FINAL 2017 Oscar Winner Predictions
[divider style=”solid” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The 89th Academy Awards are this Sunday, February 26th and the FINAL Oscar winner predictions from the Gold Rush Gang are... 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.
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[divider style=”solid” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Collectively the AwardsWatch forums are predicting La La Land to win 11 of its 14 nominations. Best Actor is still proving... Read More
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[divider style=”solid” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The 32nd Film Independent Spirit Awards are this Saturday, the day before the Oscars as they traditionally do, and there are... Read More
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[divider style=”solid” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Every Oscar season us awards watchers generally find ourselves in two camps; getting bored or frustrated when everything seems inevitable and... Read More
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[divider style=”solid” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Moonlight, from Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, won the WGA Original Screenplay award last night, a coup of sorts since... Read More
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