Natalie Portman takes the stage in first clip of ‘Vox Lux’
In this very brief first look, Academy Award winner Natalie Portman (Black Swan) takes the stage (we only see her from the back) in Vox... 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.
First ‘Suspiria’ clip has Tilda Swinton telling Dakota Johnson to “improvise freely”
In this first look clip of Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria, Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton) outlines plans for a new dance, a piece about “rebirths,” in which Susie... Read More
Interview: Barry Alexander Brown, Oscar-nominated director and film editor of ‘BlacKkKlansman’
Barry Alexander Brown has worked as a Director, Editor and Writer in documentaries and feature films for both film and television for over thirty years.... Read More
Production begins on ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ from André Øvredal and Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro
CBS Films and eOne announced today that Michael Garza (Wayward Pines, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1), Austin Abrams (Brad’s Status, The Americans), Gabriel Rush (Moonrise... Read More
TIFF Docs programmer Thom Powers on this year’s slate and the rise in popularity of documentary film
TIFF Docs programmer Thom Powers on this year’s slate and the rise in popularity of documentary film
Thom Powers has been the documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival since 2006. He oversaw TIFF’s Mavericks conversation series for nine years and created the TIFF... Read More
Mahershala Ali goes back in time in teaser for HBO’s ‘True Detective’
Surprise! HBO has dropped the first teaser for the third season of True Detective right in the middle of the final episode of its highly... Read More
Frontrunner Friday: Who’s on top in the 2019 Oscar race ahead of the Fall festivals?
Frontrunner Friday has returned and this time it will be a weekly update of the top 8 categories of films, directors, actors and screenplays in... Read More
Lucas Hedges returns home in teaser trailer for ‘Ben is Back’
19 year-old Ben Burns (Academy Award nominee Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea) unexpectedly returns home to his family’s suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben’s... Read More
‘A Private War,’ starring Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dornan to open 41st Mill Valley Film Festival
Returning for its 41st year, the Mill Valley Film Festival announced today the first of two official Opening Night films for 2018, Aviron Pictures’ A Private War,... Read More
TIFF 2018 In Conversation With…Hilary Swank, Mahershala Ali and Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Toronto International Film Festival presents this year’s In Conversation With… lineup: Hilary Swank, Mahershala Ali and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Through insightful, dynamic and intimate discussion,... Read More
St. Louis Film Critics Association (StLFCA) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ Dominates 
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Share Most Wins 
Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) Awards: ‘Sinners’ Tops for Best Film, Director 
Producers Guild Awards Nominations for Sports, Children’s and Short-Form Programs