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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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
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‘Parasite’ Win Rescues a Predictable Oscar Show With a Shot of Exuberance
Over the course of an accelerated awards season, Hollywood learned not just to love “Parasite,” but to also love giving it awards
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Cynthia Erivo’s Potential EGOT and 28 Other Oscar Records and Milestones to Watch for This Sunday
Will the Joker join Vito Corleone in the Oscar history books?
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Oscars 2020: We Predict the Winners in All 24 Categories (Photos)
Assuming that PricewaterhouseCoopers hasn’t contracted the ballot counting to the Iowa Democratic Party, here’s what we expect to find in those envelopes on Sunday evening
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Can the Oscars Make Us Care in a Rushed, Crazy Year?
After a week spent fixated on the votes of 100 U.S. Senators, it may not be easy to get excited about the votes of 8,469 AMPAS members
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Independent Spirit Awards: JLo Lost, Adam Sandler Won and ‘The Farewell’ Shocked Everybody
By giving the biggest award to a heartwarming comedy over an Oscar nominee, voters made an undeniably independent choice
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Oscars 2020 Predictions: ‘1917’ and ‘Parasite’ Will Go to War, But Who Will Win?
Assuming that PricewaterhouseCoopers hasn’t contracted the ballot counting to the Iowa Democratic Party, here’s what we expect to find in those envelopes on Sunday evening
