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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Why ‘Fargo’ Season 5 Makes a Case for Being Nice
TheWrap magazine: “How do people who want to be nice to their neighbors get their country back from this discourse that is so filled with vitriol?” says writer-producer Noah Hawley
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‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ Director on How to Make a Movie About a Song You Think Is Corny
TheWrap magazine: “I questioned whether I’d be the right person to tell the story (of “We are the World”), ’cause I wasn’t a huge fan of the song in the beginning,” says Bao Nguyen
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How ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ Became a Family Affair for Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead
TheWrap magazine: “The more you do of this, the more you want to do it with the people you love,” says McGregor of acting with his wife
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How Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough’s Instagram Friendship Led to ‘Under the Bridge’
TheWrap magazine: “We’ve had a professional admiration for a long time, to the point where it was funny that we hadn’t actually met,” says Gladstone
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‘Baby Reindeer’ Creator Richard Gadd Has ‘Conflicting Feelings’ About His Trauma Becoming a Pop Culture Sensation
TheWrap magazine: “‘Baby Reindeer’ comes with its challenges, but I think I’ll look back on this moment as a proud one,” says the Scottish comedian
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‘Baby Reindeer,’ ‘Colin From Accounts,’ ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ Win Gotham TV Awards
The inaugural television awards also gave honors to actors Andrew Scott, Harriet Dyer and Zine Tseng
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Why Morgan Neville’s Steve Martin Documentary Is Two Films in One
TheWrap magazine: “It was six months before I recognized, everything is going in two different directions, so let’s keep it going that way,” the Oscar-winning documentarian says
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‘Feud’ Star Tom Hollander Says Playing Truman Capote Was Like Learning to Surf
TheWrap magazine: “It’s just repetition,” the actor says
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Academy Promotes 4 in Executive Shuffle, Jacqueline Stewart Departs
Amy Homma, Jennifer Davidson, Jenny Galante and Matt Severson will assume new positions, with Stewart and Randy Haberkamp leaving the Academy
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Christine Vachon, Geoffrey Rush Named to Karlovy Vary Film Festival Jury
The Czech festival also announces a lineup of films that includes 15 first-time filmmakers alongside vets like Mark Cousins
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Cannes Film Festival Winners 2024: ‘Anora’ Wins Palme d’Or
Cannes 2024: Acting prizes go to Jesse Plemons for “Kinds of Kindness” and four actresses for “Emilia Perez”
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Cannes Awards Go to ‘Black Dog,’ ‘Universal Language,’ ‘Simon of the Mountain’
Cannes 2024: The Palme d’Or and other awards will be handed out at the festival’s closing ceremony on Saturday
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Academy Foundation Workers Approve 3-Year Union Contract
The union of archivists and film preservationists, which was formed in late 2022, voted unanimously to accept the agreement
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‘Parthenope’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino Whips Up More Great Beauty in Melancholic Tale
Cannes 2024: Gary Oldman has a small but essential role in another languorous romance from the Italian director
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‘Anora’ Review: Sean Baker Whips Up a Wild Stripper Romance Thriller Comedy, or Something Like That
Cannes 2024: The film swings wildly back and forth while also hanging onto its heart, and it’s just too much fun to worry about how much Baker is cramming in