Cannes winners ‘Triangle of Sadness,’ ‘Close’ lead 2022 European Film Awards (EFA) nominations
Close is Belgium’s representative for the International Feature Film Oscar, while the three other Best Film nominees are the official submissions for their countries as... 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.
Trailer: FX reveals evocative first teaser for drama series ‘Kindred,’ based on Octavia E. Butler bestseller
FX has released the first teaser for the new drama series Kindred, which will debut all episodes Tuesday, December 13 exclusively on Hulu. Adapted from... Read More
‘Aftersun,’ ‘Blue Jean’ lead British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) nominations
Aftersun, the feature directorial debut from Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells, led the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) nominations announced this morning with 16 nods, including... Read More
‘Black Panther,’ ‘Bros,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ lead Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) nominations
The nominations for the 13th Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) were announced today where Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Bros, Everything Everywhere All at Once... Read More
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ trailer brings us a new Pandora, a new war and a new Sigourney Weaver
It’s been a longer time in real years since the first Avatar (2009) than the 10-year time jump between the events of the first film... Read More
Austin Butler, Danielle Deadwyler, Nina Hoss, Ke Huy Quan among Virtuosos Award recipients from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is one of the hottest stops on the Oscar campaign trail every year, and this season will be no... Read More
Interview: Daytime Emmys director Rachel Schwartz breaks down the new Children and Family Emmys, judging and the ‘Heartstopper’ of it all
The first annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards will be presented on Saturday, December 10 (Creative Arts) and Sunday, December 11 at the Wilshire Ebell... Read More
‘The Mysterious Benedict Society,’ ‘Sneakerella,’ ‘Heartstopper,’ ‘Sweet Tooth’ lead 1st Children’s & Family Emmy Awards nominations
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) today announced the nominations for the first annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards, where The Mysterious... Read More
‘Aftersun,’ ‘Corsage,’ ‘Close,’ ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ win top Montclair Film Festival awards
The Montclair Film Festival (MFF) today announced the winners of the festival’s 2022 film competitions where Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun won the Fiction Feature Prize, with Corsage... Read More
2023 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (October)
Three films that have been in limited theaters go wider today – The Banshees of Inisherin, TÁR and Till – and they all make significant... Read More
76th American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘The Pitt’ Take Top Wins 
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Director Watch Podcast Ep. 141 – ’49th Parallel aka The Invaders’ (Powell and Pressburger, 1942) 
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