Photos: Rolling out the red carpet at the Academy Awards

A carpet installer at Signature Systems Group walks across the red carpet in Santa Fe Springs.  (Christina House / For The Times)

The red carpets arrive by truck on Hollywood Boulevard on Tuesday night.

The rolls of the red carpet are unloaded in Hollywood.

Installers from Signature Systems Group roll out the red carpet in front of the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.

Installers work with the massive carpet rolls.

Installers work on carpet rolls in front of bleachers.

Installers carry the red carpet down Hollywood Boulevard.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Installers manuever a carpet roll in front of the Dolby Theatre.

Rolling out the carpet. The exclusive shade — called “Academy Red” — is supposed to flatter the A-list actors who are photographed and filmed walking on it.

Installers maneuver a red carpet roll in front of the Dolby Theatre.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Installers roll out the Oscars red carpet during a media ceremony in front of the Dolby Theatre.

A cameraman films the red carpet rollout.

A worker unrolls the red carpet.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Installation will take nearly 900 hours, and the work won’t be finished until just before the pre-show arrivals begin on Sunday afternoon.

Carpet installers work around shoppers and pedestrians along Hollywood Boulevard.

The red carpet heads inside.

In part because of wear and tear, the carpet is only used once and disposed of following the show.

Alvarado Contreras, from left, Rene Palma and Edgar Ochoa roll the carpet in the main hallway leading to the Dolby Theatre.

Alvarado Contreras, from left, Rene Palma and Edgar Ochoa cut into place rolls of red carpet in the main hallway leading to the Dolby Theatre.