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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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Wins Palme d’Or at 2023 Cannes Film Festival
Cannes 2023: Acting awards go to Koji Yakusho for “Perfect Days” and Merve Dizdar for “About Dry Grasses”
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How Wes Anderson Created ‘Asteroid City’: Big Dinners, Music and a Helpful COVID Quarantine
Cannes 2023: “I don’t want to say (the pandemic) was good for the movie, but we used it in away that wasn’t bad,” Anderson said at Cannes
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‘Asteroid City’ Review: Wes Anderson Buries His Sci-Fi Story Under Fancy Piles of Eccentricity
Cannes 2023: Anderson’s movie looks amazing, of course, but it might well be the least involving film he’s ever made
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Cannes: ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Lands Distribution Deal With Neon
The indie distributor is behind the last three Palme d’Or winners, “Parasite,” “Titane” and “Triangle of Sadness”
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Cannes: Netflix Buys Todd Haynes’ Festival Hit ‘May December’ for $11 Million
The pulpy film draws raves for stars Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman
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‘Fallen Leaves’ Review: Deadpan Comedy Brings Heart and Wit to a Tale of Lost Souls
Cannes 2023: Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki has complete control of a delicate tone that could easily go awry
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Cannes So Far: Sentimental Audiences Meet Unsentimental Movies
Cannes 2023: In its first six days, the prestigious festival showered love on Martin Scorsese and Harrison Ford but also showcased chilling films about the Holocaust and terrorism
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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Review: Justine Triet’s Family Drama Keeps the Audience Guessing
Cannes 2023: Sandra Hüller plays a woman who may have murdered her husband in sophisticated film that delights in ambiguity
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‘The Breaking Ice’ Review: Portrait of Aimless Youth Has Beauty and Purpose
Cannes 2023: Anthony Chen has created a luminous “Jules and Jim” riff that manages to be both meditative and propulsive
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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Brings the House Down in Cannes
Cannes 2023: The director unveiled his three-and-a-half-hour drama, and the festival audience was ready for more
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‘Banel & Adama’ Review: First-Time African Filmmaker Mixes Reverie With Calamity
Cannes 2023: Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s debut feature is a lyrical love story set in a parched, tradition-bound village in Senegal
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‘The New Boy’ Review: Cate Blanchett Drama Delivers an Unsettling Blend of Religion and Magic
Cannes 2023: Director Warwick Thornton, with help from Blanchett as actor and producer, tells a mystical story that ties into shameful Australian history
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Sean Penn Slams Movie Producers, Calls Healthcare System a Racket in Cannes Press Conference
Cannes 2023: Penn’s “Black Flies” costar Tye Sheridan also shared that he let the veteran actor give him an IV in preparation for the brutal paramedic drama
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Harrison Ford Gets Emotional Talking About an Indiana Jones ‘With the Weight of Life on Him’
Cannes 2023: The 80-year-old actor adds “I love what (the character) has brought into my life” at the film’s press conference
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‘Black Flies’ Review: Saving Lives Is Hell in Brutal Sean Penn Drama
Cannes 2023: Penn and Tye Sheridan play paramedics in Jean-Stephane Sauvaire’s unrelentingly ugly film