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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

I joke at the start of my interview with special makeup effects designer Pierre-Olivier Persin that he is, in a way, the true star of The Substance, given how large a role the makeup and prosthetics ...

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 ...

The Critics Choice Association (CCA) announced today the winners of the 5 th annual Critics Choice Super Awards, honoring the most popular, fan-obsessed genres across both movies and television, ...