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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‘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
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How Paul Greengrass’ ’22 July’ Shows the ‘Right-Wing, Populist Typhoon Blowing Through the West’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: The British director’s film is set in 2011, but he says, “It’s the story of where we are today — how do we fight for our democracy at a time when it’s under profound challenge”
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‘Private Life’ Star Kathryn Hahn on Her Onscreen Chemistry With Paul Giamatti: ‘A Soupy Mystery’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s hard to even talk about our process, but I didn’t have to look anywhere but into his eyeballs,” actress says of her work with her co-star
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Why ‘Leave No Trace’ Breakout Star Thomasin McKenzie Isn’t Gunning for a Marvel Movie Anytime Soon
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I was really attracted to the fact that there weren’t any villains or antagonists or bad guys,” the 18-year old New Zealand-born actress says
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How Natalie Portman’s Toxic Diva in ‘Vox Lux’ Hit Home
OscarWrap magazine: “It’s something I’ve been very interested in because of my personal experience of the separation between the public and the private,” Portman says of the film’s theme
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Olivia Colman to Receive Palm Springs Film Festival’s Desert Palm Award
The star of Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” will receive the honor at the festival’s annual Awards Gala on Jan. 3, 2019
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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Fact Checks: How Much Is Real Life? How Much Is Fantasy?
TheWrap Oscar magazine: We speak to screenwriter Anthony McCarten about where the filmmakers took creative liberty — and why
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SAG Awards Nominations Are Great News for ‘A Star Is Born,’ But Not for ‘The Favourite’
For “The Favourite,” “Vice,” “Roma” and “Green Book,” the lack of a SAG ensemble nomination hurts in an exceptionally competitive awards year
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African American Film Critics Name ‘Black Panther’ the Year’s Best Film
“BlacKkKlansman,” “The Hate U Give” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” win two awards each
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Santa Barbara Film Fest’s Virtuosos Winners Range From Sam Elliott to Elsie Fisher
Other honorees are Richard E. Grant, Claire Foy, John David Washington, Thomasin McKenzie, Steven Yeun and Yalitza Aparicio
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Do the Oscars Have an Asia Problem in the Foreign Language Film Race?
The Academy has only nominated seven films from 17 Asian countries in the last 20 years
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Diane Warren Explains Her Trilogy of Inspirational Movie Songs, From ‘The Hunting Ground’ to ‘RBG’
OscarWrap Songs Special: “I still have my fun songs — but when I can do songs that can have power and motivate someone, I want to do it,” says the nine-time Oscar nominee
