2018 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (October) – Guillermo del Toro and Christopher Nolan Both at #1
Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before. Just as in Best Picture, the Best Director race is tied at #1 and by... 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 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (October) – Last Flag Flailing, Blade Runner Returns
Usually by this time, the first week of October, we’re talking about the film that came out of the late summer film festivals to emerge... Read More
New Trailer and Poster for Joe Wright’s DARKEST HOUR with Gary Oldman
Focus Features has dropped a short new trailer plus two new posters for Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour. Within days of becoming British Prime Minister, Winston... Read More
2018 Oscars: Animated Feature Oscar Race – Which Indie Films Can Go All the Way?
Earlier this week we took a look at this year’s unpredictable Animated Feature race and the reasons why literally any animated film can make –... Read More
Oscar Podcast #57: Entering Awards Season Without a Frontrunner
It’s the first Oscar podcast after the big summer film festivals – Venice, Telluride and Toronto – and usually by now we have a frontrunner.... Read More
6 Reasons Why This Year’s Animated Feature Race Is the Most Unpredictable In Years
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Studio features, Sequels and Foreign Language Films Populate the 2018 Animated Feature Oscar Race This year’s Animated Feature Oscar race... Read More
Frontrunner Friday or: How Late September Doesn’t Have an Oscar Frontrunner
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] It’s the first day of fall and the Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals have wrapped and by now a Best... Read More
Review: ‘Stronger’ (★★★½)
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] We’ve all probably seen enough ‘everyday man overcoming adversity/tragedy’ stories to last a lifetime but once in a while one comes... Read More
Official Trailer and Poster for Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Based on Brian Selznick’s critically acclaimed novel Ben (Pete’s Dragon’s Oakes Fegley) and Rose (newcomer Millicent Simmonds) are children from two different... Read More
Official Trailer for Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] From Academy Award-nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Frances Ha), The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is the... Read More
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