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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Satellite Awards Nominate ‘Inception’ (and Everything Else)
International Press Academy leaves no stone unturned in looking for people to nominate
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Vera Farmiga, Drake Doremus in Sundance Competition Lineup
Festival selects 115 films to screen in competition for its 2011 edition
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Coen Brothers’ ‘True Grit’ Is True, Gritty … and Goofy
A fine film but not a game-changer, “True Grit” is dark, moody and dramatic — and then it veers into broad comedy
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Good Morning Oscar, December 1: Quest for Pizazz
It’s apparently Neil Patrick Harris’ fault that the Academy hired hosts who aren’t pizazzy enough
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Live-Action Shortlist Promotes Student Oscar Winners
Two Student Academy Award winners and a slate of international films make up the second AMPAS short-film shortlist
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Shortlist for Oscar Animated Shorts Includes Pixar, Bill Plympton
New Roadrunner/Coyote film also makes the shortlist
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‘Winter’s Bone,’ ‘Kids Are All Right’ Top Spirit Award Nominations
“127 Hours,” “Black Swan,” “Greenberg” also on mainstream list of indie nominees
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Good Morning Oscar, November 30: Young Americans
Youth is served on the Oscar telecast … which has seen weirder choices
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Gotham Awards Honor ‘Winter’s Bone’
“The Oath,” snubbed by the Oscars, named Best Documentary; “Black Swan” and “The Kids Are All Right” are shut out
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Oscar Hosts Franco & Hathaway: New Blood, or Favoritism?
The choice of two potential nominees doesn’t concern the Academy, but others worry that AMPAS has broken “a casting taboo”
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James Franco, Anne Hathaway to Host Oscars
Choice could open the door to the nearly unprecedented possibility of nominees hosting the show
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‘True Grit’ First Impressions Leak as Late Showdown Nears
A sprinkling of clues pop up on Twitter as the Coen Brothers’ “True Grit” — maybe the year’s final big awards contender — quietly starts to screen
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‘Black Swan’ & ‘The Fighter’: Too Weird for Oscar?
They’re two of the hot movies of the moment, but are Oscar voters ready for Darren Aronofsky and David O. Russell?
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Good Morning Oscar, November 26: Dancing Queen
The Best Actress race apparently nears its conclusion, and Stephen King picks favorites