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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‘Toni Erdmann’ Is New Frontrunner in Oscar Foreign-Language Race
Romania, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia and Australia have also submitted films to the Academy
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Toronto Film Festival Tops Off With Mark Wahlberg, Isabelle Huppert
“The Red Turtle” and “My Life as a Courgette” are among the new films that bring TIFF’s total to nearly 400
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Academy Targets 12 Different Areas for Sci-Tech Oscars
An AMPAS committee will begin investigating technical breakthroughs in a dozen different fields
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Travis Knight Explains ‘Absurd’ Decision to Make Stop-Motion Epic ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’
“The challenge I set for the team was to do a stop-motion David Lean film, a Kurosawian myth in miniature,” says director and Laika CEO
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‘Game of Thrones’ Star Kit Harington on Jon Snow’s Survival: ‘I Felt a Bit Cocky This Season’
EmmyWrap: “I feel like one of the safest people on ‘Thrones’ right now. Maybe I shouldn’t say that,” actor tells TheWrap
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‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ Director Defends Non-Asian Cast: Inclusion Matters, But Don’t Reduce Diversity to a Hashtag
“Laika has tried to tell diverse stories with diverse characters every step of the way,” Travis Knight tells TheWrap
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Toronto Film Festival Adds ‘Transparent’ Premiere, Conversations With Jonathan Demme and Cheryl Boone Isaacs
Five TV shows will debut in the Primetime section, while Demme, Isaacs and others will highlight the TIFF Industry Conference
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‘The Night Manager’ Star Hugh Laurie on Why He Let Tom Hiddleston Play the Studly Hero
EmmyWrap: “I admit it, I saw myself as the young stud risking all for the love of a woman and for his country,” actor tells TheWrap about when he first read book 20 years ago
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Nate Parker’s Rape Case Offers Unprecedented Awards-Season Challenge
Most awards voters have learned of Parker’s sexual assault charge before they’ve had a chance to see his movie, “The Birth of a Nation”
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‘Veep’ Star Tony Hale Says Trump Campaign Makes Show ‘Less of a Satire’
EmmyWrap: “The whole thing with Melania’s speech, if we had written that, HBO would have fired us, because it was too broad,” actor tells TheWrap
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Emmy Contender and Host Jimmy Kimmel on Trump, Instant Critics and Why He’s Not Prepping a Speech
EmmyWrap: “I’m 98 percent certain there’s no danger of us winning,” ABC late-night veteran tells TheWrap
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Toronto Film Festival Adds James Franco, Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach Movies
New films added to the TIFF lineup include Palme d’Or winner “I, Daniel Blake” and two Kristen Stewart movies
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Laurie Metcalf Has 3 Emmy Nominations But Insists She’s Not Working That Much
EmmyWrap: “It looks like I’m working all the time, but no one ever is,” actress tells TheWrap
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How Donald Trump Became the Emmys’ Sorest Loser
EmmyWrap: When his reality show “The Apprentice” lost to “The Amazing Race,” the bellicose host went on a rampage
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Why Adele’s Emmy-Nominated Concert Special Was a Win for Art and for Business
“It’s about extending the reach of how great an artist she is,” manager Jonathan Dickins tells TheWrap
