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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Why Giancarlo Esposito Thinks His Career (and TV Itself) Got Better During the Pandemic
TheWrap Magazine: “Television has become much more personal because we finally learned how to use our remotes the last year,” says Esposito
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Cannes Film Festival Lineup to Include New Paul Verhoeven, Oliver Stone Films
The first full-scale Cannes since 2019 will also feature new films by Wes Anderson, Leos Carax and Sean Penn
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‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Tops Critics Choice Real TV Award Nominations
The reality series has a chance to win its third consecutive award in the three-year-old awards ceremony
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Fran Lebowitz Says Good Riddance to Trump: He ‘Never Deserved New York’
TheWrap magazine: “I wish that when he left, he’d have taken that big pile of junk on Fifth Avenue,” says the subject of the docuseries “Pretend It’s A City”
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Oscars Move 2022 Ceremony to March, Extend COVID-Era Eligibility Rules
With films that were released in January and February eligible for the 2020 Oscars, the 2021 ceremony will cover only 10 months’ worth of releases
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It’s a Golden Age for New Shows at the Emmys – But Not THE Golden Age
A bumper crop of first-year series could be nominated in top categories, but it’ll be hard to beat the new shows from the early ’70s
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Can (and Should) Anything Replace the Golden Globes?
The Critics Choice Awards have claimed the date of the 2022 ceremony, but that doesn’t make it the new Globes
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Emmy Season Begins With Clear Favorites – But Are They Safe?
“The Crown,” “Ted Lasso” and “The Queen’s Gambit” may be front runners, but the Oscars proved that doesn’t always mean much
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12 Lessons From a Long and Broken Awards Season
From virtual screenings to the HFPA’s implosion to messing with the order of the Oscars show, here’s what we learned in the longest season ever
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A Strange Year Gets the Strange Oscars It Deserves
But the oddness of the show and the season shouldn’t tarnish the victory for “Nomadland”
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The Last 14 Oscar Hosts Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos)
From James Franco and Anne Hathaway to Billy Crystal and Jimmy Kimmel, TheWrap looks back at the Hollywood stars who have hosted the Academy Awards over the last three decades
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Oscar Predictions 2021: We Predict the Winners in All 23 Categories (Photos)
TheWrap Award Editor Steve Pond breaks down all the key races in one of the weirdest movie years ever
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Can the Academy Reinvent the Oscars After This Bizarre Awards Season?
The singularity of the season makes this the most tantalizing Oscars in decades, and potentially one of the most important
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Oscar Predictions: In a Weird Year, Will We See Weird Winners?
“Nomadland,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Promising Young Woman” are among the prime contenders, but one of them could be completely shut out
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Goodbye to the Worst Oscar Season Ever, and Apologies to the Good Movies Stuck in It
Despite the fact that some very deserving films were honored, this pandemic-disrupted Oscar season was a mess
