Steve Pond
Steve Pond
Steve Pond’s inside look at the artistry and insanity of the awards race, drawn from more than three decades of obsessively chronicling the Oscars and the entertainment industry.
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SAG Awards: Big Night for ‘CODA’ Makes the Oscar Race More Confusing
Jessica Chastain, Troy Kotsur and Ariana DeBose get boosts from SAG voters, while “The Power of the Dog” takes a hit
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‘The Lost Daughter,’ ‘Dopesick’ Win Scripter Awards for Adapted Screenplays
The winner of the USC Libraries award has gone on to win a screenplay Oscar 10 times in the last 14 years, but not since 2018
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‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Shang-Chi’ Top Critics Choice Super Award Nominations
“Evil” and “Midnight Mass” are the leading TV nominees in an awards show designed to celebrate action, sci-fi and superhero entertainment
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‘Coming 2 America’ Wins Big at Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards
The Eddie Murphy comedy takes three awards in the five MUAHS film categories
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Oscars: Academy Resumes In-Person Screenings for Members After Nominations
The screenings at Academy headquarters had been suspended during COVID
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Javier Bardem Calls His & Her Oscar Noms With Penélope Cruz ‘Extraordinary’
“It’s been a beautiful day at home,” Bardem tells TheWrap. “We were holding on to each other, trying to fit on the same sofa, and there were so many things to pay attention to.”
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Kenneth Branagh Reacts to Breaking Walt Disney and George Clooney’s Oscar Nomination Record With ‘Belfast’
“It’s all about the act of storytelling, whichever angle you come at it from,” says Branagh, who has now been nominated in seven different categories
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Oscar Nominations Analysis: Voters Give Power to ‘The Dog’ in a Year Marked by Change
“It’s such a weird year – nobody knows what’s going to happen,” one studio executive says after some idiosyncratic nominations
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13 Oscar Nomination Records That Could Be Broken on Tuesday
Kenneth Branaugh, Jane Campion and Denzel Washington could all make history when nominations are announced
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Oscar Nomination Predictions: Expect ‘Dune’ to Dominate in Another Weird Year
By our reckoning, “The Power of the Dog,” “Belfast” and “West Side Story” will also come on strong
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BAFTA Nominations: ‘Dune’ Leads All Films With 11
“The Power of the Dog” and “Belfast” also scored multiple noms in voting designed to “level the playing field”
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Artios Awards Film Nominees Include Casting Directors for ‘The Power of the Dog,’ ‘Belfast’
Eight different feature-film categories include most of the year’s top contenders
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How the Oscar Race Stacks Up Now That the Guilds Have Spoken (Sorry, ‘Spider-Man’)
The barrage of guild nominations wasn’t good for Sony’s superhero film, but it didn’t make any film a front runner, either
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The Guild Scorecard: ‘Dune’ Does Best With Industry Voters
The sci-fi epic landed 12 nominations but missed out with the Screen Actors Guild
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Directors Guild Nominees Include Jane Campion, Steven Spielberg, Kenneth Branagh
Denis Villeneuve and Paul Thomas Anderson are also nominated in the DGA’s top film category
