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 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”
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How Oscar Favorite ‘Cold War’ Turned a Personal Story Into a Sweeping Epic
TheWrap foreign magazine: Director Pawel Pawlikowski based the story on his parents’ volatile relationship, but he says he wanted to set it in “the epic backgrounds” of post-World War II Europe
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‘Champions’ Director Says Disabled Actors Rewrote His Hit Spanish Movie
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “After casting, we rewrote the entire screenplay using the personalities of the people, their experiences, their real lives,” says director Javier Fesser
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How ‘Dogman’ Took a Revenge Story and Added a Touch of Buster Keaton
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “The story we took inspiration from was more focused on violence and revenge,” says director Matteo Garrone of his Italian Oscar submission
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‘Border’ Director Ali Abbasi: Here’s How I Shot the Scene That Made Cannes Squirm
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Of course the troll sex was animalistic — “it would be strange if they were f—ing on a sofa with a whiskey in their hand,” says the Iranian-Swedish director
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‘If Beale Street Could Talk,’ ‘Leave No Trace’ Nominated for Top Independent Spirit Awards
Other Spirit Awards nominees include “You Were Never Really Here,” “Eighth Grade” and “First Reformed”
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Stan Lee Didn’t Get to See His ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Cameo Before He Died
The animated film’s directors tell TheWrap that Lee’s cameo “seems very poignant” now that the comic icon has died
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‘Widows’ Film Review: Viola Davis, Steve McQueen Team Up for a Curious Heist Movie
Davis leads a gang forced to pull off a complex theft, but her director is more interested in obsessions than robberies
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‘Green Book’ Film Review: Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali Take a Perilous Road Trip Through the Deep South
“Dumb and Dumber” director Peter Farrelly gets serious with this fact-based look at a Bronx bouncer discovering the dangers of the Civil Rights-era South
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‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Tops Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
Judd Apatow, Anthony Bourdain win television awards; Michael Moore receives Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award at ceremony in Brooklyn
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‘Minding the Gap’ Leads All Films in Nominations for Cinema Eye Honors
Other top nominees in the documentary awards include “Bisbee ’17,” “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” “Of Fathers and Sons,” “Three Identical Strangers” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
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Glenn Close to Receive Icon Award From Palm Springs Film Festival
Close, currently an Oscar contender for “The Wife,” is the first honoree to be announced for the festival’s annual awards gala
