2019 Oscars: How the Best Animated Feature Race is Shaping Up [Part TWO: The Indie Contenders]
In this second preview piece on next year’s Animated Feature Oscar race, we turn our attention to the indie films that may stand a shot.... 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 Oscars: How the Best Animated Feature Race is Shaping Up [Part ONE: The Studio Contenders]
It may be too early to come up with a definitive list of Best Animated Feature Oscar contenders for next year’s race, but 2017 showed... Read More
SFFILM Fest Reviews: ‘American Animals,’ ‘Miseducation of Cameron Post,’ ‘RBG,’ ‘We the Animals’
The 2018 San Francisco International Film Festival starts April 4th and runs through the 17th. Here are a few films that caught my eye. Keep... Read More
‘Westworld’ Season 2 trailer: You say you want a revolution?
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] We’re less than a month away from the April 22nd premiere of the second season of the wildly successful HBO sci-fi... Read More
Oscar winner Sissy Spacek joins Julia Roberts drama ‘Homecoming’ at Amazon
Oscar winner Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s Daughter) is the latest to join the Julia Roberts 30-minute Amazon drama Homecoming from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail.... Read More
Academy Launches 2018 Student Academy Award Competition
Winners Eligible for Oscars® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy is now accepting entries for its 2018 Student Academy Awards® competition. All Student Academy Award® winners become eligible... Read More
Michael Showalter joins Annapurna Television with new production deal
Showalter Establishes New Production Company Semi-Formal Productions with Jordana Mollick as President of Development and Production Los Angeles, CA (MARCH 29, 2018) – Annapurna Television... Read More
Trailer for ‘Loro (Part 1)’ – Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino’s biopic on Silvio Berlusconi
From Academy Award winner Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty – Foreign Language Film) comes the first part of Loro, a sprawling epic detailing the life... Read More
2019 Emmy Predictions: Returns, Reboots and Reigning Champs
Last year at the Emmys a huge presence was missing, the reigning Drama Series champion (two years running) Game of Thrones. Missing out on last... Read More
Jay Roach to Direct ‘Fire and Fury’ TV Adaptation
No stranger to political theater, director Jay Roach (Game Change) will helm the television adaptation of Michael Wolff’s best-selling book Fire and Fury, which takes... Read More
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