2019 Oscars: What it will take to have a 3-hour show and why they shouldn’t do it
In the face of dwindling ratings and a huge yearly cost to put on the Academy Awards, New ABC president Karey Burke doubled down at... 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.
‘Avengers,’ ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Lost in Space’ top VES visual effects awards
Avengers: Infinity War and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse were the big winners at last night’s 17th Visual Effects Society (VES) awards, each winning four trophies.... Read More
Madonna to be honored by GLAAD Advocate for Change Award
The 30th GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Association Against Defamation) Awards will honor music legend and LGBTQ+ ally Madonna with the Advocate for Change Award for... Read More
2019 Sundance: ‘Knock Down the House’ wins Overall Festival Favorite
All 121 Features Screened Eligible for Award The Sundance Institute today announced Knock Down the House as the winner of the Festival Favorite Award, selected by... Read More
‘Green Book,’ ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ win AARP Movies for Grownups awards
The 18th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards were handed out last night and nomination leader Green Book came out on top as the Best Picture/Movie... Read More
2019 Oscars: Awkwafina, Chris Evans, Charlize Theron, Daniel Craig, Tessa Thompson among first round of Oscars presenters
First 2019 Oscar presenters announced: Awkwafina, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lopez, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Amandla Stenberg, Charlize Theron, Tessa Thompson,... Read More
16th ICS Awards: ‘Zama’ tops with Best Picture, Director; ‘Hale County,’ Brian Tyree Henry pick up wins
Better than a bandit’s ears. Zama, the brilliant satire of Spanish colonialism, captured four top prizes at this year’s ICS Awards, taking home best picture, best... Read More
Art Directors Guild (ADG) winners: ‘The Favourite,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Mrs. Maisel’
The Favourite won the Production Design for a Feature Film – Period. Four of the last 7 Oscar winners have first won this category first... Read More
46th Annie Awards: ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ swoops in with seven wins including Best Animated Feature
Incredibles 2 and Ralph Breaks the Internet led the 46th Annie Awards, celebrating animation in feature film and television but it was Spider-Man: Into the... Read More
Directors Guild Awards (DGA): Cuarón takes top film prize, Bo Burnham shocks, Ben Stiller and Bill Hader TV winners
Alfonso Cuarón has won his second Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for Feature Film. His sweeping personal epic Roma won him the guild’s top... Read More
‘Mars is Ours!’: Inside Season 5 of ‘For All Mankind’ as the Next Generation Claims the Red Planet 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 146 – ‘The Red Shoes’ (Powell and Pressburger, 1948) 
With Paul Thomas Anderson Finally Winning an Oscar, Which Multi-Nominee is Next? 
BAFTA TV Awards Nominations: ‘Adolescence’ Still Has More Growing Up To Do