2018 Oscars: 10 Films Advance in the Animated Short Oscar Race
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 90th 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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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.
Coco, The Breadwinner Lead Annie Award Nominations; Lego Batman Snubbed for Despicable Me, Cars Threequels
Coco earned a field-best 13 nominations from this morning from the 45th Annie Awards with The Breadwinner earning 10. The two films are currently the... Read More
2018 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (December Part 1)
We’re finally in the part of the awards race where critics’ groups and other awards-giving organizations start rolling out their year-end awards, giving us some... Read More
2018 Oscars: Analyzing the chances of Foreign Language Film contenders from Brazil, United Kingdom, Iraq and Algeria
Our seventh piece on this year’s Foreign Language Oscar race turns to the Middle East, Europe and Latin America to analyze 4 new contenders. These... Read More
Los Angeles Film Critics go big for Call Me By Your Name, Shape of Water
Call Me By Your Name was the big winner at today’s Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, earning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best... Read More
2017 Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) Winner Predictions
With the NYFCC announcing their winners just days ago and giving their top prize to Lady Bird and Director to The Florida Project‘s Sean Baker,... Read More
2018 Oscars: Animated Feature – Analyzing the Chances of Mary and the Witch’s Flower and Moomins and the Winter Wonderland
In our sixth piece on this year’s animated feature race, we look at one semi-high profile anime and another under-the-radar film no one was expecting... Read More
What the National Board of Review and New York Film Critics Told Us About the Oscar Race
It’s December 1st and we’ve just barely carved into the first helpings of the first critics’ awards, mainly two of the oldest organizations in the... Read More
New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) Winners: Lady Bird Wins Best Film; Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet Claim Lead Acting Prizes
Lady Bird has won the New York Film Critics Circle’s Best Film with its star, Saoirse Ronan, capturing the Best Actress prize. Lady Bird‘s director... Read More
New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) Predictions
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) announces their best of 2017 film tomorrow and I have my predictions. I’m expecting a lot of love... Read More
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