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 6
Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan get competitive, Robert De Niro gets a boost, and a blogger gets testy.
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A Poolside Chat with ‘An Education’ Director Lone Scherfig
A conversation with an awards-worthy director about innocent British schoolgirls and big American cars.
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Good Morning, Oscar: October 5
Nick Hornby and Michael Moore educate, and we learn all the ways in which Michael Jackson can’t win a posthumous Oscar.
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Good Morning, Oscar: October 3
A shrinking Miramax changes the awards landscape, and has an unseen musical really become the frontrunner?
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Five Questions About the Expanded Best Picture Category … Answered!
The Academy’s big gamble raises questions about how it’ll work, whether it’ll work and how long they’ll stick with it.
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Good Morning, Oscar: October 2
At last, conclusive proof that it’s better to be nominated for an Oscar than to win a Golden Globe.
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Time’s Up in the Oscar Foreign-Language Race
From Albania to Vietnam, it’s deadline day for countries competing in the Academy’s consistently controversial foreign-language category.
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Good Morning, Oscar: October 1
Ingmar Bergman goes on the auction block, “Transformers” wins a prize, and the best-actress category needs a babysitter.
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Deadline Approaches for Oscar’s Shorts Categories
From Pixar to student filmmakers, contenders line up in the perennial Oscar-pool tiebreaker categories.
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Good Morning, Oscar: September 30
Leo Tolstoy jumps into the Oscar fray … but where are all the supporting actor candidates?
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Italy, Spain, Australia Enter the Foreign-Film Race
As the deadline approaches, some major players make controversial choices for the Oscars’ foreign-language catetory.
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Catching Up with the Fall’s Oscar Contenders
A roundup of awards contenders, from “An Education” to “Capitalism: A Love Story” to “A Serious Man.”
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Good Morning, Oscar: September 29
Meryl Streep gets snubbed by Julia Child, and Roman Polanski gets dissed by L.A. Times readers.
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The Night Roman Polanski Saved the Oscars
By not showing up to accept his best-director award in 2003, the exiled director brought the show in on time.
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Good Morning, Oscar: September 28
Michael Moore gets mixed reviews, while a rabbi weighs in on the Coen Brothers.