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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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 Night Sly Stone Delivered the Most Memorable Awful Concert Ever
On a November night in Hollywood, the audience brought Sly’s music to life because he couldn’t
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Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and ‘The Studio’ Cast on How They Make Loving Fun of Hollywood
TheWrap magazine: The creators of the Apple TV+ comedy series, plus Kathryn Hahn, Catherine O’Hara, Chase Sui Wonders and Ike Barinholtz, dig into their funny showbiz satire
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‘Adolescence’ Creator Stephen Graham Admits He’s Surprised by Show’s Success: ‘We Didn’t Expect It to Create a Tsunami’
“I wanted it to look at everything and say we’re all slightly accountable,” says the actor-writer-producer of the series about a teenage murder
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John Candy Documentary ‘I Like Me’ to Open 2025 Toronto Film Festival
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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Meet ‘Adolescence’ Star Owen Cooper, the First-Time Actor Who Gives the Year’s Most Haunting Performance
TheWrap magazine: The 13-year-old Brit had no acting experience before playing a kid accused of murdering a classmate in Netflix’s breakout limited series
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The Emmys in the Shadow of ‘Shōgun’ – How the Unprecedented Has Become Predictable
TheWrap magazine: Five of the 10 biggest single-year winners in Emmy history have come in the last four years
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How Documentary Filmmakers Found New Stuff to Say About Sly Stone, Springsteen and The Beatles
TheWrap magazine: Questlove, David Tedeschi, Thom Zimny and Laurent Bouzereau talk about their music docs
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Bono on His Movie, His Memoir and Being ‘Totally Pretentious’: ‘I Promise I’m Coming Back to Rock ‘n’ Roll’
The U2 frontman says the film “Bono: Stories of Surrender” is part of a new approach he calls “radical intimacy”
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Cannes Film Festival Winners 2025: ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Wins Palme d’Or
Cannes 2025: Other awards go to “Sentimental Value,” “Sirat,” “Sound of Falling” and actors Wagner Moura and Nadia Melliti
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‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ Wins Top Award in Cannes Un Certain Regard
Cannes 2025: Other winners include “A Poet,” “Urchin,” “Once Upon a Time in Gaza” and “I Only Rest in the Storm”
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‘It Was Just an Accident’ Review: Jafar Panahi Returns to Cannes in Person, and in Fine Form
Cannes 2025: The Iranian director, who spent most of the last two decades imprisoned or muffled, marries humanism and anger
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‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Denzel Washington and ASAP Rocky Are Foes to Remember in Spike Lee’s Slick Drama
Cannes 2025: Lee’s update on Akira Kurosawa’s film is an urban thriller that feels different than the work that has defined him
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‘Eagles of the Republic’ Review: Movies and Politics Don’t Mix, Says This Movie About Politics
Cannes 2025: Tarik Saleh’s drama is less interested in the process of filmmaking than in its use in propaganda
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Cannes’ Message So Far: The World’s Going to Hell, but We Love Movies!
Cannes 2025: The overall tone of this year’s offerings is dark, just as it would be if festival-goers left the theaters, went back to their rooms and switched on the TV news
