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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Colin Farrell to Receive Palm Springs Film Award for ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
Farrell is the first honoree to be announced by the annual awards gala
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How ‘Elvis’ Director Baz Luhrmann Used His Lifelong Love of the King to Make His Big, Bold Semi-Biopic
TheWrap magazine: “It was only after I made the movie that I realized Elvis was with me all my life in so many moments,” says Luhrmann
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Oscars Documentary Race Hits 144 Entries, Up From 2021
The list includes “All that Breathes,” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “Fire of Love,” “Navalny” and “Good Night Oppy”
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‘Good Night Oppy’ Wins Top Prize at Critics Choice Documentary Awards
Other winners include “Navalny,” “Fire of Love,” “Bad Axe,” “Moonage Daydream,” “Descendant” and “The Beatles: Get Back”
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How Former Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis Solved the Mystery of Oscar’s Name
TheWrap magazine: The longtime AMPAS head spoke with TheWrap about his new book, a deep dive into Oscar history
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‘All That Breathes,’ ‘Fire of Love’ Lead IDA Documentary Award Nominations
Top nominees also include “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “No Simple Way Home,” “A House Made of Splinters” and “Navalny”
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‘The Territory,’ ‘Fire of Love’ Lead Cinema Eye Honors Documentary Nominations
“All That Breathes,” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” and “A Night of Knowing Nothing” also receive multiple noms
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‘The Fabelmans’ Star Gabriel LaBelle on Playing Steven Spielberg and Being ‘Spoiled’
TheWrap Magazine: “I thought, ‘If I don’t get it, then he’s just looking for a different kind of character and there’s nothing I can do about that.’ And then the next day I got it,” LaBelle says
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‘Armageddon Time’ Review: James Gray Looks at His Childhood Without Nostalgia
Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong are among the stars in a semi-autobiographical story that is both unsentimental and touching
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‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Review: Mock Rock Biopic Is Ridiculous Fun
Daniel Radcliffe doesn’t look much like Weird Al, which makes perfect sense given this movie’s twisted logic
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‘Causeway’ Review: A Subdued Jennifer Lawrence Shines in Intimate Drama
The actress joins Brian Tyree Henry for a gentle Lila Neugebauer film that moves with the languid rhythms of New Orleans
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‘The Woman King’ Director Gina Prince-Bythewood Doesn’t Take No for an Answer
TheWrap Magazine: The celebrated director talks about the fighting spirit that’s always propelled her — including when she was rejected from film school
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Oscars International Race Hits 92 Entries, One Short of All-Time Record
All of the films have now been placed in groups and assigned to voters in the category
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How ‘The Inspection’ Director Elegance Bratton Started His Career Making Movies in the Marines
TheWrap Magazine: Long before he went to film school, the writer-director found his calling behind the camera as a member of the U.S. military
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Jerry Lee Lewis Appreciation: In Praise of the Coolest, Meanest SOB in Any Room
A memorable encounter with a cantankerous, cologne-drenched rock ‘n’ roller whose favorite whiskey had gone missing
