1957
- October 24 - Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, South African artist (b. 1886)
- October 25
- Albert Anastasia, American gangster (b. 1902)
- Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (b. 1878)
- October 26 - Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
- October 29 - Louis B. Mayer, American studio mogul (once perhaps the most powerful man in Hollywood), and former head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). (b. 1885)
- November 4
- William Haywood, British architect (b. 1876)
- Shoghi Effendi, Bahá'í leader (b. 1897)
- November 24 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
- November 29 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897)
- November 30 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
- December 21 - Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886)
- December 25 - Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet, historian (b. 1877)
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Ship events
- List of ship launches in 1957
- List of ship commissionings in 1957
- List of ship decommissionings in 1957
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Nobel prizes
- Physics - Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee
- Chemistry - Lord Alexander R. Todd
- Physiology or Medicine - Daniel Bovet
- Literature - Albert Camus
- Peace - Lester Bowles Pearson
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Academy Awards
- Best Picture: Around the World in Eighty Days, Michael Todd
- Best Director: George Stevens, Giant
- Best Foreign Language Film: La strada, Italy
- Best Actor: Yul Brynner, The King and I
- Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia
- Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn, Lust for Life
- Best Supporting Actress: Dorothy Malone, Written on the Wind
- Best Original Screenplay: The Red Balloon, Albert Lamorisse
- Best Adapted Screenplay: Around the World in Eighty Days, James Poe and John Farrow and S.J.Perelman
- Best Motion Picture Story: The Brave One, Dalton Trumbo
- Best Black-and-White Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg, Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Best Color Cinematography: Lionel Lindon, Around the World in 80 Days
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1957 in Film
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is set in 1957.
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1957 in television
- Leave it to Beaver, which began in 1957, gives its viewers a glimpse of American Caucasian Suburban life in that era. However, no references to current events are ever made in the show.
- Brooklyn Bridge, another TV show, is set in 1957 but was actually produced four decades later. There are several references to current events of that year, including the launching of the first Sputnik and the removal of the Brooklyn Dodgers (which at that time included such distinguished players as Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese) from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
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