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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How Tom Petty Became the Key to HBO’s Elvis Presley Documentary
Less than seven months before his death, Petty did an interview that got to the heart of what the filmmakers were trying to achieve with “Elvis Presley: The Searcher”
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Cannes Lineup Reaches From Spike Lee to Jean-Luc Godard
Festival is light on American films and includes three competition films from female directors, one less than the record set in 2011
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‘Borg/McEnroe’ Film Review: Shia LaBeouf Tennis Movie Mixes Backhands With Psychoanalysis
Janus Metz’ drama sets out to encapsulate the troubled journeys of Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe within one epic Wimbledon match
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‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Baby Driver,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Ozark’ Win Location Managers Awards
Atlanta figures heavily in the awards, winning the prize for best film commission and supplying the location for two of the winning productions
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‘The Leisure Seeker’ Film Review: Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland Highlight Touching Road Movie
Italian director Paolo Virzi delivers a bittersweet ode to things that are slipping away for people and for a country
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‘American Idol’ Stage Manager Defends Ryan Seacrest, Calls ‘BS’ on Accusations
“If I thought for a second, ‘Ooh, I’ve seen things,’ I would call him out — but nothing, ever,” says Debbie Williams, who worked closely with Seacrest for 15 years
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Oscars Tell a Story of Inclusion – for Women, People of Color and Guillermo del Toro’s Fish-Man
On a night when favorites won in almost every category, the Oscars also pleaded for a more generous and accepting Hollywood and America
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No-Win Oscars: Will Hollywood Scandals Upstage a Great Best Picture Race?
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Spirit Awards Send Jordan Peele and ‘Get Out’ to the Oscars on a Mission
As usual, Spirit Awards voters picked the nominees that have the best chance of also winning at the Oscars
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Independent Spirit Awards: In a Stormy Year, It’s Up to Jordan Peele to Keep the Streak Alive
For the last four years in a row, the Spirit Awards winner has gone on to take the Academy Award for Best Picture
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Cesar Awards Name “BPM” the Year’s Best French Film
Robin Campillo film also wins awards for supporting actor, new actor, original screenplay, score and editing
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Where’s Oscar? A Guided Tour of All 10 Academy Awards Theaters (Photos)
To celebrate the move into the Kodak Theatre in 2002, designer Arnold Schwartzman created a set of old-fashioned postcards depicting all 10 Oscar venues
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Film editing, original score and cinematography are among the categories that could offer important clues about how the big award will go
