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
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.
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
Press conference – Festival de Cannes 2015 [LIVE – April 16th 2015 at 11:00am]
The press conference announcing the slate of In Competition and Out of Competition films for the 68th Cannes Film Festival can be found right here. Pierre... Read More
TRAILER: Paul Dano and John Cusack Take On Brian Wilson in ‘Love & Mercy’
The trailer for the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy was released and gave us a good look at just how they pulled off... Read More
Oscar Podcast #24: A New Season Begins with Carol and Joy and the Dying Girl
It’s a new Oscar season (yes, in April) and we’re back with the Awardswatch Oscar Podcast. This year saw some shakeup in the Gold Rush... Read More
2016 Oscars: AMPAS Set Dates for 88th, 89th and 90th Academy Awards
LOS ANGELES, CA — The Academy and the ABC Television Network today announced the dates for the 88th, 89th and 90th Oscar® presentations. The Academy... Read More
Forum Oscar Poll Results: March 2015 – Joy to the World, Let the Carol-ing Begin
No, it’s not Christmas but two female-led films are jingling all the way up to the top of the Awardswatch Forum Oscar Polls. Joy, starring... Read More
2016 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (Joy, Carol, Bridge of Spies, The Revenant, The Danish Girl) – April
We’ve got the first set of predictions from the all new Gold Rush Gang hot off the presses for you and five films have started... Read More
Australian Academy Award Winners (AACTA): ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Bring Her Back’ Lead 
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How Writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt and the Oscar-nominated Hair and Makeup Team Behind ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Twisted Cinderella Into a Gruesome Cautionary Tale [VIDEO INTERVIEW]