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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Academy Aims to Crack Down on ‘Over the Top’ Oscar Parties – Watch Out, Peggy Siegal
New rule says Academy members can’t attend events “reasonably perceived to unduly influence members” … but who decides?
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Academy Tweaks Oscars Rules, Campaign Regulations
New rules make Oscar-qualifying runs stricter and prevent members from attending music performances and other events
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Academy Sets Dates for Oscar Nominations, Voting
The timetable moves the nominations back to a Tuesday in late January
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Academy Scores Record Diversity With New Members – But What About Next Year?
AMPAS invited hundreds of women and minorities to join, but they’ll have to do it again and again to reach their goal
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For the Record: Wanna Know Just How White And Male the Motion Picture Academy Is?
After years of stalling, AMPAS lays out its ethnic and gender makeup
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Academy Invites Michael B. Jordan, Oscar Isaac in Huge Diversity Push
Record-setting list of new member invitations is a direct response to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy
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Will Academy’s #OscarsSoWhite Makeover Begin With New Election, Board Meeting?
AMPAS has an opportunity to change its membership and its leadership, but don’t expect a revolution
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How Many Oscar Contenders Have Emerged From First Half of 2016?
“Everybody Wants Some!!” and “Zootopia” might defy the odds as rare Academy Award nominees from first six months of the year
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Happy 90th Birthday, Mel Brooks! 10 Funniest Lines From His AFI Tribute
At 2013 event Robert De Niro asked: “Who do I have to f— to get into a Mel Brooks movie?”
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5 Burning Questions for Final Day of Emmy Nominations Voting
While we await the nominations on July 14, let’s talk about vote-splitting, old favorites and those wild short-format categories
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Cameron Crowe on ‘Roadies’: Why Music Fans Need to Put Down Their Phones
“The thing that’s missing so often in shows about music is the joy of loving music,” writer-director tells TheWrap
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Emmy Contender Will Forte on That Crazy Haircut in ‘Last Man on Earth’: ‘It’s Really Fun to Be Weird’ (Video)
“For a while I was going to wear a sheet on one side of my head,” actor tells TheWrap about shaving the hair on half of his face for Fox show
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Emmy Contenders: ‘American Crime’ Newcomers on Joining TV’s Boldest Show: ‘It Was Terrifying’ (Video)
“That experience of being in high school — some of those residue feelings are with you forever,” Joey Pollari tells TheWrap
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Emmy Contender Sarah Paulson Talks About Hitting Career Peak at Age 41 in OJ Simpson Drama (Video)
“I keep looking over my shoulder thinking, ‘Is someone going to tell me this is a joke?’” actress in “The People v O.J. Simpson” tells TheWrap about her recent success
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Emmy Contender Jay Roach on How His 1964 Civil Rights Drama ‘All the Way’ Is ‘About Now’
“Political experience wasn’t a dirty word back then,” the director tells TheWrap
