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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Sorry, Emmy Contenders – Fewer Actors Will Get Nominations This Year
Under the Television Academy’s current rules, fewer entries means fewer nominees — and this year’s pandemic-fueled drop is particularly pronounced in the performer categories
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‘Summer of Soul’ Film Review: Questlove’s Vibrant Concert Film Captures a Pivotal Harlem Moment
The documentary finds politics and music inextricably linked, with culture flowing from the church to the street to the concert stage
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Film Academy’s Board of Governors Election Sets New Record for Women on Board
For the first time ever, there are more women than men on the 54-person board
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‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Tops Critics Choice Real TV Awards, Again
The reality show won in the competition category for the third consecutive year, although this time it shared the award with “The Great British Baking Show”
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‘Pose’ Creator Steven Canals on Life After His Groundbreaking Show: ‘I’m Greedy and I Want More’
TheWrap magazine: “I want to see whose stories are not being told, and allow that to inform my next project,” he says
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‘The Sparks Brothers’ Film Review: Edgar Wright Makes Playful Documentary About Elusive Band Sparks
Wright tackles the idiosyncratic, influential band without ever giving away too much or losing an air of mystery
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Jana Schmieding on Her ‘Rutherford Falls’ Breakthrough: ‘It Took Another Native Woman to See My Value’
TheWrap magazine: “Most of the time, indigenous folks on television or in film are relegated to what we call ‘feathers and leather,’” says the Native writer and actress
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How Renee Elise Goldsberry Embraced Her Inner Diva for ‘Girls5Eva’
TheWrap magazine: “Every moment of my life, I can relate to the part of Wickie that craves stardom and the fulfillment of her dream,” says the “Hamilton” actress
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How Comedy and Drama Series Races Stack Up as Emmy Nomination Voting Begins
TheWrap magazine: Lots of past nominees are ineligible this year — but the categories are still jammed with contenders
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‘Miss Juneteenth’ Film Review: Mother-Daughter Drama Packs a Quiet Punch
First-time feature director Channing Godfrey Peoples’ film is relentlessly understated, casting a sad but affectionate eye on a community’s daily life and on the rituals that hold it together
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Was Kenny Leon’s Job Directing ‘Mahalia’ a Good Assignment or Divine Inspiration?
TheWrap magazine: The veteran director isn’t sure, but he’d been listening to Jackson’s music every single day before he got the call to direct the Lifetime movie
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How Krysta Rodriguez Learned to ‘Pump Up the Liza’ for ‘Halston’
TheWrap magazine: “When I got the script, I thought, this is either something that changes my life or breaks my heart,” says the actress of portraying Liza Minnelli
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How Daveed Diggs Found Common Ground Between Frederick Douglass and Modern Rappers
TheWrap awards magazine: ‘We have a similar understanding of what it’s like to mine your past for your fame in the present,” Diggs says of his role as abolitionist Douglass in “The Good Lord Bird”
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Why the Music Doc Series ‘1971’ Wasn’t Just About Music
TheWrap magazine: Director Asif Kapadia says. “It’s not, ‘Listen to this piece of music, and then this one’ — what’s the bigger picture around it?”
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Bo Burnham Crashes the Emmy Race With Netflix Special ‘Inside’
But his one-man show will be going up against “Hamilton,” Beyoncé and the “Friends” reunion in a very crowded and competitive category
