2015 Summer Box Office Predictions
The “summer” box office season is almost upon…or is it already here? With Furious 7, the 7th installment in the Fast and/or Furious franchise blowing... 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.
FIRST LOOK: ‘Carol’ Compilation Footage
Ahead of its Cannes debut we have two minutes of compilation footage from Todd Haynes’s Carol, the highly anticipated 1950s lesbian drama from novelist Patricia... Read More
First Look at Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard In Macbeth
Hot off the presses of Empire come three new pics of Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the highly anticipated new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth,... Read More
69th Tony Nominations: Fun Home and American in Paris Lead with 12 Nods Each
Two very different musicals, Fun Home and An American in Paris, lead the Tony nominations with 12 apiece today. Christopher Wheeldon’s adaptation of the classic... Read More
New Pics of Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
New set pics have emerged from the Oliver Stone film Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, the CIA employee who leaked thousands of classified... Read More
Cannes 2015: Queer Palm Films Announced with an All-Female Jury
The Queer Palm is an independently sponsored prize for selected LGBT-relevant films entered into the Cannes Film Festival. The award was founded in 2010 by... Read More
TRAILER: Johnny Depp Channels Joe Pesci in ‘Black Mass’ Trailer
The chilling trailer for Johnny Depp’s Black Mass has dropped and in it he plays a cat and mouse game over a card table that... Read More
Cannes Courts Controversy: Kawase and Palme Winner Thai Joe Go to UCR, Terence Davies Out
As it happens every year, the announcement of final addition of films to the In Competition and Un Certain Regard slates have been announced and,... Read More
TRAILER: First Teaser for Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’
Black and white and red all over. That’s the first look at Quentin Tarantino’s newest film, The Hateful Eight, which drops a pretty bad-ass teaser... Read More
68th Cannes Film Festival Official Selection: Carol, Natalie Portman and Amy Winehouse Will Hit the Fest (Updated)
The list of films for the 68th Cannes Film Festival came with the expected and the snubbed, as it usually does, with new films from... Read More
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