Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate dug their heels deep into the Mud, making it the first official screener for AMPAS, marking the beginning of the long... 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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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.
I must say, I have to give kudos to Gordon-Levitt for doing something so seemingly mainstream yet very dark as a debut feature. Though the... Read More
Even though Sundance Selects is a pretty small Oscar player, their campaigning for Cannes Palme d’Or winner Blue Is The Warmest Color by director Abdellatif... Read More
Looking at a studio’s Oscar history is nothing new, and has often been done when looking at smaller films that can be made or broken... Read More
In this podcast, recorded July 29th, Erik, Kenneth and Benjamin discuss their current Oscar predictions in the top 8 categories as well as reveal the... Read More
It’s Sunday, August 18th and Erik, Peter and Richard discuss The Butler, category placement and Judi Dench’s clitoris. [audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/awardswatchpodcasts/AwardsWatch_Oscar_Podcast_4.mp3 | titles=Oscar podcast #3: August 18,... Read More
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