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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Emmy Breakout Bob Odenkirk on How ‘Better Call Saul’ Is a ‘Crazy Bit of Lottery Winning’ – Watch His #selfieinterview (Video)
Actor says he didn’t like the character he played on “Breaking Bad,” but he likes the younger version of that guy on AMC’s spin-off show
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Emmy Breakout Tracee Ellis Ross on ‘Black-ish’ Pride, ‘Newb’ Status – Watch Her #selfieinterview (Video)
Sitcom star finds herself dealing with hot-button issues of racial identity between the laughs on her show
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Emmy Breakouts ‘Kingdom’ Make ‘Unreasonable Commitment’ to Martial Arts Series: Watch Their #selfieinterview (Video)
Frank Grillo, Matt Lauria and Jonathan Tucker of the DirecTV series say their work is “physical, and also deeply spiritual”
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Emmy Contender Will Forte on Writing, Acting in ‘Last Man on Earth’: ‘Fascinating, Terrifying and Exhilarating’
“Everything has been a real eye-opener,” Forte tells TheWrap of the workload
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Mary Steenburgen on Juggling 3 Series and 7 Other Emmy Contender Quickies
The actress appeared on “Justified,” “Togetherness” and “Last Man on Earth,” and is now on “Orange Is the New Black” as well
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Emmy Contender Carrie Brownstein on Balancing ‘Portlandia’ by Day, Rock Stardom by Night
“For me, it is part of the same world,” she tells TheWrap of dividing time between the sketch comedy show and her band Sleater-Kinney
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Emmy Wrap: Will Forte, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein and Duplass Brothers Do Comic Double Duty
For actors who also serve as showrunners, each new season is an invitation to exhaustion
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Emmy Contender ‘Stockholm, Pennsylvania’ – The Creepiest Lifetime Movie Ever?
Emmy Wrap 2015: The disturbing chronicle of an abduction is nothing like the network’s usual fare
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Emmy Contender Bill Paxton Fights to Portray Relative Sam Houston in ‘Texas Rising’
The actor says he was determined to do justice to a distant cousin in the History miniseries
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Why Emmy Voters Should Give David Letterman a Shiny Gold Goodbye
A farewell Emmy will no doubt make the least sentimental guy in late night uncomfortable, but so what?
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9 Questions With ‘Veep’ Star Anna Chlumsky: Emmy Contender Quickie
“It shows Amy at her most naked,” Chlumsky says of her character’s epic rant at Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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5 Things Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Needs to Land an Oscar Best Picture Nomination
It’d take rave reviews, strong box-office returns and help from the Academy rulebook
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‘Inside Out’ Director Pete Docter: The Concept Was Easy, the Movie Was Hard
“It was a shiny jewel in the distance that we were working toward,” the director tells TheWrap
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Emmy Wrap Cover Story: ‘American Crime’ Creator on Race, Violence and Justice in Troubled Times (Video)
“We’re putting ourselves in the public square,” John Ridley tells TheWrap
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Southpaw’ Packs a Punch, Between the Boxing-Movie Cliches
The muscled-up actor makes good on Harvey Weinstein’s awards talk for the boxing movie
