30th Academy Awards


The 30th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 26, 1958, to honor the best films of 1957.
The Oscar for Best Screenplay 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.
Peyton Place tied the record for the most nominations without a win set by The Little Foxes. This record would stand until 1977 when The Turning Point received 11 nominations without a win, which is the record to date. 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.
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 PictureBest Director

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai – Sam Spiegel, producer
  • *12 Angry Men – Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose, producers
  • *Peyton Place – Jerry Wald, producer
  • *Sayonara – William Goetz, producer
  • *Witness for the Prosecution – Arthur Hornblow Jr., producer
  • David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • *Sidney Lumet – 12 Angry Men
  • *Mark Robson – Peyton Place
  • *Joshua Logan – Sayonara
  • *Billy Wilder – Witness for the Prosecution
    • Best ActorBest Actress
  • Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai as Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson
  • *Marlon Brando – Sayonara as Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver
  • *Anthony Franciosa – A Hatful of Rain as Polo Pope
  • *Charles Laughton – Witness for the Prosecution as Sir Wilfrid Robarts Q.C.
  • *Anthony Quinn – Wild Is the Wind as Gino
  • Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve as Eve White/Eve Black/Jane
  • *Deborah Kerr – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison as Sister Angela
  • *Anna Magnani – Wild Is the Wind as Gioia
  • *Elizabeth Taylor – Raintree County as Susanna Drake
  • *Lana Turner – Peyton Place as Constance MacKenzie
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
  • Red Buttons – Sayonara as Airman Joe Kelly
  • *Vittorio De Sica – A Farewell to Arms as Major Alessandro Rinaldi
  • *Sessue Hayakawa – The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Saito
  • *Arthur Kennedy – Peyton Place as Lucas Cross
  • *Russ Tamblyn – Peyton Place as Norman Page
  • Miyoshi Umeki – Sayonara as Katsumi Kelly
  • *Carolyn Jones – The Bachelor Party as The Girl
  • *Elsa Lanchester – Witness for the Prosecution as Miss Plimsoll
  • *Hope Lange – Peyton Place as Selena Cross
  • *Diane Varsi – Peyton Place as Allison MacKenzie
    • Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the ScreenBest Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
  • Designing Woman – George Wells
  • *Funny Face – Leonard Gershe
  • *I Vitelloni – Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano
  • *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 based on the novel by Pierre Boulle
  • *12 Angry Men – Reginald Rose based on his teleplay
  • *Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison – John Lee Mahin and John Huston from the novel by Charles Shaw
  • *Peyton Place – John Michael Hayes based on the novel by Grace Metalious
  • *Sayonara – Paul Osborn based on the novel by James Michener
    • Best Foreign Language FilmBest Documentary Feature

    • Nights of Cabiria
    • *Mother India
    • *The Devil Strikes at Night
    • *Gates of Paris
    • *Nine Lives
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • *On the Bowery
  • *Torero!
    • Best Live Action Short SubjectBest Short Subject – Cartoons
  • 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 ScoringBest 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; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
  • *"An Affair to Remember" from An Affair to Remember – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Leo McCarey and Harold Adamson
  • *"April Love" from April Love – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
  • *"Tammy" from Tammy and the Bachelor – Music and Lyrics by Ray Evans and Johnny Livingston
  • *"Wild Is the Wind" from Wild Is the Wind – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
    • Best Sound RecordingBest Costume Design
  • Sayonara – George Groves
  • *Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – George Dutton
  • *Les Girls – Wesley C. Miller
  • *Pal Joey – John P. Livadary
  • *Witness for the Prosecution – Gordon E. Sawyer
  • 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 DirectionBest Cinematography
  • Sayonara – Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley
  • *Funny Face – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer
  • *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
  • *Raintree County – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai – Jack Hildyard
  • *An Affair to Remember – Milton Krasner
  • *Funny Face – Ray June
  • *Peyton Place – William C. Mellor
  • *Sayonara – Ellsworth Fredericks
    • Best Film EditingBest Special Effects
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai – Peter Taylor
  • *Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – Warren Low
  • *Pal Joey – Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms
  • *Sayonara – Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson
  • *Witness for the Prosecution – Daniel Mandell
  • The Enemy Below – Walter Rossi
  • *The Spirit of St. Louis – Louis Lichtenfield

    • Academy Honorary Awards

  • Charles Brackett "for outstanding service to the Academy".
  • B. B. Kahane "for distinguished service to the motion picture industry".
  • Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson "motion picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment".
  • the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers "for their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry".

    Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

  • Samuel Goldwyn

    Presenters and performers

    • Presenters

    These films had multiple nominations:
    The following films received multiple awards.