North Carolina Film Critics: ‘Da 5 Bloods’ tops nomination list with 7
The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) announced their nominations on Monday and Spike Lee’s summer streaming hit Da 5 Bloods found gold with a... 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.
Interview: In ‘Driveways,’ Andrew Ahn longs for connection [VIDEO]
Whether it’s his short films, his award-winning feature breakthrough Spa Night or his latest film, Driveways, the creation of connection between people is at the... Read More
Chicago Indie Critics nominations: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ leads with 9
The Chicago Indie Critics announced their nominations on Monday and leading all films with an impressive nine nods was Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom helmed by Best... Read More
‘Mank’ leads Discussing Film Critics nominations with 13
The Discussing Film Critics Awards, in their second year, announced their nominations on Sunday and David Fincher’s Mank led the field with 13 nods, including... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (December)
A24’s First Cow and Searchlight’s Nomadland are the two films that jumped out ahead in the first critics’ announcements this month with the caveat that... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM (December)
We won’t have the official list of eligible submissions until some time in January but if all hold we’ll end up with 91 entries, just... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (December)
It’s Chloé Zhao’s world, we’re just living in it. Ahead of the first critics’ awards I think any of us could have predicted that Chloé... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE (December)
Not much change this month with so much up in the air in terms of in a category that is dependent on the number of... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (December)
The toughest race of the season just got much tougher. Although I’m starting to feel Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) is a softer frontrunner... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (December)
When the critics awards started last week things took an interesting turn for the top 3 in Best Actor. Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)... 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]