25th Academy Awards
Held in 1953 · 13 categories
Best Picture
- Winner The Greatest Show on Earth
- Nominee High Noon
- Nominee Ivanhoe
- Nominee Moulin Rouge
- Nominee The Quiet Man
Best Actor
- Winner High Noon · Gary Cooper
- Nominee Moulin Rouge · José Ferrer
- Nominee The Bad and the Beautiful · Kirk Douglas
- Nominee The Lavender Hill Mob · Alec Guinness
- Nominee Viva Zapata! · Marlon Brando
Best Actress
- Winner Come Back, Little Sheba · Shirley Booth
- Nominee Sudden Fear · Joan Crawford
- Nominee The Member of the Wedding · Julie Harris
- Nominee The Star · Bette Davis
- Nominee With a Song in My Heart · Susan Hayward
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner Viva Zapata! · Anthony Quinn
- Nominee My Cousin Rachel · Richard Burton
- Nominee Sudden Fear · Jack Palance
- Nominee The Big Sky · Arthur Hunnicutt
- Nominee The Quiet Man · Victor McLaglen
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner The Bad and the Beautiful · Gloria Grahame
- Nominee Come Back, Little Sheba · Terry Moore
- Nominee Moulin Rouge · Colette Marchand
- Nominee Singin' in the Rain · Jean Hagen
- Nominee With a Song in My Heart · Thelma Ritter
Best Director
- Winner The Quiet Man · John Ford
- Nominee 5 Fingers · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Nominee High Noon · Fred Zinnemann
- Nominee Moulin Rouge · John Huston
- Nominee The Greatest Show on Earth · Cecil B. DeMille
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner The Lavender Hill Mob · T. E. B. Clarke
- Nominee Pat and Mike · Garson Kanin, Ruth Gordon
- Nominee The Atomic City · Sydney Boehm
- Nominee The Sound Barrier · Terence Rattigan
- Nominee Viva Zapata! · John Steinbeck
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner The Bad and the Beautiful · Charles Schnee
- Nominee 5 Fingers · Michael Wilson
- Nominee High Noon · Carl Foreman
- Nominee The Man in the White Suit · Alexander Mackendrick, John Dighton, Roger MacDougall
- Nominee The Quiet Man · Frank S. Nugent
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner The Sea Around Us · Irwin Allen
- Nominee Navajo · Hall Bartlett
- Nominee The Hoaxters · Dore Schary
Best Original Score
- Winner High Noon · Dimitri Tiomkin
- Winner With a Song in My Heart · Alfred Newman
- Nominee Hans Christian Andersen · Walter Scharf
- Nominee Ivanhoe · Miklós Rózsa
- Nominee Singin' in the Rain · Lennie Hayton
- Nominee The Jazz Singer · Max Steiner, Ray Heindorf
- Nominee The Medium · Gian Carlo Menotti
- Nominee The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima · Max Steiner
- Nominee The Thief · Herschel Burke Gilbert
- Nominee Viva Zapata! · Alex North
Best Original Song
- Winner The Ballad of High Noon from High Noon · Dimitri Tiomkin
- Nominee Am I in Love · Jack Brooks
- Nominee Am I in Love? from Son of Paleface · Jack Brooks
- Nominee Because You're Mine from Because You're Mine · Nicholas Brodzsky, Sammy Cahn
- Nominee Thumbelina from Hans Christian Andersen · Frank Loesser
- Nominee Zing a Little Zong from Just for You · Harry Warren, Leo Robin
Best Film Editing
- Winner High Noon · Elmo Williams, Harry W. Gerstad
- Nominee Come Back, Little Sheba · Warren Low
- Nominee Flat Top · William Austin
- Nominee Moulin Rouge · Ralph Kemplen
- Nominee The Greatest Show on Earth · Anne Bauchens
Best Sound
- Winner The Sound Barrier
- Nominee Hans Christian Andersen · Gordon E. Sawyer
- Nominee The Card
- Nominee The Quiet Man · Daniel J. Bloomberg
- Nominee With a Song in My Heart · Thomas T. Moulton