The ceremony is closed to everyone outside the industry — the fortnight around it is not
The Oscars: Awards Season in Los Angeles, and What Is Actually Open
About the Oscars
The Academy Awards are presented each spring at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Attendance is by invitation from the Academy: nominees, presenters, industry and press. There is no public admission and no ticket.
What Is Actually Open
Awards season is a fortnight of parties, dinners, screenings and restaurant bookings across Los Angeles, and much of it is reachable.
The city is at its most interesting in that window, the hotels are full of people who are there for the same reason, and the evening of the ceremony itself is spent, by most of the city, at a viewing dinner rather than at the Dolby.
Where to Start
- Accept the premise — the ceremony is not available, and anyone promising seats is selling something else
- Plan the week, not the night — screenings, dinners and the private side of the season
- Book the hotels early — Beverly Hills and West Hollywood are committed for the season
- Choose the viewing dinner deliberately — it is how the city actually watches the ceremony
Arrange It With Perfect.Live
Tell us when you are in Los Angeles and we will arrange the season around you
The Red Carpet
The Oscars red carpet runs for hours before the ceremony and is the part of the evening the world actually watches. It is closed to the public, and access is press and industry only.
What is reachable is everything around it: the restaurants, the private dinners and the parties that fill the same night across the city.
How We Help
- A base in the right part of the city
- Tables through a fortnight when Los Angeles is fully booked
- Access to the parts of the season that are reachable
- An honest answer about the parts that are not
If the trip runs on to the Super Bowl weekend or the Super Bowl itself, the same team plans both.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Attendance is by invitation from the Academy and there is no public sale.
In the spring each year, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
It runs for hours before the ceremony and is the part of the evening the world watches. It is closed to the public, with press and industry access only.
The fortnight of screenings, dinners and parties across Los Angeles that surrounds the ceremony, much of which is reachable.
Beverly Hills or West Hollywood, arranged early. The season fills both.
Yes — most of the city watches it at a viewing dinner, and those are the evenings worth arranging.
No. We are candid about that rather than selling something adjacent as though it were the room itself.
Ready When You Are
Awards season in Los Angeles, arranged around what is actually open
