In the madness of Oscar nomination week I neglected to post the final 2016 Oscar nomination predictions from the Forum Oscar Polls but here they are. Overall, the forums did quite well yet again. They nailed Best Actor and Best Actress and missed other categories by just one with the exception of Best Director, which threw everyone for a loop when Ridley Scott (The Martian) was snubbed in favor of Lenny Abrahamson (Room) and Todd Haynes and Carol missed out on the top two. Click on the category link to see the closed poll results.
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.
