30th Academy Awards

30th Academy Awards
30th Academy Awards
Date	March 26, 1958
Site	RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California, United States
Hosted by	Bob Hope; Rosalind Russell; David Niven; James Stewart; Jack Lemmon; Donald Duck (voice of Clarence Nash by premade animation)
Produced by	Jerry Wald
Directed by	Trevor Newman
Highlights
Best Picture	The Bridge on the River Kwai
Most awards	The Bridge on the River Kwai (7)
Most nominations	Sayonara (10)
TV in the United States
Network	NBC
	← 29th; Academy Awards; 31st →;

The 30th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 26, 1958, to honor the best films of 1957.

Two violent deaths surrounded the Oscars during this ceremony. A plane crash took the life of producer Mike Todd, ending the then-latest marriage of Elizabeth Taylor, at that time a contender for the film Raintree County. Lana Turner, in the running for Peyton Place, would soon be embroiled in a major scandal when Johnny Stompanato, her boyfriend, was killed in her Beverly Hills home.^[1] The Best Actress award, however, was won by a relative newcomer, Joanne Woodward, who made her own dress for the occasion, causing presenter Joan Crawford to remark that she was "setting the cause of Hollywood glamour back twenty years by making her own clothes".^[1]

As in the previous year, the blacklisting of certain writers led to anomalies in the writing awards. The Academy Award 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 speak English, because the actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, were blacklisted at the time and had not received screen credit. Foreman and Wilson have since been acknowledged by the academy as the true recipients of the award, though Boulle remains listed as an official winner.

Peyton Place tied the record for the most nominations without a win (9) set by The Little Foxes (1941). This record would stand until 1977 when The Turning Point received 11 nominations without a win, which is the record to date (The Color Purple tied the record in 1985). 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.

For the first time in Oscar history, during the time period (1944–2008) when Best Picture was limited to five nominees, the Best Director nominees aligned completely with the Best Picture nominees. This would only occur four more times before the Best Picture category's re-expansion in 2009. As of the 96th Academy Awards, Designing Woman is the last film to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay when nominated solely in that category.

Awards

David Lean; Best Director winner

Alec Guinness; Best Actor winner

Joanne Woodward; Best Actress winner

Red Buttons; Best Supporting Actor winner

Miyoshi Umeki; Best Supporting Actress winner

Carl Foreman; Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner

Jimmy Van Heusen; Best Original Song co-winner

Sammy Cahn; Best Original Song co-winner

Nominees were announced on February 18, 1958. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.^[2]

Best Motion Picture	Best 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 Actor	Best Actress
*Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai* as 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 Actor	Best 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 Screen	Best 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 Film	Best Documentary Feature
Nights of Cabiria (Italy)‡ Mother India (India) The Devil Strikes at Night (West Germany) Gates of Paris (France) Nine Lives (Norway)	*Albert Schweitzer‡ On the Bowery* Torero!
Best Live Action Short Subject	Best 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 Scoring	Best 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 Recording	Best 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 Direction	Best 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 Editing	Best 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".