25th Annual Academy Awards
March 19, 1953

The RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood
and the NBC Century Theatre, New York

Your Hosts: Bob Hope in Hollywood,
Conrad Nagel in New York
Televised over NBC
Opening sequence on TV: Scene from Wings, followed by pictures of a modern jet-- Ronald Reagan
Welcome and introduction of Bob Hope:Academy President Charles Brackett
Costume Design:Ginger Rogers
Documentaries:Jean Hersholt
Film Editing:Frank Capra
Art Direction:Joan Fontaine & James Stewart
Sound Recording:Claire Trevor
Short Subjects:Ray Milland & Jane Wyman
Cinematography:Teresa Wright
Music Awards:Walt Disney
Director:Olivia de Havilland
Writing Awards:Dore Schary
Supporting Actor:Greer Garson
Supporting Actress:Edmund Gwenn
Actor:Janet Gaynor
Actress:Ronald Colman
Best Picture:Mary Pickford
Special Effects:Loretta Young
Foreign Film:Luise Rainer
Honorary Award to Joseph M. Schenck:Charles Brackett
Honorary Award to Harold Lloyd:Charles Brackett
Scientific and Technical Awards:Anne Baxter
Honorary Award to Bob Hope:Charles Brackett
Thalberg Award:Charles Brackett
"Am I in Love?"-- Bob Hope & Marilyn Maxwell
"Because You're Mine"-- Billy Daniels
"High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')"-- Tex Ritter
"Thumbelina"-- Celeste Holm
"Zing a Little Zong"-- Peggy Lee & Johnny Mercer

Ad for the Awards Ceremony, televised for the first time nationwide.
Music Award winners Alfred Newman (l), Ned Washington and Dimitri Tiomkin with presenter Walt Disney.
Show Producer:Johnny Green
Telecast Producer for NBC:Robert L. Welch
Telecast Director:William A. Bennington
Musical Director:Adolph Deutsch