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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‘Bad Education’ Fact Check: Did All of That Crazy Stuff Really Happen?
Here’s the truth about the secret lovers, the bogus expenses, the suspicious hardware-store clerk and the intrepid high school reporter
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Oscars Execs Defend Rule Change to Allow Streaming Films: ‘Theatrical Will Always Be the Academy’s Priority’
Academy President David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson say the new rule allowing streaming films to qualify for the Oscars is a temporary exception
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Oscars’ Big Rule Changes: First-Run Streaming Films Now Eligible, Sound Categories Merged
New rules also include combining the two sound categories into one and eliminating DVD screeners beginning in 2021
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Karlovy Vary Cancels 2020 Film Festival Over Coronavirus Fears
But the long-running film festival from the Czech Republic will still show select films for local audiences and allow buyers to participate in a virtual program
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‘A Secret Love’ Film Review: Lesbian Love Story Goes From Baseball Diamond to Retirement Home
Chris Bolan’s documentary, produced by Ryan Murphy, is partly about decades of living in the closet but also about the perils of growing old in America
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‘The Beastie Boys Story’ Review: It’s a Hip-Hop Concert Film Without the Concert
Spike Jonze directs and shoots a stage show in which the two surviving band members show film clips and talk about growing up, busting out and wising up
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‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ Film Review: Outlaw Epic Isn’t True, But It Packs a Punch
Justin Kurzel’s period drama stars George Mackay, Russell Crowe, Charlie Hunnam and Nicholas Hoult
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‘Extraction’ Film Review: Wanna See Chris Hemsworth Beat the Hell Out of Everybody?
Hemsworth plays a mercenary in the brutally efficient action movie from Marvel stunt coordinator-turned-director Sam Hargrave
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‘Kubrick by Kubrick’ Film Review: Stanley Kubrick Explains Himself, a Little
Director Gregory Monro’s documentary is structured around a series of interviews with Kubrick, so its appeal is to hear the filmmaker’s own take on his work
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‘Planet of the Humans’ Film Review: Michael Moore-Produced Doc Takes Shots at Environmentalists on Earth Day
The documentary, directed by Jeff Gibbs and executive produced by Moore, is an attack on the current state of the green energy movement
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‘Selah and the Spades’ Film Review: Teen Mobsters Run the Show in Stylish High School Drama
Director Tayarisha Poe’s first feature is striking and controlled, with a fiercely assertive Lovie Simone as a driven high schooler
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‘The Quarry’ Film Review: Michael Shannon and Shea Whigham Shine in Quiet, Guilt-Ridden Western
Director Scott Teems’ film is a slow-burn Western noir built around terrific but understated performances by longtime collaborators Shannon and Whigham
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‘Endings, Beginnings’ Film Review: Shailene Woodley Is the Reason to Jump Into This Indie Love Triangle
Jamie Dornan and Sebastian Stan are the dueling suitors in Drake Doremus’ understated drama
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Cannes 2020: Why Cancellation Looks More Likely Than a Virtual Festival
For the moment, the celebrated French festival is stalling for time as it tries to figure out a road forward in the age of COVID-19
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‘Sergio’ Film Review: Wagner Moura and Ana de Armas Find Romance in Global Conflict Zones
This is the second film that director Greg Barker has made about UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, after a 2009 documentary of the same name
