AWN Oscar® Tour Travelogue: Jeffrey Katzenberg

Oscar Tour 2012 LA Day 4: DreamWorks Animation

OscarTourEditor — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 07:55:37 -0800

Each year on the Oscar Showcase Tour, our day at DreamWorks is always great. The studio goes out of its way to provide a full day of demonstrations, a great lunch with executives and a packed screening of the nominated shorts. Of all the stops on the tour, DreamWorks always shares the most detailed and intimate look at films in progress, which for an assembly of animation directors and producers, is always a welcome treat. This year was no different.

Oscar Showcase 11 DreamWorks Brunch Gallery

OscarTourEditor — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:10:14 -0800

Every year for many years now, on the Saturday before the Oscars, DreamWorks Animation hosts a fantastic brunch at the famous Campanile. A lively mix of executives and creative riff-raff, the crowd feasted on delectable comfort food, boozing it up while speculating who the winners and losers would be the following evening. Many noteables were in attendance. Check out some of the festivities.

Oscar Showcase 10 DreamWorks Photo Gallery

OscarTourEditor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:19:34 -0800

DreamWorks had a full day for the Oscar nominees when they came to visit. Here are their adventures in pictures.

Animated Shorts Celebration At DreamWorks

OscarTourEditor — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:47:39 -0800

At the Dreamworks stop, Rick Farmiloe meets the filmmakers and hears about their thought process and methods of getting it on the screen. For him, this year the field was exceptionally strong, with every film being quite unique and different from the rest.

Katzenberg, Fox Lot, Mirren: Another Whirlwind Day on the Oscar Tour

OscarTourEditor — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:22:22 -0800

As we arrived back at The Little Theater for the screening, Ron introduced all the nominees to Vanessa Morrison, the new president of Fox Animation. It seems to me this screening will be hard to top. Tomorrow is yet another busy day with a screening at Disney and our first agency screening at ICM, which will be very interesting.

A Long Day Rewarded With A Night at Skywalker Ranch

OscarTourEditor — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:45:48 -0800

After the screening the nominees received a nice gift bag with games and various other shwag as well as a chance to tour The Sims floor where many of the animators were hard at work in their cubicles, decorated with unique individual personality.

John Canemaker’s Thoughts on The Oscar Experience

OscarTourEditor — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:10:25 -0800

The Oscar award ceremony is exciting; but the build-up to that evening — the tour of studios and screenings of your films as organized by Ron Diamond — is one of the best parts of the whole experience.