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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‘Game of Thrones’ Emmy Newcomers Look Back
Alfie Allen, Gwendoline Christie, Sophie Turner and Carice van Houten reflect on the epic run of the HBO hit
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Ben Stiller on His New Role in ‘Escape at Dannemora’: Behind the Camera, Without Laughter
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “From the first day of shooting, I remember thinking, ‘This feels really different,’” says Emmy best-director nominee Stiller
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Patricia Arquette on Playing 2 Truly Toxic Women – and Earning 2 Emmy Nominations
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I need another scary lady to play,’” says Arquette of playing troubled women in “Escape at Dannemora” and “The Act” back-to-back
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How ‘Fleabag’ Creator-Star Phoebe Waller-Bridge Took a Journey From Hot Priest to James Bond
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Whether she’s writing for “Fleabag” or for 007, Waller-Bridge tells TheWrap she’s looking to create “truthful, witty, sexy characters with a heart”
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Toronto Film Festival Adds TV Series ‘Mrs. Fletcher,’ ‘Briarpatch’ and ‘Limetown’
TIFF also unveils industry programming with Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Lulu Wang and Fernando Meirelles
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‘The Big Bang Theory’ Finale: One Last Episode, One Last Emmy Nomination
TheWrap Emmy magazine: The long-running show’s highest profile 2019 nomination went to director Mark Cendrowski, who said he used tricks to stave off the emotion in the final episode
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‘Game of Thrones’: Carice van Houten Was in the Dark About Melisandre Too: ‘I Learned to Enjoy Not Knowing’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I like to figure everything out and ask a load of questions, but in this case that was really hard,” says the actress who played the sorceress Melisandre
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Alfie Allen Describes Growing Up on ‘Game of Thrones’: ‘It Was My 20s, Really’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Allen is one of the show’s three acting nominees who submitted themselves for Emmy consideration
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‘Game of Thrones’ Star Gwendoline Christie on How Brienne Became an Unlikely Feminist Hero
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “When I first Googled the character, I couldn’t believe she even existed,” says the actress who played Brienne of Tarth
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‘Blinded by the Light’ Film Review: Joyous Indie Musical Soars to Songs of Bruce Springsteen
The film that landed the Sundance Film Festival’s biggest deal is a moving tribute to the way pop songs can detonate in our lives
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Here’s How Sophie Turner Really Wanted ‘Game of Thrones’ to End
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Hint: It involved a different ending for Cersei Lannister
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Beats Cancer, and ‘Veep’ Looks to Beat Everybody One More Time at the Emmys
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I love it whenever Trump does something idiotic and some person online will put it next to the end credits of ‘Veep,’” says six-time nominee Anna Chlumsky
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Why the Emmys Documentary Race Looks So Much Like the Oscars Doc Race
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Four of the five Oscar-nominated nonfiction films are back competing for Emmys, because the Television Academy doesn’t mind a little double-dipping
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Trevor Noah on the Advantage of ‘The Daily Show’ in the Trump Era: ‘He Writes Most of the Jokes’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “There’s more outrage and engagement but less nuance and closure,” Noah says of making “The Daily Show” now
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Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones Drama ‘The Aeronauts’ Among New Additions to Toronto Film Festival Lineup
Films added to the Galas, Special Presentations, Masters and Contemporary World Cinema sections include work starring Natalie Portman, Kristen Stewart, Daniel Radcliffe, Elizabeth Debicki and Mick Jagger
