BAFTA Nominations: Grand Budapest Leads with 11; Oscar Hopefuls Stay Strong
The EE British Academy Film Awards announced their nominations for 2014 films and in its usual flair hit us with shocks and surprises. Not the... 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.
Golden Globe Winner Predictions – TELEVISION
Like the Screen Actors Guild, the Golden Globes honor television alongside film and right here are your fool-proof Golden Globe television predictions from yours truly.... Read More
Golden Globe Winner Predictions from the Gold Rush Gang
If you’ve listened to today’s podcast then you might already know my Golden Globe winner predictions (and alternates), as well as fellow Gold Rush Gang... Read More
27th USC Scripter Awards Nominations Find ‘Gone Girl’ and have an ‘Inherent Vice’
The USC Scripter award nominates adapted works and awards both the screenplay writer and the author of the book the script is based upon. While... Read More
‘Into the Woods’ and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Lead Make-up & Hairstyling Guild Noms
Despite inexplicably not qualifying for the Oscar version of this category, Into the Woods nabbed three nominations from the Make-up & Hairstyling guild this morning;... Read More
Oscar Podcast #21: The Guilds, BAFTA nom predictions and Golden Globe winner predix
It’s crunch time, just a week away from Oscar nominations and we have a whole slew of guilds to talk about (Writers Guild, Art Directors... Read More
Writers Guild of America Nominations: Nightcrawler, Whiplash (in Original), American Sniper
The Writers Guild of America’s nominations for 2014 films have given us a largely predictable set of choices, based on the previously reported ineligibility of... Read More
Shailene Woodley, Jack O’Connell Among BAFTA Rising Star Nominees
Shailene Woodley, Miles Teller, Margot Robbie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jack O’Connell will compete on the viewing audience-voted Rising Star Award at the BAFTAs this year.... Read More
Costume Designers Guild (CDG Nominations: Birdman, Budapest, Hunger Games
The 17th Costume Designers Guild nominations have chosen Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 among the best dressed... Read More
American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Like the Look of The Imitation Game, Birdman, Unbroken
The American Society of Cinematographers revealed their nominations for 2014 films this morning and with it came the expected mentions for Birdman, Mr. Turner and... Read More
Interview: Stellan Skarsgård on Navigating the Ever-Changing Film Industry and the Cathartic Ending of ‘Sentimental Value’ 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 141 – ’49th Parallel aka The Invaders’ (Powell and Pressburger, 1942) 
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: The Last Battle Before the War is Won (2/27/26) 
‘Sinners’ Leads 57th NAACP Image Awards with 9 Going Into Final Night