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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‘Frozen’ Named Top Animated Film at Annie Awards
Disney dominates as ceremony spreads the wealth among many of the year’s animated films
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‘Gravity’ Wins American Society of Cinematographers Award
TV awards go to “Game of Thrones,” “Killing Lincoln,” “Drunk History”
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Writers Guild Awards: ‘Her’ and ‘Captain Phillips’ Win Screenplay Prizes (Complete List)
“Stories We Tell” wins documentary award; “Breaking Bad,” “Veep” and “House of Cards” win major TV honors
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John C. Reilly, Kevin Pollack to Host Oscar Week Events
Programs devoted to nominees in the animation, shorts, documentary, foreign-language and makeup categories will be joined by a new event showcasing nominated music
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Oscar’s Live Action Shorts: Will Voters Want to Laugh, Cry or Cover Their Eyes?
The all-European field of nominees ranges from slapstick comedy to harrowing drama
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Oscar’s Animated Shorts: It’s Mickey Mouse vs. Toaster Dog
In another tight and strong category, a Disney cartoon faces stiff competition from a variety of inventive short films
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Tom Sherak Memorial: Towering Movie Mogul, But ‘As a Man of Goodness, He Stood Even Taller’
His movie-business prowess was rarely mentioned, but the crowd was full of people who knew all about it
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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
