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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Toronto So Far: ‘First Man’ and ‘A Star Is Born’ Lead a Crop of Films With Heart and Dazzle
Toronto Film Festival 2018: The festival’s highlights are films that should be in the thick of the awards race for months to come
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‘First Man’ Gets Bigger and Bolder in Toronto IMAX Premiere
Toronto Film Festival 2018: The format isn’t always ideal, but it made for spectacular moments as Damien Chazelle’s film wowed another festival
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10 Notable Emmy Hosting Teams: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Photos)
From Lucy and Desi to those reality-show hosts, the Emmys have both soared and stumbled when enlisting more than one host
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Will Oscar Season’s Early Contenders Survive the Toronto Film Festival Onslaught?
On the heels of the smaller festivals in Venice and Telluride, Julia Roberts, Robert Redford and Lady Gaga are among the hundreds of stars heading north
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Oscars Foreign Language Race 2018: Complete List of Submissions
The list includes Mexico’s “Roma,” Belgium’s “Girl,” Colombia’s “Birds of Passage,” Germany’s “Never Look Away,” Hungary’s “Sunset,” South Korea’s “Burning,” Japan’s “Shoplifters” and Sweden’s “Border”
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‘Star Trek’ Franchise Wins Emmys Governors Award
Since it was created by Gene Roddenberry in 1966, “Star Trek” has spawned seven television series and 13 movies
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Nicole Kidman, Robert Redford, Matthew McConaughey Movies Headed to Telluride Film Festival
World premieres at Colorado festival will include “Boy Erased,” “The Old Man & the Gun,” “White Boy Rick” and “The Front Runner”
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Oscar Season Kicks Off as ‘First Man,’ ‘Roma,’ ‘A Star Is Born’ Launch at Fall Festivals
Fall Movie Preview 2018: Over the course of three weeks, dozens of awards hopefuls will either thrive or crash at the Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals
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Toronto Film Festival Adds Conversations and Events With Mahershala Ali, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Reitman
The festival will also include a Hilary Swank conversation and an appearance by Drake, among other new programs
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Larry Karaszewski and Diane Weyermann to Replace Mark Johnson as Oscars Foreign-Language Heads (Exclusive)
Johnson had chaired the committee for 17 of the last 18 years, and was a driving force behind its current system of choosing nominees
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Carl Reiner Is the Oldest Emmy Nominee Ever at 96, but He’s Still Got Work to Do (Video)
Reiner, who was nominated for narrating the documentary “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast,” still goes to work every morning — after he’s checked the paper to make sure he’s still alive
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How ‘St. Elsewhere’ Star Christina Pickles Got Another Emmy Shot at Age 83 (Video)
TheWrap Emmy magazine: ‘When you’re old you have to be funny,” the veteran actress says of her role in the web series “Break a Hip”
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Trevor Noah’s First Thought Every Morning: ‘What Can We Talk About That’s Not Him?’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I wouldn’t mind the level of material or the quantity of material if it didn’t have such adverse effects on people’s lives,” says the Emmy-nominated “Daily Show” host
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How Jeff Daniels Landed 2 Emmy Nominations for Playing a Hero and a Villain: Both ‘Wildly Complex’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I never bought that I was a movie star,” the star of “The Looming Tower” and “Godless” says of his award-worthy second act on the small screen
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How Pasek and Paul Could Score an EGOT for Adding a Hanukkah Song to ‘A Christmas Story’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “‘We’re definitely going to write a klezmer jazz song where you play the violin,” Justin Paul remembers telling actress Ana Gasteyer
