30th Academy Awards (1958)
Highlights of 30th Academy Awards ceremony
The 30th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1957.
The award ceremony was held on 26th March 1958.
The Bridge on the River Kwai won the Best Picture award.
Alec Guinness won the Best Actor award for his role in The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Joanne Woodward won the Best Actess award for her role in The Three Faces of Eve.
David Lean won the Best Director award for The Bridge on the River Kwai.
- WINNER
Best Picture
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sayonara
Peyton Place
Witness for the Prosecution
12 Angry Men
Best Director
The Bridge on the River Kwai
- David Lean
12 Angry Men
- Sidney Lumet
Witness for the Prosecution
- Billy Wilder
Sayonara
- Joshua Logan
Peyton Place
- Mark Robson
Best Original Screenplay
Designing Woman
- George Wells
I vitelloni
- Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano
Funny Face
- Leonard Gershe
Man of a Thousand Faces
- Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
The Tin Star
- Barney Slater, Joel Kane, Dudley Nichols
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle
12 Angry Men
- Reginald Rose
Peyton Place
- John Michael Hayes
Sayonara
- Paul Osborn
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- John Lee Mahin, John Huston
Best Actor in a Leading Role
The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Alec Guinness
Sayonara
- Marlon Brando
Wild Is the Wind
- Anthony Quinn
A Hatful of Rain
- Anthony Franciosa
Witness for the Prosecution
- Charles Laughton
Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Three Faces of Eve
- Joanne Woodward
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- Deborah Kerr
Peyton Place
- Lana Turner
Wild Is the Wind
- Anna Magnani
Raintree County
- Elizabeth Taylor
Best Supporting Actor
Sayonara
- Red Buttons
The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Sessue Hayakawa
Peyton Place
- Russ Tamblyn
A Farewell to Arms
- Vittorio De Sica
Peyton Place
- Arthur Kennedy
Best Supporting Actress
Sayonara
- Miyoshi Umeki
Peyton Place
- Hope Lange
The Bachelor Party
- Carolyn Jones
Peyton Place
- Diane Varsi
Witness for the Prosecution
- Elsa Lanchester
Best Art Direction
Sayonara
Funny Face
Raintree County
Les Girls
Pal Joey
Best Cinematography
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Peyton Place
Funny Face
An Affair to Remember
Sayonara
Best Original Song
The Joker Is Wild
- Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
for "All the Way"
An Affair to Remember
- Harry Warren, Leo McCarey, Harold Adamson
for "An Affair to Remember"
April Love
- Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
for "April Love"
Wild Is the Wind
- Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
for "Wild Is the Wind"
Tammy and the Bachelor
- Ray Evans, Johnny Livingston
for "Tammy"
Best Original Score
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
Best Costume Design
Les Girls
An Affair to Remember
Funny Face
Pal Joey
Raintree County
Best Documentary Feature
Albert Schweitzer
Best Foreign Language Film
Nights of Cabiria
Mother India
The Devil Came at Night
Ni Liv
The Gates of Paris
Best Live Action Short Film
The Wetback Hound
Best Film Editing
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sayonara
Pal Joey
Witness for the Prosecution
Gunfight at the O. K. Corral
Best Short Subject - Cartoon
Birds Anonymous
Best Sound, Recording
Sayonara
Gunfight at the O. K. Corral
Les Girls
Witness for the Prosecution
Pal Joey
Best Effects, Special Effects
The Enemy Below
The Spirit of St. Louis