Steve Pond is TheWrap’s Executive Editor, Awards and has been writing and overseeing awards coverage on the site since 2009. He spent decades writing about film, television, music and the entertainment industry for the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Premiere, New York Times, Playboy and many other publications. He is the author of the L.A. Times bestseller “The Big Show,” a behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Awards based on 15 years of unprecedented access to that show.
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Steve received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from California State University, Long Beach.
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‘Abbott Elementary’ Leads Critics Choice Awards TV Nominations
FX, HBO and Netflix tie with 15 nominations each
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‘EO’ Director Had a Secret Weapon to Coax a Great Performance From a Donkey – Carrots
TheWrap magazine: “In difficult moments, carrots work miracles,” 84-year-old Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski says
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Why Brett Morgen Refused to Define David Bowie With ‘Moonage Daydream’
TheWrap magazine: “Bowie defies facts, defies definition and is beautifully mysterious,” the famed documentarian says
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Why Robert Downey Jr. Gave His Blessing to ‘Sr.,’ the Documentary About His Filmmaker Father
TheWrap magazine: Director Chris Smith (“American Movie”) talks about how how the young Downey contributed to the film charting his father’s illness
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‘Argentina, 1985’ Asks a Timely Question: How Fragile Is Democracy?
TheWrap magazine: “There was a lot of mistrust, a lot of misinformation, a lot of skepticism in the air,” says actor Ricardo Darín of the case study behind Argentina’s Oscar entry
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Why ‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ Director Was ‘Floored’ by the Jazz Legend’s Audio Interviews
TheWrap magazine: “He couldn’t have been more opposite of the perception I had of him,” director Sacha Jenkins explains
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Why the New ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Needed a German Perspective on World War I
TheWrap magazine: Director Edward Berger says he wanted to infuse the classic anti-war story with “a sense of guilt, shame, terror, horror”
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How Celebrated Composer J. Ralph Focused on ‘Empowerment’ to Write Song for ‘The Voice of Dust and Ash’
TheWrap magazine: Ralph’s song is featured in a key scene of the documentary about the late Iranian musician Mohammad Reza Shajarian
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‘Hunt’ Review: ‘Squid Game’ Actor Lee Jung-jae Brings a Dense Spy Thriller to Cannes
Lee’s directorial debut fictionalizes Korean history and throws in double agents, buried secrets and lots of broken arms
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How Ryan Tedder Secretly Taped ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ to Write the Hit ‘I Ain’t Worried’
TheWrap magazine: “I didn’t tell them I did this,” the OneRepublic Grammy winner says, “but I had an iPhone so I recorded the scene while we were watching it”
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How ‘Decision to Leave’ Director Park Chan-wook Combined Police Procedural and Romance to Make His Slow-Burn Mystery
TheWrap magazine: ” I wanted to make a sexy story without sex and a love story that does not say the words, ‘I love you,’” Park says
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Early Oscar Predictions: The Audience Is Staying Away From Awards Movies, But Will Voters Care?
“The Fabelmans,” “The Banshees of Inisherin” and others should be able to win over voters despite tepid box-office returns
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How ‘Tár’ and ‘Women Talking’ Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir Surprised Herself With an ‘Optimistic’ Score
TheWrap magazine: Guðnadóttir composed for two very different films that both took her on “beautiful” creative journeys” and “Women Talking” could get the Oscar-winning composer of “Joker” back on the Oscars red carpet in 2023
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New York Film Critics 2022: ‘Tar’ Named Best Film
Acting winners are Colin Farrell, Cate Blanchett, Ke Huy Quan and Keke Palmer; S.S. Rajamouli wins directing award for Indian film “RRR”
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Rian Johnson Also Thinks ‘Glass Onion’ Should’ve Had a Longer Theatrical Release
TheWrap magazine: “I would’ve loved to have as big and long a theatrical run as we could get, but I’m grateful to Netflix for stepping out of their comfort zone,” says the director
