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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Javier Bardem Calls His & Her Oscar Noms With Penélope Cruz ‘Extraordinary’
“It’s been a beautiful day at home,” Bardem tells TheWrap. “We were holding on to each other, trying to fit on the same sofa, and there were so many things to pay attention to.”
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Kenneth Branagh Reacts to Breaking Walt Disney and George Clooney’s Oscar Nomination Record With ‘Belfast’
“It’s all about the act of storytelling, whichever angle you come at it from,” says Branagh, who has now been nominated in seven different categories
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Oscar Nominations Analysis: Voters Give Power to ‘The Dog’ in a Year Marked by Change
“It’s such a weird year – nobody knows what’s going to happen,” one studio executive says after some idiosyncratic nominations
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13 Oscar Nomination Records That Could Be Broken on Tuesday
Kenneth Branaugh, Jane Campion and Denzel Washington could all make history when nominations are announced
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Oscars 2022: We Predict the Nominations in All 23 Categories (Photos)
TheWrap’s awards editor Steve Pond predicts all of this Tuesday’s nominees, from “Dune” to “Belfast” to “The Power of the Dog”
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Oscar Nomination Predictions: Expect ‘Dune’ to Dominate in Another Weird Year
By our reckoning, “The Power of the Dog,” “Belfast” and “West Side Story” will also come on strong
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BAFTA Nominations: ‘Dune’ Leads All Films With 11
“The Power of the Dog” and “Belfast” also scored multiple noms in voting designed to “level the playing field”
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Artios Awards Film Nominees Include Casting Directors for ‘The Power of the Dog,’ ‘Belfast’
Eight different feature-film categories include most of the year’s top contenders
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How the Oscar Race Stacks Up Now That the Guilds Have Spoken (Sorry, ‘Spider-Man’)
The barrage of guild nominations wasn’t good for Sony’s superhero film, but it didn’t make any film a front runner, either
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The Guild Scorecard: ‘Dune’ Does Best With Industry Voters
The sci-fi epic landed 12 nominations but missed out with the Screen Actors Guild
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Directors Guild Nominees Include Jane Campion, Steven Spielberg, Kenneth Branagh
Denis Villeneuve and Paul Thomas Anderson are also nominated in the DGA’s top film category
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Writers Guild Nominations Include ‘Don’t Look Up,’ ‘Licorice Pizza,’ ‘King Richard’
“Nightmare Alley,” “West Side Story” and “CODA” are among other nominees
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‘No Time to Die,’ ‘Belfast,’ ‘King Richard’ Make the Cut in ACE Eddie Nominations
The American Cinema Editors also singled out “Dune,” “The Power of the Dog” and “Don’t Look Up,” among others
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Producers Guild Nominees Range From ‘Belfast’ and ‘CODA’ to ‘Dune’
Two of the year’s biggest films, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “No Time to Die,” didn’t make the list
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‘Succession’ Leads Directors Guild’s TV Noms With First Drama Sweep Since 1983
The DGA also announced its documentary nominations, among them “Summer of Soul” and “The Rescue”
