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The 25th Academy Awards were held on March 19, 1953 at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, and the NBC International Theatre in New York City, to honor the films of 1952.
Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Claude Carpenter Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Alex North
Best Motion PictureBest DirectorThe Greatest Show on Earth – Cecil B.John Ford – The Quiet Man ‡ Joseph L.Gary Cooper – High Noon as Marshall Will ...Shirley Booth – Come Back, Little Sheba ...Anthony Quinn – Viva Zapata! as Eufemio ...Gloria Grahame – The Bad and the ...The Bad and the Beautiful – Charles ...The Lavender Hill Mob – T. E. B. Clarke ‡ ...26th Academy Awards (1953): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST MOTION PICTURE. From Here to Eternity – Buddy Adler. Julius Caesar – John Houseman. The Robe – Frank Ross. Roman Holiday – William Wyler. Shane – George Stevens. DIRECTING. From Here to Eternity – Fred Zinnemann. Lili – Charles Walters.
Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Claude Carpenter Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Alex North
Best Art Direction Academy Award winners. People who have been awarded the Best Art Direction Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .
The big winner was Fred Zinnemann's eight-Oscar winning From Here to Eternity (with thirteen nominations and eight awards including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay (Daniel Taradash), Best Cinematography (Burnett Guffey), Best Sound, and Best Film Editing).
The 25th Academy Awards were the first Oscars to be televised when they aired on March 19th, 1953. The ceremony was actually a bi-coastal affair with Bob Hope heading up the main ceremony at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, while Conrad Nagel hosted portions of the ceremony from the NBC International Theatre in New York.
