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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Elvis Mitchell Hired to Curate LACMA Film Series
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Chinese Director Blasts State Censorship
Award-winning director says censors forced him to abandon two films; remarks are reported on official state news site
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L.A. Film Fest Preview: Event Opens Thursday, Sans Lakers Game 7 Traffic
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Appalachia: ‘Big Coal is a Criminal Enterprise’
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Academy’s Best-Pic Change: A Smart Way to Fix Something That Wasn’t Broken
Analysis: By instituting a variable number of Best-Picture nominees, AMPAS takes a savvy but almost unprecedented step in Oscar’s marquee category
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Academy Shakes Up Best Picture Category: Now It’s 5 to 10 Nominees
Change will result in variable number of nominees, depending on percentage of first-place votes
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Lisa Kudrow, Zach Galifianakis Win Webby Awards
The web stages its own awards show — which turns out to be as clunky as many of those old-media awards shows
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HollyShorts Festival to Honor Producers, Showcase Jennifer Aniston, Rachel Weisz
Honorees produced directorial debuts by Aniston, Weisz, Kate Hudson, Gwyneth Paltrow
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From landing Woody Allen to giving the Kodak Theater a baptism by fire, Ziskin was an inspiring and indefatigable producer of the Oscars
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‘Gandu,’ ‘Hot Coffee’ Win Top Jury Prizes at Seattle Film Festival
Audience awards go to the narrative feature “Paper Birds,” from Spain, and the documentary “To Be Heard”
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Seattle’s Film-Festival Marathon Winds Down with Rock and Politics
North America’s longest and best-attended film festival finishes with a slate of scathing documentaries and gentle character studies
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Diane Lane on Playing Reality TV’s First Real Star, Pat Loud
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