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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Songwriter Loses Oscar Nomination Over Illegal Lobbying
Former AMPAS governor Bruce Broughton is stripped of his nomination for “Alone Yet Not Alone”
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Toronto Film Festival to Studios: It’s Telluride or Us
The huge fall festival institutes a new policy, restricting its prime first-weekend slots to movies that haven’t played another North American festival
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Remembering Tom Sherak: He Loved Hollywood and It Loved Him
An Academy president and an Oscar blogger started new jobs at the same time
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Tom Sherak, L.A. Film Czar and Former Academy President, Dead at 68
Longtime distribution and marketing executive was recently named film czar by L.A. mayor
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Alfonso Cuaron Wins Directors Guild Award for ‘Gravity’
“Breaking Bad,” “30 Rock” and “Behind the Candelabra” win TV awards; “The Square” takes documentary prize
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‘Like Father, Like Son’ Asks Serious Question: ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda talks with TheWrap about fatherhood, landing a Steven Spielberg remake and recovering from an Oscar snub
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Academy Gives ’20 Feet From Stardom’ Nominations to Director, 2 Producers
Documentary branch committee makes exception to usual rule limiting doc nominees to two
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Academy Vows No Best Picture Tie at the Oscars
AMPAS tells TheWrap that they’ll use tiebreakers in the event of a deadlock
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Academy Overrules Producers Guild, Gives Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Credits
The film’s director and star had been denied producing nominations by the PGA
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Producers Guild Awards End in Tie: ‘Gravity’ and ’12 Years a Slave’
Unprecedented result gives all three top Oscar contenders a big guild win in a tight, competitive race
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SAG Awards: Happy Ending for ‘American Hustle’ Makes It Oscar Frontrunner – For Now
After a rough start, David O. Russell’s film takes the first key guild award as the real road to the Oscars begins
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SAG Awards: ‘Lone Survivor,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ Win Stunt Awards
In awards announced from the red carpet, “Game of Thrones” scores its third consecutive win in the category
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David O. Russell to Receive Outstanding Director Award From Santa Barbara Fest
Honor in announced on the heels of Russell’s “American Hustle” landing 10 Oscar nominations
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‘Game of Thrones’ Leads TV Sound Editing Nominations
Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Awards also nominate “Boardwalk Empire,” “Breaking Bad,” “The Walking Dead,” “Sons of Anarchy” and more
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‘All Is Lost’ and ‘Bad Grandpa’? Oscar Screenings Make for Strange Double Features
“All Is Lost” and “Bad Grandpa” back-to-back is just one example of the delightfully strange bedfellows created by official AMPAS screening schedule
