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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Oscar’s Shorts: Clips & Trailers
An introduction to the ten films nominated in the Animated and Live-Action Short categories
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The Odds’ Nominations Report Card
The great Best-Picture experiment looks like a qualified success for now, but who scored highest when we graded the rest of the picks?
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Streep, Bigelow, Waltz — the Nominees React
“I assumed, when the phone woke me from my sweet slumber, that it was fantastic news”
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It’s ‘Avatar’ vs. ‘Hurt Locker,’ but Where’s Clint?
ANALYSIS: “Hurt Locker” beats “Avatar” in voting numbers; good news for Gyllenhaal, bad news for Eastwood
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‘Avatar,’ ‘Hurt Locker’ Lead the Way at Oscar Nominations
They receive 9 nods apiece; expanded Best Picture category includes “Blind Side,” “Up”
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Good Morning Oscar, Feb. 2: Predictions Bonanza
In the hours before nominations were announced, pundits from around the web weighed in
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How Oscar Could Surprise — and Scare — Us
A Best Picture nom for “Nine”? “Mary and Max” winning for animation?
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What You Can Expect at the Oscar Noms
… Unless the Academy throws some monkey wrenches into all the pundits’ prognostications.
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Michael Bay, Will Ferrell, Sandra Bullock Top Razzies
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “Land of the Lost” win seven nods each in tongue-in-cheek salute to year’s worst films
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Good Morning Oscar, Feb. 1: Bigelow Mania
Kathryn Bigelow takes the lead, and Carey Mulligan has great toes
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Kathryn Bigelow Wins Top DGA Award
“The Hurt Locker” beats her ex’s “Avatar”; Louis Psihoyos gets documentary prize for “The Cove”
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Cameron, Bigelow Face Off at DGA
The former spouses, with two dramatically different films, are frontrunners for the top Directors Guild award
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Michael Giacchino Leads Film Score Nominations
Composer of “Up” and “Star Trek” wins a record nine noms from Film Music Critics
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The ‘I Don’t Deserve This’ Speech: Will It Backfire?
What if Oscar voters believe them when Globes, SAG winners say they don’t deserve their awards?
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Oscar Shorts Nominees Heading to Theaters
For the fifth year, nominees in the live-action and animated shorts categories will be exhibited theatrically in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.