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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’20 Days in Mariupol’ Review: Ukraine Documentary Shows the Unspeakable
Sundance Film Festival 2023: Mstyslav Chernov’s film, shot entirely in the first three weeks of the war, is a brutally disturbing chronicle of inhumanity
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‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’ Review: Documentary Finds a Light Touch, Even With Parkinson’s Disease
Sundance Film Festival 2023: Davis Guggenheim’s doc mixes interviews with playful reconstructions of Fox’s life via scenes from his movies and TV shows
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Final Oscar Nomination Predictions for an Abnormal Year at the Movies
The Academy should heap nominations on “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Fabelmans,” “Elvis” and more
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‘The Pod Generation’ Review: Creepy Futuristic Satire Looks Great, Gets Tiring
Sundance Film Festival 2023: Sophie Barthes’ film with Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor is better at creating a brave new world than telling a story inside that world
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‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’ Review: Documentary Celebrates Troubled Rock Icon
Sundance Film Festival 2023: Lisa Cortés’ film loves its subject without denying his messy contradictions
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Sundance’s Grand Re-Opening Brings Jubilation, and ‘Radical’ Adds Tears
Sundance Film Festival 2023: After two years of a virtual festival, audiences in Park City are ready to gather again
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‘The Son’ Review: Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern Battle Pain and Guilt in Tough Look at Teen Depression
Director Florian Zeller once again explores mental illness in a bolder, less focused follow-up to “The Father”
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‘When You Finish Saving the World’ Review: Jesse Eisenberg’s Indie Drama Wants You to Cringe
Eisenberg’s understated directorial debut stars Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard as a mother and son who just can’t communicate
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‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Land Scripter Award Nominations for Adapted Screenplays
“Living,” “She Said” and “Women Talking” join those two landmarks as Scripter finalists
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‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Leads Annie Award Nominations
The awards for animation give “Pinocchio” nine nominations and “Turning Red” seven
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Critics Choice Awards 2023 Winners List: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Wins 5 Awards Including Best Picture
Acting winners included Cate Blanchett, Brendan Fraser, Angela Bassett, and Ke Huy Quan
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AFI Threw a Classy Awards Luncheon, and Al Pacino Hijacked It
Not that there’s anything wrong with Pacino hijacking any event he feels like hijacking
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Steven Spielberg Hits, Tom Cruise Stumbles and What Else We Learned During This Wild Awards Week
Four days, two awards shows, 13 nominations announcements and nine lessons
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‘A Man Called Otto’ Star Mariana Treviño on Why Playing a Strong Latin Mother Matters
TheWrap magazine: “I love that we can show the Latin American family when we’ve been isolated and disconnected,” says the actress who costars with Tom Hanks
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‘All That Breathes’ Named 2022’s Best Documentary at Cinema Eye Honors
Other winners include “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “Navalny,” “Fire of Love,” “Moonage Daydream” and “The Territory”
