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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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
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How Colman Domingo and Greg Kwedar Shook Up the Movie Business Making ‘Sing Sing’
TheWrap magazine: Every cast and crew member was paid the same as Domingo and Kwedar went inside a prison in search of healing
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All the 2024 Movies Eligible for Best Animated, International and Documentary Film at the 97th Oscars
There are 31 animated films, 85 international films and 169 documentaries competing in this year’s Academy Awards
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‘Sugarcane’ Leads 40th IDA Documentary Awards Nominations
The film about the abuse of Indigenous children also led the Cinema Eye Honors and Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations
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Karla Sofia Gascón, Mikey Madison to Receive Virtuosos Award at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Other honorees will be Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Kieran Culkin, Harris Dickinson, Clarence Maclin and John Magaro
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Emotional Quincy Jones Tribute Highlights Governors Awards … But Hugh Grant Calling an Honoree an ‘A-hole” Was Cool, Too
Jones, Juliet Taylor, Richard Curtis and Michael G. Wilson & Barbara Broccoli receive honorary awards at packed Academy event
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‘Sugarcane’ Leads All Documentaries in Nominations for Cinema Eye Honors
“Dahomey,” “No Other Land” also receive multiple nominations from New York-based doc organization
