Upper panel: bolometric light curve of SN 2006oz (circles) compared to PS1-10awh (solid line; data from Chomiuk et al. 2011), which has similar pre-maximum multi-color observations. To illustrate the uncertainty in t_max of SN 2006oz, its light curve was shifted horizontally with respect to the limiting case, where our last observation was assumed to be taken exactly at maximum light. Assuming the two events are similar, we obtain a reasonable match of the light curves by shifting t_max by  −10 days (faded symbols). Middle and lower panels: the absolute pre-maximum light curves. The absolute luminosities at rest-frame  ~4530 Å (observed r- and z-bands) and  ~2560 Å (observed u- and g-bands) are compared, after correcting for cosmological expansion. As above, vivid and faded colors show the light curves of SN 2006oz shifted by 10 days. A few (non-constraining) upper limits were removed for presentation purposes. The early observations of SN 2006oz are below the detection limits of the PanSTARRS1 observations of PS1-10awh.