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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Mel Gibson will appear in a trailer for the long-running Czech Republic film festival that will pay tribute to film fans
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Sundance Adds Festivals in Hong Kong, London
Festival will take its programming internationally to Hong Kong in 2015 and England in 2016
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Christopher Walken Talks Retirement, Debuts New ‘When I Live My Life Over Again’ Clip (Exclusive Video)
Tribeca 2015: “I don’t want to be retired, because what would I do?” the iconic actor tells TheWrap
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Tribeca Documentaries “Armor of Light,” “Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle” Take Aim at Guns
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Joyous Tribeca Doc ‘Song of Lahore’ Shows How Pakistani Music Came Back From the Dead
Tribeca 2015: The country’s classical music was almost killed by Islamic repression, but it came alive onscreen and at the festival
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Garrett Hedlund and Oscar Isaac Play a Hollywood Star and the Devil in Tribeca’s ‘Mojave’ – But Who’s Worse?
Tribeca 2015: William Monahan’s film is sick and twisted, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing
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Jessica Biel, Patricia Arquette and Vincent Piazza Explore the Lure of Violence in New Tribeca Films
Tribeca 2015: “Bleeding Heart” and “The Wannabe” present characters drawn to brutality in dramatically different ways
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Cannes Film Festival Lineup Includes Woody Allen, Matthew McConaughey, Natalie Portman
Two animated films, “Inside Out” and “The Little Prince,” will also screen
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Tribeca Film Festival Makes Big Move … to Tribeca
With construction no longer clogging downtown streets, the festival can return to the neighborhood that inspired it
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Benedict Cumberbatch, James Corden Among BAFTA Television Nominees
International-series nominations go to “House of Cards,” “The Good Wife,” “Orange Is the New Black” and “True Detective”
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Lily Tomlin Film ‘Grandma’ to Open Los Angeles Film Festival
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Cannes Film Festival Makes Ingrid Bergman Its Poster Girl for 2015
Actress will appear in festival graphics on the 100th anniversary of her birth
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Animated Features Get the Biggest Boost From Twitter, Report Finds
Networked Insights says the average box-office value of a tweet is $560, but animated films are higher than that
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Chantal Rickards Named BAFTA Los Angeles’ First CEO
The British television executive will move from London to LA to take the newly-created position
