Oscar Rewrite: 1957

 

Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai   12 Angry Men

Best Director: David Lean (River Kwai) Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal / Wild Strawberries)

Best Actor: Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)

Best Actress: Joanne Woodward (Three Faces of Eve) Deborah Kerr (An Affair to Remember)

Best Supporting Actor: Red Button (Sayonara) Burt Lancaster (Sweet Smell of Success)

Supporting Actress: Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara) Marlene Dietrich (Witness for the Prosecution)

Best Original Screenplay: Designing Women   A Face in the Crowd

Best Adapted Screenplay: Bridge on the River Kwai  Paths of Glory

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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