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| - The Awards Circuit () is an online entertainment website focusing on the Academy Awards. The site provides predictions several times a year, focusing on the state of the Oscar race. The publication was created by Editor-in-Chief and Owner Clayton Davis. Davis started the site in May 2008 with help from his mentor and former Editor of The Oscar Igloo, Johnny Alba. Davis is an active member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Broadcast Television Journalists Association, and the International Press Academy. The site's current Mission Statement is as follows: Mission Statement: “The Awards Circuit is committed to providing both casual and informed cinema enthusiasts with professional, unbiased awards coverage. We aim to give our readers in-depth and honest film reviews, and an inimitable means for our community to discuss, participate, and share their experiences as filmgoers.” Staff Writers The site currently employs nine volunteer writers from different parts of the world. Joey Magidson has been a staff writer since the site's inauguration in 2008. The other writers include film historian, professor, and Canadian author John H. Foote, Navy Officer Robert Hamer, Seattle native Michael Ward, Ohio native Mark Johnson, Houston native Terence Johnson, Los Angeles based writer Joseph Braverman, North Carolina native Anna Belickis, and London writer Daniel Ashtiany Podcasts The site presents a bi-weekly podcast discussing several topics of film, television, and entertainment. Community Awards The readership of the community is given the opportunity to vote in their own awards body every year titled, the Awards Circuit Community Awards or ACCA. The site has continued to go back in time and vote on each year. As of July 2012, they have gone back as far as Year 2000, where Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" received a record fourteen ACCA nominations including Best Picture. Community Awards (Television) In May 2012, Davis announced that ACCA would now branch off into the television sector. HBO's hit-show "Game of Thrones" won Best Drama, Best Writing, and Best Cast Ensemble respectively while ABC's "Modern Family," won Best Comedy Series, Best Writing, and Best Supporting Actress for Sofia Vergara. Davis Awards Editor-in-Chief Clayton Davis announces his favorite films and performances every year titled, the Davis Awards. His past winners have included The Artist (2011), Toy Story 3 (2010), The Hurt Locker (2009), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Bobby (2006), A History of Violence (2005), Closer (2004), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Chicago (2002), Moulin Rouge! (2001), and Cast Away (2000).
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