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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‘The Morning Show’ Design Problem: Go Around the World Without Leaving L.A.
TheWrap magazine: Production designer Nelson Coates had to stage scenes set in China, New York, New Orleans and Italy, all in Southern California
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How a Bathroom Break Was a Key to the Design of ‘The Green Knight’
TheWrap magazine: Designer Jade Healy says she’s thankful for what the film’s D.P. found when he took a leak in the woods
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The Hardest Costume Design Challenge on ‘Cyrano’ Had Nothing to Do With the Lead Character
TheWrap magazine: “They are the aliens of the 1700s,” says costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini of the characters that caused him “a great deal of suffering”
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‘The Harder They Fall’ Wins Top Prize at African American Film Critics Association Awards
Jeymes Samuel’s Western wins four awards, and “King Richard” takes another four
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The Big Design Challenge for ‘Licorice Pizza’: Find 1970s L.A. in the 2020s
TheWrap magazine: “We were looking for pockets where people hadn’t demolished their ranch houses to build white modern monstrosities,” production designer Florencia Martin says
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Finally Busts Into the Oscar Voters’ Screening Room
And here are the 150-plus other films available to Academy members as nomination voting approaches
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How ‘The French Dispatch’ Designer Created Wes Anderson’s New World
TheWrap magazine: “My first reaction was sort of a slight panic,” production designer Adam Stockhausen says of the sheer number of designs he needed to create
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How Andrew Garfield Wants to Celebrate His SAG Nomination: Go Bowling and Hug Will Smith
Nominated for “tick, tick…BOOM!,” Garfield says he’d also like to celebrate with an In-N-Out Burger
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Inside SAG Award Nominations’ Many Snubs and Surprises, From Kristen Stewart to Ben Affleck
Bypassing Stewart and Aunjanue Ellis and sending mixed messages on “West Side Story” and “The Power of the Dog,” SAG makes an odd season even odder
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BAFTA Longlists Include ‘Belfast,’ ‘The Power of the Dog,’ ‘West Side Story’
“Don’t Look Up,” “Dune” and “House of Gucci” also do well in lists that are typically a fairly reliable predictor of Oscar success
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How They Did It: Denis Villeneuve and the Making of ‘Dune’
It took an army to put Denis Villeneuve’s epic Dune on screen; here are stories from the director and some of his soldiers
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Making ‘Dune’ – Here’s How Denis Villeneuve and His Team Pulled Off Sci-Fi Epic (Video)
TheWrap magazine: It took an army to put Denis Villeneuve’s epic “Dune” on screen; here are stories from the director and some of his soldiers
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Why ‘Dune’ Editor Traveled to Budapest But Wouldn’t Go on the Set
TheWrap magazine: “It’s really hard to cut things out after you’ve seen how much work goes into it,” editor Joe Walker says
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The Sound of ‘Dune’: The Giant Worm Was Hard, But the Magical Voice Was Harder
TheWrap magazine: “We never fully nailed what we wanted to do until the last week of final mixes,” sound editor Mark Mangini says
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‘Dune’ Cinematographer Still Finds Sand in His Luggage 2 Years After the Shoot
TheWrap magazine: “When you go to the desert, sand gets into every single thing you own,” Greig Fraser says
