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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Sorry, ‘A Star Is Born’ and ‘Black Panther’! Netflix’s ‘Roma’ Is Dominating 2018 Critics’ Awards So Far
With more than 30 groups declaring their favorites, Alfonso Cuarón’s drama has won as many best-picture awards as the next five rivals combined
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Oscars: Europe Loses Ground and 6 Other Lessons We Learned From This Year’s Short Lists
From foreign films to docs and songs and scores and shorts, the lists revealed a few things about this year’s races
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‘Cold War’ Film Review: Romance in Postwar Europe Is Ravishing and Haunted
Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski returns to Europe in the aftermath of World War II in his first film since the 2013 Oscar winner “Ida”
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‘Black Panther,’ ‘Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Lead Oscar Song, Score Shortlists
“A Quiet Place,” “Mary Poppins Returns” and “A Star Is Born” also make the list
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‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor,’ ‘Free Solo’ Lead Oscar Documentary Shortlist
Shortlist finalists in nine categories were released by the Academy
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‘Roma’ and ‘Cold War’ Lead Oscars Best Foreign Language Film Shortlist
Oscar nominations are announced on Jan. 22
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Jeff Bridges to Receive Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award
Actor wins honorary award for career that includes “The Big Lebowski,” “Crazy Heart,” “True Grit,” “Starman” and “The Last Picture Show”
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Oscars’ Best Picture Category Needs Fixing – Here’s an Easy Way to Do It
OscarWrap magazine: At a time when the Academy wants to embrace inclusion and diversity, it’s sticking to a system that narrows voters’ focus
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‘Cold War’ Wins Big at the European Film Awards
No EFA winner has ever gone on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, but six have won the foreign language Oscar
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Inside ‘Green Book’: Read Tony Lip’s Real Letters From the Road Tour With Donald Shirley
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Nick Vallelonga, son of the man played by Viggo Mortensen, says his father’s reaction to the movie would be, “Why the hell weren’t you making movies about me a long time ago?”
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The Oscars Are About to Dump a Load of Short Lists on Us – Here’s What to Expect
For the first time, the Academy will release nine short lists at once, trimming the field in the foreign-language, documentary and music categories, among others
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‘Ben Is Back’ Writer-Director Peter Hedges on Why the Drug Addiction Drama Hits Close to Home
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I started exploring why heroin and opioids were impacting so many many people I love,” Hedges says
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Why ‘Vice’ Director Adam McKay Doesn’t Think Dick Cheney Shouldn’t Be Compared to Donald Trump
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Dick Cheney really understands the system, and I get the feeling that the people in the White House now aren’t interested in government,” the writer-director says
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Yes, ‘On the Basis of Sex’ Screenwriter Wrote Those Love Scenes About His Aunt Ruth Bader Ginsburg
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I was not on the set that day, which was not an accident,” Daniel Stiepleman says
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Zoe Kazan on Her Wildly Productive 2018: 2 Movies and a Baby
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Zoe Kazan wrote and produced “Wildlife” and starred in “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” — but that was just the start of her eventful 2018
