1957 Alternate Oscars

If you're anything like me, you see the year "1957" on a post and you immediately think, "Oh, yeah, the year Auburn won a national title in football."

What? That's not what you think of? Hmm, strange ...

Best Picture of 1957

✔ The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Cranes Are Flying

A Face in the Crowd

ƒ Nights of Cabiria

Paths of Glory

★ The Seventh Seal

Sweet Smell of Success

12 Angry Men

Wild Strawberries

Witness for the Prosecution

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Best Actor of 1957

★ Tony Curtis (Sweet Smell of Success)

Andy Griffith (A Face in the Crowd)

✔ Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)

Charles Laughton (Witness for the Prosecution)

Victor Sjöström (Wild Strawberries)

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Best Actress of 1957

Marlene Dietrich (Witness for the Prosecution)

Deborah Kerr (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison and An Affair to Remember)

★ Giulietta Masina (Nights of Cabiria)

Tatyana Samoylova (The Cranes Are Flying)

✔ Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)

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Best Director of 1957

★ Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries)

Stanley Kubrick (Paths of Glory)

✔ David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai)

Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men)

Billy Wilder (Witness for the Prosecution, Love in the Afternoon and The Spirit of St. Louis)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1957

Gunnar Björnstrand (The Seventh Seal)

✔ Red Buttons (Sayonara)

Sessue Hayakawa (The Bridge on the River Kwai)

★ Burt Lancaster (Sweet Smell of Success)

Tyrone Power (Witness for the Prosecution)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1957

Bibi Andersson (The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries)

Kay Kendall (Les Girls)

★ Elsa Lanchester (Witness for the Prosecution)

Ingrid Thulin (Wild Strawberries)

✔ Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara)

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Special Award

Bugs Bunny (lifetime achievement)

What's Opera Doc? (short subject-cartoon)

"Jailhouse Rock" (Jailhouse Rock) music and lyrics by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller (song)

James Wong Howe (Sweet Smell of Success) (cinematography)

Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, from the novella by Ernest Lehman (Sweet Smell Of Success) (adapted screenplay)

Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries) (original screenplay)

Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Ed Begley, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Jack Klugman, George Voskovec, Robert Webber, Edward Binns and Joseph Sweeney (12 Angry Men) (best ensemble cast)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.