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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R.J. Cutler’s Wild 2024: From Elton John to Martha Stewart to Dodgers v. Yankees
TheWrap magazine: “These are real movies — these are narratives with characters and themes and cinema,” the director says
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Talking With Oscars Song Contenders: Pharrell Williams, Kristen Wiig, Robbie Williams … and Yep, Diane Warren Too
TheWrap magazine: We also get the scoop from the songwriters for “Emilia Pérez,” “The Wild Robot” and “Blitz”
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‘A Different Man’ Named Best Film at 2024 Gotham Awards – Complete List of Winners
Acting awards go to Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin for “Sing Sing” and Brandon Wilson for “Nickel Boys”
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Oscars Song Race Contains 89 Songs, But Nothing From ‘Wicked’ – Complete List
In the Best Original Score category, 146 films qualified
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Jeff Nichols’ Favorite Part of Making ‘The Bikeriders’: Watching Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer Go Head-to-Head
TheWrap magazine: “It was our version of the scene from ‘Heat,’” the director says, nodding to the Al Pacino-Robert De Niro classic
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‘Nickel Boys’ Director RaMell Ross Says Making Movies Is Like Jumping on a ‘Weird Carousel’
TheWrap magazine: “Cinema lends itself to the play between the surreal, the symbolic, the experiential, the nonsensical and the aesthetic,” he says
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How ‘Will & Harper’ Took on a ‘Whole New Meaning’ After Trump’s Election
TheWrap magazine: “The only way to push back against this hate and division is with love and empathy,” director Josh Greenbaum says
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Academy Screening Room Nears 150 Films for Voters to Watch – but It’s Missing Some Major Contenders
“Anora” and “The Brutalist” are two of the top movies that have yet to be added to the screening platform for Oscar voters
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Composer Harry Gregson-Williams’ Job on ‘Gladiator II’: 100 Minutes of New Music, and a Little Bit of Hans Zimmer
TheWrap magazine: The exchange came with the composer’s plans to incorporate a bit of Hans Zimmer’s theme from the first “Gladiator”
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Volker Bertelmann’s Key to Writing the Score for ‘Conclave’: Religious Music, But Nasty
TheWrap magazine: The German composer turned to a rare French instrument from the 1950s that can sound religious but also distorted
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‘Nickel Boys’ Is the Big Winner in African American Film Critics’ Honorary Awards for 2025
RaMell Ross’ film will receive three separate awards at two different ceremonies, while “The Piano Lesson” will receive two
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Why Marianne Jean-Baptiste Wanted to Hit Her Character in ‘Hard Truths’
TheWrap magazine: The Oscar-nominated actress reunites with her “Secrets & Lies” director Mike Leigh for a stirring, hard-to-swallow performance
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Kirsten Dunst on Working With Husband Jesse Plemons in ‘Civil War’: ‘We Didn’t Talk Until We Were Done’
TheWrap magazine: “I gave him his space, and I think it was so disturbing for him to play that role,” she says of Plemons’ terrifying performance
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‘Blitz’ and ‘The Outrun’ Star Saoirse Ronan Reveals the One Thing That Tells Her She Has to Do a Movie
TheWrap magazine: “I still have a visceral reaction, and that hasn’t changed in all the years that I’ve done this,” says the actress who began her career before she was 10
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‘Wicked’ Leads Nominations for Astra Film Awards
The hit musical picks up a record 19 nominations from the group formerly known as the Hollywood Critics Association
