2019 Oscars: Academy Reverses Decision After Industry Protest; All 24 Categories Will Be Broadcast Live
After a truly wild week of social media uproar and industry backlash from actors, directors and editors, cinematographers and makeup & hairstylists guilds, the Academy... 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.
Frontrunner Friday: The show’s a mess, Oscar predictions are a roll of the dice
In the last Frontrunner Friday before final 2019 Oscar winner predictions come out next week, we have one of the biggest pieces of the puzzle... Read More
Interview: Mary Zophres, Oscar-nominated costume designer of ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’
Costume designer Mary Zophres had created some of the most iconic looks in modern movie history. From The Dude’s robe and sweater in The Big... Read More
2019 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards: ‘A Star Is Born,’ ‘Mrs. Maisel,’ ‘This Is Us’
The 9th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards announced their winner on Wednesday evening in a ceremony that took place at the Theatre at Ace... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING (February)
The Academy has has an odd history with this category. It’s bizarrely stuck at only three nominees when year to year shows there are more... Read More
Can the Academy Save Itself From Itself?
It was one thing that film fans and Oscar fans alike joined forces to decry the Academy’s decision to move four categories – Cinematography, Film... Read More
‘Black Panther,’ ‘black-ish’ lead 50th NAACP nominations
The nominations for the 50th NAACP Image Awards celebrating the accomplishments of people of color in the fields of film, television, music, and literature were... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING (February)
Like Cinematography, Film Editing is one of this year’s category’s the Oscars’ producers decided to move to a commercial break and be inserted into the... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (February)
I know some people want this to be a closer race than it is; that Olivia Colman’s BAFTA win is somehow a bigger factor than... Read More
Fox Searchlight acquires Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ with Frances McDormand
Fox Searchlight Pictures Chairmen Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula together with Presidents of Production Matthew Greenfield and David Greenbaum announced today that the company has... Read More
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‘Fallout’ Season Two Review: Bring Back My Ghouls [A-] 
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San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Awards: ‘Sinners’ Tops in Picture, Director, Actor