1957 in film

The top ten 1957 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

The highest-grossing 1957 films in various countries.

• February 1 – RKO ceases domestic distribution of feature films which is taken over by Universal Pictures.
• May – Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal wins the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.
• June 6 – Jerry Lewis appears in his first film without Dean Martin in The Delicate Delinquent.
• June – United Artists rejoins the Motion Picture Association of America, following an expansion of the MPAA code appeals board members. The board had previously denied The Man With the Golden Arm a Production Code seal in 1955, leading UA to quit the MPAA.
• October 2 – Raintree County is the first film shot in MGM Camera 65.
• December 6 – Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries is released in Sweden. It goes on to win the Golden Bear at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1959.

• February 14 - Cinderella (re-release)
• July 3 - Bambi (re-release)

United States unless stated

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
• Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941–1972)
• Droopy (1943–1958)
• Noveltoons (1943–1967)
• The Nearsighted Mister Magoo (1950–1959)
• Casper the Friendly Ghost (1950–1959)
• Herman and Katnip (1952–1959)
• Chilly Willy (1953–1972)

Ending this year

• Popeye the Sailor (1933-1957)
• Maggie and Sam (1955-1957)
• Spike and Tyke (1957)

• January 14 – Humphrey Bogart, 57, American actor, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The Caine Mutiny
• January 19 – Sheila Terry, 46, American actress, The Sphinx, The Silk Express
• January 26 – William Eythe, 38, American actor, The Song of Bernadette, The House on 92nd Street
• February 19 – Märta Torén, 31, Swedish actress, Sirocco, One Way Street
• March 25 – Max Ophüls, 54, German director, The Earrings of Madame de..., Lola Montès
• March 31 – Gene Lockhart, 65, Canadian actor, Miracle on 34th Street, Algiers
• April 8 – Dorothy Sebastian, 53, American actress, Spite Marriage, Our Dancing Daughters
• April 27 – Paweł Owerłło, 87, Polish actor, Pan Tadeusz
• May 9 – Ezio Pinza, 64, Italian singer and actor, Tonight We Sing, Mr. Imperium
• May 12 – Erich von Stroheim, 71, Austrian actor, director, Sunset Boulevard, La Grande Illusion
• May 29 – James Whale, 67, British director, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man
• June 12 – Robert Alton, 51, American choreographer and director, White Christmas, Pagan Love Song
• July 3 – Judy Tyler, 24, American actress, Jailhouse Rock, Bop Girl Goes Calypso
• July 15 – George Cleveland, 71, Canadian actor, Carson City, Fort Defiance
• July 24 – Sacha Guitry, 72, French playwright, actor and director, Confessions of a Cheat, A Crime in Paradise
• August 7 – Oliver Hardy, 65, American actor, The Flying Deuces, Sons of the Desert
• August 9 – Konrad Tom, 70, Polish actor, screenwriter, director and singer, His Excellency, The Shop Assistant
• August 12 – Tim Whelan, 63, American director, The Thief of Bagdad, The Divorce of Lady X
• September 1 – Helen Haye, 83, Indian-British actress, The 39 Steps, Richard III
• September 19 – Edvard Persson, 69, Swedish actor, South of the Highway, Kalle's Inn
• October 20 – Jack Buchanan, 66, British actor, Auld Lang Syne, The Band Wagon
• October 29 – Louis B. Mayer, 73, Russian-American producer and studio executive, Greed, That's Entertainment!
• November 17 – Cora Witherspoon, 67, American actress, The Bank Dick, Libeled Lady
• November 29 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 60, Austrian composer, Anthony Adverse, The Adventures of Robin Hood
• November 30 – Fred F. Sears, 44, American director, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Rock Around the Clock
• December 11 – Musidora, 58, French actress, director, Les Vampires, Judex
• December 15 – Alfonso Bedoya, 53, Mexican actor, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Big Country
• December 24 – Norma Talmadge, 63, American actress, New York Nights, Secrets
• December 25 – Charles Pathé, 94, French producer, writer, The Conquest of the Pole

• Alan Arkin – Calypso Heat Wave
• Bruno Cremer – Send a Woman When the Devil Fails
• Alain Delon – Send a Woman When the Devil Fails
• Catherine Deneuve – The Twilight Girls
• Andy Griffith – A Face in the Crowd
• William Hickey – A Hatful of Rain
• Sally Kellerman – Reform School Girl
• George Peppard – The Strange One
• Lee Remick – A Face in the Crowd
• Harry Dean Stanton – Revolt at Fort Laramie
• Liv Ullmann – Fjols til fjells
• Adam West – Voodoo Island