Frontrunner Friday: ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Get Out’ rocket to the top of new Oscar predictions
What a difference a week makes in awards season. Just 11 days ago the mid-December Best Picture predictions came out with Dunkirk atop the chart... 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.
2018: Foreign Language Film Shortlist: ‘The Square,’ ‘In the Fade’ In; ‘BPM,’ Angelina Jolie Snubbed
2018: Foreign Language Film Shortlist: ‘The Square,’ ‘In the Fade’ In; ‘BPM,’ Angelina Jolie Snubbed
The nine films that will compete for the Foreign Language Film Oscar have been revealed and it’s never without huge surprises. While many films, such... Read More
SAG Noms: Where is the Race Now?
The Screen Actors Guild nominations gave us another piece of the Oscar puzzle today. Some of it made things much clearer while some of it... Read More
Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Love The Shape of Water
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association (DFWFCA) gave The Shape of Water five awards today, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress. Gary Oldman... Read More
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Television Nominations have a GLOW about them
Netflix’s freshman comedy GLOW, about the early days of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling in the 80s dominated the ring today with four nominations: Ensemble,... Read More
Screen Actor Guild (SAG) Nominations: Three Billboards Leads with Four; The Post Gets Shut Out
The nominations for the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards are in and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri came out on top with four mentions including... Read More
‘Call Me by Your Name,’ ‘Lady Bird,’ ‘Three Billboards’ Top Australian Academy Award Nominees
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) have announced their nominees and Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri earned... Read More
Get Out, Girls Trip, Three Billboards win African-American Film Critics Association awards
The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has chosen Get Out as the Best Picture of 2017, also awarding the film Best Director (Jordan Peele), Best... Read More
33rd Annual IDA Documentary Awards Winners: Dina, LA 92 and Edith+Eddie
Dina won the top prize, Best Feature, from the International Documentary Association (IDA) this week, against very stiff competition. The film beat out City of... Read More
2018 Oscars: 10 Films Advance in Live Action Short Oscar Race
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 90th... Read More
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