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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Testy Foreign Language-Exchange Mars Academy Love-Fest
Academy wins praise for its first all-members meeting, but tensions flare during foreign-language discussion
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Academy Changes Rules, Will Let Everyone Vote in Foreign-Language Category
Announcement of new rules also includes the unprecedented revelation that 90 percent of the Academy voted for this year's Oscars
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Lottery Winner Turns ‘Mini-Mogul’ With String of Little Movies
Cynthia Stafford's movies are low-profile, but the lotto winner insists she's enjoying her new life as a producer and financier
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How Deepa Mehta Overcame Protests to Film Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’
"My father said, 'There are two things in life that you never know. One is when you are going to die, and the other is how a film is going to do at the box office'"
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School of Visual Arts Leads Student Academy Awards Finalists
New York art school lands four films on Academy list; NYU, USC, CalArts, Ringling College and University of Texas also have multiple finalists
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‘The Way, Way Back,’ ‘The Spectacular Now’ to Highlight L.A. Film Fest
"Only God Forgives" and "Fruitvale Station" will also screen during Film Independent's June 13-June 23 festival in downtown Los Angeles
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Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Bling Ring’ to Close Seattle Film Festival
The story of youth gone wild will be one of 400-plus films to screen at the most-attended U.S. festival
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5 Lessons From the Tribeca Film Festival
From mind-boggling flex dancers to the unstoppably charming Zoe Kazan to Lil Bub the famous kitty, a few highlights (and missteps) from Tribeca 2013
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Tribeca Audience Awards Go to ‘The Rocket,’ ‘Bridegroom’
Kim Mordaunt and Linda Bloodworth Thomason win $25,000 prizes for Laotian drama, same-sex-marriage documentary
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Colin Firth & Emily Blunt: ‘Arthur Newman’ Is Not Just Indie, It’s Subversive
Emily Blunt: "We didn't really know it was love story — it's so unsentimental and cruel, it never really felt that way"
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5 George Jones Performances You Must Watch (Videos)
Jones' greatest, sung live, including a duet with his legendary wife, the late Tammy Wynette
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Cannes Adds Jim Jarmusch, Claude Lanzmann Films
Jarmusch's vampire romance joins main competition lineup; four other films added to Un Certain Regard and out-of-competition slots
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Tribeca Prizes Go to ‘The Rocket,’ ‘The Kill Team’
Wars in Laos and Afghanistan serve as backdrop to the top narrative and documentary films at the Tribeca Film Festival
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Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee and Christoph Waltz Join Cannes Jury
Directors Cristian Mungiu and Lynne Ramsay also join Steven Spielberg, who will preside over the panel
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Elaine Stritch at Tribeca: ‘Nobody Said Anything About Retiring’
Legendary cafe singer, subject of a Tribeca documentary, holds forth on Warren Beatty and Woody Allen as she prepares to leave Manhattan for Michigan
