Taika Waititi reads ‘James and the Giant Peach’ with Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, Kumail Nanjiani and more for Partners in Health COVID-19 relief
Academy Award winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) has partnered with some Oscar and Emmy-winning friends to read the Roald Dahl classic James and the Giant... 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.
Saban Films acquires ‘Don’t Tell a Soul’ with Rainn Wilson, Jack Dylan Grazer and Fionn Whitehead
Saban Films announced today that they have acquired North American rights to Alex McAulay’s (Flower) directorial debut Don’t Tell a Soul from Unbridled Films and Mangano Movies... Read More
Interview: In ‘Hollywood,’ Jake Picking is between a Rock and a good place
In Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood, currently streaming on Netflix, the golden age of Tinseltown gets a revisionist and idealized makeover, becoming a place where women, people... Read More
First Look: Netflix’s ‘The Politician’ sets second season primary for June
The Politician Season 2 returns to Netflix on June 19 Emmy, Grammy and Tony winner Ben Platt returns as Payton Hobart in the second season... Read More
Trailer: Spike Lee’s war epic ‘Da 5 Bloods’
Spike Lee, in his first joint since his Oscar-winning BlacKkKlansman, joins an elite group of film directors – Alfonso Cuarón, Martin Scorsese and Noah Baumbach... Read More
Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi: Episode 10 – ‘CONFESSIONS ON A DANCE FLOOR’ (2005)
Call it a comeback, call it a departure. Call it whatever you want but Confessions on a Dance Floor was a bonafide hit. After angrily... Read More
Parasite: A Year in Cinema
NEON celebrates ‘A Year in Cinema’ with Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite on the Anniversary of its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it became the first... Read More
Netflix’s Emmy-winning hit ‘Queer Eye’ returns on June 5
The Emmy Award-winning Queer Eye is set to return on June 5 and the Fab Five is ready to transform a weary mom, a hardworking... Read More
Interview: Ben Schwartz on ‘Space Force,’ ‘Middleditch & Schwartz,’ quarantine hair and TikTok
You might know Ben Schwartz best as Jean Ralphio Saperstein (“The worrrrrst”) on Parks and Recreation but with over 40 television roles and two dozen... Read More
Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi: Episode 9 – ‘AMERICAN LIFE’ (2003)
After the success of Music, Madonna had her second child, Rocco, and married director Guy Ritchie. But something was stirring in her and it would... Read More
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