2019 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards: ‘A Star Is Born,’ ‘Mrs. Maisel,’ ‘This Is Us’
The 9th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards announced their winner on Wednesday evening in a ceremony that took place at the Theatre at Ace... 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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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.
2019 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING (February)
The Academy has has an odd history with this category. It’s bizarrely stuck at only three nominees when year to year shows there are more... Read More
Can the Academy Save Itself From Itself?
It was one thing that film fans and Oscar fans alike joined forces to decry the Academy’s decision to move four categories – Cinematography, Film... Read More
‘Black Panther,’ ‘black-ish’ lead 50th NAACP nominations
The nominations for the 50th NAACP Image Awards celebrating the accomplishments of people of color in the fields of film, television, music, and literature were... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING (February)
Like Cinematography, Film Editing is one of this year’s category’s the Oscars’ producers decided to move to a commercial break and be inserted into the... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (February)
I know some people want this to be a closer race than it is; that Olivia Colman’s BAFTA win is somehow a bigger factor than... Read More
Fox Searchlight acquires Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ with Frances McDormand
Fox Searchlight Pictures Chairmen Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula together with Presidents of Production Matthew Greenfield and David Greenbaum announced today that the company has... Read More
World premiere of Netflix’s ‘Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City’ to open 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival
A episodic opener will be the first for SFIFF and features an all-star cast including Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, and Ellen Page SFFILM today announced that the 2019... Read More
‘Tolkien’ trailer teases Lord of the Rings origins
Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (February)
Cinematography has been the cornerstone of film from its very inception. Before anything else there was the camera. From its birth on paper film to... Read More
Interview: Isabella Rossellini on the Power of Sister Agnes in ‘Conclave’ and Returning to her Cinematic Roots 
‘Wicked’ Review: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Will Sweep You Off Your Feet in Jon M. Chu’s High-Flying Musical Feast 
Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold to Receive the Gothams Visionary Tribute for ‘A Complete Unknown’ 
Interviews: How the Hair, Makeup and Editing Teams for ‘Gladiator II’ Corralled 1000 Extras, Battled Heat and Kept Ridley Scott’s Vision