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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Emmy Predictions: ‘Game of Thrones’ Will Win Big, But What Else?
HBO’s juggernaut drama series should clean up in its final season, but elsewhere we’ll see some tough battles for Emmy’s gold throne
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The Oscar Race After the Festivals Has Hitler and the Joker, But No Front-Runner
The Venice, Telluride and Toronto festivals left us with a lot of contenders, but a very blurry awards picture
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Did Emmy Voters Just Troll Megan Amram and ‘An Emmy for Megan?’
The show was created by Megan Amram for the express (and tongue-in-cheek) purpose of winning her an Emmy, but it led to a rule change that was responsible for “State of the Union” getting its nomination and beating her
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Primetime Creative Arts Emmys, Day 2: Complete List of Winners
Jane Lynch, Luke Kirby, Cherry Jones and Bradley Whitford win acting awards, but “Game of Thrones” dominates everything else
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‘Jojo Rabbit’ Wins Audience Award at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival
Toronto Film Festival 2019: The black comedy set in Nazi Germany beats “Joker,” “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” “The Two Popes” and others for a prize that usually indicates Oscar success
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Norman Lear Breaks an Emmy Record, Becomes the Oldest Winner Ever
At the age of 97, the TV icon wins for “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’”
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Creative Arts Emmy Emmys, Day 1: Complete List of Winners
“Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool” and “Live In Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’” win top variety-show awards, while “Free Solo” has the most wins with seven
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‘Western Stars’ Film Review: Bruce Springsteen Gets Introspective in Beautiful Performance Film
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Borrowing from the imagery of his recent album of the same name, the film directed by Springsteen and Thom Zimny is both an intimate concert film and a series of musings on solitude and community
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‘The Goldfinch’ Film Review: Movie Adaptation Grapples With Big Book, Comes Up Short
Toronto Film Festival 2019: It’s easier to cover this much ground in 784 pages than in a 2-hour-and-29-minute running time that begins to feel exhausting well before it ends
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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
