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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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
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Visual Effects Society Goes for ‘Inception’
Christopher Nolan tops film categories with four nods; “Boardwalk Empire” leads all nominees with five
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Academy Honors 10 Sci-Tech Achievements
Honors named for the folks who put the science in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Fox Solves the SAG Screener Problem via iTunes
“127 Hours,” “Black Swan” and “Conviction” available to 100,000 voters online
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Alan Menken on Oscar’s Tangled Music Process
The man who’s won more Oscars than any other living person looks at a process that has rewarded him, and worked against him