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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A Majestic ‘Joker’ Drags the Oscar Race Into the Darkness in Toronto Premiere
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Joaquin Phoenix says, “It wasn’t an easy decision” to play the role. “Honestly, I didn’t f—ing know”
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Toronto So Far: Amid Biopics and Awards Contenders, Everybody’s Waiting for ‘Joker’
Toronto Film Festival 2019: TIFF has showcased everything from Mr. Rogers to urban dramas, but Todd Phillips’ dark comic movie looms large
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‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Turns Into an Eddie Murphy Lovefest in Toronto
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Craig Brewer’s film about guerrilla filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore drew a raucous crowd to celebrate both Moore and the man who plays him
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Toronto Premiere of Susan Sarandon’s ‘Blackbird’ Briefly Halted for Apparent Medical Emergency
Film is directed by Roger Michell and also stars Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska
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‘Red Penguins’ Film Review: Remember That Time When American Hustlers Invaded Russian Hockey?
You probably don’t remember it, but director Gabe Polsky spins a wild true story that includes Russian mobsters, Disney, strippers and the very weird collision of Russian and American hockey
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‘The Cave’ Film Review: Syrian Documentary Goes Underground to Find a New Face of Tragedy
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Director Feras Fayyad’s cameras roam freely through an underground hospital in which many of the patients are indeed children who’ve grown up under the shadow of warplanes
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‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’ Review: Rock Doc Starts and Ends With the Music
Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman use Ronstadt’s voice to tell her story, but that voice speaks loudest when she’s singing
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‘Ford v Ferrari,’ ‘Uncut Gems,’ ‘Judy’ Headed to Telluride Film Festival
The three-day festival will also present tributes to actors Renee Zellweger and Adam Driver and director Philip Kaufman
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Oscar Race Begins: Fall Festivals Bring Moment of Truth for ‘Joker,’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ and Many More
Fall Movie Preview: Dozens of awards contenders, including Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Hanks and Renee Zellweger, are soon to live or die on the canals of Venice, the mountains of Telluride and the streets of Toronto
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Martin Scorsese to Receive Kirk Douglas Award From Santa Barbara Film Festival
The honor will be presented at a fundraising dinner on Nov. 14
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Michael B Jordan, Jamie Foxx Conversation Added to Toronto Film Festival Lineup
TIFF completes its programming by also unveiling special events, speakers and the first Mary Pickford Award presentation to director Mati Diop
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‘Balloon,’ ‘The Orphan’ and ‘Sister’ Win Oscar-Qualifying Awards at HollyShorts Film Festival
The three awards automatically qualify their winners for this year’s short-film Oscars
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Here’s Why James Corden Is King of the Emmys This Year
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Producer/director Ben Winston discusses the trick of landing nominations for half a dozen different shows in the Corden Television Universe
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‘An Emmy for Megan’ Is Back, and Megan Amram Says She Won’t Stop Until She Wins
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Megan Amram explains her unquenchable Emmy lust and why she loves the “Cats” trailer
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‘House of Cards’ Nominee Michael Kelly Tries to Explain How a Horrible Character Became an Emmy Favorite
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I can’t tell you the number of times that someone has come up to me and said, ‘I wish I had a Doug Stamper on my team,’” the four-time nominee says
