Anne Lai appointed Executive Director of SFFILM
Veteran Film Executive to Take Helm on March 11 SFFILM, the longest-running film festival in the Americas, announced today that Anne Lai has been appointed Executive Director of the organization,... 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 Oscars: Mahershala Ali, Olivia Colman, Regina King and Rami Malek will return to present
The Academy has announced the first slate of presenters for the Oscars and last year’s acting Oscar winners Mahershala Ali, Olivia Colman, Regina King and... Read More
Oscars 2010-2019: The Decade of Studio Best Picture Nominations and Wins
The 2010-2019 decade ended with Fox Searchlight (now just Searchlight Pictures under Disney) maintaining and extending its dominance as an Oscar Best Picture leader in... Read More
‘Parasite,’ ‘1917’ top Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA) winners
The Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA) have chosen Parasite as the best film of 2019, also rewarding the South Korean darkly comedic thriller Best Director... Read More
26th Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards: All the Speeches
From Brad Pitt joking his role as Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood wasn’t too far a stretch to the history-making win... Read More
Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Awards: ‘1917,’ ‘Ford v Ferrari,’ split Golden Reel wins
Chernobyl and The Mandalorian top television wins Making a tough Oscar category even tougher, the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) spread the wealth of their... Read More
Online Film & Television Association (OFTA) Nominations: ‘Once Upon a Time…,’ ‘Parasite,’ ‘1917,’ ‘Little Women’ lead
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (14), Parasite (14), newly-minted Producers Guild winner 1917 (12) and Little Women (11) are the nomination leaders for the... Read More
2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG): ‘Parasite’ makes history as first non-English language film to win top prize
The South Korean film Parasite made history tonight as the first film ever to win the Screen Actors Guild top prize, Outstanding Cast in a... Read More
Producers Guild Awards: ‘1917,’ ‘Succession,’ ‘Fleabag’ are PGA winners
The WWI epic 1917, directed by Sam Mendes, took home the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards tonight, The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for... Read More
ACE Eddie Awards: ‘Parasite’ Upsets, Becomes First Non-English Language Winner
The 70th ACE Eddie Awards were handed out last night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills and Parasite shocked by winning the guild’s prize... Read More
Final Additions to South by Southwest Film & TV Festival (SXSW), Including ‘Love Language,’ ‘Cookie Queens’ and ‘The Fox’ 
Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Unveils Recipients for Inaugural Jeffrey S. Wexler Award for Advancement in Sound Technology 
41st Spirit Awards Winner Predictions: In One of the Least Oscary Years in a Decade, it’s Anyone’s Game 
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol on the Unlikely, Legally-Challenged Journey of Getting ‘Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie’ to the Big Screen [VIDEO INTERVIEW]