2019 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (July) – Alfonso Cuarón makes big chart jump
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Things are starting to happen as we’ve crossed the halfway point of the year. While obviously the fall and winter films... 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.
2019 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (July) – Beautiful Boy Erased
Let’s here it for the boys. Both Boy Erased and Beautiful Boy rise in the ranks this month with Boy Erased entering the top 5.... Read More
Interview: Cindy O’Connor – Emmy-nominated composer of ‘Once Upon a Time’
Before earning an Emmy nomination last week for her work on the series finale of Once Upon a Time, Cindy O’Connor began her career as... Read More
Sony moves Tarantinto’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ up two weeks
Sony Pictures is moving Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ up two weeks to July 26, 2019 and off of the 50th anniversary... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (July): Weisz is Nice at #1 but is she Lead?
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] It’s a bit of a bloodbath in Best Actress this month and you’ll see pretty much a sea of red. As... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (July) – new trailers boost Lucas Hedges and Rami Malek
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] At just 21, Lucas Hedges is already an Oscar nominee (in Supporting Actor for 2016’s Manchester by the Sea) but he... Read More
2019 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (July) – Emma Stone rises; Cynthia Erivo is coming
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] A crazy thing happened in the last week with regard to Supporting Actress. Well, two things. First; the Fox Searchlight costume... Read More
Ready Freddie? New Trailer for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is here
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The second trailer for 20th Century Fox’s Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody starring Rami Malek is here. The new trailer opens... Read More
Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe in trailer for Oscar contender ‘Boy Erased’
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Focus Features has been dropping trailers for their fall and winter releases like wildfire and it seems they’ve saved the best... Read More
Cardi B leads MTV Video Music Awards Nominations; The Carters, Childish Gambino, Drake score
Cardi B led the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards nominations today with 10, including Video of the Year, Artist of the Year and Song of... Read More
Costume Designers Guild (CGD): ‘Weapons,’ ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Score Nominations 
Phoenix Critics Circle (PCC) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another,’ Timothée Chalamet, Jessie Buckley 
Rhea Seehorn Breaks Down Carol’s Existential Loneliness as the Last Woman in Albuquerque in Episode 7 of ‘Pluribus’ 
Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another’ Tops with 9