The Oscars are returning to the glamor of the past with their red carpet

The Hollywood Academy has brought back the traditional red color for the carpet that will receive the nominees for the 96th Academy Awards and inaugurated the countdown of the ceremony by laying its almost 300 meters long.

With the absence of Jimmy Kimmel, the host of this gala evening, i the highest managers of the film institutionJanet Yang and Bill Kramer, the organizing team of the awards, unrolled a fragment of the carpet in front of the press on Wednesday, whose full installation is scheduled for Friday.

The return to red color after trying the champagne color for the 95th Academy Awards is perceived as a return to the stereotypical glamor that has surrounded Hollywood for years and as a response to the dissatisfaction of the attendees of this gala evening due to the previous change. .

The red on the floor contrasts with the beige curtains surrounding the tent he has blocked the Hollywood Walk of Fame since last February 29 and will remain so until the morning of March 13, three days after the film festival.

Preparing to install this a large carpet They started last Tuesday and are in the hands of 15 people.

“To put a carpet on everything, you need the strength to unroll it, which is very difficult,” Felipe Márquez, who worked on three editions of the Oscars, told EFE.

Márquez said that part of the carpet that will cover the staircase leading to the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles (USA) and other fragments still needs to be installed.

“First, the carpet is laid, it is stretched so that there are no wrinkles, it is joined with staples and then the seams are made”, briefly explained the worker from Guadalajara, Mexico, who lives in California.

Both Márquez and his team will have the task of monitoring Sunday is no problem with carpet and if there is, they will be ready to solve it.

The withdrawal process will start on Monday and it did as usual that people come with the hope of keeping a small part of it as a memory.

The movement of workers in charge of installing curtains, lights and electricity was also recorded in the town this Wednesday. Everyone spends at least ten hours a day there to prepare everything for Sunday.

And although the passage of cars is blocked, pedestrians (tourists and locals) can still walk on the sidewalks. The most curious come to take photos and try to see something, even a little, of what awaits the stars.

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ starts off great favorite of these awards leading the nominations with 13 nominations, followed by Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Les Miserables’ with 11 and Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ with 10.

The 2024 Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood (Los Angeles, United States) starting at 4:00 p.m. local time (00:00 GMT Monday), and for the fourth year in a row, Kimmel will once again be the master of ceremonies. ceremony.