30th Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1957
The 30th Academy Awards honored 1957 films, notable for a blacklisting controversy in the screenplay award and Joanne Woodward's Best Actress win.
Key Facts
- Ceremony date
- March 26, 1958
- Best Actress winner
- Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)
- Best Screenplay (Adapted)
- Pierre Boulle for The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Most nominations without a win
- Peyton Place — 9 nominations, 0 wins
- Blacklisted actual writers
- Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson
- Record tied
- First time Best Director nominees matched all Best Picture nominees
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
The 1957 film season produced several major studio productions eligible for Academy recognition, while the Hollywood blacklist continued to affect credit attribution for writers. Off-screen tragedies, including the death of producer Mike Todd in a plane crash and the Lana Turner scandal, added turbulence to the awards season.
The 30th Academy Awards were held on March 26, 1958. Joanne Woodward won Best Actress for The Three Faces of Eve. The Best Adapted Screenplay went to Pierre Boulle for The Bridge on the River Kwai, even though blacklisted writers Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson had authored the script. Peyton Place tied a nominations-without-a-win record with nine.
The blacklisting anomaly in the screenplay category was later corrected when the Academy acknowledged Foreman and Wilson as true recipients. Peyton Place's nine-nomination shutout set a record that stood until 1977. The alignment of Best Director and Best Picture nominees was historically noted and would only recur four more times before 2009.