‘Cold War’ dominates European Film Awards (EFA) winners with 5 including Film, Director, Actress
Italy’s Dogman wins 3 Poland’s Cold War, from director Paweł Pawlikowski was the big winner at the 31st European Film Awards, winning 5 prizes including European... 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.
‘The Favourite’ leads Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) nominations
The Favourite led the Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominations with six, followed by First Reformed with four and ROMA with three. The British Columbian group... Read More
‘You Were Never Really Here’ top Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) winners
Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here was named Best Picture from the Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) as well as Best Director for... Read More
Frontrunner Friday: Did SAG lay down the gauntlet on some Oscar hopefuls?
Last week, the Golden Globe nominations put Vice on the Oscar map after months of wondering how that film might factor in. They loved The... Read More
Las Vegas Film Critics pick ‘ROMA’ as Best Picture, dive in for Lady Gaga as Best Actress
ROMA, Alfonso Cuaron’s personal journey that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970’s has captured... Read More
Review: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ (★★★★)
Barry Jenkins follows up his Oscar-winning Moonlight with another masterpiece; a lush, visual love story and the first English-language film adaptation of James Baldwin’s work It... Read More
‘Black Panther,’ ‘Beale Street’ lead Black Reel Awards nominations
The largest grossing domestic film of the year, Marvel’s Black Panther continued it’s historic run as it shattered the record for most nominations in a single year.... Read More
9 Scientific and Technical Achievements Honored with Academy Awards
Curtis Clark to receive John A. Bonner Award The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that nine scientific and technical achievements represented... Read More
Phoenix Critics Circle (PCC) nominations: ‘The Favourite’ and ‘Vice’ lead with 7
The Favourite and Vice lead the Phoenix Critics Circle nominations with seven apiece. ROMA, First Reformed and BlacKkKlansman followed with four. Here is the full... Read More
Interview: Barry Jenkins – From ‘Moonlight’ to ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ and that living room scene
I first interviewed Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins before he was an Oscar winner at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October of 2016. We met... Read More
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