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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‘Broken English’ Review: Marianne Faithfull Gets a Dark, Complicated Documentary
Venice Film Festival: The film from Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth s part documentary, part art project, part philosophical treatise, part celebration and part provocation
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‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Is This the Anti-‘Bohemian Rhapsody?’
Telluride Film Festival: Scott Cooper’s film, starring Jeremy Allen White, is a bracing and moving antidote to beefed-up, heavily fictionalized rock biopics
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‘Highway 99 a double album’ Review: Ethan Hawke Throws a Long Party for Merle Haggard
Telluride Film Festival: Hawke’s three-hour documentary features more than two dozen performances of Haggard’s songs by Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash and more
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‘No Other Choice’ Review: Park Chan-wook’s Black Comedy Is Really Black and Really Comic
Venice Film Festival: The Korean director’s take on unemployment turns downright homicidal
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‘After the Hunt’ Review: Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri Face Off in Hot-Button Campus Drama
Venice Film Festival: Luca Guadagnino uses a formidable array of actors to explore woke culture in a twisty, stylish way
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‘Jay Kelly’ Review: George Clooney Is Damn Good at Playing a Pampered Movie Star
Venice Film Festival: And Noah Baumbach is back to nailing that tricky balance with a film that moves like a comedy but has a lot on its mind
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‘Bugonia’ Review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons Sure Love Going Crazy for Yorgos Lanthimos
Venice Film Festival: The Greek director tackles conspiracy theories in another wacky extravaganza, even if it isn’t quite as satisfying as “Poor Things” or “The Lobster”
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‘Hamnet’ and ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Top Telluride Film Festival Lineup
Edward Berger’s “Ballad of a Small Player” and documentaries on Paul McCartney, Merle Haggard and E. Jean Carroll will also premiere at the Colorado festival
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‘Ghost Elephants’ Review: Who but Werner Herzog Could Lead Us on This Mystical Search for Giant Pachyderms?
Venice Film Festival: As usual, Herzog finds the poetry in nature and looks beyond the facts to the myths and legends that make them worthy of his attention
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‘Mother’ Review: Noomi Rapace Plays Mother Teresa in Odd, Bold Drama
Venice Film Festival: “Mother” quite deliberately takes a small slice of a large life and treats it in ways that are both contemplative and assaultive
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Kathy Bates’ Road to Her Record-Setting ‘Matlock’ Nomination: ‘I Had No Expectations’
TheWrap magazine: To Bates, her show’s creator, Jennie Snyder Urman, is “the goose that laid the golden egg”
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Exhaustion and Elation: The Story of ‘Adolescence’ as Told by Its Women
TheWrap magazine: Emmy nominees Erin Doherty and Christine Tremarco detail an experience that took a physical and emotional toll
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Awards Season Is Dead. Long Live Awards Season.
As Emmy voting ends, Oscar season will explode at the fall festivals
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Here’s a New Wrinkle in the Newman Family Composing Dynasty: Father-Daughter Emmy Nominees
TheWrap magazine: Thomas Newman and his daughter Julia discuss composing for “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”
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Noah Wyle Isn’t Happy That the Healthcare Crisis Has Given ‘The Pitt’ Such Rich Material for Drama
TheWrap magazine: “This isn’t a red or blue thing, this is a human thing,” the Emmy-nominated actor and producer says
