The Alvarez family will be back! Netflix renews ‘One Day at a Time’ for a 3rd season
After a wave of support on Twitter from fans and stars alike, the Alvarez family will be back. Netflix has renewed their Norman Lear reboot... 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.
Netflix announces the return of ‘Queer Eye,’ ‘Nailed It!’ and more
Netflix announced second seasons for several unscripted original series: Dope, Drug Lords, Nailed It!, Queer Eye and The Toys That Made Us. “These series are... Read More
Alvin Ailey biopic in the works at Fox Searchlight; Alicia Keys to produce
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] A biopic of legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey is in the works at Fox Searchlight with multi-Grammy winner Alicia Keys on board... Read More
2018 Cannes: Press Screenings Shuffled Ahead of World Premieres; Selfies Banned
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] In an announcement a few years in the making, Cannes Film Festival head Thierry Frémaux revealed today that press screenings for... Read More
Chiwetel Ejiofor experiences a crisis of faith in Netflix’s ‘Come Sunday’ trailer
Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) stars Come Sunday, the real-life story of internationally-renowned pastor Carlton Pearson who risks his church, family, and... Read More
Cannes 2018: What We Could See, What We Want to See on the Croisette
We’re just over three weeks from the announcement of the official lineup of the 71st Cannes Film Festival (April 12) but I’ve been mulling over... Read More
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
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
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