21st Visual Effects Society (VES) awards: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ dominates with 9, ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ wins 3
James Cameron’s 2022 blockbuster Avatar: The Way of Water was unsurprisingly the big winner at the 21st Visual Effects Society (VES) awards, which were held live... Read More
Erik Anderson
Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
4th Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) winners: ‘Nope,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once,’ ‘The White Lotus’
The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) presented the winners of the 4th Annual SCL Awards for score and songs in visual media on February 15th at the Skirball... Read More
2022 Set Decorators Society of America (SDSA) winners: ‘Elvis,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’
The Set Decorators Society of America (SDSA) tonight revealed their winners Elvis was the winner for Period Film and in Fantasy/Science Fiction Film Everything Everywhere... Read More
2022 Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) winners
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) have chosen Everything Everywhere All at Once as the Best Picture of 2022, also awarding the film prizes for... Read More
Tom Luddy, Telluride Film Festival co-founder and producer, dies at 79
Tom Luddy, co-founder and inspiration for the Telluride Film Festival, died on February 13, 2023, in Berkeley, California after a long illness, it was announced... Read More
Black Bear and 30WEST launch international sales of ‘Fred & Ginger,’ starring Jamie Bell and Margaret Qualley
Black Bear International has launched international sales on Fred & Ginger, a theatrical musical event film that charts the passionate and explosive relationship between Hollywood dance... Read More
Minnesota Film Critics Alliance (MNFCA) nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ leads with 11
Everything Everywhere All At Once earned the most nominations for the 2023 Minnesota Film Critics Alliance Awards with 11. This included selections for Best Picture,... Read More
20th International Cinephile Society (ICS) awards: ‘Trenque Lauquen’ wins Best Picture in clean sweep; ‘Pacifiction,’ ‘Aftersun’ earn top prizes
Laura Citarella’s existential mystery Trenque Lauquen, in which a woman who keeps disappearing from her own life becomes a greater enigma than the creature living in... Read More
10th Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists guild (MUAH) winners: ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,’ ‘Elvis,’ ‘The Whale’ take top film awards
The IATSE Local 706 Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild (MUAH) announced winners of its 10th Annual Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Awards, presented by Dyson and HASK Beauty,... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar predictions: A Field day
Still a deadly quiet week in the awards landscape with a few late straggler critics’ groups announcing (London and Black Reel) but no guilds or... Read More
Golden Globe Nomination Predictions (Motion Picture): Can ‘One Battle After Another’ Tie ‘Barbie’ and ‘Cabaret’ as the Third-Most Nominated Movie Ever? 
2026 Golden Globe Nomination Predictions – Television: Expect Emmy Favorites ‘The Pitt,’ ‘The Studio’ Plus New Fare ‘Pluribus’ and More 
Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) Nominations: ‘Sinners’ Leads with Record-Tying 14 
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 318 – The First Week of Awards Season with Critics Choice, Spirit Awards Nominations; NYFF, NBR, Gotham Winners