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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‘Mon Roi’ Cannes Review: Scenes From This Marriage Are Exhausting
Maiwenn’s relationship drama is full of sound and fury, but it falls well short of other Cannes highlights
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‘Carol’ Cannes Review: Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara Shine in Bold Romance
Director Todd Haynes’ film is both an exquisite miniature and a majestic love story
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Matthew McConaughey on Cannes Reaction to ‘Sea of Trees’: ‘Anybody Has a Right to Boo’
Director Gus Van Sant points out that his Palme d’Or winner “Elephant” started a fistfight
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‘Mia Madre’ Cannes Review: Moving Italian Film Mixes Personal Drama, Showbiz Comedy
Nanni Moretti’s film features John Turturro, who plays a blowhard movie star with glee and relish
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‘Amy’ Cannes Review: Controversial Amy Winehouse Documentary Is Hard to Watch, Hard to Forget
Few people emerged unscathed in this disturbing chronicle of a talent undone by excess
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Woody Allen at Cannes: Life Has No Meaning, and His Amazon Series Could Be a ‘Cosmic Embarrassment’
“Moviemaking is a nice thing to keep you busy, like basket-weaving for the inmates in an institution,” says the prolific director
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Cannes Review: ‘The Lobster’ takes Colin Farrell to Funny, Surreal Hotel
The new film from the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is set in a creepy resort hotel that takes guests in for 45 days to either find true love or be turned into an animal
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‘Son of Saul’ Cannes Review: Rookie Director Shocks Festival With Wrenching Holocaust Drama
Laszlo Nemes’ powerful film finds a new way to look at the Holocaust cinematically
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‘Our Little Sister’ Cannes Review: Nothing Much Happens, and That’s Beautiful
Kore-eda Hirokazu’s film, a new Sony Classics acquisition, is resolutely quiet, understated and lovely
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In Cannes, Charlize Theron Embraces Girl Power in New ‘Mad Max’
Did Tom Hardy worry that his action movie was dominated by women? ‘Not for one minute’
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Cannes: Sony Classics Buys Competition Title ‘Our Little Sister’
Family drama from Kore-eda Hirokazu was acquired before its official Cannes premiere
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Emmy Race Begins: Winners and Losers in the TV Academy’s Latest Rule Shakeup
“Orange Is the New Black” and TV actors that don’t want to compete with movie stars are among the winners and losers this year
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Cannes Opening Night Features Big Stars, Big Misfire With ‘Standing Tall’
Army of A-listers including Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Julianne Moore, Sienna Miller turn up for the premiere of the relentlessly dark character study
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5 Things to Expect at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Cannes will speak English, Woody Allen won’t compete and the Palme d’Or winner is anybody’s guess
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Female Directors Added to Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Jury
Haifaa Al-Mansour and Nadine Labaki will join jury president Isabella Rosellini on the five-person panel
