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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‘The Lovebirds’ Film Review: Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae Can’t Make This Race Amazing
Nanjiani and Rae are funny and likable people who try very hard to bring some life to this enterprise, but the action is too preposterous for the laughs to make much headway
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‘The Painter and the Thief’ Film Review: Art Heist Documentary Gets Downright Weird
The story of an artist who recruited the man who stole her paintings to pose for her, Benjamin Ree’s film is a fascinating, perplexing, occasionally annoying chronicle of a truly crazy relationship
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Daytime Emmys Rescheduled for June 26 as Virtual Ceremony
CBS will broadcast the show, on which winners and guests will appear from their homes
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Producers Guild, Directors Guild Awards Allow Streaming Releases to Qualify for Top Film Honor
The move follows similar action from the Oscars, Golden Globes and SAG Awards, among others
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‘Inheritance’ Film Review: Lily Collins and Simon Pegg Face Off in Clunky Potboiler
The Vaughn Stein film acts as if it would like to be a meditation on power and guilt, but at heart it’s a pulpy thriller in a bespoke suit
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New Oscars Documentary Rules Have Already Qualified More Than 90 Docs
But voters with lots of time on their hands still can’t see most of the contenders
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‘The Trip to Greece’ Film Review: Fourth Time’s Still a Charm for Steve Coogan-Rob Brydon Talkfest
Like the three previous “Trip” movies, the two men drive around a beautiful location, eat fabulous meals, talk about stuff and try to make each other laugh, often with dueling impersonations
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‘Scoob!’ Film Review: Animated Scooby-Doo Reboot Starts by Making Fun of Itself
The film determined to have its cake and eat it, too – to give the kids an animated action mystery but also keep up a steady stream of inside jokes
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Academy Allows Documentaries to Qualify for Oscars at Film Festivals
For the first time, films will be able to qualify for the Best Documentary Feature award without playing theatrically
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‘Hollywood’ Fact Check: What Really Happened at the Oscars in 1948?
Ryan Murphy’s version of the 20th Academy Awards gives Oscars to a bunch of fictional characters, but here’s who really won that night
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‘Hollywood’ Fact Check: Was Rock Hudson’s Agent a Sexual Predator?
In the Ryan Murphy miniseries, Jim Parsons plays Henry Willson, a notorious talent agent who specialized in handsome young men
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‘Hollywood’ Fact Check: Was a Gas Station Really the Front for a Hollywood Escort Service?
The genial Hollywood flesh-peddler in Ryan Murphy’s limited series is based on a real person whose claims met with some skepticism
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‘Capone’ Film Review: Tom Hardy Plays Aging Gangster in Bonkers Blood-Soaked Biopic
You haven’t seen Al Capone until you’ve seen him chomping on a carrot and wielding a machine gun while wearing a droopy diaper
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‘Have a Good Trip’ Film Review: It’s All About the Celebrity Drug Stories
There’s more to the Netflix documentary than Sting, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Bourdain and A$AP Rocky telling tales about their use of hallucinogens — but not much more
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Cannes Admits Physical Festival Is Impossible, Turns to Other Plans
General Delegate Thierry Fremaux says the Cannes selection will be announced in June, and the festival will then work to promote films that would have been included
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