1957

1. Sweet Smell of Success- Alexander Mackendrick
2. A Face in the Crowd- Elia Kazan
3. 12 Angry Men- Sidney Lumet
4. Paths of Glory- Stanley Kubrick
5. Nights of Cabiria- Federico Fellini
6. The Seventh Seal- Ingmar Bergman
7. Throne of Blood- Akira Kurosawa
8. Wild Strawberries- Ingmar Bergman
9. The Incredible Shrinking Man- Jack Arnold
10. The Cranes Are Flying- Mikhail Kalatozov
11. The Bridge on the River Kwai- David Lean
12. Witness For the Prosecution- Billy Wilder
13. Bitter Victory- Nicholas Ray
14. Forty Guns- Sam Fuller
15. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?- Frank Tashlin
16. Funny Face- Stanley Donen
17. The Wide Blue Road- Gillo Pontecorvo

Notable shorts: What’s Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones)

Ripe for re-appraisal: An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey), Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)

Need to see: 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves), All at Sea (Charles Frend), Band of Angels (Raoul Walsh), Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur), Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher), Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni), Gunfight at the OK Corral (John Sturges), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (John Huston), Ill Met by Moonlight (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Letter From Siberia (Chris Marker), Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder), Mambo Girl (Wen Yi), Men in War (Anthony Mann), Mister Cory (Blake Edwards), Les Mistons (Francois Truffaut), Mother India (Louis Malle), The Pajama Game (George Abbott and Stanley Donen), Pyaasa (Guru Dutt), Run of the Arrow (Sam Fuller), The Tall T (Budd Boetticher), The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk), Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey), The Tin Star (Anthony Mann), White Nights (Luchino Visconti), Wild Is the Wind (George Cukor), The Wings of Eagles (John Ford)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Friendly Persuasion (William Wyler)
Venice, Golden Lion: Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
Berlin, Golden Bear: 12 Angry Men