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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‘The Favourite’ Dominates the British Independent Film Awards
The Yorgos Lanthimos film wins 10 awards, including best film, best director and acting honors for Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz
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American Cinematheque Puts on a Giant Bradley Cooper Love Fest
The “Star Is Born” director and star says “it’s beyond overwhelming” after Lady Gaga, Sean Penn, Zach Galifiakanis, David O. Russell and others sing his praises
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New York Film Critics Circle Winners: ‘Roma’ Named 2018’s Best Picture
Alfonso Cuaron wins award for best director; acting honors go to Ethan Hawke, Regina Hall, Regina King and Richard E. Grant
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‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Film Review: Alice Rohrwacher Charts the Course of a Holy Fool
Rohrwacher’s fable, the second of this year’s competition films from a female director, is both transporting and maddening
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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
