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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‘Watchmen,’ ‘Queen Sugar’ Win Television Academy Honors
Other recipients will include “Unbelievable,” “Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj” and the documentaries “16 Shots” and “At the Heart of Gold”
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5 Ways the Oscar Season Could Be Rocked by the Coronavirus
From overcrowded release schedules to a moratorium on meet ‘n’ greets, movie awards season has the potential to be transformed by the pandemic
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‘Dolphin Reef’ Review: Underwater Neighbors Steal the Show in Disney Documentary
While Natalie Portman narrates the story of a young dolphin, the Disneynature film is at its most fascinating when it introduces us to creatures like the humphead parrotfish and peacock mantis shrimp
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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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‘Bacurau’ Film Review: Bloody Brazilian Fever Dream Has More Than Gore on Its Mind
Directors Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles have so much fun with the genre trappings that it sometimes obscures their points about exploitation and community
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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
