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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‘Mary Shelley’ Toronto Review: Elle Fanning Biopic Gets Monstrously Silly
TIFF 2017: Director Haifaa al-Mansour sets out to make a 19th century female empowerment movie, but stumbles along the way
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‘Love Means Zero’ Review: Tennis Documentary Could Use More Andre Agassi
TIFF 2017: With prize pupil Agassi declining to participate, coach Nick Bollettieri holds court in a frustrating match against director Jason Kohn
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‘Outside In’ Toronto Review: Edie Falco, Jay Duplass Shine in Quiet Drama
In director Lynn Shelton’s story of a man struggling to adjust to life after prison, the comedy is toned down but the naturalism and understatement remain
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‘The Death of Stalin’ Review: Is This 1950s Russia, or Today’s Washington?
Toronto Film Festival: The new satire from “Veep” creator Armando Iannucci is a reminder that politics is always full of dangerous buffoons
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‘The Breadwinner’ Toronto Review: Vibrant Animated Movie May Force Oscar Attention
Set in war-torn Afghanistan under Taliban rule, Nora Twomey’s film is a beautiful but troubling look at a people’s fight to survive
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‘Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami’ Gives Toronto a Big Dose of Disco Diva
Sophie Fiennes’ fragmented portrait is an art-doc, not a standard music film — which is pretty much what its subject deserves
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‘The Unknown Girl’ Review: Guilt and Murder Meet Quiet Naturalism
The Dardenne brothers are looking to become the first to win three Palme d’Ors
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Oscar Season Hits Toronto: 25 TIFF Movies With a Lot to Prove
“The Shape of Water,” “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” and “mother!” are among the films heading to Toronto with high stakes for awards season
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Angelina Jolie’s New Movie Could Be an Oscar Contender – in Foreign Language Category
Jolie’s “First They Killed My Father” is likely to be Cambodia’s official Oscar submission, but will it qualify?
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‘Darkest Hour,’ ‘Battle of the Sexes’ Headed to Telluride Film Festival
The four-day Colorado festival will also feature the premieres of Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” and Angelina Jolie’s “First They Killed My Father”
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Fall Festivals Say It Loud: Here Comes Awards Season
The next two weeks will be make-or-break time for “The Shape of Water,” “Suburbicon,” “Battle of the Sexes” and many more awards hopefuls
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‘Dunkirk’ Joins Toronto Film Festival Lineup to Celebrate IMAX Anniversary
Christopher Nolan’s film will screen at the world’s first permanent IMAX theater, which has been restored and will soon reopen
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Kate Winslet, Steven Spielberg, Bob Dylan Added to New York Film Festival Lineup
NYFF will also screen four new films from “Shoah” director Claude Lanzmann
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‘The Square,’ ‘In the Fade’ Top First Batch of Oscar Foreign Language Contenders
As countries begin to submit their entries to this year’s race, dozens more filmmakers could join the field soon
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Oscar Foreign Language Film Race 2017: Complete List of Contenders
“The Square” and “In the Fade” are among the top contenders as countries begin making their Oscar selections
