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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‘Unfinished Spaces’ Tops Film Independent Grants
Documentary about architecture in Castro’s Cuba wins $40,000 grant at Indie Spirits Nominees Brunch
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Reviewing Oscar’s Foreign Films: Palm Springs Festival Edition
Hong Kong and Turkey score with auteurs, while Japan and Venezuela get hysterical
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Oscar Ballots Due Today — 10 Shockers That Could Happen
“The Artist” stumbling? Only five Best Picture noms? How Academy voters could confound expectations …
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‘The Artist’ Scores Best Picture at Critics’ Choice Movie Awards (Complete Winners List)
Michel Hazanavicius, director of the mostly silent black-and-white film, also wins; George Clooney and Viola Davis nab top acting honors
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Academy Confirms It: Michael Moore Has Killed the Doc Committees
Several days after Moore talked about the changes he spearheaded, AMPAS confirms that his overhaul of the process will take effect
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Martin Scorsese Receives His 2nd DGA Nomination This Week
Director nominated for his George Harrison documentary; DGA also nominates “The Interrupters,” “Project Nim”
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‘Descendants,’ ‘Moneyball,’ ‘Tinker Tailor’ Nominated for Scripter Awards
“A Dangerous Method” and “Jane Eyre” also nominated for USC award, which honors adapted screenplays and original authors
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‘Mapplethorpe,’ 10 Other Projects Chosen for Tribeca All Access
Narrative debut from doc director Ondi Timoner will be joined by 10 other films receiving grants and support from Tribeca
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‘The Interrupters’ Takes Top Prizes at Cinema Eye Honors
Snubbed by Oscar voters, Steve James accepts top documentary awards from renegade Academy governor Michael Moore
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Douglas Trumbull to Receive Academy’s Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Visual effects pioneer’s career stretches from “2001: A Space Odyssey” to “The Tree of Life”
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Can’t ‘Harry Potter’ Get Some Academy Love?
Academy voters showered “The Lord of the Rings” with love when it ended, but “Harry Potter” isn’t getting the same treatment
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Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston Nominated for BAFTA’s Rising Star Award
Eddie Redmayne, Chris O’Dowd and Adam Deacon also nominated for fan-voted award
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George Clooney’s Women: Shailene Woodley and Judy Greer Open Up About ‘The Descendants’
Two of the film’s female stars talk about typecasting, messiness and blissful ignorance
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‘Mortal Kombat’ Scores in Writers Guild’s New Media and Videogame Nominations
Videogame nominated in two categories; “30 Rock,” “Sons of Anarchy” and “The Walking Dead” saluted for new media spinoffs
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Bob Dylan to Perform at Critics’ Choice Movie Awards
Dylan booking comes in busy week for awards-show announcements; Robert Downey Jr., Natalie Portman booked by Globes, SAG