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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‘Pedro Parámo’ Review: Life and Death Blur Together in Haunting Mexican Drama
TIFF 2024: Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto makes his directorial debut with an adaptation simultaneously personal and mystical
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‘The Cut’ Review: It’s Not the Punching That Hurts Orlando Bloom, It’s the Dieting
TIFF 2024: Bloom and Caitriona Balfe help ground a boxing drama that abandons the usual fight scenes to focus on action out of the ring
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‘Went Up the Hill’ Review: Vicky Krieps and Dacre Montgomery Are Chilling in Shadowy, Creepy Ghost Story
TIFF 2024: Director Samuel Van Grinsven’s movie is spooky but steers clear of any horror movie tropes
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‘We Live in Time’ Review: Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield Make a Perfect Movie Couple
TIFF 2024: John Crowley’s bittersweet romance is a truly charming and surprisingly rich film
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‘Elton John: Never Too Late’ Review: Celebratory Doc Doesn’t Whitewash Its Troubled Rock Star
TIFF 2024: R.J. Cutler and David Furnish’s film focuses on the first six and the last six years of John’s five-decade year career
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‘Hard Truths’ Review: Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste Reunite for Quiet Gem
TIFF 2024: Leigh’s first film in six years is an almost unbearably subtle and intimate story of Black working class families
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‘Nutcrackers’ Review: Ben Stiller Makes Acting Return to Roll in the Mud, Pull Heartstrings With Unruly Kids
TIFF 2024: David Gordon Green’s comedy is sappy as heck and not as funny as you’d expect, but it sure does have heart
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‘From Darkness to Light’ Review: Documentary Proves That Yes, Jerry Lewis’ Holocaust Movie Really Was Terrible
Venice Film Festival: Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler’s film breaks down the tortured journey of “The Day the Clown Cried”
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‘Martha’ Review: Don’t Expect Martha Stewart to Get All Emotional in Her New Documentary
Telluride Film Festival: R.J. Cutler gets around the walls erected by his subject in a doc about the iconic lifestyle maven
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‘The End’ Review: Are You Ready for a Post-Apocalyptic Musical? Tilda Swinton Is
Telluride Film Festival: Joshua Oppenheimer’s dystopian toe-tapper joins “Emilia Perez” and “Joker: Folie à Deux” as one of the weirdest triptychs in recent cinema
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‘The Friend’ Review: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray and a Big Dog Explore Love and Loss
Telluride Film Festival: The film from David Siegel and Scott McGehee is suffused with a sadness that it aims to carry lightly
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‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: Odd, Chaotic Documentary Explores a Dizzying Time for John Lennon
Venice 2024: The filmmakers have made a bracing, scattered and somewhat revelatory look at a period that’ll go down as a misstep for the Smart Beatle
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‘September 5’ Review: Can Journalists Be the Heroes in a Story of Deadly Terrorism?
Venice Film Festival: Tim Fehlbaum’s drama about the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics finds strength in dark rooms, unlikely protagonists and moral dilemmas
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‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie Embraces the Crazy in Dreamlike Maria Callas Drama
Venice Film Festival: Pablo Larraín follows his films about Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana with another dark fantasia about an iconic woman
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Telluride Film Festival to Include ‘The Piano Lesson,’ ‘Conclave,’ ‘Saturday Night’
The lineup will also feature “The End,” “Nickel Boys” and the documentaries “Martha” and “Piece by Piece”
