New animated ‘Addams Family’ to feature original songs by Christina Aguilera, Snoop Dogg and more
Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) announced today its upcoming animated comedy The Addams Family will feature original songs from global music superstars Christina Aguilera, Migos, Karol G, Rock... 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: Key Dates and Deadlines
As we enter the fall festivals and the beginning of the 2019/2020 awards season it’s important to remember that 92nd Academy Awards are going to... Read More
Toronto Review: ‘White Lie’ is a fresh take on the fake heroes of influencer culture
Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis create one of the year’s most provocative and intricate character study films of the year. There’s a notion that the... Read More
‘Joker’ wins Best Film at 2019 Venice International Film Festival Awards
The awards for the 76th Venice International Film Festival were handed out this evening and Todd Phillips’ vivid and dark DC Comics origin story Joker... Read More
Toronto Review: ‘Just Mercy’ is a superbly crafted drama with a standout performance by Jamie Foxx
Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx shine in the true story of a man wrongfully imprisoned and the civil rights hero who fights for him... Read More
42nd Mill Valley Film Festival Lineup: ‘Waves,’ ‘Ford v Ferrari,’ ‘Just Mercy’ plus spotlights on Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and more
Highlights include JUST MERCY, THE IRISHMAN, HARRIET, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN, PARASITE, WAVES, FORD v FERRARI, JOJO RABBIT, THE LIGHTHOUSE, HONEY BOY, and MARRIAGE STORY The Mill... Read More
Oscar Predictions: Post-Telluride, mid-Venice, pre-TIFF set your sights on Renée Zellweger, Adam Driver and ‘Parasite’
With Telluride just finishing, Venice still underway, and Toronto starting tomorrow, we are smack in the middle of the fall festival kickoff of awards season... Read More
“You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by... Read More
Telluride Review: Trey Edward Shults’ ‘Waves’ is an undeniable masterpiece
“History never repeats itself but it rhymes.” That Mark Twain quote is a wonderfully reoccurring motif that pops up in Waves, the third film from... Read More
Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart and Lizzo show Constance Wu the ropes in new ‘Hustlers’ trailer
“Are you in?” Jennifer Lopez and Cardi B give working mom Constance Wu a career boost with the help of Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart and... Read More
Oscar-Nominated Director Sam Davis on Creating ‘The Singers,’ Finding His Stars, and His Own Path to Filmmaking [VIDEO INTERVIEW] 
‘Kokuho’ Review: The Vibrant World of Kabuki is Spectacularly Recreated in Lee Sang-il’s Resilient Character Study [B+] 
‘Crime 101’ Review: Chris Hemsworth Brings the Heat in Michael Man-Influenced Actioner as Good as its Title is Bad [B+] 
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 332 – Oscars Retrospective of the 74th Academy Awards