1957 Retro Filmspot Nominations
Best Picture
12 Angry Men
Sweet Smell of Success
Paths of Glory
Throne of Blood
Wild Strawberries
Best Director
Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men
Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory
Guru Dutt, Pyaasa
Akria Kurosawa, Throne of Blood
Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries
Best Original Screenplay
Budd Schulberg, A Face in the Crowd
Abrar Alvi, Pyaasa
Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
Michael Maltese, What's Opera, Doc?
Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries
Best Adapted Screenplay
Reginald Rose, 12 Angry Men (from the his own teleplay)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico and Luchino Visconti, Le Notti Bianche (from the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Stanley Kubrick& Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, Paths of Glory (from the novel by Humphrey Cobb)
Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, Sweet Smell of Success (from the novella by Ernest Lehman)
Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryûzô Kikushima, & Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood (from the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare)
Best Actor
Tony Curtis, Sweet Smell of Success
Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory
Henry Fonda, 12 Angry Men
Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Victor Sjostrom, Wild Strawberries
Best Actress
Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face
Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria
Patricia Neal, A Face in the Crowd
Tatyana Samojlova, The Cranes Are Flying
Barbara Stanwyck, Forty Guns
Best Supporting Actor
Gunnar Bjornstrand, The Seventh Seal
Lee J. Cobb, 12 Angry Men
Sessue Hayakawa, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Curd Jürgens, The Enemy Below
Burt Lancaster, Sweet Smell of Success
Best Supporting Actress
Marlene Dietrich, Witness for the Prosecution
Carol Haney, The Pajama Game
Teresa Izewska, Kanal
Kay Thompson, Funny Face
Isuzu Yamada, Throne of Blood
Best Ensemble Cast
12 Angry Men
Paths of Glory
The Seventh Seal
Sweet Smell of Success
Witness for the Prosecution
Best Non-English Language Film
The Cranes Are Flying
Pyaasa
The Seventh Seal
Throne of Blood
Wild Strawberries
Best Short Film
A Chairy Tale (directed by Claude Jutra & Norman McLaren)
Let's All Go to the Lobby (directed by Dave Fleischer)
N.Y., N.Y. (directed by Francis Thompson)
Three Little Bops (directed by Friz Freleng)
What's Opera, Doc? (directed by Chuck Jones)
Best Editing
Frank Bracht, Funny Face
Eva Kroll, Paths of Glory
Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood
Carl Lerner, 12 Angry Men
Mariya Timofeyeva, The Cranes Are Flying
Best Score
Malcolm Arnold, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Elmer Bernstein, Sweet Smell of Success
S.D. Burman, Pyaasa
Adolph Deutsch, Funny Face
Masaru Satô, Throne of Blood
Best Cinematography
Gunnar Fischer, The Seventh Seal
Jack Hildyard, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Asakazu Nakai, Throne of Blood
Sergei Urusevsky, The Cranes Are Flying
James Wong Howe, Sweet Smell of Success
Best Art Direction
Mario Chiari and Enzo Eusepi, Le Notti Bianche
P.A. Lundgren, The Seventh Seal
Yoshirô Muraki, Throne of Blood
Hal Pereira, George W. Davis, Sam Comer, & Ray Moyer, Funny Face
Ludwig Reiber, Paths of Glory
Best Line
"You're dead son. Get yourself buried." – Sweet Smell of Success
"I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic." – Sweet Smell of Success
"The arrangement of your features is not entirely repulsive to me." – Silk Stockings
"She's a high-riding woman... with a whip!" – Forty Guns
"I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders." – Witness for the Prosecution