The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953)
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The 25th Annual 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 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, which is now considered among the worst films to have ever 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.
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A = “The Bad and the Beautiful” won (A) Academy Awards.
B = (B) Quinn won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his portrayal in “Viva Zapata!” (Convert the first letter of the name to a number).
C = “Sudden Fear” was nominated for (C) Academy Awards.
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D = When three of the film studios refused to provide their customary financial support, the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America agreed to pay AMPAS $(D)00,000 as a sponsorship fee to televise the 25th Academy Awards.
E = (E) Baxter was the presenter for the Scientific & Technical Awards.
F = “Moulin Rouge” was nominated for (F) Academy Awards.
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