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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PGA to Top-Honor 007 Producers Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
The PGA’s David O. Selznick Achievement Award has in the past gone to Clint Eastwood, Billy Wilder, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall
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Steve McQueen, Annette Bening, Miles Teller Chats Added to AFI Fest Lineup
Hollywood festival also adds conversations and panels with Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson, Dane DeHaan and Greta Gerwig
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Hard-Hitting IDA Awards Nominees Include Documentaries ‘Act of Killing,’ ‘Blackfish,’ ‘Stories We Tell’
International Documentary Association also nominates “The Square,” “Let the Fire Burn”
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Academy Simplifies, Streamlines Its Online Voting System
On the heels of a year of rampant complaints but record turnout, AMPAS eliminates extra steps
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Sex, Lies and Invective: Inside the Whole ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ Mess
From the NC-17 rating to the war of words between the director and his stars, a Palme d’Or-winning art movie has become a hotbed of controversy
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MPAA Can’t Enforce Rating as NY Theater Ignores NC-17 for ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’
The ratings board would like to keep everybody under 18 away from the Cannes prize winner, but its ratings are voluntary
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’12 Years a Slave’ Leads Gotham Awards Nominations
“Inside Llewyn Davis” and “Before Midnight” are also competing in top category; “Nebraska” and “Mud” were shut out entirely
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‘Gravity,’ ’12 Years a Slave’ Battle the Backlash From Film-Fest Raves
The reaction from Toronto, Telluride and Venice was so extravagant this year that a couple of films have nowhere to go but down
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AFI Fest Adds Oscar Foreign Contenders, Eli Roth, ‘Mary Poppins’
Final additions to Hollywood festival program also include new works from Drake Doremus, Kim Ki-duk and Jafar Panahi
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‘Fruitvale Station,’ ‘Her,’ ‘Nebraska’ Get Tributes as SF Film Society Launches Awards Event
SFFS’s attempt to participate in awards season will also salute documentary “The Square”
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With Hollywood Film Awards, the Silly Season Has Arrived
In a town where publicity always trumps credibility, even Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts don’t really care how legitimate the awards are
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‘God Loves Uganda’ Director: Anti-Gay Crusaders Are Losing in the U.S., But Winning Around the World
Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams says evangelical Christians are targeting the developing world in the wake of increasing tolerance in the West
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Here They Are, All 151 Oscar-Qualifying Documentaries (Exclusive)
The record-setting deluge of eligible docs ranges from “The Act of Killing” to “Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride”
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‘Slave’ Writer: Hollywood Making GOP Mistake of Not Tracking Blacks
Screenwriter says Hollywood is overlooking the black audience the same way the Republicans did in the last election
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AFI Fest Adds ‘Lone Survivor’ Premiere, ‘August: Osage County’ Gala
Films by Spike Jonze, Ralph Fiennes, Stephen Frears, Asghar Farhadi and Errol Morris also join lineup
