquents, Boy on a Dolphin, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Night of the Demon, Tokyo Twilight, The Tarnished Angels, Man on Fire, Desk Set, and Time Limit.

The Seventh Seal

BEST PICTURE:
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Cranes are Flying
The Seventh Seal*
12 Angry Men
Wild Strawberries

BEST DIRECTOR:
Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal*
Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries
Mikhail Kalatozov, The Cranes are Flying
David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men

Sweet Smell of Success

BEST ACTOR:
James Cagney, Man of a Thousand Faces
Tony Curtis, Sweet Smell of Success
Victor Sjöström, Wild Strawberries
Rod Steiger, Across the Bridge
Max von Sydow, The Seventh Seal*

BEST ACTRESS:
Audrey Hepburn, Love in the Afternoon*
Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria
Patricia Neal, A Face in the Crowd
Tatyana Samoylova, The Cranes are Flying
Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve

Love in the Afternoon

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Gunnar Björnstrand, The Seventh Seal*
Maurice Chevalier, Love in the Afternoon
Lee J. Cobb, 12 Angry Men
Burt Lancaster, Sweet Smell of Success
Sidney Poitier, Edge of the City

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Bibi Andersson, The Seventh Seal
Marlene Dietrich, Witness for the Prosecution
Mitzi Gaynor, Les Girls
Hope Lange, Peyton Place
Ingrid Thulin, Wild Strawberries*

12 Angry Men

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
The Cranes are Flying
Love in the Afternoon
Sweet Smell of Success
12 Angry Men*
Witness for the Prosecution

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
I Vitelloni
Il Grido
Les Girls
The Seventh Seal*
Wild Strawberries

The Cranes are Flying

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Cranes are Flying
Funny Face
Le Notti Bianche
The Seventh Seal*

BEST FILM EDITING:
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Cranes are Flying*
Edge of the City
Les Girls
The Seventh Seal

The Bridge on the River Kwai

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
An Affair to Remember
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Peyton Place
Sayonara
Sweet Smell of Success*

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"An Affair to Remember", An Affair to Remember*
"Free Man in the Morning", A Face in the Crowd
"Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
"3:10 to Yuma", 3:10 to Yuma
"Wild is the Wind", Wild is the Wind

Additional Categories

Les Girls

BEST ART DIRECTION:
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Funny Face
Les Girls*
Pal Joey
Raintree County

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Funny Face
Les Girls*
Pal Joey
The Prince and the Showgirl
The Seventh Seal

Wild Strawberries

BEST MAKEUP:
Les Girls
Man of a Thousand Faces*
The Seventh Seal

BEST SOUND (MIXING AND EDITING):
The Bridge on the River Kwai*
Les Girls
Paths of Glory
3:10 to Yuma
Throne of Blood

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
The Bridge on the River Kwai*
The Spirit of St. Louis
Throne of Blood