Interview: Shangela, Bob the Drag Queen and Eureka of the Emmy-nominated ‘We’re Here’ [VIDEO]
On HBO’s We’re Here (think To Wong Foo meets Queer Eye), three queens of Drag Race royalty – Shangela Laquifa Wadley, Bob the Drag Queen and Eureka – descend on Smalltown USA... 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.
Trailer: The hilarious Sundance hit ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ from Radha Blank
“She was one of Spotlight magazine’s 30 Under 30 Playwrights to Watch. We watched, but where’d she go?” Winner of the Directing Prize at The... Read More
A Marvelous Night at the Apollo: Apollo Theater and ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ collaborate to celebrate the Historic Theater
In the third season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the final episode centered around the World Famous Apollo Theater and the various performances there. This included... Read More
Trailer: Millie Bobby Brown solves the mystery of ‘Enola Holmes’
Make me over… Netflix has released a Millie Bobby Brown-centered trailer for the action-comedy period piece Enola Holmes, based book series by Nancy Springer that... Read More
TIFF adds Special Events, ‘In Conversation With…’ including Barry Jenkins with Claire Denis, Ava DuVernay, Saoirse Ronan and more
TIFF Co-Heads Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente announced today additional TIFF programming for audiences to enjoy as part of TIFF 2020. In Conversation With… talks,... Read More
Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) goes virtual and drive-in for 43rd edition with world premiere of ‘All In: The Fight for Democracy’
43rd Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) will take place Thursday, October 8– Sunday, October 18, 2020 The 43rd Mill Valley Film Festival is coming and it... Read More
Trailer: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan navigate forbidden love in ‘Ammonite’
Neon has released the first trailer for Ammonite, from Francis Lee, director of God’s Own Country, featuring Academy Award winner Kate Winslet and four-time Academy... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (August)
Is it just me or is the Lead Actor category feeling a bit bleak this season? After going over my list for July when I... Read More
First look at HBO Max’s LGBTQ history series ‘Equal,’ with Keiynan Lonsdale and Alexandra Grey and Hailie Sahar; narrated by Billy Porter
HBO Max has announced the cast of Equal, the upcoming four-part docuseries about the history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement in the United States.... Read More
42nd IFP Week virtual programming includes Damien Chazelle, Veena Sud, Phillip Youmans and more
IFP Week to take place virtually September 20th – 25th Guest Speakers include Anthony Bregman, Antonio Campos, Damien Chazelle, Gina Duncan, Channing Godfrey Peoples, Ted... Read More
‘Mars is Ours!’: Inside Season 5 of ‘For All Mankind’ as the Next Generation Claims the Red Planet 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 146 – ‘The Red Shoes’ (Powell and Pressburger, 1948) 
With Paul Thomas Anderson Finally Winning an Oscar, Which Multi-Nominee is Next? 
BAFTA TV Awards Nominations: ‘Adolescence’ Still Has More Growing Up To Do