30th Academy Awards

30th Academy Awards
Date	March 26, 1958
Site	RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California, USA
Host	Bob Hope Rosalind Russell David Niven James Stewart Jack Lemmon Donald Duck (voice of Clarence Nash, by premade animation)
Producer	Jerry Wald
Director	Alan Handley
Highlights
Best Picture	The Bridge on the River Kwai
Most awards	The Bridge on the River Kwai (7)
Most nominations	Sayonara (10)
TV in the United States
Network	NBC

1957's best films were honored at the 30th Academy Awards, held on 26 March 1958.

The Oscar for Writing Based on Material From Another Medium was awarded to Pierre Boulle for The Bridge on the River Kwai, despite the fact that he did not know English. The actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson were blacklisted at the time and did not receive screen credit for their work. Foreman and Wilson have since been acknowledged by the Academy for their contributions.

Joanne Woodward's win for Best Actress for her triple role as Eve White, Eve Black, and Jane in The Three Faces of Eve marked the film as the last to win Best Actress without being nominated for other awards. This was broken 31 years later when Jodie Foster won Best Actress for her role in The Accused, the film's only nomination.

Peyton Place tied the record for the most nominations without a single win (9) with The Little Foxes. It would not be broken until 1977 when The Turning Point received 11 nominations without a win, and has not been broken since, though The Color Purple subsequently tied the record. Peyton Place also set the record for most unsuccessful acting nominations with five; this record has been tied once, by Tom Jones at the 36th Academy Awards.

It was the first time the ceremonies were broadcast live.

This was the first time all five Best Picture nominations were nominated for Best Director as well.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface

Best Motion Picture	Best Director
The Bridge on the River Kwai - Sam Spiegel Sayonara Peyton Place Witness for the Prosecution 12 Angry Men	David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai Sidney Lumet – 12 Angry Men Billy Wilder – Witness for the Prosecution Joshua Logan – Sayonara Mark Robson – Peyton Place
Best Actor	Best Actress
Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai Marlon Brando – Sayonara Anthony Franciosa – A Hatful of Rain Charles Laughton – Witness for the Prosecution Anthony Quinn – Wild Is the Wind	Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve Deborah Kerr – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Anna Magnani – Wild Is the Wind Elizabeth Taylor – Raintree County Lana Turner – Peyton Place
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Red Buttons – Sayonara Vittorio De Sica – A Farewell to Arms Sessue Hayakawa – The Bridge on the River Kwai Arthur Kennedy – Peyton Place Russ Tamblyn – Peyton Place	Miyoshi Umeki – Sayonara Carolyn Jones – The Bachelor Party Elsa Lanchester – Witness for the Prosecution Hope Lange – Peyton Place Diane Varsi – Peyton Place
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Designing Woman – George Wells I vitelloni – Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano Funny Face – Leonard Gershe Man of a Thousand Faces – Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts The Tin Star  – Barney Slater, Joel Kane and Dudley Nichols	The Bridge on the River Kwai – Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman and Pierre Boulle 12 Angry Men – Reginald Rose Peyton Place – John Michael Hayes Sayonara – Paul Osborn Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison – John Lee Mahin and John Huston
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Nights of Cabiria (Italy) Mother India (India) The Devil Strikes at Night (Germany) Nine Lives (Norway) The Gates of Paris (France)	Albert Schweitzer On the Bowery Torero!
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
The Wetback Hound A Chairy Tale City of Gold Foothold on Antarctica Portugal	Birds Anonymous One Droopy Knight Tabasco Road Trees and Jamaica Daddy The Truth About Mother Goose
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
The Bridge on the River Kwai – Malcolm Arnold An Affair to Remember – Hugo Friedhofer Boy on a Dolphin – Hugo Friedhofer Perri – Paul J. Smith Raintree County – Johnny Green	"All the Way" from The Joker Is Wild – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn "An Affair to Remember" from An Affair to Remember – Music by Harry Warren; Lyric by Leo McCarey and Harold Adamson "April Love" from April Love – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster "Wild Is the Wind" from Wild Is the Wind – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyric by Ned Washington "Tammy" from Tammy and the Bachelor – Music and Lyric by Ray Evans and Johnny Livingston
Best Sound Recording	Best Costume Design
Sayonara – George Groves, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – George Dutton, Paramount Studio Sound Department Les Girls – Wesley C. Miller, MGM Studio Sound Department Witness for the Prosecution – Gordon E. Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department Pal Joey – John P. Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department	Les Girls – Orry-Kelly An Affair to Remember – Charles LeMaire Funny Face – Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy Pal Joey – Jean Louis Raintree County – Walter Plunkett
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Sayonara – Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley Funny Face – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer Raintree County – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt Les Girls – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Gene Allen; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle Pal Joey – Art Direction: Walter Holscher; Set Decoration: William Kiernan and Louis Diage	The Bridge on the River Kwai – Jack Hildyard Peyton Place – William C. Mellor Funny Face – Ray June An Affair to Remember – Milton Krasner Sayonara – Ellsworth Fredericks
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
The Bridge on the River Kwai – Peter Taylor Sayonara – Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson Pal Joey – Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms Witness for the Prosecution – Daniel Mandell Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – Warren Low	The Enemy Below – Walter Rossi The Spirit of St. Louis – Louis Lichtenfield

Academy Honorary Awards

• Charles Brackett
• B. B. Kahane
• Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson
• the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Samuel Goldwyn

Presenters and performers

Presenters

• June Allyson (Presenter: Best Special Effects)
• Fred Astaire and Dana Wynter (Presenters: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Ernest Borgnine and Cyd Charisse (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
• Joan Collins (Presenter: Cinematography Awards)
• Gary Cooper (Presenter: Best Picture)
• Wendell Corey and Robert Ryan (Presenters: Costume Design Awards)
• Bette Davis (Presenter: Honorary Awards)
• Doris Day and Clark Gable (Presenters: Writing Awards)
• Anita Ekberg and Vincent Price (Presenters: Music Awards)
• Cary Grant (Presenter: Best Actor)
• Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones (Presenters: Short Subjects Awards)
• Van Johnson and Dorothy Malone (Presenters: Best Sound Recording)
• Hope Lange and Ronald Reagan (Presenters: Scientific and Technical Awards)
• Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (Presenters: Best Film Editing)
• Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint (Presenters: Art Direction-Set Decoration Awards)
• Lana Turner (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
• John Wayne (Presenter: Best Actress)
• Sophia Loren (Presenter: Best Director)

Performers

• Anna Maria Alberghetti, Ann Blyth, Shirley Jones, Tab Hunter, Jimmie Rodgers and Tommy Sands ("April Love" from April Love)
• Vic Damone ("An Affair to Remember" from An Affair to Remember)
• Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster ("It's Great Not to Be Nominated")
• Rock Hudson and Mae West ("Baby, It's Cold Outside")
• Johnny Mathis ("Wild Is the Wind" from Wild Is the Wind)
• Debbie Reynolds ("Tammy" from Tammy and the Bachelor)

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

• 10 nominations: Sayonara
• 9 nominations: Peyton Place
• 8 nominations: The Bridge on the River Kwai
• 6 nominations: Witness for the Prosecution
• 4 nominations: An Affair to Remember, Funny Face, Pal Joey, Raintree County
• 3 nominations: 12 Angry Men, Les Girls, Wild Is the Wind
• 2 nominations: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

The following films received multiple awards.

• 7 wins: The Bridge on the River Kwai
• 4 wins: Sayonara

See also

• 15th Golden Globe Awards
• 1957 in film
• 9th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 10th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 11th British Academy Film Awards
• 12th Tony Awards

External links

• The 33rd Annual Academy Awards at IMDb
• Results at the Internet Movie Database
• 1957 Academy Awards at Infoplease