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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Writers Guild Nominations: ‘Her,’ ‘Nebraska,’ ‘August: Osage County’ Have the Write Stuff
WGA draws from a far smaller field than the Academy, with “12 Years a Slave” among the ineligible screenplays
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Producers Guild Nominations: ‘Wolf of Wall Street,’ ‘Blue Jasmine’ Make the Cut
One of the most reliable Oscar predictors leaves out “Inside Llewyn Davis,” “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”
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HFPA Warns Studios About Misleading Golden Globes Ads
“A nomination is not a win,” writes Theo Kingma in the wake of Weinstein Co. and Fox Searchlight ads
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Carey Mulligan on the Coen Brothers: They Pushed Me to Be Nastier and Say More Swear Words
Forget about the sweet Carey Mulligan you think you know — in “Inside Llewyn Davis,” she gets to sing, scream and swear
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U2 To Receive Palm Springs Film Fest Award
Rock band will get the festival’s Sonny Bono Visionary Award, giving Bono a Bono Award
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Behind the Music of ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: Fare Thee Well, Greenwich Village (Exclusive Video)
The Coens, T Bone Burnett and Oscar Isaac get all folked up recreating the music of a musical scene about to end
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5 Burning Questions As Oscar Voting Begins
“12 Years a Slave” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” are among the intriguing wild cards as voters begin filling out their ballots
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Oscar Voting Begins Friday
Nominations balloting will use a streamlined system of online voting this year
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5 Lessons Jonah Hill Learned From Martin Scorsese on ‘Wolf of Wall Street’
In Scorsese’s wild, excessive film, Hill says he engaged in the kind of depravity he’d never do in a comedy
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Jason Reitman on Directing ‘Labor Day’: ‘It Felt Like Making My First Movie All Over Again’
The director talks with TheWrap about learning how make a film without snappy dialogue.
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Kate Winslet on the Advantages of Being Hot and Sticky in ‘Labor Day’: ‘It Was Like a Pressure Cooker’
The Oscar-winning actress embraced a character who makes inexplicable decisions in Jason Reitman’s unconventional romance
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Martin Scorsese on ‘Wolf of Wall Street’: I Wanted It Big and Ferocious
The veteran director talks with TheWrap about fighting the ratings board and seeing uncomfortable echoes of Hitler in his black comedy of excess
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Oscars-Style Recount Would Give Critics’ Choice Awards 8 Best-Pic Nominees, Not 10 (Exclusive)
In TheWrap’s annual recount of Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ballots, the use of the Oscar process would reduce the number of 2013 nominees by two
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‘Shame on You!’ Says Academy Member to Martin Scorsese at ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Screening
Actress says Scorsese’s wild, divisive three-hour bacchanalia prompts elevator confrontation at AMPAS screening in Los Angeles
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‘The Wind Rises’ Director Hayao Miyazaki Goes Out in a Blaze of Controversy – and Beauty
The Oscar winner has struck a nerve with his last film
