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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Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’ Auditions for the Oscars at AFI Fest Premiere
The world premiere of Eastwood’s drama about the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta won raves in some circles, but the film could face significant obstacles with awards voters
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How the Chinese Animation Industry Stepped Up With Oscar Entry ‘Ne Zha’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Since we chose this profession, we cannot allow the animation industry to fail in China,” says director Yu Yang
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How Moroccan Drama ‘Adam’ Exposes the Unequal Treatment of Women in Life and Death
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Director Maryam Touzani says the story of a young woman pregnant out of wedlock is based on a true story “that marked me very deeply — I kept her inside me for 15 years”
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Why ‘Monos’ Director Created ‘Ideological Vacuum’ for His War Drama – and Doesn’t Say Where It’s Set
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “The wars that are fought now — Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan — are fought mainly in the shadows,” director Alejandro Landes says
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Awards Season Screeners Are Here, Finally – And So Are Clint Eastwood and World War I
With a week to go before Thanksgiving, the screener stream is not likely to let up
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‘Out Stealing Horses’: How Stellan Skarsgard and Hans Petter Moland Adapted an Impossible Book
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “If you try to make a film out of a book and concentrate on what actually happens in the book, then you’re lost when it’s something as poetic as this,” Skarsgard says of the Norwegian Oscar entry
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Are Women Directors on the Verge of an Oscar Breakthrough?
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Mati Diop (“Atlantics”) and Antoneta Kastrati (“Zana”) are two in a record number of women competing in this year’s Best International Feature Film category
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‘The Whistlers’ Director on How a Documentary and a Lot of Classic Noir Films Inspired His New Comedy
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “When I decided to make a movie about people double-crossing each other, I said, ‘OK, I have to re-see noir films,’” says Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu
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Why India’s Oscar Entry ‘Gully Boy’ Is More Hip-Hop Than Bollywood
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I’ve always been interested in American hip-hop, but I had no idea that there was an underground scene happening in my own city,” director Zoya Akhtar says
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Leah Remini Wins IDA’s New Truth to Power Award for Scientology Series
The International Documentary Association’s IDA Documentary Awards also announced its host and its ABC News VideoSource Award winner and nomineees
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Producers Guild Awards Documentary Nominees Include ‘Advocate,’ ‘The Cave’ and ‘Honeyland’
“Apollo 11,” “American Factory,” “The Cave,” “For Sama” and “One Child Nation” were also singled out by the producers
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‘Stupid Young Heart’ Director Explains Why Childbirth Makes Even Neo-Nazis ‘Look Small’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “The fight scenes get more violent toward the end of the film, but then the childbirth scene washes over all that hate and violence and all those men and boys trying to be the cock of the walk,” director Selma Vilhunen says
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How ‘M for Malaysia’ Filmmakers Mixed the Political With the Very Personal in Campaign Doc
TheWrap Oscar magazine: One of the directors is the granddaughter of the candidate they were following, but they were determined not to make a propaganda piece
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Taika Waititi Says He Didn’t Even Try to Pitch Studios on His WWII Comedy ‘Jojo Rabbit’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s very hard to start a conversation with, ‘It’s about a little boy in the Hitler Youth,’” Waititi says
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Why the Algerian Government Doesn’t Want You to See the Country’s Oscar Entry ‘Papicha’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Director Mounia Meddour says the government’s cancellation of screenings stemmed from the film’s time period, subject matter and a statement the cast and crew made in Cannes
