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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‘Free Solo,’ ‘Minding the Gap,’ ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Land IDA Documentary Nominations
The top feature-film category has been beefed up to 10 nominees this year and also includes “Dark Money,” “Of Fathers and Sons,” “The Silence of Others” and “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
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Peter Bogdanovich Says It Only Took ‘One Good Idea’ to Make His Buster Keaton Doc ‘The Great Buster’
The “Last Picture Show” director and film historian says he jumbled the chronology of his Keaton documentary because of “the old showbiz axiom, ‘Leave ’em laughing’”
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‘First Reformed,’ ‘The Favourite’ Lead Gotham Awards Nominations for Independent Film
Other films nominated in the Best Feature category were “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Madeline’s Madeline” and “The Rider”
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Oscars Give More Power in Foreign Language Voting to LA Members (Exclusive)
The latest adjustment to the Oscars foreign category will allow Los Angeles-based “general committee” voters to also participate in the final stage of nomination voting
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‘Free Solo’ Leads Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards Nominations
Other nominees include “RBG,” “Three Identical Strangers” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” — but MIchael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9” was not nominated in top categories
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’22 July’ Director Paul Greengrass Explains Why a Story of Terrorism in 2011 Is So Timely Today (Exclusive Video)
“It’s a story that speaks to all of us, because of what we’ve been seeing over the last 10 years — the vigorous dynamic growth of the violent far right,” says the filmmaker
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USC, NYU, CalArts and Florida State Win Top Honors at Student Academy Awards
All of the student winners will now be eligible for the Academy Awards, where 11 Student Oscar winners have been nominated in the past decade
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‘Beautiful Boy’ Film Review: Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell Shine in Harrowing Look at Addiction
Latest from director Felix van Groeningen adapts the twin memoirs by veteran journalist David Sheff and his son Nic
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’22 July’ Film Review: Paul Greengrass Calms Down but Still Packs a Powerful Punch
The British director of the “Bourne” movies has made an immersive, visceral film about terrorism, but one whose most charged battleground is a courtroom
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‘Roma,’ ‘Cold War’ Lead Academy’s List of 87 Films in the Oscars Foreign Language Race
While the total is less than last year’s record 92 entries, this is likely to be the most competitive race the category has seen in years
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‘A Star Is Born’ Is a Legit Oscar Contender – And Here’s What Else Is
As one of the season’s major contenders opens, theWrap offers a look at 10 films that’ll be in the race, 10 that deserve to be and 6 late-arriving Oscar threats
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Academy Makes More Changes to Open Up Oscars Foreign Language Voting (Exclusive)
New rules reduce the number of films a voter must see and eliminated the list of “required-viewing” films that was sent to every member who takes part in first-round balloting
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Hugh Jackman to Receive Kirk Douglas Award from Santa Barbara Film Festival
Jackman is currently starring as disgraced politician Gary Hart in Jason Reitman’s “The Front Runner”
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‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor,’ ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ Get an Oscars Boost From DOC NYC
The documentary festival’s annual Short List, an accurate predictor of Oscars success, also includes “RBG,” “Three Identical Strangers,” “Free Solo,” “Quincy” and “Jane Fonda: A Life in Five Acts”
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Italy Sends ‘Dogman’ Into Oscars Brutally Tough Foreign Language Race
“Dogman” will join a race that is already filled with formidable contenders, including “Roma,” “Cold War,” “Sunset,” “Never Look Away,” “Birds of Passage,” “Shoplifters” and “Burning”
