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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‘Da 5 Bloods’ Film Review: Spike Lee’s Vietnam Epic Finds an Apocalypse Then and Now
The way Lee tells the story, with asides and history lessons and cutaways and tricks that have become the director’s singular cinematic vocabulary, make it a must-see in these stormy times
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Critics Choice Real TV Nominations Snub ‘Tiger King,’ Celebrate ‘Ru Paul’s Drag Race’ and ‘Cheer’
Netflix gets the lion’s share of nominations
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‘Becky’ Film Review: Watch a Little Girl Kick Kevin James’ Neo-Nazi Butt
Teen scream queen Lulu Wilson stars in a silly bloodbath administered by a vicious 13-year-old in a knit fox cap with cute little ears that flap as she makes the bad guys bleed
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‘Judy & Punch’ Film Review: Provocative Black Comedy Finds the Horror in Old Puppet Shows
First-time director Mirrah Foulkes has whipped up a brutally stylish feminist twist on the old story, with Mia Wasikowska putting the punch in this twisted entertainment
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How Much Will the ‘Cannes 2020’ Label Help When There’s No Cannes Film Festival?
The festival held a press conference to reveal the names of 56 films that will not screen on the Croisette this year, hoping that it can help those films
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‘The French Dispatch,’ ‘Soul’ Make the Cannes 2020 Lineup As Festival Reveals the Movies It Would Have Shown
The festival, which was to have taken place from May 12 through May 23, was canceled because of the coronavirus
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Whoopi Goldberg Faces Challenge From Richard Dreyfuss, Rita Wilson in Oscars’ Board of Governors Election
Other contenders for the 17 open seats include Ed Begley, Jr., Michael Mann, Ava DuVernay, Brett Ratner, Jason Blum and John Ridley
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Oscars Board Election Has New Rules – But Expect the Same Old Results
Incumbents rarely need any extra help to prevail when the Academy members pick their board, but they might have gotten a boost anyway
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‘End of Sentence’ Film Review: John Hawkes and Logan Lerman Take an Affecting Irish Road Trip
In Elfar Adalsteins’ drama, the two actors prove to be subtle, naturalistic performers who spin gold out of settings that could easily seem clichéd
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‘The High Note’ Film Review: Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross Music Biz Drama Is a Little Flat
The Nisha Ganatra film bounces around like a musical artist determined to show off the whole repertoire in the course of a few songs
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Golden Globes Add New Category Names and Definitions – and Not Because of Pandemic
The changes, which focus on acting, directing, foreign-language and TV categories, are unrelated to recent changes made because of the coronavirus
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Oscars Change Rules to Streamline Board of Governors Election
Instead of a runoff election in each branch, the preferential system will be used to determine winners after a single round of voting
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Online Festival ‘We Are One’ Sets More Than 100 Films to Screen Free on YouTube
The festival is a collaboration between 21 different international film festivals, including Tribeca, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance, Venice, London and New York
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Inside the Crazy Final Scene in That Quarantine Episode of ‘Mythic Quest’
Creator and star Rob McElhenney explains how they pulled off the Rube Goldberg-meets-Zoom sequence, which he calls “probably the hardest thing that I’ve ever been a part of”
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‘General Hospital,’ ‘Days of Our Lives,’ ‘The Young and the Restless’ Lead Daytime Emmys Nominations
CBS leads all networks with 57 nominations, followed by Amazon Prime Video with 55, NBC with 43, Netflix with 40 and ABC with 38
