2021 Sundance Film Festival shortens fest, pushes date
The 2021 edition of the Sundance Film Festival have decided to reduce the amount of days of their normally 10-day fest to seven, and pushing... 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.
2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards becomes a five-night affair, mixing virtual and live events
The Television Academy announced today its plans for the Creative Arts Emmys, which recognize the lion’s share of behind the scenes Emmy-nominated work each year.... Read More
Nothing is what it seems in the trippy trailer for ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’
If it’s from Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation.) you can expect it to be a thought provoking mindbender and indeed, the first trailer for... Read More
Netflix to release two Felipe Esparza stand-up specials in English and Spanish simultaneously
The specials mark the first time a Netflix comedian has recorded a stand up special in two languages that are set to be released simultaneously... Read More
African American Film Critics (AAFCA) TV honors include Viola Davis, Kenya Barris, Sterling K. Brown, ‘Insecure’
Comedian/actress Aida Rodriguez will host the virtual event on August 22nd The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) today announced the virtual edition of its... Read More
New Republic Pictures signs first look deal with Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker’s Nine Stories
New Republic Pictures (NRP), led by Founder Brian Oliver and President Bradley Fischer, has signed Nine Stories to a first look feature film production deal,... Read More
TIFF 2020: Gala Presentations bring female filmmakers, first timers and Oscar winners
The ‘Gala Presentation’ section of TIFF is often as it sounds, the big, glitzy films with megawatt stars that will draw the photographers and the... Read More
2020 Emmys: Episode Submissions List for 72nd Emmy Awards
It’s the new age-old question: do Emmy submissions matter anymore? The Emmys have gone through so many shake ups and changes in how they vote,... Read More
2020 Telluride Film Festival lineup announced: ‘Ammonite,’ ‘Nomadland,’ ‘Concrete Cowboy’ and more
The Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, released today its official program selections for the now-cancelled event. The Festival, whose ethos is... Read More
First look at ‘The Way I See It’ doc about President Obama photographer Pete Souza
The film is an official selection of the 2020 Telluride Film Festival and produced by Oscar Winners Laura Dern and Free Solo’s Evan Hayes Focus Features... Read More
2026 Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF): Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Christophers,’ ‘Maspalomas’ Take Top Awards 
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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?