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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Helen Mirren, Jude Law, John Malkovich and Others In the Best Film-Fest Trailers You’ll Ever See (Video)
Danny DeVito, Milos Forman and Harvey Keitel have also appeared in stylish, irreverent trailers for the Karlovy Vary Film Festival
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Oliver Stone Blasts Obama’s ‘Bush-Style Eavesdropping Techniques’; Says Edward Snowden Is a Hero
The politically-charged filmmaker spoke out during an appearance at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
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Banned Iranian Director Escapes House Arrest by Skyping to a Film Festival
Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies or leaving the country, but the Iranian director appears live onscreen at Karlovy Vary Film Festival for a screening of his new film
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Who Are the Likely Emmy Snubs in the Crowded Drama Category?
With so many great shows competing, series that once would have been shoo-ins for nominations will be left out this year
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10 Oscar Contender Long Shots: ‘Mud’, ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’, ‘Before Midnight’ (Photos)
Few of them are legitimate Best Picture contenders, but here are 10 movies whose creators could conceivably get tickets to the Dolby Theatre next March 2.
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The Oscar Race So Far: Let’s Hope the Best Is Yet to Come
Apart from "Before Midnight" and some visual-effects extravaganzas, the first half of 2013 has been notably light on awards movies
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Emmys: Inside the Unexpected Body Count at Elegant ‘Downton Abbey’
Executive producer Gareth Neame on why he didn't mind the the deaths of Matthew and Sybil — and those new "Downton" clothing and furniture lines
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Is It Time to Expose the Academy’s Secret Committees?
Sources say the AMPAS governors may look at a system that hides the names of committee members even from the people who voted them in
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Emmys: ‘Veep’ Writer/Director: Not All Politicians Are Evil – a Good 1% Are Not
Armando Iannucci has raised profanity and insults to an art form with three scorching and sidesplitting looks at politics
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Emmys: Sorry, Benedict and Dominic, Voters Like Actors Who Play Real People
History shows that trophies tend to go to actors that play real people in the Miniseries or Movie category
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Emmys: How the Miniseries Rose From the Dead
Left for dead a couple of years ago, miniseries now dominate TV movies in the Emmy longform categories
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Emmys: Lily Rabe’s Sympathy for the Devil
The "American Horror Story: Asylum" star on playing an innocent young nun who turns evil when she’s possessed by the devil
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Emmys: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau on the Naked Truth About the ‘Game of Thrones’ Kingslayer
The villainous Jaime Lannister talks about loving your sister too much, his toughest day of shooting and why the teenage King Joffrey is like Justin Bieber
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Emmys: How ‘The Amazing Race’ Fights the ‘Been There, Done That’ Syndrome
After 22 seasons, 850,000 miles and close to 100 countries — and after winning nine of the 10 Emmys for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program — what hasn't it done?
