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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Best & Worst of Oscar’s Foreign Contenders, Part 1
A survey of more than 30 contenders begins with politics, neo-neorealism, silliness and a potential Oscar winner
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Good Morning Oscar, January 13: Lend Him Your Ears
Awards shows keep adding awards (including a new one for Quentin Tarantino), and Rotten Tomatoes officially crowns its own top dogs
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Can Oscar’s Foreign-Language Problems Ever Be Fixed?
No other category has taken such drastic steps to correct its deficiencies — but the complaints continue
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Michael Seligman to Supervise Oscars, Again
Veteran producer (and gift basket originator) to work on the Oscars for the 34th time
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DGA’s Doc Noms Honor ‘Inside Job,’ ‘Waiting for Superman’
“Restrepo,” “Client 9” and “Last Train Home” also receive directing nominations
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Just Call It ‘Tyler Perry’s Image Awards’ This Year
Writer/director/actor’s projects score 19 nominations, including almost entire Supporting Actress category for “For Colored Girls”
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Good Morning Oscar, January 12: The Fighters
A critics dinner gets ugly, and the Globes find unanimity
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Ryan Kavanaugh Loses Academy Appeal on ‘The Fighter’
Exclusive: Relativity chief runs afoul of Academy, Producers Guild rule limiting nominated producers to three
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‘Modern Family,’ ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Top DGA’s TV Nominees
Martin Scorsese, Barry Levinson among directors nominated for TV work
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Oscar Expands Pre-Show to 90 Minutes
Academy triples length of official arrivals show, names Charlie Haykel and Juliane Hare producers
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Costume Designers Honor Halle Berry, Book Kristin Davis
CDG Awards choose “Sex and the City” actress to host, announce honors for Berry, Joel Schumacher and others
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‘Swan’s’ Aronofsky: ‘I Like That People Wonder What the Hell I’m Doing’
New DGA nominee talks about having fun, going too far, and why he’s making a comic-book movie
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Fincher, Aronofsky, Hooper Top DGA Nominees
David O. Russell, Christopher Nolan also included in nominees for crucial guild award; Coen Brothers snubbed