The Academy Awards 2027. The ceremony and the parties, with one car and one driver all weekend.

This is the fact that decides every journey of the weekend, and most people discover it late. For the 2026 ceremony the Academy and the City of Los Angeles closed all lanes of Hollywood Boulevard between Orange Drive and Highland Avenue from just after midnight on the Thursday eleven days before the show until six on the Wednesday morning after it. On the day itself a much wider ring went in from four in the morning until four the next morning, taking in Highland Avenue, Yucca Street, Hawthorn Avenue, Wilcox Avenue and McCadden Place, with residents, local businesses and emergency vehicles the only traffic allowed through parts of it. The Metro line beneath the complex ran through the station without stopping across the ceremony weekend.

The 2027 plan will be its own document, published by the Academy's press office and the city a few weeks beforehand, and the streets on the list move a little each year. The shape does not. Assume that from the Thursday before, the block in front of the theatre does not exist as a road, and that on the Sunday the nearest point a car without a credential can stop is several streets away.

Vehicles that set down at the theatre entrance on the day are working to the show's own arrivals schedule and carry a pass issued through the production. That pass comes from a studio, a publicist, a network or the Academy. We cannot buy one, apply for one on your behalf or talk our way past the barrier, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you a disappointment. If you have one, tell us the arrival window and the staging lot named on it and we will build the evening around that.

If you do not, the plan is the ordinary one and it works perfectly well: the car sets down at the outside edge of the closure, your chauffeur has walked the route in daylight and knows which corner is actually reachable when the barriers are up, and the same car is back on that corner when you want it. Cars in California are arranged through operators we know. The car that takes you to the private terminal in London is ours, with our own chauffeur.

London to Los Angeles is a long westbound sector, roughly ten to eleven and a half hours depending on the aircraft and the winds, comfortably inside the range of an ultra long range jet and often a fuel stop for a heavy jet at that time of year. Eastbound is quicker.

The flight is the straightforward part. March in Los Angeles carries the whole back half of awards season, and parking for business aircraft around the basin tightens well before the ceremony weekend. Van Nuys is the field almost everyone wants, with several private terminals on it including Signature Aviation, whom we work with. When it is full, Burbank and the fields further out take the overflow and the drive back into town grows. See private jet charter, how charter works and private jet transfers.