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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Hungary, Norway Join Foreign-Language Oscar Race
The Netherlands, Serbia also among countries to announce official selections this week
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Venice Fest: Roman Polanski Gets Mean, Keira Knightley Gets Hysterical
First three days of the fest feature a handful of respected movies, plus Madonna’s fancy flop
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Cynthia Swartz Launches New PR Firm — Just in Time for Oscar Season
Veteran awards consultant brings two execs from her old company, 42West, to launch Strategy PR/Consulting
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Madonna’s New ‘W.E.’ Film Ripped By Critics: ‘Simpering Folly’
Madonna’s take on the Wallis Simpson story is savaged by some critics, grudgingly tolerated by others
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‘The Descendants,’ ‘A Dangerous Method’ Headed to Telluride
Colorado festival unveils its lineup the day before the fest begins; Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese films also represented
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Jessica Chastain: This Year’s Model Knows ‘It Will Never Happen Again’
She came out of nowhere in “The Tree of Life” — but with “The Help,” “The Debt” and five more movies on the way, she’s inescapable
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George Clooney’s ‘Ides of March’ — Is It a Contender?
Exit polls after Venice Film Festival debut of Clooney’s political drama show mixed reaction
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Academy Funds Telluride’s Guest Director Program with $50K Grant
AMPAS underwrites program for fourth straight year; Caetano Veloso to serve as Guest Director
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Watch Out, Oscar: Here Come the Film Festivals
Venice, Telluride and Toronto will spell glory or doom for awards contenders over the next three weeks
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Paul Reubens, Chris Colfer to Present at Creative Arts Emmys
September 10 show will also include Rebecca Romijn, Walton Goggins, Priscilla Presley
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Pedro Almodovar Named AFI Fest’s Guest Artistic Director
Oscar-winning Spanish provocateur will screen “Laws of Desire,” program sidebar of his favorite films
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Guillermo del Toro on Tyrannical Producers, Hammer-and-Chisel Scenes
Making “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark”: “I said, Let me tell you this, Troy: You’re shooting that scene. It has to open like that. It doesn’t go, it stays”
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How Corey Stoll Manned Up for Hemingway in ‘Midnight in Paris’
“His voice was actually kind of high and reedy, with a little bit of a lisp — it doesn’t fit at all with what we see in the film”
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It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll, But Toronto Likes It
One year after Bruce Springsteen took the festival by storm, Toronto rocks out with U2, Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Paul McCartney