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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Joel McHale Brings His Smirk to Spirit Awards
Star of “Community” and host of “The Soup” to emcee Spirit Awards’ return to Santa Monica beach
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Good Morning Oscar, November 17: Remembering Ronni
Friends and colleagues react to a strange, tragic death
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Lisa Cholodenko: ‘The Kids Are All Right,’ But the Road Was Rough
Lisa Cholodenko set out to make a commercial movie — but Hollywood, she says, was skeptical
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WrapVideo: ‘Inside Job’ Director Charles Ferguson
Director of the sobering, infuriating financial-crisis documentary talks about making numbers entertaining, and how Obama blew it
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Good Morning Oscar, November 16: Hosts & Honorees
Palm Springs lands Colin and Natalie, but the Gothams can’t get Meryl and Philip
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Only 3 Animated Movies to Get Oscar Nominations
The field falls one film short of triggering a move to five nominees; 15 will qualify for Best Animated Feature
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Scott Rudin Wins PGA’s Selznick Award
Producer of “True Grit” and “The Social Network” to receive Producers Guild’s Selznick Award in January
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Good Morning Oscar, November 15: One Strange Frenchman
The non-televised Governors Awards hits the web, and Godard proves that it’s probably good he didn’t show up
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Governors Awards: 4 Oscars, 4+ Hours, No Godard … But It’s Fun
It was longer, more crowded and more star-studded than before, but the Governors Awards is still the most informal, fun Oscar show
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‘Boy,’ ‘Bedevilled’ Take Down Big Guns at AFI Fest Awards
Audiences also choose “Littlerock” and “Hamill,” but bypass Godard, Tavernier and Weerasethakul
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Governors Awards, Part Deux: Twists, Secrets and That Godard Problem
Sid Ganis on the perils of producing this weekend’s encore to the best-received Oscar show in years — the one that wasn’t televised
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Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale on ‘The Fighter’: Contenders or Palookas?
Cast members from David O. Russell’s Oscar contender tell SAG audience about doing justice to a tough story