25th Academy Awards

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. It was the first Academy Award ceremony to be televised, and the first ceremony held in Hollywood and NeW York City simulataneously. 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 James Bacon, writing about the event for the Associated Press, reported that "most experts pick Miss Booth, Gary Cooper and the movie High Noon to win the top three Oscars." Among the 2,800 in attendance at the Pantages Theatre were: The 25th Academy Awards ceremony was the first to be broadcast on television: The telecast was prompted by the need to finance the bi-coastal ceremony. When three of the film studios refused to provide their... full article at wikipedia