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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ShortList 2016: ‘Thunder Road’ Turns Bruce Springsteen Song Into Funeral Eulogy (Video)
“I can confirm that Bruce has seen the film. I don’t know if he enjoyed it,” director Jim Cummings told TheWrap about his struggle to secure the rights to classic song
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Meryl Streep Explains Why She Wanted to Sing So Badly in ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’
“Good writing helps, a wonderful director … and Hugh Grant as my love interest? Are you kidding? Sign me up,” the three-time Oscar winner tells TheWrap
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‘Long Way North’ Takes Animation on Arctic Adventure (Exclusive Video)
Hand-drawn film from director who worked on “Song of the Sea” and “The Secret of Kells” aims to break into Oscar race
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ShortList 2016: ‘Boxeadora’ Shows Female Boxer Fighting Inside and Outside the Ring (Video)
“If this was a Hollywood movie, Halle Berry would play Namibia and she would go to the Olympics and win gold,” director Meg Smaker tells TheWrap about her doc
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Natalie Portman’s Jackie Kennedy Drama ‘Jackie’ Added to Toronto Film Festival Lineup
In addition to the Pablo Larrain film, the festival’s Platform section will include “Lady Macbeth,” “Moonlight” and “Nocturama”
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ShortList 2016: ‘Over’ Is a Puzzle That Packs a Timely Punch (Video)
“The story really epitomized the utter desperation of the migrant,” filmmaker Jorn Threlfall tells TheWrap of his backward-plotted short
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Academy Funds Research Into Female Screenwriters, Onscreen Depictions of Slavery
Dr. Donna Kornhaber and Dr. Ellen Christine Scott are the latest recipients of Academy Film Scholars grants
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ShortList 2016: ‘Bacon and God’s Wrath’ Says It’s Never Too Late to Turn Atheist (Video)
Director Sol Friedman follows a 90-year-old woman who abandons her Jewish faith after discovering the Internet
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Toronto Film Festival Adds Movies by Leonardo DiCaprio, Werner Herzog, Marlon Brando
The world premiere of “Blair Witch” will be part of the festival’s Midnight Madness section
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Meryl Streep on the Rise of Donald Trump: ‘What’s Wrong With Half of Everybody?’
“Florence Foster Jenkins” star tells TheWrap she’s bewildered by the presidential race’s “poisonous atmosphere”
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James Gray’s ‘The Lost City of Z’ to Close New York Film Festival
Drama about real-life British explorer stars Charlie Hunnam and Sienna Miller
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Toronto Film Festival Adds Canadian Dramas About Rape, Politics, Journalism
Xavier Dolan, Kim Nguyen, Deepa Mehta and Bruce McDonald are among the filmmakers represented in second round of festival bookings
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Cheryl Boone Isaacs Wins Re-Election as Academy President
This will be her fourth and last one-year term as president
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Mark Goldblatt Wins Runoff Election for Academy Board of Governors
Film editors branch had staged the third runoff in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science board history
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Critics’ Choice Awards Launch New Documentary Awards
Nov. 3 show will include film, television, reality-TV and investigative reporting categories
