Writers Guild of America (WGA) awards preview and predictions
Predicting the winners for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) awards, especially in film, is an odd thing. With so many screenplays not nominated due... 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.
HBO Max orders two-part Brittany Murphy docuseries
HBO Max has ordered a two-part documentary about late actor Brittany Murphy from Blumhouse Television and Pyramid Productions. The order marks the first for Blumhouse... Read More
Interview: Director Todd Stephens and acting legend Udo Kier on ‘Swan Song,’ premiering at SXSW
“Erik, I wish I could see you. Okay, I sent you a picture of myself.” That’s how my Zoom interview with legendary actor Udo Kier... Read More
Focus Features sets November 2021 release for Kenneth Branagh’s coming of age story ‘Belfast’
Focus Features will release Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast on Friday, November 12, 2021 in theaters domestically. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), Belfast is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss... Read More
Academy Award nominee Shaka King named Honorary Chair of 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards
$75,000 in grants given by Premier Sponsor Genesis Motor North America Film Independent has named filmmaker Shaka King (Judas and the Black Messiah) as its... Read More
Spike Lee to head jury of 74th Cannes Film Festival
Prevented last year due to the health crisis, the Festival de Cannes inaugurates this new decade with an outstanding President of the Jury, one of... Read More
Trailer: Idris Elba takes the old town road in ‘Concrete Cowboy’
When fifteen year-old Cole (Caleb McLaughlin, Stranger Things) is expelled from school in Detroit, he is sent to North Philadelphia to live with Harp (Idris... Read More
The best trivia, history and stats of the 2021 Oscar Nominations
I don’t know about you but when it comes to the Oscar nominations, one of the best parts is digging into the history and finding... Read More
Oscar Nomination Reactions from this year’s nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards
Producers Marc Platt, Stuart Besser, Matt Jackson and Tyler Thompson, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – Best Picture “Thank you so much to the Academy for... Read More
Oscar Nominations: Biggest Snubs and Surprises from Jodie Foster to LaKeith Stanfield to Thomas Vinterberg
It wouldn’t be the Oscars without some truly shocking snubs and surprises, both good and bad, and this year certainly delivered. History was made all... Read More
‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’