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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‘All In: The Fight for Democracy’ Film Review: Stacey Abrams Documentary Is Timely and Terrifying
Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus’ doc focuses on Abrams’ campaign for governor of Georgia but expands far past that to encompass nearly 200 years of voter suppression
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‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’ Film Review: Rom-Com Is a Pleasant Diversion in a Tough Situation
One of the first studio films released back into theaters, the breezy romance with Geraldine Viswanathan and Dacre Montgomery is coming out at an odd time for a movie that celebrates community and connection
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‘Mulan’ Film Review: Epic Disney Remake Ditches the Songs and the Dragon but Has Heart
The expensive Disney+ release veers further from its source than any of the studio’s other recent live-action remakes of its animated films
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‘The Owners’ Film Review: Maisie Williams Is in Big Trouble – Again
Based on a French comic book, “The Owners” escalates from creepy to ludicrous over the course of 92 deliberately unpleasant minutes
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Fall Film Festivals Struggle for Relevance in the Year of Coronavirus
Scaled-down Venice and Toronto festivals and MIA movies will likely mute the impact of the events that usually launch awards season
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Chadwick Boseman’s Manifesto: ‘I Want to Break Barriers in Every Way I Can’
“As an African American artist and filmmaker, that’s my goal, every time,” the actor told TheWrap
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‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ Film Review: Armando Iannucci Meets Charles Dickens
The creator of “Veep” and “The Death of Stalin” has fun with a color-blind take on Dickens’ large and wacky cast of characters
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Keanu Reeves Recalls 7-Hour ‘Orgy’ of Auditions for Original ‘Bill & Ted’ in Unpublished 1987 Interview (Exclusive)
“I have other interests, but none as all-consuming as this godawful job,” a 22-year-old Reeves said in this previously unpublished interview
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Here’s an Excellent Flashback: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter’s Earliest ‘Bill & Ted’ Interviews (Exclusive)
“I’m pretty bad,” Reeves said of his acting on the set of the cult classic from 33 years ago
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‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Film Review: Our Heroes Battle an Excellent Midlife Crisis
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves return in a long-awaited third “Bill & Ted” movie that would rather be charming than frantic, and ups the stakes without feeling the need to get louder or more aggressive
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‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Film Review: Charlie Kaufman Is Messing With Our Heads Again
Watch out, “Tenet” — Christopher Nolan is not the only director making long, stylish brain-teasers these days
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‘You Cannot Kill David Arquette’ Film Review: Enjoy the Documentary, But Don’t Trust It
The film about Arquette’s return to professional wrestling sends up plenty of red flags, but it’s also a robust (albeit bloody) piece of entertainment
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‘#Unfit’ Film Review: Documentary Offers a Scary Diagnosis of Donald Trump, But Will Voters Listen?
In the era of a Twitter-driven presidency and an around-the-clock barrage of revelation, accusation and condemnation, it’s hard for even a hard-hitting documentary feature not to feel a step or two slow
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How Female Directors Overcame Years of Bias to Score Record Number of Emmy Nominations
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “There’s only so many years you can go into a meeting and hear, ‘We hired a woman once, and it didn’t work,’” Lesli Linka Glatter says
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Why ‘The Morning Show’ Director Mimi Leder Found a Cinematic Look for a Show About TV
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I really wanted to shoot the women on this show very much the way men are shot,” Leder says.
