Ryan McQuade is the AwardsWatch Executive Editor and a film-obsessed writer in San Antonio, Texas. Raised on musicals, westerns, and James Bond, his taste in cinema is extremely versatile. He’s ...

The 2020s have been a rather unusual decade to say the least. For a fifth of the time, we were locked inside, quarantined for fear of the effects of COVID-19. The four years after have found us trying ...

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 ...

Film festival season is nearly here, and some of the mystery around separating contenders from pretenders will begin to lift once we’re in the mountains of Telluride later this month. Before the ...

Posts about Film Reviews written by Cody Dericks, Griffin Schiller, Ryan McQuade, Joshua Mbonu, Trace Sauveur, Nick Ruhrkraut, and Erik Anderson ...

Maestro and Saltburn were the big winners at the 11th Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild (IATSE Local 706) awards ceremony Sunday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Maestro won two of its three ...

The race for the next International Feature Film Oscar has begun and this year Turkey is first out of the gate. Murat Fıratoğlu’s One of Those Days When Hemme Dies is the 32nd submission for the ...

Robert Altman’s Nashville has often been described as the best American film ever made. I have never interpreted that superlative literally—as in, it is the best film ever crafted in the United States ...

Kids today are so spoiled, with their Moonlights and Parasites and Nomadlands and CODAs winning Best Picture at the Oscars. Life seems so just and fair these days, for those who look to the Oscars to ...

The 2023/2024 film awards calendar will be updated throughout the year as new dates for film’s biggest and best events, festivals, nominations and awards are announced. [2024/2025 Calendar here] This ...

Recently, several major outlets including The New York Times, RollingStone, Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb released lists celebrating the best films of the 21st century. One thing was missing from them all: ...

The famous Cannes Film Festival is a launching pad for great cinema of the year, a massive international festival held on the glamorous and glitzy French Riviera at the beginning of summer that ...