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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James Franco’s New Movie: Tough Poetry, Graphic Sex
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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
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Elvis Mitchell Hired to Curate LACMA Film Series
Embattled film program at L.A. County Museum of Art gets a celebrated curator who’s no stranger to controversy
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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
Festival, which had its opening night both disrupted and buoyed by Game 7 of the NBA Finals at Staples last year, returns downtown
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Appalachia: ‘Big Coal is a Criminal Enterprise’
Kennedy activist calls coal mining in West Virginia a subversion of democracy in a new documentary based on his writing
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Academy’s Best-Pic Change: A Smart Way to Fix Something That Wasn’t Broken
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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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Laura Ziskin on the Oscars: Dull Moments Grow Like a Fungus
From landing Woody Allen to giving the Kodak Theater a baptism by fire, Ziskin was an inspiring and indefatigable producer of the Oscars