1957 Endy Awards

I wrote a truncated version of this last year after watching a ton of movies from 1957, but here I'm giving it the full Endy Awards treatment, following up on last week's awards for 2011, 1932 and 1964. Eligibility is determined by imdb date (this can be frustrating: last year at this time, Lionel Rogosin's great On the Bowery was a 1957 film, now it's been reclassified as 1956) and by whether or not I've seen the movie in question. Nominees are listed in alphabetical order and the winners are bolded. And the Endy goes to. . .

Best Picture:

1. Funny Face

2. Pyaasa

3. The Seventh Seal

4. Throne of Blood

5. What's Opera, Doc?

Best Director:

1. Stanley Donen, Funny Face
2. Guru Dutt, Pyaasa
3. Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
4. Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood
5. Mikhail Kalatozov, Cranes are Flying

Best Actor:

1. Glenn Ford, 3:10 to Yuma

2. Richard Burton, Bitter Victory

3. Randolph Scott, The Tall T

4. Tony Curtis, The Sweet Smell of Success

5. Toshiro Mifune, Throne of Blood

Best Actress:

1. Angie Dickinson, China Gate

2. Tatyana Smojlova, The Cranes are Flying

3. Patricia Neal, A Face in the Crowd

4. Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face

5. Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria

Just missing out in the acting categories are a pair of actors from Ingmar Bergman's films: Victor Sjöström in Wild Strawberries and Bibi Andersson in Wild Strawberries & The Seventh Seal.

Supporting Actor:

1. Curd Jürgens, Bitter Victory

2. Sessue Hayakawa, The Bridge on the River Kwai

3. Hidari Bokuzen, The Lower Depths
4. Gunnar Bjornstrand, The Seventh Seal

5. Burt Lancaster, The Sweet Smell of Success

Supporting Actress:

1. Ruby Dee, The Edge of the City

2. Kay Thompson, Funny Face

3. Carol Haney, The Pajama Game

4. Isuzu Yamada, Throne of Blood

5. Joan Blondell, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Myoshi Umeki won the first ever Oscar awarded to an Asian actor this year, for her supporting performance in the dreadful Joshua Logan melodrama Sayonara. The Academy was right in focusing on Japanese actors, but wildly off-base in which one they chose (no offense to Ms. Umeki, who is perfectly fine). At least they nominated Hayakawa (whose Hollywood credits go back even further than his starring role in Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 classic The Cheat).

Original Screenplay:

1. Leonard Gershe, Funny Face

2. Abrar Alvi, Pyaasa

3. Samuel Fuller, Run of the Arrow

4. Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
5. Kogo Noda & Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Twilight

Adapted Screenplay:

1. Hardy, Lambert & Ray, Bitter Victory

2. Suso Cecchi D'Amico & Luchino Visconti, Le notti bianche

3. Clifford Odets & Ernest Lehman, The Sweet Smell of Success

4. Oguni, Hashimoto, Kikushima & Kurosawa, Throne of Blood

5. Michael Maltese, What's Opera, Doc?

Non-English Language Film:

1. The Cranes are Flying

2. Pyaasa

3. The Seventh Seal

4. Throne of Blood

5. Tokyo Twilight

Unseen Film:

1. The Burglar (Paul Wendkos)

2. Desk Set (Walter Lang)

3. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (John Huston)

4. Mother India (Mehboob Khan)

5. The River's Edge (Allan Dwan)

Short Film:

1. Ali Baba Bunny (Chuck Jones)

2. A Chairy Tale (Norman McLaren)

3. Show Biz Bugs (Friz Freleng)

4. Steal Wool (Chuck Jones)

5. What's Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones)

Cinematography:

1. Sergei Urusevsky, The Cranes are Flying

2. Ray June, Funny Face

3. Winton C. Hoch, Jet Pilot

4. Georg Krause, Paths of Glory

5. Asakazu Nakai, Throne of Blood

Film Editing:

1. 3:10 to Yuma

2. The Cranes are Flying

3. Funny Face

4. Kanal

5. Men in War

Original Score:

1. 3:10 to Yuma

2. Jailhouse Rock

3. Nights of Cabiria

4. Pyaasa

5. Throne of Blood

Adapted Score:

1. The Bridge on the River Kwai

2. Funny Face

3. The Pajama Game

4. Pal Joey

5. What's Opera, Doc?

Original Song:

1. "China Gate", China Gate

2. "High Ridin' Woman", Forty Guns
3. "Think Pink", Funny Face

4. "Jailhouse Rock", Jailhouse Rock

5. "Treat Me Nice", Jailhouse Rock

Just like they would with the Beatles in 1964 and A Hard Day's Night, the Academy failed to nominate any of the Leiber & Stoller songs Elvis Presley sang in Jailhouse Rock. For shame Academy voters from 60 years ago.

Art Direction:

1. Funny Face

2. The Incredible Shrinking Man
3. Les Girls

4. Le notti bianche

5. Throne of Blood

Costume Design:

1. Funny Face
2. Les Girls
3. The Seventh Seal

4. The Sweet Smell of Success
5. Throne of Blood

Make-up:

1. 20 Million Miles to Earth
2. The Curse of Frankenstein

3. Funny Face
4. The Man of 1000 Faces
5. Throne of Blood

Sound Mixing:

1. Funny Face
2. Kanal
3. Men in War
4. Paths of Glory
5. Throne of Blood

Sound Editing:

1. 3:10 to Yuma

2. Kanal

3. Men in War

4. Paths of Glory
5. Throne of Blood

Visual Effects:

1. 20 Million Miles to Earth

2. The Incredible Shrinking Man
3. The Enemy Below
4. Jet Pilot
5. Throne of Blood