1957 in film
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.
January 14 – Legendary actor dies at the age of 56 in Los Angeles from esophageal cancer. Best known for his appearances in classic films such as Dead End, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Sabrina, and for To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep co-starring with his wife Lauren Bacall; Bogart was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age and won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The African Queen. In addition, he was named as 1 of the greatest actors of all-time.
Humphrey Bogart
February 1 – ceases domestic distribution of feature films which is taken over by Universal Pictures.
RKO
May – 's The Seventh Seal wins the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.
Ingmar Bergman
June – rejoins the Motion Picture Association of America, following an expansion of the MPAA code appeals board members. The board had previously denied The Man With the Golden Arm a Production Code seal in 1955, leading UA to quit the MPAA.
United Artists
December 6 – 's Wild Strawberries is released in Sweden. It goes on to win the Golden Bear at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1959.
Ingmar Bergman
February 14 - (re-release)
Cinderella
July 3 - (re-release)
Bambi
, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, E.G. Marshall
12 Angry Men
Ending this year
January 5 - , South African-American professional wrestler, stuntman, and actor (d. 1997)
Jeep Swenson
January 8 - , American actor (d. 2023)
Ron Cephas Jones
January 12 – , American animator, director, producer, and writer
John Lasseter
January 15 – , American actor and director
Mario Van Peebles
January 16 - , Argentine actor
Ricardo Darin
Keith Chegwin
January 19 - , English character actor, screenwriter and director
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
January 24 - , English comedian, actor, musician, and television presenter
Adrian Edmondson
January 25 – , American actress, comedian, singer and activist
Jenifer Lewis
January 27 - , American stunt performer, stunt coordinator, director, and actor (d. 2010)
Danny Aiello III
Kathy Najimy
February 14 - , American actor
Ken Wahl
February 16 – , American actor, director, producer, and author
LeVar Burton
February 19 – , English actor
Ray Winstone
February 22 - , English actor
Robert Bathurst
February 26 - , American actor
C. J. Graham
February 27 – , English actor
Timothy Spall
February 28 – , American actor, writer and director
John Turturro
March 4 - , American actor
Mykelti Williamson
March 6 – , American actor and comedian
Eddie Deezen
March 8 - , American actress
Cynthia Rothrock
March 13 - , American composer (d. 2017)
Daniel Licht
Park Overall
Amy Aquino
March 21 - , English actress (d. 2023)
Haydn Gwynne
Teresa Ganzel
March 27 - , English actor
Stephen Dillane
March 28 – , American actor, voice actor, and voice instructor
Paul Eiding
March 29 – , French actor
Christopher Lambert
March 30 - , American actress
Tawny Moyer
March 31 - , American actor
Marc McClure
April 4 – , Finnish director
Aki Kaurismäki
April 12 – , American actress (d. 2021)
Suzzanne Douglas
Gary Kroeger
April 14 - , American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
Richard Jeni
April 23 – , American actress and comedian (d. 2014)
Jan Hooks
April 25 - , American actress
Esther Scott
April 27 - , American actor
Robert Curtis Brown
April 29 – , English actor
Daniel Day-Lewis
May 4 - , Ghanaian-born British filmmaker
John Akomfrah
May 5 – , English actor
Richard E. Grant
May 7 - , American actor
Ned Bellamy
May 10 - , English actor
Alex Jennings
May 13 - , English actor and comedian
Mark Heap
May 17 - , American actor
Whip Hubley
May 21 – , American actor
Judge Reinhold
Ted Levine
May 30 - , Estonian actress
Aire Koop
June 1 – , Polish director and screenwriter
Dorota Kędzierzawska
June 8 - , Indian actress
Dimple Kapadia
June 10 - , American actor
Robert Clohessy
June 14 - , American filmmaker
Jay Roach
Sam Douglas
June 18 - , American actress
Andrea Evans
June 23 – , American actress
Frances McDormand
June 29 – , Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
María Conchita Alonso
July 2 - , Canadian-American pro wrestler
Bret Hart
July 5 - , American former professional boxer and actor
James Tillis
July 9 – , American actress
Kelly McGillis
July 12 - , British actor
Christopher Quinten
July 13 – , American director and screenwriter
Cameron Crowe
Sulev Keedus
July 26 – , American actress
Nana Visitor
July 27 - , American actor and stand-up comedian
Bill Engvall
July 28 - , American author and actress
Lisa Freeman
July 30 - , American actor
Victor Slezak
August 1 - , American actor, comedian and writer (d. 2015)
Taylor Negron
August 2 - , American musician and actor (d. 2024)
Mojo Nixon
Jerry Lambert
August 9 – , American actress
Melanie Griffith
August 15 - , Slovenian-American actor
Željko Ivanek
August 16 – , American actress
Laura Innes
August 17 - , American film and television director
Ken Kwapis
Carole Bouquet
August 19 - , American actor
Martin Donovan
August 24 – , English comedian, author and actor
Stephen Fry
August 25 - , English actor
Simon McBurney
Rick Rossovich
September 1 – , Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
Gloria Estefan
September 2 - , American composer
Steve Porcaro
September 10 – , American actress
Kate Burton
Rachel Ward
September 21 – , American director, producer, screenwriter and editor
Ethan Coen
Rosalind Allen
September 24 – , American animator, director, writer and actor
Brad Bird
September 25 – , American actor
Michael Madsen
September 30 – , American actress
Fran Drescher
October 4 – , American actor and voice actor
Bill Fagerbakke
October 5 – , American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
Bernie Mac
October 11 – , English actress, comedian and writer
Dawn French
Clémentine Célarié
October 13 - , American actor
Marc Macaulay
October 17 – , American film producer
Lawrence Bender
October 23 - , American actress
Elizabeth D'Onofrio
October 24 – , American actor and comedian
John Kassir
October 25 – , American voice actress
Nancy Cartwright
Betsy Aidem
Dan Castellaneta
October 30 – , American actor
Kevin Pollak
November 3 – , Swedish actor and director
Dolph Lundgren
November 5 - , American actress
Elizabeth Bracco
Cam Clarke
November 7 - , American actor
Christopher Knight
Ofra Haza
November 24 – , American actress
Denise Crosby
November 30 - , Scottish actor
Gary Lewis
December 3 - , French actress (d. 1989)
Valérie Quennessen
December 10 – , American actor (d. 2012)
Michael Clarke Duncan
December 12 - , American dog actor (d. 1975)
Higgins
Steve Buscemi
John Gulager
December 21 – , American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and voice actor
Ray Romano
December 29 – , American television and film producer (d. 2017)
Brad Grey
January 14 – , 57, American actor, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The Caine Mutiny
Humphrey Bogart
Harry Depp
July 24 – , 72, French playwright, actor and director, Confessions of a Cheat, A Crime in Paradise
Sacha Guitry
August 9 – , 70, Polish actor, screenwriter, director and singer, His Excellency, The Shop Assistant
Konrad Tom
October 29 – , 73, Russian-American producer and studio executive, Greed, That's Entertainment!
Louis B. Mayer
November 29 – , 60, Austrian composer, Anthony Adverse, The Adventures of Robin Hood
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
November 30 – , 44, American director, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Rock Around the Clock
Fred F. Sears
– Send a Woman When the Devil Fails
Alain Delon
– The Strange One
Clifton James
– The Strange One
George Peppard
– A Face in the Crowd