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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Good Morning, Oscar: October 26
Quizzes, predictions, nominations, controversies and a question: does the Oscar show have too much Jack?
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U2 at the Rose Bowl: Bigger, but Better?
Once discomfited by the glitz of the Kodak Theater, the Oscar nominees build their own big, shiny cathedral.
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Good Morning, Oscar: October 25, the Pundits – on Saving the Show
Pundits offer advice on how to wage an Oscar campaign and how to save the show.
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Two Producers Usually a Crowd for Oscar
On the rare occasions when the Academy uses a pair of producers, the result can be a neat division of labor … or big confusion.
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Good Morning, Oscar: October 23
It’s not a good day for honorary Oscar winners: one cancels a show, while another gets branded an untalented pothead.
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No Money on the Horizon for U2
3 million tickets sold, $300 million in grosses — and they still haven’t broken even on their current tour.
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Good Morning, Oscar: October 22
Quentin Tarantino flips for a chick flick, and Oscarologists examine the Oprah Factor.
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Oscar Milestone: a Tweeting Producer
With 137 characters and only a couple of misspellings, Adam Shankman brings Oscar producing into the Twitter age.
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‘Precious’ Kicks Off TheWrap Screening Series
Director Lee Daniels and star Gabourney Sidibe will join us next Tuesday to screen and discuss one of the year’s most acclaimed movies.
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Pixar’s Lasseter Receives Top PGA Honor
John Lasseter wins Producers Guild’s 2010 David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Motion Pictures.
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New Producers: Views From the Trenches
Crew members weigh in on a production team that’s new to live television.
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Good Morning, Oscar: October 21
The new Oscar producers get scrutinized, and an anti-Oprah backlash just might be hurting “Precious.”
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Mechanic, Shankman — What’s Next for Oscar?
The big question now is whether the choice of host will fall toward the Shankman side of the scale.
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Wartime With ‘Hurt Locker’ Writer Mark Boal
The journalist-turned-screenwriter talks about borrowing from ‘Taxi Driver’ and staying sane in awards season.
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Good Morning, Oscar: October 20
Other awards shows chime in, “Nine” rehearses and “Wild Things” get a presidential review.