This is a place to keep track of award-worthy aspects of the films of 1957 that don't yet have their own categories but could if there's enough interest in them and enough worthy nominees. So, basically, if there's enough interest and nominees in a given category, it might be added. Here are some random ones to start us out with.
Best SurpriseQuatermass 2Best MakeupMan of a Thousand FacesBest Costume DesignFunny FaceThe Pajama GameSweet Smell of SuccessThrone of BloodBest Special EffectsThe Amazing Colossal ManThe Incredible Shrinking ManThrone of BloodThe Wings of EaglesBest SoundThe Bridge on the River KwaiA Face in the CrowdKanalNight of the DemonPaths of GloryThrone of BloodBest Scene (Comedic)Best Scene (Dramatic)The Bridge on the River Kwai - Final Confrontation ("You.")
Forty Guns - The Tornado
Forty Guns - A Song at the Funeral
Plunder Road - Opening Heist
Throne of Blood - A Storm of Arrows
Wild Strawberries - The Dream Sequence
Best Scene (Musical)Funny Face -
Think Pink (Kay Thompson)
Funny Face -
How Long Has This Been Going On (Audrey Hepburn)
Funny Face -
Funny Face (Fred Astaire & Audrey Hepburn)
Funny Face -
Let's Kiss and Make Up (Fred Astaire)
Funny Face -
Beatnik Dance (Audrey Hepburn)
Funny Face -
He Loves and She Loves (Fred Astaire & Audrey Hepburn)
Funny Face -
Clap Yo' Hands (Kay Thompson & Fred Astaire)
Les Girls -
Why Am I So Gone (About that Gal)? (Gene Kelly & Mitzi Gaynor)
Jailhouse Rock -
Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley)
Le notti bianche -
Thirteen Women and Only One Man in Town (Marcello Mastroianni)
The Pajama Game -
Steam Heat (Carol Haney)
The Pajama Game -
Hernando's Hideaway (Carol Haney)
The Pajama Game -
Once a year Day (Doris Day, Carol Haney et al)
Silk Stockings -
All of You (Fred Astaire & Cyd Charisse)
Silk Stockings -
The Red Blues (Cyd Charisse)
Best ShotFunny Face -
Dark Room in RedNight of the Demon -
Hand on the RailNights of Cabiria -
Away From the AudienceThrone of Blood - A Moving Forest (got a screenshot?)
The Tin Star - the camera walks between swinging saloon doors into the night air.
Best Line12 Angry Men - "We're talking about somebody's life here. We can't decide it in five minutes."
Bitter Victory: "Tell him all the things that women have said to the men before they go to the wars. Tell him he's a hero. Tell him he's a good man. Tell him you'll be waiting for him when he comes back. Tell him he'll be making history."
Bitter Victory: "I'm a kind of mirror of your own weakness."
The Bridge on the River Kwai - "Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket!"
A Face in the Crowd - "They're mine. I own 'em. They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for 'em."
Forty Guns - "She's a high-riding woman... with a whip!"
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison - "Well, they don't seem to beat their gums on very hopeful poop."
Nightfall - "They come and they go." "Troubles?" "No, smiles."
Paths of Glory - "If those little sweethearts won’t face German bullets, they’ll face French ones.”
Paths of Glory - "Gentlemen of the court, there are times that I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion. "
Quantez - "This brush only paints red."
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue - "I'll make you King Jerk of the whole world. You'll smell so bad even the flies won't bother. I finish up with you, your head feels like somebody's been stomping on it with spiked shoes. Huh? What do you say, kid, huh?"
Sweet Smell Of Success - "You're dead son. Get yourself buried."
Sweet Smell of Success - "Match me, Sidney. "
Sweet Smell of Success - "The cat's in a bag and the bag's in a river."
Sweet Smell of Success - "I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic."
Sweet Smell of Success - "Mr. Falco, let it be said at once, is a man of 40 faces, not one - none too pretty, and all deceptive. You see that grin? That's the, eh, that's the Charming Street Urchin face. It's part of his helpless act: he throws himself upon your mercy. He's got a half-dozen faces for the ladies. But the one I like, the really cute one, is the quick, dependable chap. Nothing he won't do for you in a pinch - so he says. Mr. Falco, whom I did not invite to sit at this table tonight, is a hungry press agent, and fully up to all the tricks of his very slimy trade. "
Sweet Smell of Success - "Don't be a two-time loser, Sidney. The penalty could be severe."
The Tin Star - "You're more temporary than you think."
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter - "That's right Sweetie, I'm president of Rita Marlowe Productions, Incorporated, but Miss Marlowe is the titular head."
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter - "Well, I'll be a writer's subplot. You have."
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter - "If talent had anything to do with success, then Brooks Brothers would go out of business. Movie studios would be turned into supermarkets."
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter - "We're warming up a top rewrite team to rewrite the last top rewrite team."
Zero Hour! - "I guess I picked the wrong week to give up smoking."
Zero Hour! - "Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner. "