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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Halle Berry Film Answers Oscar Eligibility Questions
Film was on Academy’s eligible list in 2009, but emails and the Academy confirm it didn’t actually qualify that year
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Spirit Awards Return to Saturday at the Beach
After relocating for a year to downtown L.A., the show goes back to its traditional tent in Santa Monica, on Feb. 26
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Doc Awards Go to Online Viewing, Voting
Hot-button topic, which the Oscars may need to implement someday, adopted by International Documentary Association
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Kevin Smith: ‘I’m Better than Spielberg’ (at Podcasting)
“Clerks” director opens a Hollywood theater for podcasting, and says talking is more fulfilling than making movies
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David Lynch Rounds Up the Usual Suspects for AFI Fest
Offbeat director picks a mainstream group of films for Hollywood festival
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Jean-Luc Godard to Academy: Thanks, but I Still Won’t Show Up
The honorary Oscar recipient will not attend the Academy’s November Governors Awards ceremony, AMPAS reports
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Good Morning Oscar, October 25: The Rom-Com Bias
One actress works the room, and another fights that prejudice against romantic comedies
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L.A. Critics to Honor Paul Mazursky
Director and indie film pioneer to receive Career Achievement Award from Los Angeles Film Critics Association
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Oscar Animated Field Inches Toward Magic Number
“Summer Wars” enters the fray, leaving the category two films shy of the magic number
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Good Morning Oscar, October 22: Fests & Deals & Blood
Summing up a few days worth of film festivals, awards announcements and deals
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‘Carlos’: A Monumental Film, an Awards-Season Puzzle
Three-part film is “an epic piece of cinema” — and a pain to market and position in awards season
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Inconvenient Truths About Oscar’s Documentary Process
Why great non-fiction films like “Exit Through the Gift Shop” and “Joan Rivers” might not make the cut but “Inside Job” will
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Good Morning Oscar, October 21: A Little Bit Country
Gwyneth Paltrow pulls a Jeff Bridges, while other actresses look for those elusive Oscar attributes
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Academy’s Nicholl Fellowships Go to Local Writers
$30,000 screenwriting prizes awarded to four Southern Californians, one Texan