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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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
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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
