AWN Oscar® Tour Travelogue: Day & Night

Oscar Tour Day 3: A Pixar Tour de Force!

OscarTourEditor — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:58:42 -0800

If it’s Friday, it must be Pixar. And as most would attest, a visit to Pixar is pretty special. In no particular order, we met John Lasseter, crawled around the infamous Love Lounge, drank Scotch with Andrew Gordon in the Lucky 7 Lounge, met up with Oscar-winner Ralph Eggleston and his mending broken finger, had lunch with Roger Gould, screened the nominated films for 235+ staff, saw concept art, original models and other visual goodies from several films and talked to Bob Peterson. And, we bought Girl Scout cookies in the Pixar lobby. Quite the day indeed.

Oscar Tour Day 2: PDI/DreamWorks and Some Funky Berkeley Coffee Shop

OscarTourEditor — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:50:07 -0800

Day 2 of our tour started exactly as Day 1 ended – everyone sleeping snugly in their rooms at the Skywalker Ranch Inn. Soon, we'd be off in the pouring ran in search of PDI...Dan Sarto continues the northern California leg of the 2011 AWN Oscar Tour with a trip to PDI/DreamWorks and a funky nameless Berkeley cafe.

Oscar Tour Day 1: The Walt Disney Family Museum and Skywalker Ranch

OscarTourEditor — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:24:19 -0800

Like intrepid but warmly dressed explorers venturing into mysterious but GPS-identified territory, our group set forth into the crisp morning air in search of our first tour stop, the new Walt Disney Family Museum. We caught a break – the rain had stopped, at least for a few hours, leaving behind a beautiful sunny sky. We weren't so lucky later in the day - we were pounded by rain and hail.