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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Oscar Frontrunners’ Critical Weekend: What ‘American Hustle,’ ’12 Years a Slave’ and ‘Gravity’ Need to Do
This weekend’s SAG and PGA Awards will set the tone for phase two of Oscar campaigning
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Critics Choice Movie Awards: ’12 Years a Slave’ Wins Best Picture; Blanchett, McConaughey Win Acting Awards
The Broadcast Film Critics Association’s picks have been a fairly reliable predictor of Oscar success
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Oscar Nominations Trivia: Jennifer Lawrence 3-Peat, Sandra Bullock Pulls a Brad Pitt, Woody Allen Beats Himself
A few records fell, a married couple was nominated and the Best Actress nominees ruled
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David O. Russell on ‘American Hustle’ Nominations: ‘You Try to Expect Nothing’
Russell’s last four films have yielded a record 11 acting nominations, and that puts the director “over the moon”
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Sandra Bullock on Oscar Nomination: ‘Gravity’ ‘Revitalized Me’ as an Actress
The best actress nominee tells TheWrap she was “constantly agitated and frustrated” that she couldn’t do what director Alfonso Cuaron wanted
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Oscar Nomination Takeaways: Three’s a Crowd in Best Picture Race
The 2014 nominations gave a pretty good sense of a rich, varied year in cinema, but a trio of contenders stand above the rest
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Sound Editors Nominate ‘Gravity,’ ’12 Years a Slave’
The two frontrunners top all films in nominations for the MPSE’s Golden Reel Awards
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Alex Gibney To Receive Writers Guild Award for WikiLeaks Documentary
Gibney’s “We Steal Secrets” is the first doc to receive the guild’s Paul Selvin Award
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Oscar Nomination Predictions: So Crowded Meryl Streep and Robert Redford May Get Squeezed Out
In a brutally competitive year, some iconic stars may be left out on nominations morning
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‘The Lone Ranger,’ ‘One Chance’ Lead Make-Up and Hair Styling Nominations
After nearly a decade without awards, guild nominates every film on the Oscar makeup-and-hairstyling shortlist
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Forest Whitaker, ‘Before Midnight’ Team To Receive Special Critics’ Choice Movie Awards
Whitaker, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater will be given special honors at ceremony on Thursday
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American Society of Cinematographers Goes Indie With New Spotlight Award
ASC honor will go to films without wide distribution; “Ida,” “Renoir” and “Winter Nomads” are first nominees
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Oscar Show Theme: It’s All About the Heroes
Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron say the upcoming show will be a celebration of onscreen heroics, from real-life heroes to superheroes
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‘Gravity’ Soars in Visual Effects Society Nominations
Alfonso Cuaron’s film is so dominant that Sandra Bullock’s character is nominated as Outstanding Animated Character
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Veteran TV Actor Frank Marth Dead at 91
His career began in the early days of television with “Cavalcade of Stars” and “The Honeymooners”
