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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Secrets of the Oscar Ballots
They’re color-coded, and come with special instructions
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Answering More Oscar-Voting Questions
Readers see wrinkles, and we try to straighten them out
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Good Morning, Oscar: December 30
“Up In the Air” gets a big cover, and Judd Apatow has delusions of Oscar
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‘Avatar’s’ Effects Whiz Talks Shop
Oscar-winner Joe Letteri on creating new worlds from scratch, and dealing with James Cameron
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Good Morning, Oscar: December 29
Globe presenters, vulnerable best-picture candidates, and another “Avatar” controversy
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Revealed: How Oscar Nominee Ballots Are Counted
Inside secrets of the Academy’s little-understood tallying process
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Oscar Ballots in the Mail
More than 9,000 Oscar ballots, color-coded by category, are on their way to voters
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Good Morning, Oscar: December 28
Test your Oscar knowledge while both Timeses examine those “Avatar” 3-D glasses.
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Producer Hints about Dance-Heavy Oscars
On Twitter, co-producer Adam Shankman has been writing about dance auditions, John Hughes tributes and more
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Good Morning, Oscar: December 27
Will “Avatar” usher in the end of storytelling, or the rebirth of capitalism?
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Good Morning, Oscar: Christmas Day
Two Oscar-winning holiday songs, and another that wasn’t in contention but is fabulous anyway
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Awards Screenings Move to the Slopes, the Islands
Just because you’ve left town doesn’t mean you have to stop going to screenings of awards contenders
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Good Morning, Oscar: December 24
Peter Jackson and James Cameron decide that movie technology is sort of beside the point
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Henry Selick on the Pressures of ‘Coraline’
The acclaimed stop-motion director explains why he has to be more creative than Michael Bay
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‘Hurt Locker’ OK with OK Critics
Oklahoma critics group adds another notch in Kathryn Bigelow’s belt
