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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‘Elephant’ Film Review: Meghan Markle Can’t Upstage the Cute Pachyderms in Disneynature Doc
Markle doesn’t have the authority you’d expect from a documentary narrator, but she fits with a film that greets a shot of elephants hitting the water hole with, “It’s time for a pool party!”
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Television Academy Delays Emmy Voting, Bans Campaign Events
The Academy says it still plans to hold this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards on its originally scheduled date, Sept. 20
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Cannes Extends Deadlines But Admits This Year’s Festival Could Be Canceled
“We are working towards a deferred event, if at all possible,” says the festival — “and if it is not possible, we will accept that”
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Golden Globes Suspend Eligibility Rules Because of Coronavirus Theater Closings
The changes will make it easier for films to qualify for awards even if they have lost their theatrical release
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‘Blow the Man Down’ Review: Film Noir Gets a Female Spin With Margo Martindale, June Squibb
In a fresh twist on a time-honored genre, AARP-aged women hold all the cards in Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy’s blackly comic crime story
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Awards Shows Eyeing Rules Changes as Coronavirus Wreaks Havoc on Movie Business
“This is a situation no one could have imagined,” Film Independent President Josh Welsh says as Spirit Awards allow films to qualify from canceled festivals
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Rod Lurie on ‘The Outpost’: ‘I Will Never, Ever Do Anything as Important as This’
The cancellation of SXSW dealt a blow to Lurie’s combat movie, but it has been facing obstacles from the beginning
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‘There Is No Evil’ Wins Golden Bear Award at Berlin Film Festival
Other winners include the film “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” director Hong Sangsoo and actors Elio Germano and Paula Beer
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Roman Polanski Draws Protests, Wins Prizes at Stormy Cesar Awards
Polanski’s “An Officer and a Spy” wins the directing, screenplay and costume awards, while the Cesar for best film goes to “Les Miserables”
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‘Wendy’ Film Review: Benh Zeitlin’s Second Film Takes ‘Peter Pan’ on a Wild Ride
The “Beasts of the Southern Wild” director has created a film that is magical and messy, unruly and otherworldly
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‘Parasite’ Director’s Korean American Interpreter Wants to Make Her Own Movie – About the Oscar Season
Sharon Choi told theWrap that her experience with Bong Joon Ho on the campaign trail just might find its way into her own filmmaking career
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‘Parasite’ Win Rescues a Predictable Oscar Show With a Shot of Exuberance
Over the course of an accelerated awards season, Hollywood learned not just to love “Parasite,” but to also love giving it awards
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Cynthia Erivo’s Potential EGOT and 28 Other Oscar Records and Milestones to Watch for This Sunday
Will the Joker join Vito Corleone in the Oscar history books?
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Can the Oscars Make Us Care in a Rushed, Crazy Year?
After a week spent fixated on the votes of 100 U.S. Senators, it may not be easy to get excited about the votes of 8,469 AMPAS members
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Independent Spirit Awards: JLo Lost, Adam Sandler Won and ‘The Farewell’ Shocked Everybody
By giving the biggest award to a heartwarming comedy over an Oscar nominee, voters made an undeniably independent choice
