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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Yes, ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace’ Confused Finn Wittrock Too (Video)
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “When you’re shooting things out of order that are already written out of order, just keeping the timeline in your head was a big challenge,” says the Emmy-nominated actor
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Regina King Reveals Secret Weapon for Her Emmy-Nominated ‘Seven Seconds’ Performance (Video)
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “There were a lot of things in play, but mostly it was Jonathan [Demme] protecting me and allowing me to figure it out,” says King of one of the director’s last jobs
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How Colbert, Oliver, Kimmel and Company Became Leaders of Late-Night Resistance Against Trump
TheWrap Emmy magazine cover story: Asked how dramatically Trump has changed late night, Jimmy Kimmel replies, “How dramatically did the plague change medieval Europe?”
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Tony Shalhoub Had to Learn a New Skill for ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’: Talking Fast
TheWrap Emmy Magazine: “It’s not just speaking at that pace, it’s a way of listening at a high speed,” says the Emmy- and Tony-winning actor
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Why Aretha Franklin Mattered: It Was Never Just a Man’s World When She Sang
To hear Aretha demand respect was to hear an impossibly strong black woman at a tumultuous time when that voice was absolutely necessary, and utterly triumphant
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Julia Roberts TV Series ‘Homecoming’ to World Premiere at Toronto Film Festival
Festival also announces TIFF Industry Conference, with participants including Taika Waititi, Werner Herzog, Dr. Stacy L. Smith and Sergei Loznitsa
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Edie Falco on Why She Preferred Not Meeting the Lawyer She Played in ‘The Menendez Murders’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I had everything I needed to work the same way I work on everything else — from my imagination,” the four-time Emmy winner says
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3-Fold Emmy Nominee Robert Dickinson on How the Oscars, Grammys and Tonys Differ
TheWrap Emmy magazine: The veteran lighting designer explains why live awards shows pose very different challenges
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‘Juliet, Naked’ Review: Nick Hornby Adaptation Is a Rock ‘n’ Roll Charmer
Jesse Peretz’s comedy stars Rose Byrne, Chris O’Dowd and Ethan Hawke
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Paul Greengrass, Jonah Hill Movies Part of Huge Addition to Toronto Film Festival Lineup
Greengrass’ “22 July” and Hill’s “Mid90s” will join more than 100 new features and shorts in the Toronto lineup
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Chris Pine and Laura Dern Films to Open and Close Toronto Film Festival
David Mackenzie’s “Outlaw King,” starring Pine, will open the festival, while Justin Kelly’s “Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy,” with Dern and Stewart, will close it
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ShortList 2018: How ‘My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes’ Explores Family Secrets (Video)
“The title’s a way to disarm a person,” says director Charlie Tyrell of his short documentary about the troubled relationship with his late father
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ShortList 2018: How ‘Fish Story’ Uncovered a Whopper of a Strange Family Legend (Video)
“The film was basically made on no budget, because my expectation was that it wasn’t going to lead anywhere,” says director Charlie Lyne
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ShortList 2018: ‘Little Potato’ Tells Gay Russian Story With an Almodovar Twist (Video)
“I realized there are no gay voices coming from Russia,” says writer-director Wes Hurley of his autobiographical coming-of-age documentary
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ShortList 2018: ‘The Driver Is Red’ Tells Timely Holocaust Story With Line Drawings (Video)
“It’s so crazy that I began this project in 2016, and in 2017 there were people marching on American soil with swastikas,” director Randall Christopher says
