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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Jason Reitman, Teddy Schwarzman, Hiro Matsuoka Elected to Academy Museum Board of Trustees
Tom Dolby and Cindy Huang will also be joining the board that oversees museum activities
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He was troubled and fragile and undeniably brilliant, driven to make music of surpassing beauty, complexity and depth
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TheWrap magazine: It was a cold night on the beach as Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder filmed a scene that turned the tide in Season 4
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How ‘The Studio’ Staged Long Shots and Made Its Own Frank Lloyd Wright Building
TheWrap magazine: Cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra and production designer Julie Berghoff go behind-the-scenes on the production of the Seth Rogen comedy
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With Emmy Voting About to Begin, Can We Please Get a Few Surprises?
We know that shocks tend to be few and far between, but here’s hoping for a little variety and less category-hogging
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The film directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds will be the first non-music doc to open TIFF
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TheWrap magazine: Five of the 10 biggest single-year winners in Emmy history have come in the last four years
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