Andrew Garfield Trips Out in Surreal Neo-Noir ‘Under the Silver Lake’
Under the Silver Lake is the anticipated follow-up from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell finds loopy slacker Andrew Garfield embarking on a surrealist adventure... 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.
The trailer for ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor’ is a warm cardigan of human kindness
It might seem silly to say that a trailer could make you cry, but it did. No doubt, the majority of Americans alive today were... Read More
Renée Zellweger is ready for her close-up, and her comeback
From the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, Renée Zellweger was on top of the world. After breaking through in 1996’s Jerry Maguire with Tom... Read More
Melissa McCarthy forges a dark path in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ trailer
Academy Award nominee Melissa McCarthy gets serious in the first trailer for Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the follow-up from Marielle Heller, whose debut The... Read More
Saturn Awards: ‘Black Panther’ leads film nominations with 14; ‘Walking Dead’ leads TV mentions
It was a good day for Disney as the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films announced their Saturn Award nominations today. The massive Marvel... Read More
Amma Asante tapped to direct Walden Media’s ‘Billion Dollar Spy’
Walden Media and Weed Road today announced that BAFTA award winner Amma Asante will direct the upcoming film adaptation of David E. Hoffman’s THE BILLION... Read More
2019 Oscars: The Adapted and Original Screenplay Contenders (March)
This year’s crop of screenplay contenders almost feel like the inverse of last year. Last year, Original Screenplay was the strongest its been in years,... Read More
Plan B and Annapurna to produce Miranda July’s next film
Los Angeles, CA (March 15, 2018) – Miranda July is set to start production on her latest film in late May. The film follows the... Read More
Trailer: Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin are set ‘Adrift’ in true story sailing drama
Shailene Woodley (Fault in Our Stars, Divergent films) and Sam Claflin (Me Before You, The Hunger Games films) star in Adrift, based on the inspiring... Read More
San Francisco International Film Festival lineup: ‘Tully,’ ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ ‘A Kid Like Jake’ and more
The longest-running film festival in the Americas, the SFFILM Festival is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and a major cultural event in the Bay... Read More
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