by Allan Fish
Well, here we go again…
Best Picture The Searchers, US (11 votes)
Best Short Toute la Mémoire du Monde, France, Alain Resnais (2 votes)
Best Director John Ford, The Searchers (12 votes)
Best Actor John Wayne, The Searchers (14 votes)
Best Actress Machiko Kyo, Street of Shame (4 votes) – Deborah Kerr had 3 votes for 2 different films
Best Supp Actor Elisha Cook Jnr, The Killing (6 votes) – by 1 from Robert Stack
Best Supp Actress Dorothy Malone, Written on the Wind & Marie Windsor, The Killing (7 votes each – TIE!!!)
Best Cinematography Winton C.Hoch, The Searchers (6 votes)
Best Score Max Steiner, The Searchers (9 votes)
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and my own choices…
Best Picture THE SEARCHERS, US
Best Short TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE LE MONDE, France, Alain Resnais
Best Director John Ford, The Searchers
Best Actor John Wayne, The Searchers
Best Actress Maria Schell, Gervaise
Best Supporting Actor Eli Wallach, Baby Doll
Best Supporting Actress Ayako Wakao, Street of Shame
Best Cinematography Boris Kaufman, Baby Doll
Best Musical Score Elmer Bernstein, The Ten Commandments
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So…
1957
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Best Picture/Director
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An Affair to Remember (US…Leo McCarey)
And Quiet Flows the Don (USSR…Sergei Gerasimov)
Assassins et Voleurs (France…Sacha Guitry)
At Great Cost (USSR…Mark Donskoi)
Baby Face Nelson (US…Don Siegel)
The Bachelor Party (US…Delbert Mann)
Banka (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)
Behold the Sun (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)
Bitter Victory (UK/US…Nicholas Ray)
Black River (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (UK/US…David Lean)
The Case of Dr Laurent (France…Jean-Paul le Chanois)
Le Chômeur de Clochemerle (France…Jean Boyer)
City Without Night (China…Tang Xiaodan)
The Comedian (US…John Frankenheimer)
The Cranes are Flying (USSR…Mikhail Kalatozov)
The Crowded Streetcar (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)
The Curse of Frankenstein (UK…Terence Fisher)
Don Quixote (USSR…Grigori Kozintsev)
Eroica (Poland…Andrzej Munk)
Les Espions (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Eve Wants to Sleep (Poland…Tadeusz Chmielewski)
A Face in the Crowd (US…Elia Kazan)
Forty Guns (US…Samuel Fuller)
The Fountainhead (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)
Funny Face (US…Stanley Donen)
Il Grido (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)
Gunfight at the OK Corral (US…John Sturges)
A Hatful of Rain (US…Fred Zinnemann)
He Who Must Die (France…Jules Dassin)
Hell Drivers (UK…Cy Endfield)
The Hole (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)
The House of the Angel (Argentina…Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson)
I am Waiting (Japan…Koreyoshi Kurahara)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (US…Jack Arnold)
Jailhouse Rock (US…Richard Thorpe)
Jet Pilot (US (shot 1950)…Josef von Sternberg)
Kanal (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)
A King in New York (US…Charles Chaplin)
Kisses (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)
Letter from Siberia (France…Chris Marker)
Lift to the Scaffold (France…Louis Malle)
The Lower Depths (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)
Mambo Girl (Hong Kong…Wen Yi)
A Matter of Dignity (Greece…Michael Cacoyannis)
Men in War (US…Anthony Mann)
Les Misérables (France…Jean-Paul la Chanois)
Mother India (India…Mehboob Khan)
Night of the Demon (UK…Jacques Tourneur)
Nights of Cabiria (Italy…Federico Fellini)
Nine Lives (Norway…Arne Skouen)
Not Long After Leaving Shinagawa (Japan…Yuzo Kawashima)
Not of This Earth (US…Roger Corman)
La Notti Bianche (Italy…Luchino Visconti)
An Osaka Story (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)
The Pajama Game (US…Stanley Donen)
Une Parisienne (France…Michel Boisrand)
Paths of Glory (US…Stanley Kubrick)
Patrouille choc (France…Claude Bernard-Aubert)
Peyton Place (US…Mark Robson)
Pot-Bouille (France…Julien Duvivier)
Pyaasa (India…Guru Dutt)
Run of the Arrow (US…Samuel Fuller)
Sait-on Jamais (France…Roger Vadim)
September Nights (Czechoslovakia…Vojtech Jasny)
The Seventh Seal (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
Snow Country (Japan…Shiro Toyoda)
The Story of Pure Love (Japan…Tadashi Imai)
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (Japan…Yuzo Kawashima)
Sweet Smell of Success (US…Alexander Mackendrick)
The Tall T (US…Budd Boetticher)
The Tarnished Angels (US…Douglas Sirk)
The Three Faces of Eve (US…Nunnally Johnson)
3:10 to Yuma (US…Delmer Daves)
Throne of Blood (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)
Time Limit (US…Karl Malden)
Time Without Pity (UK…Joseph Losey)
Times of Joy and Sorrow (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)
The Tin Star (US…Anthony Mann)
Tokyo Twilight (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)
Twelve Angry Men (US…Sidney Lumet)
Untamed (Japan…Mikio Naruse)
Wild Strawberries (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (US…Frank Tashlin)
The Witches of Salem (France…Raymond Rouleau)
Witness for the Prosecution (US…Billy Wilder)
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Best Short
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Ali Baba Bunny (US…Chuck Jones)
Birds Anonymous (US…Friz Freleng)
A Chairy Tale (Canada…Norman McLaren)
8×8: A Chess Sonata in Eight Movements (France…Jean Cocteau, Hans Richter)
Les Mistons (France…François Truffaut)
Three Little Bops (US…Friz Freleng)
What’s Opera, Doc? (US…Chuck Jones)
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Best Actor
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Tony Britton The Birthday Present
James Cagney The Man of a Thousand Faces
Nikolai Cherkassov Don Quixote
Steve Cochran Il Grido
Tony Curtis Sweet Smell of Success
Peter Cushing The Curse of Frankenstein
Kirk Douglas Paths of Glory
Guru Dutt Pyaasa
Fernandel Le Chômeur de Clochemerle
Henry Fonda The Tin Star
Henry Fonda Twelve Angry Men
Glenn Ford 3:10 to Yuma
Anthony Franciosa A Hatful of Rain
Andy Griffith A Face in the Crowd
Alec Guinness The Bridge on the River Kwai
Van Heflin 3:10 to Yuma
Yujiro Ishihara I am Waiting
Hardy Kruger The One That Got Away
Burt Lancaster Sweet Smell of Success
Charles Laughton Witness for the Prosecution
Marcello Mastroianni White Nights
Toshiro Mifune Throne of Blood
Yves Montand The Witches of Salem
Don Murray The Bachelor Party
Gérard Philipe Pot Bouille
Anthony Quinn Wild is the Wind
Mickey Rooney Baby Face Nelson
Mickey Rooney The Comedian TV
Robert Ryan Men in War
Randolph Scott The Tall T
Victor Sjöstrom Wild Strawberries
Max Von Sydow The Seventh Seal
Richard Widmark Time Limit
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Best Actress
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Grace Chang Mambo Girl
Joan Crawford The Story of Esther Costello
Elsa Daniel The House of the Angel
Doris Day The Pajama Game
Marlene Dietrich Witness for the Prosecution
Setsuko Hara Tokyo Twilight
Audrey Hepburn Funny Face
Teresa Izewska Kanal
Deborah Kerr An Affair to Remember
Anna Magnani Wild is the Wind
Dorothy Malone The Tarnished Angels
Giulietta Masina Nights of Cabiria
Jeanne Moreau Lift to the Scaffold
Nargis Mother India
Patricia Neal A Face in the Crowd
Debbie Reynolds Tammy and the Bachelor
Eva Marie Saint A Hatful of Rain
Tatiana Samoilova The Cranes Are Flying
Maria Schell White Nights
Simone Signoret The Witches of Salem
Barbara Stanwyck Forty Guns
Hideko Takamine Times of Joy and Sorrow
Ingrid Thulin Wild Strawberries
Joanne Woodward The Three Faces of Eve
Isuzu Yamada Throne of Blood
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Best Supp Actor
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Eric Barker Brothers in Law
Ed Begley Twelve Angry Men
Gunnar Björnstrand The Seventh Seal
Red Buttons Sayonara
Jack Carson The Tarnished Angels
Lee J.Cobb Twelve Angry Men
James Donald The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bengt Ekerot The Seventh Seal
Errol Flynn The Sun Also Rises
Eddie Foy Jnr The Pajama Game
Hugh Griffith Lucky Jim
Cedric Hardwicke Baby Face Nelson
Sessue Hayakawa The Bridge on the River Kwai
Arthur Kennedy Peyton Place
Christopher Lee Bitter Victory
Alec McCowen The One That Got Away
George Macready Paths of Glory
Niall McGinnis Night of the Demon
Arnold Marle The Abominable Snowman
E.G.Marshall The Bachelor Party
Walter Matthau A Face in the Crowd
Adolphe Menjou Paths of Glory
Emile Meyer Sweet Smell of Success
Nils Poppe The Seventh Seal
Aldo Ray Men in War
Chishu Ryu Tokyo Twilight
Yuri Tolubeyev Don Quixote
Mel Tormé The Comedian TV
Johnny Walker Pyaasa
Jack Warden The Bachelor Party
Jack Warden Twelve Angry Men
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Best Supp Actress
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Ineko Arema Tokyo Twilight
Dany Carrel Pot Bouille
Leora Dana 3:10 to Yuma
Mylène Demongeot The Witches of Salem
Dorian Gray Il Grido
Jane Greer Man of a Thousand Faces
Virginia Grey Jeanne Eagels
Carol Haney The Pajama Game
Kim Hunter The Comedian TV
Carolyn Jones The Bachelor Party
Kay Kendall Les Girls
Elsa Lanchester Witness for the Prosecution
Cathleen Nesbitt An Affair to Remember
Marjorie Rambeau Man of a Thousand Faces
Waheeda Rehman Pyaasa
Lee Remick A Face in the Crowd
Heather Sears The Story of Esther Costello
Kay Thompson Funny Face
Miyoshi Umeki Sayonara
Diane Varsi Peyton Place
Isuzu Yamada The Lower Depths
Isuzu Yamada Tokyo Twilight
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Best Cinematography
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Jack Asher The Curse of Frankenstein
Joseph H.Biroc Forty Guns
Stanley Cortez The Three Faces of Eve
Henri Decaë Lift to the Scaffold
Gianni de Venanzo Il Grido
Gunnar Fischer The Seventh Seal
Gunnar Fischer Wild Strawberries
Loyal Griggs The Tin Star
Ernest Haller Men in War
Jack Hildyard The Bridge on the River Kwai
Winton C.Hoch Jet Pilot
James Wong Howe Sweet Smell of Success
Faredoon A.Irani Mother India
Ray June Funny Face
Michel Kelber Pot Bouille
Georg Krause Paths of Glory
Hiroyuki Kusuda Times of Joy and Sorrow
Charles Lawton Jnr 3:10 to Yuma
Jerzy Lipman Kanal
William H.Mellor Peyton Place
Asaichi Nakai Throne of Blood
Giuseppe Rotunno White Nights
Ted Scaife Night of the Demon
Ragnar Sorenson Nine Lives
Harry Stradling A Face in the Crowd
Robert L.Surtees Les Girls
Aldo Tonti Nights of Cabiria
Geoffrey Unsworth Dangerous Exile
Geoffrey Unsworth Hell Drivers
Sergei Urusevsky The Cranes are Flying
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Best Score
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Malcolm Arnold The Bridge on the River Kwai
Elmer Bernstein Men in War
Elmer Bernstein Sweet Smell of Success
Elmer Bernstein The Tin Star
Miles Davis Lift to the Scaffold
Naushad Mother India
Erik Nordgren The Seventh Seal
Clifton Parker Night of the Demon
Nino Rota Nights of Cabiria
Nino Rota White Nights
Masaru Sato Throne of Blood
Franz Waxman Peyton Place
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Best Picture: Wild Strawberries
Best Director: Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries)
Best Actor: Victor Sjostrom (Wild Strawberries)
Best Actress: Elsa Daniel (The House of the Angel)
Best Supporting Actor: Niall McGinnis (Curse of the Demon)
Best Supporting Actress: Ineko Arema (Tokyo Twilight)
Best Short: What’s Opera Doc?
Best Score: Elmer Bernstein (Sweet Smell of Success)
Best Cinematography: Gunner Fischer (The Seventh Seal)
In addition to my top choice these very great films all competed: 12 ANGRY MEN, THE SEVENTH SEAL, A FACE IN THE CROWD, THE CRANES ARE FLYING, THE HOUSE OF THE ANGEL, CURSE OF THE DEMON, PATHS OF GLORY, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, THRONE OF BLOOD, TOKYO TWILIGHT, WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION.
WHAT'S OPERA DOC? could well be the greatest cartoon ever.
beyond…
Best Ensemble Acting: Twelve Angry Men
Best Screenplay (adapted) Twelve Angry Men
Best Screenplay (original) Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries)
Best Editing: Alan Crosland Jr. (Sweet Smell of Success)
Best Costumes: Funny Face
Best Art Direction: The Seventh Seal
Best Picture: Paths of Glory
Best Director: Kubrick
Best Actor: Cushing, Curse of Frankenstein
Best Actress: Masina, Nights of Cabiria
Supporting Actor: Tough to choose between Macready and Menjou for Paths, but I’ll go with Menjou. The Angry Men deserve some kind of collective consolation prize, though — but then again, so do Meeker, Turkel and Carey.
Supporting Actress: Thompson, Funny Face
Cinematography: Fischer, Seventh Seal — a very strong field this year, especially in black and white.
Score: Davis.
Short: Ali Baba Bunny
what a year!
Pic: Twelve Angry Men (US…Sidney Lumet)
Director: The Seventh Seal (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
Short: What’s Opera, Doc? (US…Chuck Jones)
Actor: Victor Sjöstrom Wild Strawberries
Actress: Giulietta Masina Nights of Cabiria
Sup Actor: Errol Flynn The Sun Also Rises
Sup Actress: Miyoshi Umeki Sayonara
Cinematography: Jack Hildyard The Bridge on the River Kwai
Score: Miles Davis Lift to the Scaffold
I can’t believe Dorothy Malone got 7 votes.
Picture: Wild Strawberries
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries
Actor: Victor Sjostrom, Wild Strawberries
Actress: Guilietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria
Sup. Actor: Adolphe Menjou, Paths of Glory
Sup. Actress: Kay Thompson, Funny Face
Cinematrography: Gunnar Fischer, Wild Strawberries
Yay for “The Searchers” snabbing best picture, director, cinematography and score!
I vote “12 Angry Men” for best picture in 1957.
I vote Ingmar Bergman for best director (“Wild Strawberries”) in 1957.
I vote “What’s Opera Doc?” for best short in 1957.
I vote Victor Sjostrom for best actor in “Wild Strawberries” in 1957.
I vote Ingrid Thulin for best actress in “Wild Strawberries” in 1957
I vote Sessue Hayakawa for best supporting actor in “Bridge over the River Kwai” in 1957.
I vote “Wild Strawberries” for best cinematography in 1957.
I vote “The Bridge over the River Kwai” for best score in 1957.
Best Picture: Sweet Smell Of Success
Top Five: 1. Sweet Smell Of Success 2. Wild Strawberries 3. Nights Of Cabiria 4. Throne Of Blood 5. Paths Of Glory
Picture: Twelve Angry Men (US…Sidney Lumet)
Director: Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries)
Actor: Victor Sjostrom (Wild Strawberries)
Actress: Ingrid Thulinl (The House of the Angel)
Supporting Actor: Ed Begley (Twelve Angry Men)
Supporting Actress: Leora Dana (3:10 to Yuma)
Cinematography:: Gunnar Fischer (The Seventh Seal)
Score: Miles Davis (Lift to the Scaffold)
Ingrid Thulinl naturally on Wild Strawberries
Best Picture: Sweet Smell of Success
Best Director: Alexander Mackendrick (Sweet Smell of Success)
Best Actor: Victor Sjostrom (Wild Strawberries)
Best Actress: Guilietta Masina (Nights of Cabiria)
Best Supporting Actor: Sessue Hayakawa (River Kwai)
Best Supporting Actress: Lee Remick (A Face in the Crowd)
Best Short: What’s Opera Doc?
Best Cinematography: James Wong Howe (Sweet Smell of Success)
Best Score: Elmer Bernstein (Swell Smell of Success)
PICTURE: Sweet Smell of Success
DIRECTOR: Mikhail Kalatazov, Cranes Are Flying
LEAD ACTOR: Burt Lancaster, SWeet Smell of Success
LEAD ACTRESS: Tatiana Samoilova, Cranes Are Flying
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Niall McGinnis, Night of the Demon
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Isuzu Yamada, Tokyo Twilight
SHORT: What’s Opera, Doc?
SCORE: Elmer Bernstein, Sweet Smell of Success
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sergei Urevsevski, Cranes are Flying – this being one of the over the top extravaganzas of all time, after all – whether it adds up as art or not (and mostly it does), it has to be gazed on and marveled at.
Plus bonus picks::
Script: Sweet Smell of Success – this is another outsized tour de force; it’s rather a shame it is so good – I have somehow managed not to get anything from Will Success Spoil Rock Hudson? on this ballot – it should be somewhere – it makes a good companion to Sweet Smell of Success – less self-important, less vicious, obviously less moving, but almost as sharp… “Wow – contains ‘fallout’!”
Best Film: Wild Strawberries
Best Director: Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries)
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster (Sweet Smell of Success)
Best Actress: Guilietta Masina (Nights of Cabiria)
Best Supporting Actor: Lee J. Cobb (Twelve Angry Men)
Best Supporting Actress: Diane Varsi (Peyton Place)
Best Score: Elmer Bernstein (Sweet Smell of Success)
Best Cinematography: Gunner Fischer (The Seventh Seal)
Best Short: What’s Opera Doc?
Film: ‘Nights of Cabiria’
Director: Federico Fellini
Actor: Victor Sjostrom (‘Wild Strawberries’)
Actress: Guilietta Masina (‘Nights of Cabiria’), with Audrey Hepburn hot on her trail for her swanlike performances in ‘Funny Face’ and ‘Love in the Afternoon’
S. Actor: Adolphe Menjou (‘Paths of Glory’)
S. Actress: Kay Kendall (‘Les Girls’)
Photography: Gunnar Fischer (‘Wild Strawberries’ & ‘The Seventh Seal’)
Short: What’s Opera, Doc?
Mark, just watched “Les Girls” last night, and Kay Kendall is terrific in it. At this point my runner-up for best supporting actress.
She’s just as ravishing and madcap, the heiress to Lombard’s throne, in Minnelli’s ‘The Reluctant Debutante’ with hubby Rex Harrison. Pay no attention to those two dull intruders, John Saxon and Sandra Dee (yes, Sandra Dee).
My top five for 1957: Wild Strawberries, Nights of Cabiria, Sweet Smell of Success, The Seventh Seal, and Lift to the Scaffold.
Best Picture: Wild Strawberries
Best Director: Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries)
Best Actor: Victor Sjostrom (Wild Strawberries)
Best Actress: Giulietta Masina (Nights of Cabiria)
Best Supporting Actor: Gunnar Bjornstrand (The Seventh Seal)
Best Supporting Actress: Bibi Andersson (The Seventh Seal) …I would have chosen Ingrid Thulin here but she has been placed in the lead category.
Best Cinematography: James Wong Howe (Sweet Smell of Success)
Best Score: Miles Davis (Lift to the Scaffold)
What’s the deal with Elevator to the Gallows for 1957???? I thought it was 1958. I see release date is January 1958. I would vote for Moreau but I won’t if the year is wrong.
I have an old source that says it was given preview showsings in late November 1957, but it may well be the source was wrong. I can only leave it be for now.
Pic- Wild Strawberries
Dir- Kubrick (Paths of Glory)
Actor- Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Actress – Moreau (Elevator to the Gallows)
Oh geez if Masina wins again I’m going to VOMIT!!!!
Supp Actor – Cobb (Twelve Angry Men)
Supp. Actress – Bibi Andersson (Wild Strawberries)
Score- Miles Davis (Elevator to the Gallows)
Cinematography – Urusevsky (The Cranes Are Flying)
There are too many wonderful films belonging to this year, including 2 which rank very high on my list of personal favourites, viz. Wild Strawberries & Sweet Smell of Success.
By the way, from what I knew, Eroica was a 1958 movie. Are you sure it released in ’57, and not ’58? Though I’m including it this year for the sake of the poll, it would be great if you could you share a definitive source for the same – because then I’ll make the necessary update in my personal archive.
Anyway, here are my choices for 1957 (two many joint winners this time around, something which I try as far as possible to avoid – hopefully, this shall be a one-off year in terms of that):
Best Picture: Wild Strawberries
Best Director: Alexander Mackendrick (Sweet Smell of Success)
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster (Sweet Smell of Success), Tony Curtis (Sweet Smell of Success), Victor Sjostrom (Wild Strawberries)
Best Actress: Jeanne Moreau (Lift to the Scaffold)
Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley (Twelve Angry Men)
Best Supporting Actress: Bibi Andersson (Wild Strawberries) [Agree with what Duanne mentioned above, that Ingrid Thulin ought to have been included in this category - she would have been my choice as well here]
Best Cinematography: James Wong Howe (Sweet Smell of Success) & Sergei Urusevsky (The Cranes Are Flying)
Best Score: Miles Davis (Life to the Scaffold) & Elmer Bernstein (Sweet Smell of Success)
Top 10:
1. Wild Strawberries
2. Sweet Smell of Success
3. Elevator to the Gallows (Lift to the Scaffold)
4. Eroica
5. The Cranes Are Flying
6. 12 Angry Men
7. Paths of Glory
8. The Bridge Over River Kwai
9. Throne of Blood
10. The Seventh Seal
Just Missed: Pyaasa & Witness for the Prosecution
Eroica is another one of those problematic ones. I have a source stating it was first shown publicly late in 1957, but official premiere was early 1958. Filmweb.pl list as 1957 release, but also have premiere as early 1958. I can only leave as now, but stating 1958 may be the way to go forward on this one. Eastern European titles are especially problematic in this regard.
Things are really rolling along at this point and within 3 years we’ll be in the thick of my favorite period in cinema history. Choosing between favorites will be such sweet sorrow…
Feature: Nights of Cabiria
Short: What’s Opera, Doc? (for some reason I thought this was ’56)
Director: Stanley Kubrick (Paths of Glory) (he’s going to be winning a lot of these from here on, probably more than anyone else particularly when it comes to years when Feature and Director have different winners. Because no matter what film I like the most in a given year or consider the overall best it’s hard to top Kubrick as the filmmaker most in control and inventive with his craft)
Actor: Tony Curtis (Sweet Smell of Success)
Actress: Giuletta Masina (Nights of Cabiria)
Supp. Actor: Gunnar Bjornstrand (The Seventh Seal) – I was actually leaning toward Adolphe Menjou, but I didn’t want to leave one of my favorite Bergmans empty-handed this year due to such tight competition
Supp. Actress: Ineko Arima (Tokyo Twilight) – kind of surprised she’s in supporting category, but glad as it means I can award both her and Masina this year
Cinematography: (tie) Sergei Urusevsky (Cranes Are Flying) & Asaichi Nakai (Throne of Blood)
Music: Malcolm Arnold (The Bridge on River Kwai) – I was gonna go with Rota, but he’s already won for two Fellinis and will win with at least two more, not to mention the Coppolas.
Screenplay: Sweet Smell of Success
Editing: (tie) Wild Strawberries & 12 Angry Men
Yes, another tie. But I had to squeeze both in. They have very strong cutting in quite different ways, and anyway this category doesn’t count, so why not give myself a break?
Runner-up: 3:12 to Yuma
Amzed at two votes for Malcolm Arnold when three quarters of the score was a reworking of the Colonel Bogie March which I think was written by Ken Alford a long time before. I think there are still some people who think the March was written for the movie.
ahhh which Bergman to go with?
I’ll divide the spoils.
Best Picture: The Seventh Seal
Best Director: Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries)
Best Actor: Victor Sjostrom (Wild Strawberries)
Best Actress: Ingrid Thulin (Wild Stawberries)
Best Short: What’s Opera Doc?
Best Supporting Actor: Sessue Hayakawa (Bridge over the River Kwai)
Best Supporting Actress: Ineko Arema (Tokyo Twilight)
Best Cinematography: Gunner Fischer (The Seventh Seal)
Best Score: Elmer Bernstein (Sweet Smell of Success)
Tough, tough year. I can’t remember a contest where I changed my votes so often. But here’s my final tally.
Best Picture: The Seventh Seal
Best Director: Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal)
Best Actor: Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Best Actress: Patricia Neal, A Face in the Crowd
Best Supporting Actor: Richard Boone, The Tall T (A write-in vote)
Best Supporting Actress: Hope Lange, Peyton Place (another write-in vote)
Best Cinematography: Ray June, Funny Face
Best Score: Franz Waxman, Peyton Place
Best Short: What’s Opera Doc
Well, another difficult year…this goes without saying. I suppose they’re only gonna get more contentious as the years go on.
PICTURE: Paths of Glory (followed by Wild Strawberries, Nights of Cabiria, Twelve Angry Men, The Seventh Seal, The Cranes are Flying, Funny Face, Sweet Smell of Success, Throne of Blood, The Tall T, Kanal, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Night of the Demon, A Face in the Crowd, The Tarnished Angels, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, The Tin Star, Witness for the Prosecution, An Affair to Remember, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Men in War, The Curse of Frankenstein, Gunfight at the OK Corral)
DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory (2nd: Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries)
ACTOR: Victor Sjostrom, Wild Strawberries (2nd: Andy Griffith, A Face in the Crowd) (followed by Henry Fonda in Twelve Angry Men, Burt Lancaster in Sweet Smell of Success, Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution, Max Von Sydow for The Seventh Seal)
ACTRESS: Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria (2nd: Tatiana Samilova, The Cranes are Flying; followed by Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face; Marlene Dietrich, Witness for the Prosecution; Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve, Patricia Neal, A Face in the Crowd)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Lee J. Cobb, Twelve Angry Men (2nd: Timothy Carey, Paths of Glory, followed by Ed Begley, Twelve Angry Men; Aldo Ray, Men in War; Sessue Hayakawa, The Bridge on the River Kwai; Adolphe Menjou, Paths of Glory)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Elsa Lanchester, Witness for the Prosecution (2nd: Kay Thompson, Funny Face; followed by Lee Remick, A Face in the Crowd; Miyoshi Umeki, Sayonara; Carolyn Jones, The Bachelor Party)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gunnar Fischer, The Seventh Seal (2nd (B&W): James Wong Howe, Sweet Smell of Success)
ORIGINAL SCORE: Nino Rota, Nights of Cabiria (2nd: Elmer Bernstein, Sweet Smell of Success)
SHORT: What’s Opera Doc?, (Chuck Jones) (followed by Birds Anonymous (Friz Freling))
FURTHER::
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries (2nd: Budd Schulberg, A Face in the Crowd )
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, Sweet Smell of Success (2nd: Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: On The Bowery (Lionel Rogosin)
COLOR CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ray June, Funny Face (2nd: Jack Hildyard, The Bridge on the River Kwai)
B&W ART DIRECTION: Paths of Glory
COLOR ART DIRECTION: Funny Face
B&W COSTUME DESIGN: The Seventh Seal
COLOR COSTUME DESIGN: Funny Face
FILM EDITING: Paths of Glory
SOUND: Paths of Glory
SCORING OF A MUSICAL: Adolphe Deutch and Alexander Courage, Funny Face
ORIGINAL SONG: “All The Way” from The Joker is Wild, Music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn
VISUAL EFFECTS: The Incredible Shrinking Man
MAKEUP: Man of a Thousand Faces
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Best Picture – Wild Strawberries
Best Director – Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries)
Best Short – What’s Opera Doc?
Best Actor – Tony Curtis (Sweet Smell of Success)
Best Actress – Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)
Best Sup. Actor – Sessu Hayakawa (Bridge…)
Best Sup. Actress – Elsa Lanchester (Witness….)
Best Cinematography – Bridge on the River Kwai
Best Score – Sweet Smell of Success
Film: Nights of Cabiria
Director: Federico Fellini (Nights of Cabiria)
Actor: Victor Sjostrom (Wild Strawberries)
Actress: Guilietta Masina (Nights of Cabiria)
Supporting Actor: Aldo Ray (Men in War)
Supporting Actress: Lee Remick (A Face in the Crowd)
Cinematography: Aldo Tonti (Nights of Cabiria)
Score: Elmer Bernstein (Sweet Smell of Success)
Short: What’s Opera Doc?