Production designer Roy Christopher stands beside a model of the set design for this year's Oscar telecast that was revealed Feb. 21, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Here is the model of the set design for this year's Oscar telecast. It was unveiled at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Feb. 21, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The set is the creation of production designer Roy Christopher. (There's even a model of a little man at lower right.)
Speaking of little men, here are trays full of them! Gold dust is sprayed on chocolate Oscar statues at a preview of the food and decor of this year's Governors Ball at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles Feb. 16, 2005.
Wolfgang Puck, master chef of this year's Governors Ball, the post-78th Academy Awards celebration, displays a finished chocolate Oscar statue sprayed with gold dust during a preview of the event's food and decor at the Governors Ballroom at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles Feb. 16, 2005.
At this time of year in Hollywood, even a dead fish can be a star and here's proof: Photographers swarm around the food prepared for this year's Governors Ball, the post-78th Academy Awards celebration, during a preview of the event at The Governors Ballroom at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles Feb. 16, 2005.
Governors Ball florist Mark Held primps a table arrangement at a preview of the food and decor of this year's Governors Ball, the post-78th Academy Awards celebration, at The Governors Ballroom at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles Feb. 16, 2005. This year will mark the 13th consecutive year Held has arranged the floral decor of the Governors Ball.
Chris Millard, senior winemaker of Sterling Vineyards, sniffs one of his wines during a preview of the food and decor of this year's Governors Ball, the post-78th Academy Awards celebration, at the Governors Ballroom at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles Feb. 16, 2005.
Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, left, pose for photographers as they arrive to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony Feb. 18, 2006, in Beverly Hills. McAdams hosted the ceremony, which recognizes achievements for devices, methods, formulas, and inventions of special and outstanding value to the arts of sciences of motion pictures.
Gary Demos, left, winner of the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, an Oscar statuette, poses with actress Rachel McAdams, host of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards Ceremony Feb. 18, 2006. The honorary award recognizes "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry."
Oscar telecast producer Gil Cates, left, and Oscar show director Louis J. Horvitz talk with an "Entertainment Tonight" celebrity news television show reporter, during the first production meeting for the 78th annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles Feb. 15, 2006.
Academy Awards producer Gil Cates looks over the construction of the stage at the Kodak Theater Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006, in Los Angeles. Cates has produced more Oscar shows than any other producer. This is his 13th telecast.
James Orthel, a stagehand, works on the construction of the set at the Kodak Theater Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006, in Los Angeles. With less than a week to go before the March 5 Academy Awards, the Kodak Theatre is abuzz with some 1,500 workers.
A stagehand works on construction of the set at the Kodak Theater Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006, Los Angeles.
Tom Terry III, places straps on a 25-foot Oscar statue, which weighs 700 pounds, so that it can be lifted onto its base outside the Kodak Theatre Monday, Feb. 27, 2006, in Los Angeles. The 78th annual Academy Awards will be held on March 5.
A 25-foot Oscar statue, which weighs 700 lbs., is lifted into place in front of the Kodak Theatre on Monday, Feb. 27, 2006, in Los Angeles.
Tom Terry III, removes straps from the giant Oscar statue after positioning it onto its base outside the Kodak Theatre Monday, Feb. 27, 2006, in Los Angeles.
Photographers shoot an Oscar statue as it's secured to its base outside the Kodak Theatre Monday, Feb. 27, 2006, in Los Angeles, for the upcoming 78th annual Academy Awards ceremony.