TIFF50: New Films from Steven Soderbergh, Nia DaCosta, Alejandro Amenábar to World Premiere at 50th Toronto International Film Festival
New movies from directors Steven Soderbergh and Nia DaCosta have been announced as premieres at the 50th edition of the Toronto Film Festival lineup. TIFF organizers announced on Thursday... 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.
Focus Features Releases First Look, Teaser, Date for Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘Bugonia,’ Starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons
Focus Features has revealed the first look and teaser for Bugonia, the new film from Yorgos Lanthimos, following up last year’s Kinds of Kindness and... Read More
NEON Sets October Release for Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or Winner ‘It Was Just an Accident’
NEON announced today that they will release Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident in theaters on October 15. The film, which premiered In Competition... Read More
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics Announces Winners of 2025 Crimson Honors College Scholarship
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced the winners of its latest Crimson Honors college scholarship contest, awarding three LGBTQ+ public college students $1000 each for... Read More
New ‘Sense and Sensibility’ Set Up at Focus Features, Daisy Edgar-Jones to Star
Focus Features and Working Title Films are bringing audiences a fresh take on Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility with Daisy Edgar-Jones starring. The film is being directed... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST CASTING (June)
The great thing about having a new category to predict is that we don’t have anything from the Academy to rely on in terms of... Read More
Academy Elects Haifaa al-Mansour, Effie T. Brown, Annie Chang as New Governors-at-Large
The Academy Board of Governors has elected three new governors-at-large: Haifaa al-Mansour (Directors Branch), Effie T. Brown (Producers Branch) and Annie Chang (Production and Technology Branch, Science and Technology Council... Read More
Interview: As the Effervescent Claude on ‘The Four Seasons,’ Marco Calvani is Back and He’s Still the One
“I should start singing?” As Marco Calvani and I sit down at The Terrace, the restaurant in The Maybourne in Beverly Hills, he knows that... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR and SUPPORTING ACTRESS (June)
Sentimental Value‘s Grand Prix win at Cannes keeps Stellan Skarsgård in the #1 spot again this month but the first trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me... Read More
Sony Pictures Classics Acquires North American Rights to ‘Nuremberg’ with Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, Sets November Release
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired North American and worldwide airline rights to James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg from Walden Media and Bluestone Entertainment.... Read More
Interview: Stellan Skarsgård on Navigating the Ever-Changing Film Industry and the Cathartic Ending of ‘Sentimental Value’ 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 141 – ’49th Parallel aka The Invaders’ (Powell and Pressburger, 1942) 
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‘Sinners’ Leads 57th NAACP Image Awards with 9 Going Into Final Night