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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‘Bright Lights’ Cannes Review: Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Documentary Is Very Funny, Brutally Honest
“We didn’t know it was going to get that dark,” co-director Fisher Stevens tells TheWrap
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Cannes: Martin Scorsese-Robert De Niro Mob Drama ‘The Irishman’ Goes to STX for $50 Million
Film is based on the deathbed confessions of a mob hitman who claimed to have killed Jimmy Hoffa
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‘From the Land of the Moon’ Cannes Review: Marion Cotillard Shines in Conventional Period Piece
Restrained drama is quietly subversive in its look at female sexuality
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‘The BFG’ Cannes Review: Steven Spielberg, Roald Dahl Have a Great Character, Not a Great Movie
Mark Rylance’s performance as the Big Friendly Giant is the melancholy heart of an adventure story that misses the magic
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‘The Handmaiden’ Cannes Review: Park Chan-wook Turns Up the Kinkiness
Korean director moves into clear NC-17 territory with lavish sex scenes in period thriller
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‘Toni Erdmann’ Cannes Review: Spectacular Father-Daughter Comedy Knocks the Festival for a Loop
In a festival whose films often deal in shades of darkness, this delightful blast of exuberance is also deeply touching
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‘Slack Bay’ Cannes Review: Bruno Dumont’s WTF Comedy Is an Impressive, Maddening Mess
The French director’s film is impressively nuts and over-the-top, even if it’s not very satisfying
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‘Sieranevada’ Cannes Review: Patience Is Rewarded in Bold but Agonizingly Slow Gut Punch
That reward could be the Palme d’Or if George Miller and his fellow jurors are in the right mood
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11 Best Cannes Moments, From Madonna to Jerry Lewis’ Hotel-Trashing Poodle (Photos)
Cannes veterans tell TheWrap their favorite stories about the festival
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Cannes Film Festival Grapples With Netflix, Amazon – and Terrorism?
Amid increased security, Woody Allen will kick off a high-toned temple of cinema and a three-ring circus of celebrity
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25 Buzziest Movies at Cannes 2016, From Woody Allen’s ‘Cafe Society’ to ‘Purple Rain’
Films at the Cannes Film Festival range from Hollywood popcorn movies to austere art-house offerings to Prince’s classic
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Mark Rylance, ‘Wolf Hall’ Win BAFTA TV Awards
“Transparent” wins the award for best international series
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Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, ‘General Hospital’ Win Daytime Emmys
Other awards go to Dr. Oz, Craig Ferguson, “The Talk,” “The Chew” and “CBS Sunday Morning”
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‘The Mind of a Chef,’ ‘The Young and the Restless’ Win at Daytime Emmys Creative Arts Awards
Shows that won multiple awards also include “General Hospital,” “Odd Squad” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”
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Marthe Keller, Ruben Ostlund, Diego Luna Get Jury Duty at Cannes
The festival’s Un Certain Regard, Camera d’Or and Short Films and Cinefondation panels also include Radu Muntean, Naomi Kawase and Josée Croze
