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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Number of submissions paves the way for a full slate of five nominees
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Cate Blanchett To Receive Santa Barbara Fest’s Performer of the Year Award
“Blue Jasmine” actress has received four Oscar nominations, and won once
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Hurricane Sandy Concert Movie ’12 12 12′ – No Need to Repeat Media’s ‘Disaster Porn’
Amir Bar-Lev’s documentary features Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Kayne West … and no crying storm victims
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Why Jared Leto Dropped His Guitar and Put on a Skirt for ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
As a transgendered drug addict, Leto makes an eye-catching return to acting after spending nearly six years focusing on music
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Why Matthew McConaughey Embraced a Homophobe ‘Bastard’ in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
The actor talks with TheWrap about finding the humanity in Ron Woodruff and his transition from studio leading man to indie actor
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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
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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
