2018 Oscars: Analyzing FLF contenders from South Africa, Italy and Spain
Here’s our third piece on this year’s exciting Foreign Language Oscar race. As the BFI London Film Festival comes to a close, we’ve seen three... 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.
The first ‘I, Tonya’ teaser starring Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding
Fresh off this morning’s Gotham Awards nominations where I, Tonya earned a surprising Best Feature nomination comes the first teaser trailer. Starring Gotham Best Actress... Read More
Gotham Awards Nominations: Get Out Leads with 4; Columbus, Lady Bird, Florida Project, Call Me By Your Name with 3
Awards season is officially here. The 27th IFP Gotham Awards nominations came out this morning and the micro-budgeted blockbuster hit Get Out landed a... Read More
2018 Grammys: Key Deadlines and Dates
The road to the 60th annual Grammy Awards starts for voters now with approximately six weeks between voting and nominations for album and single releases between... Read More
MUDBOUND Wins 2017 Mill Valley Film Festival Audience Award
Dee Rees’s post-World War II drama Mudbound has won the Overall Audience Award at the 40th Mill Valley Film Festival. The festival has Audience Favorite... Read More
Frontrunner Friday: The Fallout of Weinstein and Amazon and the State of the Oscar Race
It would be impossible to not start an Oscar race piece without mentioning the explosive accusations against, and fallout of, one of Hollywood’s most ferocious... Read More
2018 Oscars: Animated Feature – Analyzing GKIDS’ The Breadwinner, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales and The Girl Without Hands
Previously, we took a look at this year’s Animated Feature Oscar race and especially the indie contenders. In a first of a series of articles,... Read More
2018 Oscars: Analyzing FLF Contenders from France, Germany, Lebanon, Sweden, Egypt, Poland and Ireland
Welcome to the second of our Foreign Language Film series, we analyze the Oscar potential of 7 more contenders from Asia, Europe, and Africa. You... Read More
2018 Oscars: Analyzing FLF Contenders from Israel, Russia, Belgium, Morocco, Singapore, Austria and Chile
The BFI London Film Festival kicked off a few days ago and we’re watching over 35 films including 20+ Foreign Language Oscar submissions from Europe,... Read More
From A League of Their Own to Top Gun: GALECA Names “Ten Best Films You Never Knew Were LGBTQ”
In the spirit of “We are all one,” GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (previously known as the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association),... Read More
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