2021 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SONG (January)
Tony and Grammy winner Leslie Odom, Jr. is all but assured to become a double Oscar nominee this year and this month he moves up... 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: SOUND (January)
War is hell. It’s also a prime Sound Oscar contender zone. Even with the newly merged sound categories, war films and films with lots of... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE (January)
A handful of scores from major releases were revealed as ineligible ahead of the official list from the Academy (reported by Variety) largely based on... Read More
Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) winners: ‘Nomadland’ and ‘Promising Young Woman’ tie for Best Film
The Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC), established in 1996 and the second oldest film critics’ group in the United States, announced its winners and... Read More
North Texas Film Critics nominations: ‘Minari,’ ‘Nomadland’ lead
The North Texas Film Critics Association (NTFCA) revealed its nominations on Saturday and two films led the field with four apiece, Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari... Read More
New Mexico Critics: ‘Mank’ wins its first Best Picture prize; Mads Mikkelsen named Best Actor
Mank, David Fincher’s behind the scenes saga of the writing of Citizen Kane, was named the Best Picture of 2020 by the New Mexico Film... Read More
Julie Dash, Cynthia Erivo, Raúl Castillo among 2021 Sundance Film Festival jury members
22 celebrated voices across film, art and culture will bestow this year’s awards on feature-length and short films at the Sundance Film Festival, at a... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Blood Brothers
When Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods was released back in June of 2020 it was a test. We were entering the summer without a blockbuster.... Read More
Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau to exec produce Danish animated documentary ‘Flee,’ will voice leads in English language version
Originally selected for Cannes Film Festival, FLEE has world premiere in competition at Sundance Film Festival 2021 Final Cut for Real announced Friday that Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj... Read More
Black Film Critics Circle Awards: ‘Ma Rainey’ is Best Film, Regina King is Best Director
The Black Film Critics Circle have named Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom the best film of 2020, also awarding it Best Actress (Viola Davis), Best Actor... 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 
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