Cannes 2021 Winners: Ties, history and a huge Spike Lee flub highlight Closing Ceremony
The winners of the 74th Cannes Film Festival were revealed tonight at the Closing Ceremony of the festival, which found a split jury, ties for... 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.
20th New York Asian Film Festival announces opening film, additional titles, Ann Hui as Variety Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
The New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center have unveiled further highlights of the 2021 New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), including... Read More
See ya later, perks: HFPA bans members from accepting gifts, trips and more from studios, networks
The ever under siege Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who put on the annual Golden Globe Awards, announced in a statement today that one of their... Read More
NEON picks up U.S. rights to Joachim Trier’s Cannes hit ‘The Worst Person in the World’
NEON announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to The Worst Person in The World from Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier (Reprise, Oslo, August 31st, Thelma). The film marks... Read More
Sony Pictures Classics acquires rights to Juho Kuosmanen’s Cannes competition title ‘Compartment No.6’
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired rights from Totem Films in North America, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East to Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No.6, produced by Jussi Rantamäki and... Read More
Cannes 2021: Winners for Critics’ Week, Directors’ Fortnight and Cinéfondation sections
Writer-director Jonas Carpignano has won the Europa Cinemas Cannes Label award for best European film at Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes with his film... Read More
Television Critics Association nominations: Love for ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Hacks’ and ‘WandaVision’ mirrors Emmys but group also rights some wrongs
Hot off the Emmy nominations this week, the Television Critics Association (TCA) added more love to Ted Lasso, Hacks, Mare of Easttown, WandaVision and much... Read More
Trailer: ‘Julia’ Child doc from Oscar-nominated duo Julie Cohen and Betsy West
Trailblazer. Icon. National Treasure. Sony Pictures Classics today revealed the trailer for the Julia Child documentary Julia, from the Oscar-nominated duo of Julie Cohen and... Read More
Neon’s Sundance winner ‘Flee’ gets trailer and poster
Neon has released the first official trailer and poster for its Sundance winner Flee, the absorbing story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a... Read More
Art Directors Guild (ADG) sets key dates for 2022 awards
The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) 26th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards honoring Production Design in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, animated features and music videos will take place... Read More
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