25th Academy Awards
| 25th Academy Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | March 19, 1953 |
| Site |
RKO Pantages Theatre Hollywood, California NBC International Theatre New York City, New York |
| Hosted by |
Bob Hope (Hollywood) Conrad Nagel (emcee) Fredric March (New York City) |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | The Greatest Show on Earth |
| Most awards | The Bad and the Beautiful (5) |
| Most nominations | High Noon, Moulin Rouge and The Quiet Man (7) |
| TV in the United States | |
| Network | NBC |
The 25th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 19, 1953. It took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California, and the NBC International Theatre in New York City.
It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be televised, and the first ceremony to be held in Hollywood and New York City simultaneously. It was also the only year that the New York ceremonies were to be held in the NBC International Theatre on Columbus Circle, which was shortly thereafter demolished and replaced by the New York Coliseum convention center.
A major upset occurred in the category of Best Picture. The heavily favored High Noon lost to Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth, eventually considered among the worst films to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The American film magazine Premiere placed the movie on its list of the 10 worst Oscar winners and the British film magazine Empire rated it #3 on their list of the 10 worst Oscar winners. It has the lowest spot on Rotten Tomatoes' list of the 81 films to win Best Picture. Of all the films nominated for the Oscar this year, only High Noon and Singin' in the Rain would show up 46 years later on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the 20th Century. For a film that only received two nominations, Singin' in the Rain went on to be named as the greatest American musical film of all time and in the 2007 American Film Institute updated list as the fifth greatest American film of all time, while High Noon was ranked twenty-seventh on the same 2007 list, as well.
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