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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Inside the 10-Year Odyssey to Make ‘Nebraska’ With Alexander Payne
Producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa talk with TheWrap about budget battles with Paramount and a Cannes debut that initially seemed like a disaster
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Santa Barbara Film Fest To Open With ‘Mission Blue,’ Show Silents for Super Bowl Sunday
Fest will launch with environmental documentary, and show “Wings” and “The Thief of Bagdad” during the big game
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Paul Mazursky To Receive WGA’s Screen Laurel Award
Honor for lifetime achievement in movies will go to the writer-director of “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” “An Unmarried Woman” and “Down and Out in Beverly Hills”
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Directors Guild Nominations: Steve McQueen, Alfonso Cuaron, David O. Russell, Martin Scorsese and Paul Greengrass
Notable directors who missed the cut in a crowded and competitive year include Alexander Payne, Spike Jonze and the Coen brothers
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Why U2’s Bono Considered Nelson Mandela His ‘Bandleader’
The Irish rockers wrote a song for “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” and say the South African leader has inspired them since they were teens
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5 Lessons From Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, U2 and More at the Palm Springs Film-Fest Gala
On a night of epic self-deprecation from big stars like Meryl, Julia and Sandra, a rock ‘n’ roller from Dublin stole the show
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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
