AWN Oscar® Tour Travelogue: Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage

The Annual AWN - Acme Filmworks Oscar Party

OscarTourEditor — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:38:36 -0800

No Oscar Tour would be complete without the famous Nominee Cake! As the 2011 Tour winds down, so do the nominees and assorted guests, at least for one evening. Held again this year at Ron's house, the party was fun, intimate and warm, despite the rainy weather outside. And of course, we all got sugared-up feasting on the nominated films - literally!

Oscar Tour LA Day 4: We’re Going to Disney

OscarTourEditor — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:22:58 -0800

The final day of the 2011 Oscar tour was the busiest of all – morning at the Disney ARL, lunch, 2 screenings and several tours throughout the afternoon, followed by the AWN-Acme Oscar party Friday evening. You could sense the animators were getting a bit antsy, greeting the same questions with the same answers for the umpteenth time, their smiling faces showing traces of exhaustion and anxiety as they silently counted down to the Oscars on Sunday. No rest for the weary however as things really were just getting started.

Oscar Tour LA Day 3: Fox Trot

OscarTourEditor — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:05:39 -0800

The third day of the LA Oscar tour actually began with a morning stop at CAA in Century City before a small gathering of agents and producers in their lavish screening room.

Oscar Tour LA Day 2: A Dreamy Day at DreamWorks

OscarTourEditor — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:19:59 -0800

Every year for more than a decade we’ve toured DreamWorks’ expansive Glendale campus with either the Animation Show of Shows, our Oscar Showcase tour, or both. We’re always greeted with open arms and we’re always shown tasty morsels of upcoming films – last year, for example, Simon Otto showed us 20 minutes of How To Train Your Dragon well before it was released. This year did not disappoint.

L.A. Bound: SoCal Leg Begins at Sony

OscarTourEditor — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:58:35 -0800

The Los Angeles leg of the tour picked up on Tuesday, Feb. 22 at Sony. Jakob Schuh and Max Lang were back for the second round; while Bastien Dubois, the director of Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage, his producer Ron Dyens, and Michael Rose and Martin Pope, the producers of The Gruffalo, joined them for the first time.