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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Kristen Bell and Ted Danson Dish on ‘The Good Place’ and Their Real-Life Bad Places
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Don’t put Danson behind a bar or take him to an escape room, the way Bell recently did
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‘Bobby Kennedy for President’ Looks at History – and Finds a Donald Trump Connection
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “Bobby’s story says that leadership matters, morals matter,” director Dawn Porter says
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Darren Aronofsky Says Science Series ‘One Strange Rock’ Is the Flip Side of ‘Mother!’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “Personally, I like that they came out so close together,” says Aronofsky of the two dramatically different looks at life on Earth
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‘The Looming Tower’ Star Tahar Rahim on Playing a Muslim FBI Agent Instead of a Terrorist (as Usual)
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “Maybe 50 percent of the parts I was offered were terrorists,” French actor says of his first two years in Hollywood
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If ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Wins John Legend an EGOT, He’ll Have to Share (Video)
TheWrap Emmy magazine: A victory would not only give Legend the showbiz grand slam, it’d do the same for two other “Superstar” producers as well
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Cristin Milioti Admits She Had Never Seen ‘Star Trek’ Before ‘Black Mirror: USS Callister’ Role
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I watched about two minutes of one episode and was like, ‘I don’t want to watch any more of this,’” actress says
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How Antonio Banderas Overcame His Fear of Playing Hometown Legend Pablo Picasso
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “It was a certain sense of responsibility that I didn’t want to put on my shoulders,” Banderas says of playing the other big star from Málaga, Spain
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Kyle MacLachlan: Yes, Even I Was Confused by David Lynch’s Return to ‘Twin Peaks’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “David didn’t feel the least bit compelled to revisit what we knew from before,” MacLachlan says of his encore appearance as Agent Cooper
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Alfred Molina, Susanne Bier Elected to Motion Picture Academy’s Board of Governors
The election also resulted in a tie between producers Jason Blum and Jennifer Todd, who will have a runoff election to determine the final member
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KCET, KMEX Lead Los Angeles Area Emmy Nominations
Winners will be announced in a ceremony at the Television Academy on July 28
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‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Film Review: Mister Rogers Delivers Kind Message for Unkind Times
Morgan Neville’s documentary shows how mild-mannered Republican pastor Fred Rogers became an unlikely TV icon
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‘Power’ Creator Courtney Kemp: ‘There Is a Financial Consequence to Not Opening Doors’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “It doesn’t mean that they are any more inclusive in their hearts, it means they’re more inclusive in their wallets,” says the veteran writer
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Christine Baranski Has a Donald Trump Hangover – and So Does Her ‘Good Fight’ Character
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “We’re all feeling unhinged, aren’t we?” actress says
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‘The Deuce’ Star Maggie Gyllenhaal Says Show Exposes Our ‘Broken, Misogynistic Culture’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “Our show is about transactional sex, and that is what’s really on the table with what’s coming out about Hollywood,” says Gyllenhaal
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Rachel Bloom on Why ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Was Driven by Anger This Year
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I have a lot of anger inside that I don’t show, because I’m obsessed with people liking me,” she says of her character’s dominant emotion in Season 3
