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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‘Sugarcane’ Leads 40th IDA Documentary Awards Nominations
The film about the abuse of Indigenous children also led the Cinema Eye Honors and Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations
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Karla Sofia Gascón, Mikey Madison to Receive Virtuosos Award at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Other honorees will be Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Kieran Culkin, Harris Dickinson, Clarence Maclin and John Magaro
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Emotional Quincy Jones Tribute Highlights Governors Awards … But Hugh Grant Calling an Honoree an ‘A-hole” Was Cool, Too
Jones, Juliet Taylor, Richard Curtis and Michael G. Wilson & Barbara Broccoli receive honorary awards at packed Academy event
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‘Sugarcane’ Leads All Documentaries in Nominations for Cinema Eye Honors
“Dahomey,” “No Other Land” also receive multiple nominations from New York-based doc organization
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The 50 Top Film Schools of 2024
The 2024 Top 50 list ranks the top U.S. film schools, but there’s a big change this year. The result is a new No. 1, with NYU Tisch School of the Arts edging past top dogs the AFI Conservatory and USC School of Cinematic Arts on the strength of its wide array of courses. Other…
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Rachel Morrison Charts Her Journey From Film School to Oscar History
TheWrap magazine: “The second a woman second-guesses herself even for a millisecond, she’s quick to be labeled indecisive,” says the Oscar-nominated director of “The Fire Inside”
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‘Anora’ Leads Nominations for the 2024 Gotham Awards
“Babygirl,” “Challengers,” “A Different Man” and “Nickel Boys” are also nominated for best feature
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85 Films Competing in Oscars International Race, the Smallest Field in 9 Years
41 of the films are in a members-only online Academy Screening Room for voters, who have been separated into seven groups
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‘Girls State,’ ‘Ren Faire’ Lead Cinema Eye Honors Broadcast Nominations
The New York-based documentary organization also named 16 nominees for its Audience Choice Award
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‘Dahomey,’ ‘The Remarkable Life of Ibelin’ Make Shortlist for IDA Documentary Awards
Other films on the International Documentary Association’s list include “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” “Sugarcane” and “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
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‘Sugarcane’ Leads Critics Choice Documentary Awards Nominations
Other nominees include “Daughters,” “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” “Jim Henson Idea Man” and “Piece by Piece”
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‘Disclaimer’ Star Cate Blanchett Is Happy Viewers Probably Won’t Like Her Character
The actress and filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón tell TheWrap about untangling the narrative threads within the seven-part Apple TV+ series
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Oscars Best International Film Race Tops 80 Submissions Hoping to Knock Off ‘Emilia Perez’
Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical remains the runaway favorite as the category recruits Academy Awards voters and passes its deadline
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Early Oscar Best Picture Predictions: Where Are the Frontrunners?
The Best Picture race is missing obvious contenders for the top prize of awards season
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Anderson Cooper, ‘ABC World News Tonight’ Top News & Documentary Emmy Awards
Night 1 of the two-part event also awarded news coverage of the war in the Middle East
