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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Little Richard Appreciation: He Summed Up Rock ‘n’ Roll in a Phrase
The first line of Little Richard’s hit “Tutti Frutti” doesn’t make a lick of sense, but it also serves as a damn good definition of early rock music
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Golden Globes Relax Rules for Foreign-Language Films
In light of worldwide theater closings, films can now qualify for the Globes even if they don’t receive theatrical releases in their countries of origin
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‘Rewind’ Film Review: Family Tale of Sexual Abuse Is Wrenching and Essential
Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s devastating film tells a story of abuse that spans generations
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TV Academy Reiterates Oscar-Nominated Streaming Films Not Eligible for Emmys
Oscars ruled last month that non-theatrical release movies would be considered
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‘How to Build a Girl’ Film Review: This Time, Beanie Feldstein Comes of Age as a Mean British Rock Critic
Based on Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical novel about becoming a teenage rock writer, the film is like “Almost Famous” if Cameron Crowe had been British, female and much snottier
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‘Clementine’ Film Review: Indie Relationship Drama Struggles to Be Involving
The quiet film starring Sydney Sweeney and Otmara Marrero threatens to turn into a love story or a coming-of-age, sexual-awakening drama, but it’s more subdued than that
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‘Becoming’ Film Review: Michelle Obama Plays Nice in Celebratory Documentary
In the Netflix film, the former first lady reserves her harshest words not for Donald Trump but for the black, young and women voters who helped him win the presidency by staying home
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‘Arkansas’ Film Review: Clark Duke’s Black Comedy Could Really Use a Big, Weird Audience
Clark Duke’s Dixie noir with Liam Hemsworth and Vince Vaughn was scheduled to premiere at SXSW, but now it must bring its deadpan absurdities to an isolation-friendly release
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‘The Half of It’ Film Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ Gets a Gay High School Spin
The Tribeca-winning film by writer-director Alice Wu takes the 120-year-old story to high school and mixes in emojis, diversity, immigration, LGBT issues and lots of other stuff
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‘All Day and a Night’ Film Review: Ashton Sanders and Jeffrey Wright Sing the Inner City Blues
“Black Panther” co-writer Joe Robert Cole directs an urban drama imbued with a steadfast fatalism
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‘Bull’ Film Review: Annie Silverstein Finds Signs of Life in Numb Characters
Actors Amber Havard and Rob Morgan make us feel for characters who themselves don’t want to feel
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Palm Springs ShortFest Goes Virtual for 2020
The festival has canceled its in-person events, but will still screen films and hand out awards
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‘My Darling Vivian’ Film Review: Lovely Portrait Tells the Missing Side of the Johnny Cash Story
The sensitive documentary focuses on Vivian Liberto, who spent much of her life struggling in the shadow of her famous first husband
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Daytime, Sports and News Emmys Move to Virtual Ceremonies
All the Emmy shows produced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will become remote video productions
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‘Bad Education’ Fact Check: Did a Student Newspaper Really Break the Roslyn School Embezzlement Story?
The movie claims a student journalist was the first to blow the whistle on millions of dollars in fraud
