Dolby Theatre
The red carpet runs up these stairs every awards season — where Hollywood officially crowns its year.
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Designed by David Rockwell specifically for the Oscars and open since November 2001, the Dolby Theatre (formerly Kodak Theatre) squeezes a 113-foot-wide stage — one of the largest in the US — into a 3,332-seat room engineered from the ground up for live television broadcast.
What to look for
- Art Deco columns lining the entrance hall engraved with every Best Picture winner, blank spaces left all the way to 2071
- The grand stairway at the rear of the complex — the same one draped in red for Oscar night, sometimes fronted with a different facade sign on the building's exterior
- The Rockwell-designed camera cockpit in the orchestra seating area, built to run the live ceremony broadcast
Inside the Ovation Hollywood mall at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue; the TCL Chinese Theatre is directly adjacent.
Dolby Theatre is one of 33 sights worth the detour in Los Angeles, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Los Angeles pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Los Angeles
- Hollywood Walk of Fame2,850 names pressed into pink terrazzo underfoot — actors, inventors, fictional characters, all at six-foot intervals for 1.3 miles.
- SoFi StadiumA million-square-foot canopy embedded with 27,000 LED pucks bright enough to be seen from planes descending into LAX.
- Hollywood SignA 1923 real-estate billboard that refused to come down — and ended up owning the word "Hollywood" itself.
- U.S. Bank TowerLA sold the sky above a fire-gutted library to fund its own rebuilding — and got its second-tallest tower in the bargain.
- Rose BowlA century-old sunken oval where the 1994 World Cup Final was settled — and the 2028 Olympics will return to do it again.
- Los Angeles Memorial ColiseumThe only stadium that will have hosted the Summer Olympics three times — and it was commissioned in 1921 as a memorial to Los Angeles veterans of World War I.