'Frozen II,' 'Missing Link' Lead 47th Annie Award Nominations
Disney’s Frozen II and LAIKA’s Missing Link led the 47th Annie Award nominations today with eight each and will go up against DreamWorks Animation’s How to... 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.
Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC) go for 'Parasite'
The Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC) have chosen Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite as the Best Film of 2019. The group also gave Bong its award for... Read More
'For Sama' tops British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) winners with Best Film, Director
For Sama, the intimate and epic journey into the female experience of the war in Syria was the big winner at the 22nd British Independent... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST PICTURE (November)
Festival season is over. Everything has been seen now (except Cats). Where do we stand and which December release makes the cut? When I’m putting... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (November)
You think the acting categories are tough? Best Director is looking like the most competitive in years, bursting with so many possibilities that we’re inevitably... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (November)
Just when we thought we had the screenplay categorization of The Two Popes down, it goes up and changes again. Well, sort of. An ad... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (November)
While Best Actress isn’t nearly as stacked with contenders like Best Actor is (par for the course, really) it doesn’t mean it’s any less competitive.... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTOR (November)
Is there a more cutthroat category than Best Actor this year? It’s impossibly stacked. The snubs will be tremendous but every performance that makes the... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (November)
In a year of extremely tight races, supporting actor is proving to be quite difficult. It’s another year of co-lead performances jammed up against true... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (November)
As I wondered last month, Margot Robbie having two legitimate contenders to balance in this category was going to have to begin to lean one... Read More
International Press Academy Satellite Awards Nominations: ‘Sinners,’ One Battle After Another,’ ‘Hamnet’ Lead 
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AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 320 – The Oscar Shortlists for the 98th Academy Awards 
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