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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Oscar Documentary Overhaul Creates Screener Overload for Voters (Exclusive)
Doc branch members are now swamped with more than 150 screeners
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Jane Fonda to Receive AFI’s Life Achievement Award
June 2014 tribute will air on TNT, the network founded by Fonda’s ex-husband, Ted Turner
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Lost in Space With Sandra Bullock: Alfonso Cuaron’s 10 Laws of ‘Gravity’
The Mexican director explains how he did the impossible — and why he couldn’t watch “2001”
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Oscar-Winning Director Returns to Iran as New Regime ‘Generates a Great Deal of Hope’
“A Separation’s” Asghar Farhadi, whose new “The Past” is also an Oscar contender, spent two years in France after clashing with the culture ministry
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Oscar Shakeup: ‘Captain Phillips’ Is Up, ‘Foxcatcher’ Is Out – and What’s Up With ‘Wolf of Wall Street’?
“Captain Phillips,” “Inside Llewyn Davis” and “Nebraska” look strong in a week that found two movies dropping out of the race and Martin Scorsese teetering on the brink
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AFI Fest Sets ‘Out of the Furnace’ Premiere, ‘Walter Mitty’ Screening, Bruce Dern Tribute (Exclusive)
Christian Bale thriller, Ben Stiller adaptation and “Nebraska” screening/tribute join centerpiece gala selections
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‘Foxcatcher’ Loses AFI Fest Premiere in Move to 2014
Hollywood festival will replace Bennett Miller’s drama with a yet-to-be-determined film
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Academy Overhauls Animated Nominations — But Who Will Benefit? (Exclusive)
AMPAS has quietly adopted a new system to expand the number of Animated Feature nominations voters and allow screeners
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Sony Classics Bumps Bennnet Miller’s Awards Bait ‘Foxcatcher’ to 2014
SPC says Miller wants more time to finish the film, which stars Steve Carrell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo
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‘Breaking Bad’ Win Gives Producer a Rare Emmy-Oscar Twofer
One of only six producers to win Best Picture and a top series Emmy, Mark Johnson tells TheWrap that he’s gunning for the Nobel next
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New L.A. Film Czar Tom Sherak: ‘For Me, Politics Is the Final Frontier’
Fighting a recurrence of prostate cancer, the former Academy president says his priority is to persuade politicians to keep production in L.A.
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Documentary Awards Go to Alex Gibney, Laura Poitras, Geralyn Dreyfous
Prolific director Gibney, post-9/11 chronicler Poitras and social change advocate Dreyfous will be honored at 2013 IDA Awards
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Emmys Make ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Modern Family’ Sweat Before Delivering Gold
Analysis: In a strange, confounding Emmy ceremony, voters go for upsets and spread the awards around before finally rewarding a few pre-show favorites
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6 Burning Questions to Ponder Before Watching the Emmys … If You Can Tear Yourself Away from ‘Breaking Bad’
Will the AMC series win its first drama-series Emmy in its fourth try this Sunday?
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Racing Legend Niki Lauda to ‘Rush’ Makers: Don’t Make Me Look Gay and Get Me to the Oscars
The Formula One driver agreed to cooperate with Ron Howard and Peter Morgan — as long as they could check a couple of items off his wish list
