AwardsWatch - Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze boards Sony Classics’ ‘Nine Days’ as exec producer; first trailer revealed

Erik Anderson October 12, 2020

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that Academy Award winner Spike Jonze (Original Screenplay for Her) has joined as an executive producer of Edson Oda’s Nine... Read More

Emmy nominees who could be one step closer to EGOT

Erik Anderson September 2, 2020

With every new Emmy, Grammy, Oscar or Tony Awards the entertainment industry finds itself with emerging EGOT contenders. Some looking for a 2nd or 3rd... Read More

So what’cha, what’cha, what’cha want? The trailer for Spike Jonze’s ‘Beastie Boys Story’

Erik Anderson March 12, 2020

Beastie Boys Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz tell you an intimate, personal story of their band and 40 years of friendship in this live documentary... Read More

12 Years A Slave prevails, American Hustle shut out at 86th Academy Awards

Erik Anderson March 2, 2014

After one of the most unpredictable races in recent history, in the end the film that everybody expected to win at the start of the... Read More

WGA Winners: Her and Captain Phillips Win as Hustle and Wolf Tumble

Erik Anderson February 1, 2014

Spike Jonze’s Her beat out David O. Russell’s American Hustle for the Writers Guild’s highest honor for original screenplays and set itself up for a... Read More

BAFTA nominations: Hustle, Wolf soar. Her and Dallas biggest losers

Erik Anderson January 8, 2014

We are still trying to let these sink in, but the BAFTA nominations have sure shaken things up a bit. Just some short observations right... Read More

DGA nominations: Wolf rises, Nebraska left out in the cold

Erik Anderson January 7, 2014

The Directors Guild of America announced their nominations today, and made the battle for those final spots interesting again. The expected four were all there:... Read More

Critics’ choices or Oscar predictions? BFCA announces nominations

Erik Anderson December 16, 2013

“The single most accurate precursor to the Oscars….“. If ever it was more blatantly clear what the Broadcast Film Critics Association is actually trying to... Read More

Gold Rush Gang: Golden Globe Nominations Predictions

Erik Anderson December 11, 2013

The Gold Rush Gang have a few things to say about the Golden Globe nominations, especially…what is going on with Supporting Actor?? After today’s Screen... Read More

Review: Her (Jonze, 2013)

Vincent Smetana November 14, 2013

In Spike Jonze’s latest film Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a professional letter-writer for-hire who composes personal correspondence with his creative mind, sensitive nature,... Read More