An unparalleled frenzy grips Hollywood at the same time every year. Between the beginning of November and early March, the film awards season takes place, during which some 30 ceremonies are held. Some awards are specifically for Latino, Black or LGBT films. Others emanate from professional categories (producers, critics, designers...). But the hustle and bustle culminates in two highlights: the Golden Globes in January and, above all, the Oscars, the grand finale, which will be held in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 2, this year, the day after the French Césars ceremony.

Over the course of a few months, the city of four million inhabitants, where 150,000 people work in the film industry, undergoes a metamorphosis. To win the maximum number of votes for the various awards, studios and distributors organize massive promotional campaigns, which can cost the industry's heavyweights tens of millions of dollars. Giant billboards lining the highways are covered with movie posters. Entire hotel floors are rented out for interview marathons. Distributors invite voters and journalists to cocktail parties or deceptively intimate lunches with actors and provide set tours for the movies they're promoting.

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