Inside the Oscars's Elaborate Infrastructure on Hollywood Boulevard

[Photos by Elizabeth Daniels]

Hollywood Boulevard's been shut down from Orange to Highland for a week in preparation for the Oscars, but what actually goes on back there? It's an enormous operation with a skybridge thingy, trailers, electronics galore, the red carpet (of course), and a mysterious tent that they were weird about us photographing. Check it all out above ahead of the awards tonight, the first in the newly-renamed Dolby Theatre.