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Steve Pond

Steve Pond

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Executive Editor, Awards

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Experience:

Steve Pond has been writing about film, music, pop culture and the entertainment industry for more than 40 years. He has served as TheWrap’s awards editor and executive editor, awards since joining the company in 2009.

Steve began his career writing about music for the Los Angeles Times, where he remained a contributor for more than 15 years, and Rolling Stone, where he was West Coast Music Editor and wrote 16 cover stories. He moved into film coverage with a weekly column in the Washington Post and became a contributing writer at Premiere magazine, where he became the first journalist to have all access to the Academy Awards show and rehearsals.

He has also written for the New York Times, Movieline, the DGA Quarterly, GQ, Playboy, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, New York, the Christian Science Monitor, Live! magazine and many others.

He is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller “The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards” (Faber and Faber, 2005). He has also written “Elvis in Hollywood” (New American Library, 1990) and contributed to books that include “Cash,” “The Rolling Stone Reader,” U2: The Rolling Stone Files,” “Bruce Springsteen: The Rolling Stone Files” and “The Rolling Stone Interviews: The 1980s.” He was the co-managing editor of the syndicated TV news program “The Industry News” and the creative consultant for the A&E series “The Inside Track With Graham Nash.”

He has won L.A. Press Club awards for stories in TheWrap, the Los Angeles Times and Playboy, and was nominated for a National Magazine Award for a story in Premiere.

Resides In:

Los Angeles

Education:

Steve received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from California State University, Long Beach.

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    By

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    Toronto 2023: The chronicle of a big event that took place more than 50 years ago and was then forgotten

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  • ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ Review: Errol Morris Explores a World of Betrayal in John le Carré Documentary

    Telluride Film Festival: Morris creates a personal portrait that goes as deep as his subject wants it to go but never feels as if the late author is getting away with anything

    By

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    ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ Review: Errol Morris Explores a World of Betrayal in John le Carré Documentary
  • ‘The Promised Land’ Review: Mads Mikkelsen Needs a Little Help in Bold Danish Drama

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    By

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  • ‘American Symphony’ Review: Documentary Captures Jon Batiste’s Personal and Professional Struggles

    Telluride Film Festival: Matthew Heineman’s doc jumps between uplift and heartbreak, between Batiste’s career pressures and his wife’s fight for survival

    By

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    August 31, 2023 @ 5:00 PM
    Report From Telluride
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  • Fall Film Festivals Kick Off an Awards Season Without Actors – For Now?

    The Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals will introduce lots of awards contenders, but the red carpets won’t have much star power

    By

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    August 30, 2023 @ 9:47 AM
    Awards
    9:47 AM
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  • Telluride Film Festival Lineup Includes ‘The Holdovers,’ ‘Nyad,’ ‘Saltburn’

    “Rustin,” “Wildcat,” “The Royal Hotel” and “The Bikeriders” are among the other films headed to the Colorado festival

    By

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    August 30, 2023 @ 8:02 AM
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    Telluride Film Festival Lineup Includes ‘The Holdovers,’ ‘Nyad,’ ‘Saltburn’
  • From Jenna Ortega to Martin Short, These Emmy Dark Horses Might Surprise

    Doesn’t a weird Emmy year deserve some weird Emmy winners?

    By

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    August 25, 2023 @ 10:21 AM
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  • Riley Keough Reveals What Made Her Stay on ‘Daisy Jones,’ Even When She Wanted to Quit

    TheWrap magazine: “I think something in me knew that it would be a healing experience,” the Emmy-nominated actress says

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 23, 2023 @ 3:00 PM
    Awards
    3:00 PM
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  • Why ‘Ms. Marvel’ Composer Laura Karpman Spearheaded South Asian Music’s Entrée Into the MCU

    TheWrap magazine: “It’s good to make [South Asian music] a part of the Avengers, a part of the world of Captain Marvel or the Guardians of the Galaxy,” the Emmy-winning musician says

    By

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    TheWrap magazine: “We wanted to show that there were so many different genres of music in the ’70s,” music supervisor Frankie Pine says

    By

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    August 22, 2023 @ 2:00 PM
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    But don’t worry: We’ll have the answers about “Succession,” “Ted Lasso” and lots of others in January 2024

    By

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    Awards
    1:12 PM
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    TheWrap magazine: “Five Irish sisters who plot to murder their brother-in-law… What’s not to love?” Dearbhla Walsh tells TheWrap

    By

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    August 21, 2023 @ 3:00 PM
    Awards
    3:00 PM
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    TheWrap magazine: “I love playing women who make mistakes, who do complicated things,” she says of playing Tammy Wynette in “George & Tammy”

    By

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    By

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    Awards
    9:30 AM
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