Erik Anderson

4th Children’s & Family Emmys: ‘Sesame Street,’ ‘Heartstopper,’ ‘Descendants: The Rise of Red’ Among Top Winners Programs under the Disney+/Disney Channel/Disney Jr. umbrella ruled the 4th Children’s & Family Emmys tonight, collecting 19 wins thanks to programs like Descendants: The Rise of Red, which was the evening’s most-awarded show, with five Emmys, including outstanding fiction special. Part of the Disney haul were four wins for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which was named outstanding young teen series, and four for…

4th Children's & Family Emmys: 'Sesame Street,' 'Heartstopper,' 'Descendants: The Rise of Red' Among Top Winners

FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG Among the few but very solid locks of Oscar night will be Ludwig Göransson's score for Sinners, earning him his third Oscar in this category in just seven years, after 2018's Black Panther and 2023's Oppenheimer. A win here will be historically substantial as he'll become the first composer to win three Oscars for original score in the 21st century and, at 41, will be the second youngest to ever do it after André Previn, who was 35 when he won his third Oscar for 

FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG

AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 335 – Reactions to the Split PGA and SAG Awards On episode 335 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Editor-In Chief Erik Anderson and AwardsWatch contributor Josh Parham to discuss The Actor Award and 2026 PGA Award winners, and what these wins mean going into the final days of Oscar voting. You can listen to The AwardsWatch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music and more.

AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 335 - Reactions to the Split PGA and SAG Awards

FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP and HAIRSTYLING Once more, with feeling. A Frankenstein sweep this season says it's winning but I'm keeping an eye out for Sinners here. Here are my final winner predictions in Makeup and Hairstyling for the 98th Academy Awards, which will take place on March 15, live at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California. 1. Frankenstein (Netflix)

FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP and HAIRSTYLING

FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN Another clean sweep for Frankenstein keeps Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau at the top where they've been for months. Here are my final winner predictions in Production Design for the 98th Academy Awards, which will take place on March 15, live at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California. 1. Frankenstein (Netflix)Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau BAFTA…

FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN

FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: COSTUME DESIGN Great gowns, beautiful gowns. But really, they are. With a clean sweep of every precursor--BAFTA, Critics Choice and the Costume Designers Guild--Kate Hawley should sail to an easy victory here with Frankenstein barring a late surge for Sinners, which feels like that could be a common refrain in many categories in this final stretch. Here are my final winner predictions in Costume Design for the 98th Academy Awards, which will take place on March 15, live at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California.

FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: COSTUME DESIGN

‘Hoppers’ Review: Pixar is Back With Their Best Film in Years [B+] The symptoms of Pixar’s near-decade-long fallow period are well-known. No new Pixar property has had any cultural stickiness since Coco in 2017. The diagnosis is very much up for debate, but red flags are planted by looking at the filmographies of the directors responsible for the recent projects. Pixar has become obsessed with promoting from within and seemingly demanding complete, unwavering devotion to The Brand.

'Hoppers' Review: Pixar is Back With Their Best Film in Years [B+]

32nd SAG Actor Awards: Winners List [Updating Live] Tonight are the 32nd SAG Actor Awards, the final major guild of the 2025/2026 awards season, live on Netflix from the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles, California, and hosted by Kristen Bell. One Battle After Another is the film nomination leader with seven, a new record for the SAG Awards, followed by Sinners with five. Both films are nominated for cast in a motion picture, male actor in a leading role female actor in a supporting role and stunt ensemble, with…

32nd SAG Actor Awards

30th Art Directors Guild (ADG) Awards: ‘Frankenstein,’ One Battle After Another,’ ‘Severance’ and More The 30th Annual Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) awards, honoring excellence in production design have given their top prizes to Frankenstein, One Battle After Another, Severance and more. In feature film, where there are three different categories, Frankenstein won period film, The Fantastic Four: First Steps won fantasy film and One Battle After Another won contemporary film.

30th Art Directors Guild (ADG) Awards: 'Frankenstein,' One Battle After Another,' 'Severance' and More

16th Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS) Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘Marty Supreme,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ The Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS) have announced the winners of their 16th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards where Sinners, Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another all took home prizes. The ceremony honors outstanding achievement in the craft of Music Supervision in film, television, documentaries, advertising, trailers, and video games.  On the TV side, the music supervisors of 

16th Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS) Awards: 'Sinners,' 'Marty Supreme,' 'One Battle After Another'

37th Producers Guild Awards (PGA) – Winners Updating The 37th Annual Producers Guild Awards are being held tonight at the Fairmont Century Plaza, honoring the producing side of film and television. Mara Brock Akil (The Game, Girlfriends, Being Mary Jane) will receive the Norman Lear Award for Achievement in Television. Blumhouse horror producer Jason Blum (Get Out, M3GAN, The Black Phone…

37th Producers Guild Awards (PGA)

57th NAACP Image Awards: ‘Sinners’ Dominates, Michael B. Jordan Named Entertainer of the Year On the final night of the 57th NAACP Image Awards, Sinners continued its domination from the previous nights, winning Outstanding Motion Picture while star Michael B. Jordan won Actor in a Motion Picture and Entertainer of the Year. Jordan dedicated his lead actor award to his Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman, who died at the age of 43 in 2020.

57th NAACP Image Awards: 'Sinners' Dominates, Michael B. Jordan Named Entertainer of the Year

76th American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘The Pitt’ Take Top Wins Sinners and One Battle After Another have topped the feature film winners of the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards presented by American Cinema Editors (ACE), announced tonight from UCLA’s Royce Hall in a ceremony hosted by actor and comedian Asif Ali. Sinners editor Michael P. Shawver took home the ACE for theatrical drama while Andy Jurgensen's work on One Battle After Another…

76th American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Awards: 'Sinners,' 'One Battle After Another,' 'The Pitt' Take Top Wins

Interview: Stellan Skarsgård on Navigating the Ever-Changing Film Industry and the Cathartic Ending of ‘Sentimental Value’ “Oh, that was the one with the food.” This is how my conversation with the great Stellan Skarsgård began as we sat down to discuss his work in Joachim Trier’s latest film, Sentimental Value. Last month, I was lucky enough to sit with Skarsgård and the cast of the film at the Critics’ Choice Awards, where a hilarious snapshot of him quickly turned into a meme (and taken by AwardsWatch’s own Mark Johnson).

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) On episode 141 of the Director Watch Podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter discuss the first film in their Powell and Pressburger series, 49th Parallel aka The Invaders (1942). Welcome back to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, the boys attempt to break down, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema’s greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating.

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) Last week, we had our first real taste of where the industry was leaning and it was for One Battle After Another. BAFTA kept the momentum going for One Battle After Another with wins for Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Cinematography, and DGA win, adding to its Golden Globe and Critics Choice wins from last month.

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 Sinners has won a total of nine trophies of its leading 18 nominations so far heading into Saturday’s main ceremony set to air at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on BET and CBS from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Ryan Coogler won Best Directing and Best Writing and fellow Oscar nominees Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo won the supporting actress and actor prizes, respectively, as…

'Sinners' Leads 57th NAACP Image Awards with 9 Going Into Final Night

Producers Guild (PGA) and Screen Actors Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Television Predictions: Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before It’s time for the Actor Awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards but now different and more serious! It’s going to be the year of The Pitt at the Actor Awards, which will likely award the series for both Ensemble in a Drama and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for its lead, Noah Wyle. Wyle will run away with his category, with other great performances in his company but without the necessary hype to overcome…

Producers Guild (PGA) and Screen Actors Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Television Predictions: Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

41st Casting Society Artios Awards (CSA): ‘Sinners,’ ‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘The Pitt,’ ‘The Studio’ and More Casting Society (CSA) honored excellence in casting across feature film, television (scripted and unscripted), commercials and theater at the 41st Annual Artios Awards held tonight at ceremonies in Los Angeles, New York and London which saw Sinners, Jay Kelly, The Pitt, The Studio and more earn wins for the casting directors and their teams. Sinners took the win for big budget drama.

41st Casting Society Artios Awards (CSA): 'Sinners,' 'Jay Kelly,' 'The Pitt,' 'The Studio' and More

Césars Awards: ‘The Ties That Bind Us’ Wins Best Film; Richard Linklater First American-born Filmmaker to win Best Director Carine Tardieu’s family drama The Ties That Bind Us (L’Attachement) has won Best Film at the French César Awards at its annual ceremony in Paris on Thursday, also picking up wins for best adapted screenplay and supporting actress for Vimala Pons. American filmmaker Richard Linklater won Best Director for Nouvelle Vague, the first American-born filmmaker to earn the French honor.

Césars Awards: ‘The Ties That Bind Us’ Wins Best Film; Richard Linklater First American-born Filmmaker to win Best Director

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A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films Best Documentary Short Film has an infamous reputation for being one of the more difficult categories to conquer. Because of their obviously abridged length, they require less time in post-production, meaning they often cover more pressingly contemporary issues than feature length documentaries are able to. Therefore, this Oscar category is often filled with short documentaries that spotlight harrowing, upsetting subjects that are still very much impacting our current shared existence.

A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films

A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films Hardcore Oscar fans know that the Best Live Action Short Film category has a rocky history when it comes to featuring quality nominees. Almost every year, there’s at least one short in this category that’s one of the worst films nominated overall in its year by the Academy. Thankfully, that’s not the case this year, as all five of the nominated shorts have at least some element worthy of recognition, regardless of their total quality.

A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films

A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films For Oscar fanatics, Best Animated Short Film is always one of the easiest Oscar categories to complete, if for no other reason than the nominees rarely run for longer than 15 minutes. This year’s crop is as typically brief as ever, no paradoxically long shorts here! As always, this category contains a much wider array of animation styles than the films found in Best Animated Feature Film.

A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films

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‘DTF St. Louis’ Review: Jason Bateman and David Harbour Star in Sex and Death Mystery That’s Mostly Flaccid [D] I was 18 the first time I downloaded Grindr, an app I had been fully unaware of before an explanation from a close gay friend tossed me into a world of men looking to have sex. Dating apps with the sole focus being on hooking up is trickier than a Tinder profile because there’s more for the eye to explore, the stakes are raised slightly higher by skipping romance and moving straight to foreplay.

'DTF St. Louis' Review: Jason Bateman and David Harbour Star in Sex and Death Mystery That's Mostly Flaccid [D]

Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash,’ ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Dominate Wins Avatar: Fire and Ash and KPop Demon Hunters were the top winners at last night's 24th Visual Effects Society Awards. With its over 3,000 visual effects shots, Avatar: Fire and Ash had dominated with 10 nominations and took home seven awards in total including outstanding VFX in a photoreal feature, outstanding character in a photoreal feature for Varang (played by Oona Chaplin), outstanding CG cinematography, and the Emerging Technology Award, given to the Kora Fire Toolset.

Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards: 'Avatar: Fire and Ash,' 'KPop Demon Hunters' Dominate Wins

The 'Scream 7' embargo breaks tomorrow morning but you won't see a review of it on AW because I've chosen to directly blacklist Paramount, CBS and their programming in response their firing of Melissa Barrera, treatment of pro-Palestinian artists and, everything David Ellison.

Producers Guild (PGA) and Screen Actors Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Predictions: More ‘One Battle’ vs ‘Sinners’ Provide the Final Showdowns Before Oscar This year, predicting the winner of the Producers Guild award for theatrical feature film is pretty easy. With voting overlapping with the Directors Guild, where Paul Thomas Anderson won, and ending before the DGA Awards--on top of its wins at Critics Choice and the Golden Globes before--his One Battle After Another should be able to sail to an easy win here.

Producers Guild (PGA) and Screen Actors Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Predictions: More 'One Battle' vs 'Sinners' Provide the Final Showdowns Before Oscar

‘Mint’ Review: Ambition Outpaces Impact in ‘Snapper’ Director Charlotte Regan’s Stylish BBC Crime Drama Series [C+] Berlinale After the breakout success of Scrapper, her acclaimed indie debut starring Harris Dickinson, the bar for Charlotte Regan’s next project was inevitably set high. That film introduced her as a distinctive new voice in British cinema: socially aware without turning moralistic, stylistically playful yet marked by striking emotional precision. Scrapper felt immediate, authentic and vibrantly alive. With Mint, which premiered in the Berlinale Special Series and is distributed by the BBC as a mini series, Regan now widens her scope considerably.

‘Mint’ Review: Ambition Outpaces Impact in 'Snapper' Director Charlotte Regan’s Stylish BBC Crime Drama Series [C+] Berlinale