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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Toronto Film Festival Adds Documentaries From Alex Gibney, Barbara Kopple, Bryce Dallas Howard
The festival also reveals programs in its Midnight Madness, Discovery and TIFF Cinematheque sections
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New Academy President on the Next Oscars: ‘I Don’t Think We Need to Be Changing the Show’
David Rubin also promises that the organization will take its time with the long-delayed museum after the exit of its director
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ShortList 2019: Paloma Martinez’s ‘Enforcement Hours’ Offers a Timely Look at a Hotline for Immigrants
“Hatred seems to be coming out in the open,” the Mexican-American documentary filmmaker says of the current political climate
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‘After the Wedding’ Film Review: Julianne Moore Remake Swaps Genders, Finds a Reason to Exist
With the help of Moore, Michelle Williams and Billy Crudup, director Bart Freundlich offers a new take on a 2006 Susanne Bier drama
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Toronto Film Festival Sets Sarah Gavron, Julie Delpy Films for Platform Section
Other films competing for $20,000 in the TIFF section include Alice Winocur’s “Proxima,” Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden” and Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal”
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Oscars Academy Elects Casting Director David Rubin as New President
Rubin replaces John Bailey, who had to leave the board after two terms as Academy president because of term limits
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New York Film Festival: Kelly Reichardt, Agnes Varda Lead Slate With 20% Female Directors
The 29 films in the NYFF’S main slate include lots of movies from Cannes, but only six from female directors
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‘The Farewell’ Director Lulu Wang, Producer Cassian Elwes Join Toronto Film Festival’s Filmmaker Lab
The festival also announces its slate of Canadian films, which includes new work from Atom Egoyan, Louise Archambault, Joey Klein and Ellen Page
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‘Marriage Story’ Booked for Centerpiece Slot at New York Film Festival
Noah Baumbach film stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as a married couple negotiating a divorce
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Music Producer David Foster Gets Toronto Film Festival Tribute, Documentary
The Barry Avrich film “David Foster: Off the Record” will feature Foster clients and friends including Barbra Streisand, Michael Buble and Josh Groban
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Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ to Open New York Film Festival
The film will have its world premiere on Sept. 27 at Alice Tully Hall
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Meryl Streep to Receive Toronto Film Festival’s First Actor Award
Streep stars in Steven Soderbergh’s “The Laundromat,” which will also screen at this year’s festival
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Roman Polanski and the Joker Headed to the Venice Film Festival
Directors represented at Venice will also include Steven Soderbergh, Noah Baumbach, Todd Phillips, James Gray, Pablo Larrain, Alex Gibney and Tim Robbins
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‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Film Review: A Contemplative Quentin Tarantino Still Blows the Roof Off the Joint
Big, brash, ridiculous, too long, and in the end invigorating, the film is a grand playground for its director to fetishize old pop culture
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‘For Sama’ Film Review: Syrian Documentary Finds Wrenching Personal Take on Conflict
The Syrian tragedy has been the subject of numerous nonfiction films, but directors Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts put the children at its center
