The 1957 Academy Awards were presented March 26, 1958 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.
| Best Motion Picture | The Bridge on the River Kwai, Sam Spiegel, producer (Columbia) |
| Peyton Place, Jerry Wald, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Sayonara, William Goetz, producer (Warner Bros.) |
| 12 Angry Men, Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose, producers (United Artists) |
| Witness for the Prosecution, Arthur Hornblow, Jr., producer (United Artists) |
| Best Actor | Marlon Brando, Sayonara |
| Anthony Franciosa, A Hatful of Rain |
| Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| Charles Laughton, Witness for the Prosecution |
| Anthony Quinn, Wild Is the Wind |
| Best Actress | Deborah Kerr, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison |
| Anna Magnani, Wild Is the Wind |
| Elizabeth Taylor, Raintree County |
| Lana Turner, Peyton Place |
| Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve |
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 Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve Archive Photos |
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| Actor in a Supporting Role | Red Buttons, Sayonara |
| Vittorio de Sica, A Farewell to Arms |
| Sessue Hayakawa, The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| Arthur Kennedy, Peyton Place |
| Russ Tamblyn, Peyton Place |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Carolyn Jones, The Bachelor Party |
| Elsa Lanchester, Witness for the Prosecution |
| Hope Lange, Peyton Place |
| Miyoshi Umeki, Sayonara |
| Diane Varsi, Peyton Place |
| Directing | David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| Joshua Logan, Sayonara |
| Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men |
| Mark Robson, Peyton Place |
| Billy Wilder, Witness for the Prosecution |
| Writing | | Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium | Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, The Bridge on the River Kwai | | John Michael Hayes, Peyton Place | | John Lee Mahin and John Huston, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | | Paul Osborn, Sayonara | | Reginald Rose, 12 Angry Men | | Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli, story; Federico Fellini and Ennio Flaiano, screenplay, I Vitelloni | | Leonard Gershe, Funny Face | | Barney Slater and Joel Kane, story; Dudley Nichols, screenplay, The Tin Star | | George Wells, Designing Woman | | Ralph Wheelright, story; R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, screenplay, Man of a Thousand Faces |
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| Cinematography | Ellsworth Fredericks, Sayonara |
| Jack Hildyard, The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| Ray June, Funny Face |
| Milton Krasner, An Affair to Remember |
| William Mellor, Peyton Place |
| Art Direction | Ted Haworth, art direction; Robert Priestley, set decoration, Sayonara |
| Walter Holscher, art direction; William Kiernan and Louis Diage, set decoration, Pal Joey |
| William A. Horning and Gene Allen, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle, set decoration, Les Girls |
| William A. Horning and Urie McCleary, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt, set decoration, Raintree County |
| Hal Pereira and George W. Davis, art direction; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer, set decoration, Funny Face |
| Sound Recording | Columbia Studio Sound Dept., Pal Joey |
| MGM Studio Sound Dept., Les Girls |
| Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
| Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., Witness for the Prosecution |
| Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Sayonara |
| Music | | Song | “An Affair to Remember,” An Affair to Remember, Harry Warren, music; Harold Adamson and Leo McCarey, lyrics | | “All the Way,” The Joker Is Wild, James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics | | “April Love,” April Love, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics | | “Tammy,” Tammy and the Bachelor, Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, music and lyrics | | “Wild Is the Wind,” Wild Is the Wind, Dimitri Tiomkin, music; Ned Washington, lyrics | | Score | Malcolm Arnold, The Bridge on the River Kwai | | Hugo Friedhofer, An Affair to Remember | | Hugo Friedhofer, Boy on a Dolphin | | Johnny Green, Raintree County | | Paul Smith, Perri |
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| Film Editing | Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms, Pal Joey |
| Warren Low, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
| Daniel Mandell, Witness for the Prosecution |
| Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson, Sayonara |
| Peter Taylor, The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| Costume Design | Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy, Funny Face |
| Charles LeMaire, An Affair to Remember |
| Jean Louis, Pal Joey |
| Orry-Kelly, Les Girls |
| Walter Plunkett, Raintree County |
| Special Effects | Louis Lichtenfield, visual, The Spirit of St. Louis |
| Walter Rossi, audible, The Enemy Below |
| Short Subjects | | Cartoon | Birds Anonymous (Tweety and Sylvester Series) (Edward Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.) | | One Droopy Knight (Droopy Series) (William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, producers; MGM) | | Tabasco Road (Speedy Gonzales Series) (Edward Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.) | | Trees and Jamaica Daddy (Ham and Hattie Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia) | | The Truth About Mother Goose (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) | | Live Action Subjects | A Chairy Tale (National Film Board of Canada; Kingsley International) | | City of Gold (National Film Board of Canada; Kingsley International) | | Foothold on Antarctica (World Wide Pictures; Lester A. Shoenfeld Films) | | Portugal (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) | | The Wetback Hound (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | No award given this year | | Feature | Albert Schweitzer (Hill and Anderson Production; Louis de Rochemont Associates) | | On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin Productions; Film Representations, Inc.) | | Torero! (Producciones Barbachano Ponce; Columbia) |
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| Foreign Language Film | The Devil Came at Night, Federal Republic of Germany—West |
| Gates of Paris, France |
| Mother India, India |
| The Nights of Cabiria, Italy |
| Nine Lives, Norway |
| Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Honorary Awards | To Charles Brackett for outstanding service to the academy |
| To B. B. Kahane for distinguished service to the motion picture industry |
| To Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson, motion picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment |
| To the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers for their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry |
