World premiere of Netflix’s ‘Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City’ to open 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival
A episodic opener will be the first for SFIFF and features an all-star cast including Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, and Ellen Page SFFILM today announced that the 2019... 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.
‘Tolkien’ trailer teases Lord of the Rings origins
Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (February)
Cinematography has been the cornerstone of film from its very inception. Before anything else there was the camera. From its birth on paper film to... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (February)
While the other three acting categories seem pretty close to as locked as possible, Supporting Actress remains not so much a mystery but a real... Read More
Academy Reveals the Four Categories Being Presented During Commercial Breaks
The Academy today revealed the categories that the viewing audiences will not see and will instead be presented during commercial breaks and edited into the... Read More
Alexander Valley Film Society’s Oscar Red Carpet Fundraiser
Living in a small town, away from LA and the glitz and glam of Hollywood, I’m always supportive of my local film festivals, be it... Read More
Elle Fanning in new trailer for ‘Teen Spirit,’ featuring songs by Ellie Goulding, Katy Perry, Robyn
Elle Fanning (20th Century Women) stars as Violet Valesnki, a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing.... Read More
61st Grammy Awards: Kacey Musgraves wins AOTY as women dominate album categories
Country singer Kacey Musgraves won the Grammy Album of the Year, part of her clean sweep. She won all four of her nominations tonight that... Read More
2019 BAFTAs: ‘Roma’ nabs Best Film, Director; ‘The Favourite’ leads with most wins
Alfonso Cuarón intimate epic Roma, which he directed, wrote, edited and shot, has won the 2019 BAFTA for Best Film. It also picked up wins... Read More
Łukasz Żal (Cold War) wins American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) for feature film
In a bit of an upset (or was it?), Łukasz Żal has won the feature film prize from the American Society of Cinematographers for his... Read More
‘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 
“Wuthering Heights” Review: Emerald Fennell’s Stylish Spin on the Classic Novel is More Bodice Ripper Than Brontë Gripper [C+]