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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BAFTA to John Lasseter: Never Mind the Critics, We Love You
Reviewers may have slammed “Cars 2,” but BAFTA/LA gives Pixar chief its highest honor; “Harry Potter” director David Yates also honored
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Palm Springs Sends 4 Shorts to the Academy
Prizes at the largest North American showcase for shorts honor everything from a Jordanian drama to Australian penis jokes
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‘Familiar Ground,’ ‘Wish Me Away’ Win Top LAFF Awards
Deadpan comedy and Chely Wright doc win jury awards; “Attack the Block” takes top audience prize
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Academy Elects 4 First-Time Governors
Gale Anne Hurd, David Newman, Richard Crudo and Michael Tronick join 43-member board, which drops to six women
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Whitey Bulger’s Hollywood Connections Stretch from Scorsese Film to Daytime TV
For the Boston mobster, who was arrested Wednesday in Santa Monica at the age of 81, the Hollywood connection was a strange one
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Emmy Ballots Due Friday
It’s the last chance for many voters to affect this year’s race, and also the final opportunity to vote for a season’s worth of work
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‘Midnight in Paris’ — Will It Be Woody Allen’s Biggest Hit Ever?
This week the comedy became the director’s top grosser in a quarter century; one more giant hurdle awaits
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Bad Ideas and Good Journalism in NYT Documentary ‘Page One’
Writer David Carr and director Andrew Rossi talk about the project, which screens Wednesday night at the L.A. Film Festival
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New Best Picture Rules Could Discard Large Number of Oscar Ballots (Exclusive)
Exclusive: The new rules for Best Picture nominations could dramatically change the number of voters whose ballots influence the slate of nominees
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James Franco’s New Movie: Tough Poetry, Graphic Sex
“It’s not ‘Pineapple Express,’” warns actor-director Franco when he introduces his Hart Crane biopic
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Atomic Bomb Drama Wins $15K Film Independent Grant
Organization also announces participants in Fast Track financing and filmmaker support program
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LAFF Opens: Superheroes, Violent Action, Whimsical Murder
Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Ryan Gosling, Richard Linklater, Matthew McConaughey add the requisite star power to the downtown L.A. Film Festival
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How Colin Hanks Crowd-Sourced His Doc on Tower Records
Shunned by normal financiers, Hanks quickly raises $60,000 on Kickstarter for his look at historic music retailer
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Jennifer Lawrence, Jesse Eisenberg, Russell Brand on Academy’s Invite List
List of 178 invitees includes a posthumous invitation to documentarian Tim Hetherington
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Sean Bean on ‘Thrones’: ‘Covered in Capes and Wool, With Ice Packs Under Your Clothes’
With on and offscreen shockers making this a week to remember, the star of “Game of Thrones” reflects on being a good man in a nest of snakes