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The Academy Award for Best Picture of 1957 went to The Bridge on the River Kwai. Producer Sam Spiegel accepted the award.
The Oscar for Best Picture for the 1957 Academy Awards went to 'The Bridge On the River Kwai', directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel. The film was based on a french novel 'The Bridge Over the River Kwai' written by Pierre Boulle. The other nominated films in that category were 'Peyton Place', 'Sayonara', '12 Angry Men' and 'Witness for the Prosecution'. The Bridge on the River Kwai also won six other Academy Awards that night including Best Actor (Alec Guinness as 'Colonel Nicholson') and Best Writing. The award for best writing went only to the author of the book as the screenwriters Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman were blacklisted at the time for being members of the communist party. In 1984 the screenwriters were awarded the Oscar posthumously for the writing of 'Bridge on the River Kwai'.
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The Academy Award for Best Picture of 1957 went to "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
The Bridge on the River Kwai, about British POWs in WWII, won 7 Oscars (including Best Picture) and was nominated for 8.
Interestingly, screenwriters Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson were blacklisted at the time and received no screen credit. They were posthumously awarded the Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium in 1984.
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