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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‘Green Book’ Named 2018’s Top Film by National Board of Review
Other films on the NBR’s Top 10 list include “A Star Is Born,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Black Panther” and “Roma”
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‘The Rider’ Wins Top Prize at 2018 Gotham Awards (Complete List of Winners)
Ethan Hawke and Toni Collette win top acting awards; documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” wins audience award
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Alfonso Cuarón to Receive Visionary Award at Palm Springs Film Festival
The director will be honored for this black-and-white drama “Roma,” which he also wrote, shot and edited
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‘RBG,’ ‘Free Solo,’ ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Land Producers Guild Awards Documentary Nominations
“The Dawn Wall,” “Hal,” “Into the Okavango,” “Three Identical Strangers” also make the cut in the Producers Guild Awards
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Viggo Mortensen to Receive American Riviera Award From Santa Barbara Film Festival
Mortensen currently stars in the Oscar contending film “Green Book” with Mahershala Ali
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10 Things We Learned at the Oscars’ 10th Governors Awards
The honorees were Cicely Tyson, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, Lalo Schifrin and Marvin Levy – but there was more going on than just awards
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The Key to Israeli Oscar Entry ‘The Cakemaker’: Making Someone Else’s Story Personal
TheWrap foreign magazine: “I took my friend’s story and the story of his widow, and I put my own life into it,” says director Ofir Raul Graizer
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How the Film School Director of ‘Yomeddine’ Turned 2 Illiterate Amateurs Into Actors
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I workshopped them a lot, preparing them about what it’s like to act and to stand in front of the camera,” says first-time director A.B. Shawky
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‘Donbass’ Director: My Film’s Grotesque Corruption Isn’t Just in Ukraine, It Reaches Around the World
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “In America, in Brazil, they elected a man because he was giving a performance and saying the kind of things you could never before say in a civilized society,” says Sergei Loznitsa
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How ‘Crystal Swan’ Told an Edgy Story in a Repressive Country
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “My creative friends in [Belarus] were like, ‘Wow, I’m really amazed that they let you show the film,’” says director Darya Zhuk
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How Palme d’Or Winner ‘Shoplifters’ Made ‘The Invisible People’ Visible
TheWrap foreign magazine: “I think there are many segments of every society that prefer that they remain invisible,” director Hirokazu Kore-eda tells TheWrap
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‘The Guilty’ Offers a Recipe for an Unconventional Thriller: One Location and Lots of Imagination
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s always hard to make suspense work,” says director Gustav Möller of his film that rachets up the tension while never stepping outside a single room
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‘Village Rockstars’ Director Says Her Acting Struggles Helped Her Oscar Contending Film
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I didn’t want them to feel what I was feeling when I was looking for jobs in Bollywood,” says director Rima Das of the young stars of her film
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Why Kosovo’s Gay Rights Film ‘The Marriage’ Shocked Its Own Director When It Was Released
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Director Blerta Zeqiri tells TheWrap she had to be cautious making a film about tolerance in an intolerant society — but she wasn’t expecting the reaction her film received
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How Peter Bogdanovich, Frank Marshall and Netflix’s Money Saved Orson Welles’ Final Movie
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It was the Holy Grail of unfinished films,” says producer Filip Jan Rymsza of Welles’ wildly experimental “The Other Side of the Wind”
