‘Vice’ trailer puts Christian Bale’s Dick Cheney front and center
Academy Award winner Christian Bale is back to his transformation tricks, this time morphing into former Vice President Dick Cheney, the mastermind behind the Iraq... 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.
New trailer for Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in ‘On the Basis of Sex’
“Last week, I was told women are too emotional to be lawyers.” As timely as a film could get in our current political climate, On... Read More
‘Vice’ teaser gives a shotgun-blasting Dick Cheney; first looks at Amy Adams and Sam Rockwell
VICE explores the epic story about how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W.... Read More
Double and Triple Takes: How actors with multiple films this season can boost their awards prospects
Double and Triple Takes: How actors with multiple films this season can boost their awards prospects
Sometimes an actor can knock a single performance out of the park so definitively that an Oscar nomination or even a win can seem inevitable.... Read More
Taron Egerton takes off in first teaser for Elton John biopic ‘Rocketman’
Detailing the early, breakthrough years of Elton John’s career, Taron Egerton (The Kingsman series) plays the flamboyant multi-Grammy winning chart-topper for director Dexter Fletcher (Eddie... Read More
Frontrunner Friday: No one knows anything (and that’s a good thing)
Frontrunner Friday has returned after a month to digest the impact that Venice, Telluride and Toronto had on the Oscar playing field and it was... Read More
New trailer for GKids’ animated feature Oscar contender ‘Mirai’
From Gkids and Fathom Events comes a new trailer for Mirai, the acclaimed animated feature from Studio Chizu and director Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Children). When... Read More
First look at Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers in biopic from Marielle Heller
Tri-Star Pictures has revealed the first look at two-Academy Award winner Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers in Marielle Heller’s Untitled Mr. Rogers/ Tom Hanks Project, a... Read More
Listen: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper drop “Shallow” from ‘A Star Is Born’ and it’s a scorcher
A Star Is Born isn’t out for another week but the full single and video for “Shallow,” the film’s sure-fire Original Song Oscar contender is... Read More
Gotham Awards: Tributes set for Rachel Weisz, Willem Dafoe, Paul Greengrass
Weisz and Dafoe will receive the Actress and Actor Tributes and Greengrass the Director Tribute at the IFP Gotham Awards, set this year for November... Read More
Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) Awards: ‘Sinners’ Named Best Picture 
Phoenix Film Critics Society (PFCS) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ Wins 8 
Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners Lead’ 
London Critics Circle (LCC) Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Hamnet’ Lead