25th Academy Awards

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25th Academy Awards
Date	March 19, 1953
Site	RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California and NBC International Theatre, New York City
Host	Bob Hope (Hollywood) Conrad Nagel (New York City)

The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best movies of 1952, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre, New York, New York. They were the first Academy Awards to be broadcast on television.

Contents 1 Awards Issued 2 TVs 3 Trivia 4 Networks 5 Presenters/Attendees 6 Performers

[edit] Awards Issued

Best Motion Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth

Best Director: John Ford, The Quiet Man

Best Actor: Gary Cooper, High Noon

Best Actress: Shirley Booth, Come Back, Little Sheba

Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn, Viva Zapata!

Best Supporting Actress: Gloria Grahame, The Greatest Show on Earth

[edit] TVs

By 1953 almost half (45 percent) of all households had televisions sets which was up from 10 percent 3 years earlier. Hollywood saw television as the enemy which would keep people home, no longer buying tickets at the movie theater box offices and would have nothing to do with it. But with the cost of the show now reaching $100,000 the four major studios announced that they would not cover the cost of the event as they normally did. Two weeks later the Academy announced that it had made a deal with NBC/RCA for exclusive TV and radio rights.

[edit] Trivia

When Shirley Booth accepted the award for best actress, she was so excited that she tripped on the stairs on the way up to accept the award during the live show.

The show was broadcast from 10:30 p.m. to 12:00 midnight, switching back and forth from host Bob Hope on the West Coast to Conrad Nagel on the East Coast. The late start was made to accommodate those nominees who were performing that night on the Broadway stage.

[edit] Networks

The show was broadcast exclusively on NBC.

[edit] Presenters/Attendees

• Anne Baxter (Presenter: Scientific & Technical Awards)
• Edgar Bergen
• Charles Brackett (Presenter: Honorary Awards & Irving G. Thalberg Award)
• Frank Capra (Presenter: Best Film Editing)
• Charles Coburn
• Ronald Colman (Presenter: Best Actress)
• Broderick Crawford
• Joan Crawford
• Donald Crisp
• Jane Darwell
• Olivia de Havilland (Presenter: Best Director)
• Katherine DeMille (accepting Best Supporting Actor Award for husband Anthony Quinn)
• Walt Disney (Presenter: Music Awards)
• Bobby Driscoll
• Joan Fontaine (Presenter: Art Direction-Set Decoration Awards)
• Greer Garson (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
• Janet Gaynor (Presenter: Best Actor)
• Edmund Gwenn (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
• Jean Hersholt (Presenter: Documentary Awards)
• Dean Jagger
• Piper Laurie
• Fredric March (Presenter (New York): Best Actress)
• Victor McLaglen
• Ray Milland (Presenter: Short Subject Awards)
• Paul Muni
• George Murphy
• Mary Pickford (Presenter: Best Picture)
• Luise Rainer (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Ginger Rogers (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
• Dore Schary (Presenter: Writing Awards)
• James Stewart (Presenter: Art Direction-Set Direction Awards)
• Claire Trevor (Presenter: Best Sound)
• John Wayne (accepting Best Actor Award for Gary Cooper)
• Teresa Wright (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
• Jane Wyman (Presenter: Short Subject Awards)
• Loretta Young (Presenter: Best Special Effects)

[edit] Performers

• Billy Daniels ("Because You're Mine" from Because You're Mine)
• Celeste Holm ("Thumbelina" from Hans Christian Andersen)
• Bob Hope ("Am I In Love" from Son of Paleface)
• Peggy Lee and Johnny Mercer ("Zing a Little Zong" from Just for You)
• Tex Ritter ("High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin') from High Noon)"