Los Angeles - February 25, 2005

1. Entrance leading into the Academy Award celebrity arrivals area

2. Traffic officer in street in front of arrivals area

3. Hollywood Boulevard street sign

4. Oscar billboard sign

5. Oscar venue entrance

6. Oscar statue

7. Photographer setting up video camera

8. Technician setting up lights

9. Technicians working on lights

10. Technicians working in red carpet entry way

11. Reporter speaking in front of Oscar venue

12. "Academy Award" lettering on red carpet

Los Angeles - February 24, 2005

13.Street scene on Hollywood Boulevard

14. People taking photos near Kodak Theatre

15. SOUNDBITE(English) Voxpop:

"I don''t know. Some of the girls I guess, Jennifer Aniston if she''s free. But, I don''t know, anyone."

16. People waking along Hollywood Walk of Fame

17. SOUNDBITE(English) Voxpop:

"Good fun. It''s typical America. It''s Hollywood in America, yeah typical."

18. Street scene on Hollywood Boulevard

19. Rap artist performing an Oscar-related rap near Kodak Theatre

20. Street performer breakdancing on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Los Angeles - February 25, 2005.

21. Oscar statue and entryway to Kodak Theatre

22. Worker outside theatre, Oscar statue

Workers were busy on Friday getting Hollywood''s Kodak Theatre ready for this year''s Academy Awards gala event which takes place on Sunday (US time).

The ceremony honours the best in American and foreign film making.

Outside the Oscar venue finishing touches were being put on a grand, red-carpeted entrance that will welcome a throng of stars and celebrities for the seventy-seventh annual Academy Awards show.

Tourists in the area said they were looking forward to the ceremony.

More than three-thousand people are expected to descend on the Kodak Theatre for the ceremony.

Security will be tight.

On Friday, the streets surrounding the theatre were blocked off already, metal barricades limited walkways and uniformed police officers were standing guard.

The red carpet walkway to the theatre received a bit of a face-lift this year - following recent rainstorms, Academy Award planners were not taking any chances and put up a plastic tent over the red carpet.