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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Oscars Cut the Field to 10 in Live-Action Shorts Category
Shortlisted filmmakers include five-time nominee Kim Magnusson and Student Academy Award winner Jimmy Keyrouz
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Pixar, Disney and 8 Smaller Films Make the Cut in Oscars Animated Shorts Category
Disney and Pixar now have 63 nominations in the category, and 16 nominations since 2000
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Oscar Dark Horse Simon Helberg on Working With Meryl Streep: ‘Intimate and Terrifying’
TheWrap Magazine: When Helberg got an email asking if he wanted to act with the Oscar winner, he says, “I almost put it in the Nigerian-prince file”
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Oscar Dark Horse Viggo Mortensen on Why He Embraces Fringe Characters
TheWrap Magazine: “I believe you should pick things you want to see and things that scare you,” Mortensen says
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‘Neruda’ and ‘Desierto’ Star Gael Garcia Bernal Talks Making Political Art in Troubled Time (Video)
TheWrap Magazine: “Worldwide, there is a feeling of brokenheartedness, and I hope we can incorporate a narrative and a perspective of goodwill and compassion,” actor says
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Oscar Dark Horse Kate Beckinsale on Art of Scheming in ‘Love & Friendship’
TheWrap Magazine: “She’s extraordinarily flawed but she’s not being a bitch for no reason,” actress says of her character in Jane Austen adaptation
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‘Jackie,’ ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Manchester by the Sea’ Nominated for Best Film by Spirit Awards
“American Honey” and “Chronic” also receive nominations in the top category
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Producers Guild Nominates Documentaries ‘Life, Animated,’ ‘OJ: Made in America’
The guild’s typically idiosyncratic documentary nominees also include “Dancer,” “The Eagle Huntress” and “Tower”
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Inside How ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ Put Together Biggest Stop-Motion Movie Ever
TheWrap Magazine: Director Travis Knight and his team talk about the painstaking path to “a stop-motion David Lean epic”
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Oscars Documentary Race: It’s All About Blurred Lines
TheWrap Magazine: In documentary filmmaking, the distinctions are getting thinner between fiction and nonfiction, film and television
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Ben Affleck Says He Wasn’t Aiming for Awards With Old-School Gangster Flick ‘Live by Night’
The actor-director-writer unveils the film for the press and says he was trying to make a large-scale crowd-pleaser
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‘Edge of Seventeen’ Review: Woody Harrelson Steals Angsty High School Comedy
Toronto 2016: Kelly Fremon Craig’s coming-of-age film stars Hailee Steinfeld, but a laconic Harrelson is its clear MVP
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‘People v OJ Simpson’ Leads Critics’ Choice Awards TV Nominations
“Game of Thrones” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” lead drama and comedy series in nominations, while HBO tops the network count with 22
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Governors Awards Bring Celebrating, Schmoozing – and an Oscar for Jackie Chan
Editor Anne Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary director Frederick Wiseman are also honored at the awards ceremony and campaign stop
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Oscars Brutal Animation Race Sets Record With 27 Entries
Frontrunners include “Zootopia” and “Kubo and the Two Strings,” but voters in the category are unpredictable
