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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James Cameron on the ‘Fine Line’ of Celebrating Culture Without Appropriating in ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ (Exclusive Video)
“At what point are you no longer honoring and celebrating a culture, but actually extracting and exploiting?” the filmmaker told TheWrap
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James Cameron Differentiates ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ From Superhero Movies: ‘The Problems They’re Facing Are Real’ (Exclusive Video)
“They’re not going up against some guy that’s trying to conquer the galaxy,” Cameron tells TheWrap of his Na’vi protagonists
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‘Pinocchio,’ ‘Banshees of Inisherin’ Nominated by Society of Composers and Lyricists
SCL Awards nominees also include “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” and, of course, Diane Warren
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‘Bardo,’ ‘Close,’ ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Make Oscars’ Entirely Predictable International Shortlist
New voting rules made it harder for dark horses to advance and helped almost all the favorites make the 15-film shortlist
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‘Fire of Love’ Makes Oscars Documentary Shortlist, But ‘Good Night Oppy’ Snubbed
Other nonfiction films on the list include “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “All That Breathes,” “Navalny” and “Moonage Daydream”
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Emmys Change Rule Blamed for Letting a Few Shows Hog the Nominations
The Television Academy has ended the six-year run of letting members vote for an unlimited number of contenders in each category
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Guillermo del Toro Says His ‘Pinocchio’ Is Dark, But ‘There Are More Dangerous Things in Shampoo Commercials’
The director didn’t make his movie for kids, but he thinks “there’s nothing in this movie unacceptable to watch in family environments”
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As Holidays Arrive, Oscars Screening Room Fills Up With Everything But ‘Avatar’ and ‘Babylon’
178 films are now available for voters to stream, including almost all of the main Best Picture contenders
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Can Dark Horses Survive Under the Oscars’ New International Voting System?
Rule changes in the Best International Feature Film category might make it difficult for smaller films to advance to the upcoming shortlist
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‘If These Walls Could Sing’ Review: Abbey Road Studio Gets a Slight, Sunny Tribute
First-time director Mary McCartney takes an affectionate look at the London studio that her dad’s band helped make famous
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‘The Fabelmans’ Leads AARP’s Movies for Grownups Nominations
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “The Woman King” also score multiple nominations
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Leads Critics Choice Nominations – But ‘RRR’ Crashes the Party, Too
S.S. Rajamouli’s uproarious Indian film is nominated for Best Picture alongside “The Fabelmans,” “Babylon,” “Avatar,” “Top Gun” and more
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‘Bardo’ and ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Could Break the Language Barrier in Sound Design Oscars Categories
The Netflix films from Mexico and Germany have intricate sound design worthy of awards attention
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How Jazzman Terence Blanchard Channeled His Grandmother to Score ‘The Woman King’
TheWrap magazine: “People have been waiting to see a film done about this part of the world with such majesty and elegance”, says the two-time Oscar nominee
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How Canada’s Animated Doc ‘Eternal Spring’ Aims to Follow ‘Flee’ Path to Oscar Glory
TheWrap magazine: “I wasn’t concerned that people would think, ‘Someone did an animated doc last year,’” says director Jason Loftus
