25th Academy Awards 25th Academy Awards The 25th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 19, 1953. It took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, 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 NBC International Theatre on Columbus Circle, which was shortly thereafter demolished and replaced by the New York Coliseum convention center. A major upset occurred when the
60th Academy Awards for the 60th Academy Awards were announced on February 16, 1988, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Wise, president of the Academy, and actress Shirley MacLaine. "The Last Emperor" received the most nominations with nine total; "Broadcast News" came in second with seven. The winners were announced at the awards ceremony on April 11, 1988. "The Last Emperor" became the second film after 1958's "Gigi" to earn nine Oscar nominations and win all of them. For the first time in Oscar history, all five Best Director nominees were born