2021 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (January)
Youn Yuh-jung (Minari) has maintained a close but consistent lead with critics’ wins this season and earned a Spirit Award nomination this week as well... 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.
2021 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (January)
Big moves for Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7) and Leslie Odom, Jr. (One Night in Miami) as two men from ensembles... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (January)
With wins from LAFCA, NBR, NSFC and NYFCC, Garrett Bradley’s Time is the default frontrunner in the Documentary Feature category but, is that a mixed... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE (January)
It was off my radar for far too long but No. 7 Cherry Lane from director Yonfan (Prince of Tears, Color Blossoms) makes a big... Read More
Focus Features to release Luke Holland Third Reich doc ‘Final Account’
Focus Features will release the film theatrically in the U.S. on May 21, 2021 Coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Focus Features and Participant announced... Read More
Freeform’s ‘The Bold Type’ to return for fifth and final season
Today, Freeform announced that the critically acclaimed series “The Bold Type” will return for a fifth and final season. A signature hit for the network,... Read More
Trailer: ‘Haute Dog’ returns to HBO Max with new episodes February 4
HBO Max Original hit Haute Dog is returning in February with five all-new episodes that will dress up pampered pups in everything from fairy tale... Read More
Sacha Baron Cohen to be honored at Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Sacha Baron Cohen will receive the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Baron Cohen will be honored on Wednesday,... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (January)
The smallest of moves in the top 10 this month, but an important one, with One Night in Miami and The Father switching spots. The... Read More
Palm Springs Film Festival to honor Riz Ahmed
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Sound of Metal star Riz Ahmed is the recipient of the Desert Palm Achievement Actor Award. “Riz Ahmed delivers one... Read More
Final Additions to South by Southwest Film & TV Festival (SXSW), Including ‘Love Language,’ ‘Cookie Queens’ and ‘The Fox’ 
Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Unveils Recipients for Inaugural Jeffrey S. Wexler Award for Advancement in Sound Technology 
41st Spirit Awards Winner Predictions: In One of the Least Oscary Years in a Decade, it’s Anyone’s Game 
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol on the Unlikely, Legally-Challenged Journey of Getting ‘Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie’ to the Big Screen [VIDEO INTERVIEW]