2014 Toronto International Film Festival Winners: The Imitation Game Takes People’s Choice, Leads Oscar Race
The Weinstein Company’s big Oscar push The Imitation Game, from Morten Tyldum and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, has won the People Choice at the 2014... 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 clip of ‘Still Alice,’ starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart
You might notice we’ve been kind of pimping out this movie a lot recently, and we have. The film, starring four-time Academy Award nominee Julianne... Read More
A Heartfelt Open Letter to Julianne Moore
This is a very special piece from one of the AwardsWatch family, Dave Acacia, and how Julianne Moore’s performances in Safe, Far From Heaven and Still... Read More
Your 2014/2015 TV Season Calendar
It’s still summer but that doesn’t mean you can’t gear up for the new fall TV season. Here’s a rundown of the new season of... Read More
52nd New York Film Festival Trailer: First ‘Inherent Vice’ footage
The 52nd New York Film Festival has dropped a pretty cool trailer and even has a few ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ moments from Warner... Read More
37th Mill Valley Film Festival Lineup and Tributes to Laura Dern, Hilary Swank, Eddie Redmayne, Elle Fanning
THE MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS 37th YEAR CELEBRATING THE BEST IN INDEPENDENT AND WORLD CINEMA OCTOBER 2 – 12, 2014 SAN RAFAEL,... Read More
Can Julianne Moore Come Back to the Oscar Conversation with ‘Still Alice’?
It’s been a strange year for Julianne Moore. She shocked everyone (including herself) by snagging the Best Actress award at this year’s Cannes Film... Read More
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood to receive FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2014 – Best Film of the Year
Richard Linklater’s 12-year project Boyhood was chosen the best film of the past year by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI.... Read More
Forum Oscar Poll Results – August 2014: Boyhood Has a Growth Spurt, The Imitation Game is Real
BEST PICTURE 01. Birdman (89%) (July – 86%) (June – 81%) (May – 69%) 01. Boyhood (89%) (July – 41% – NEW) 03. Foxcatcher (87%) (July – 89%) (June – 87%)... Read More
2015 Oscars: A Record 83 Countries Submit for Foreign Language Film Oscar
A record 83 countries have submitted for Foreign Language Film Oscar this year, besting the previous record of 76, set last year. Several first-timers are... Read More
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