Academy backtracks; All Oscar-nominated songs will be performed
Not long after it was leaked (intentionally?) that only two Original Songs would be performed at this year’s Oscars and encountered tons of backlash, the... 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.
Netflix inks overall deal with Oscar and Golden Globe-winning producer Darla Anderson
Netflix today announced that it has entered into a multi-year overall deal with Darla Anderson (Coco, Cars, Toy Story 3), the Academy Award, Golden Globe,... Read More
DGA: Directors Guild Preview and Predictions: Spike’s Last Stand
In 71 years of the Directors Guild of America awards, with its approximately 16,000 members, they’ve never given their top prize to a black director.... Read More
25th Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Winners: ‘Black Panther,’ Glenn Close, ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’
Black Panther, the billion dollar juggernaut comic book blockbuster has won Outstanding Performance By a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors... Read More
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Predictions: Television
The 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards are tomorrow night and I’ve already revealed my predictions for Motion Picture and now have my TV ready to... Read More
Frontrunner Friday: Oscar nominations and PGA have given us a real race
In this month alone, controversies rose and crested at the banks of a few major awards players in a way that could potentially change Oscar... Read More
2019 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Preview and Predictions: Motion Picture
In its 25-year history, 17 films have earned four SAG nominations with six of those ending up winning here, Cast in a Motion Picture. Four... Read More
Miss Vanjie Returns to Season 11 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Joining 14 New Queens for the Crown
The 11th season of Emmy® Award-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is set to be the most fashionable, fearless and jaw-dropping spectacle in “Drag Race” herstory. The newest queens vying... Read More
‘Music Inspired by the Film ROMA’ album feat. Beck, Patti Smith on its way
Remember that mysterious tweet from Beck back in November that implied he was working on a music project connected to Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA? Well, he... Read More
2019 Oscar Nominees: Where and How to Stream Them
While many of today’s Oscar nominees are still or only theaters – like If Beale Street Could Talk, The Favourite and Vice – many are... 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