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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Oscar Nominees Luncheon Returns Home and Gets a Boost From Tom Cruise
Back at the Beverly Hilton after three years away, the event celebrates a record 182 nominees
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Grammys Can’t Shake Their Weird Love-Hate Relationship With Beyoncé
Why does the winningest person in Grammy history keep losing in the top categories?
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‘Elvis,’ ‘Top Gun,’ ‘Tár’ Editing Land ACE Eddie Awards Nominations
Nominees at the ACE Eddie Awards also include “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Glass Onion” and “The Woman King”
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Academy Says It Won’t Rescind Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar Nomination
The organization said it did find social media campaigns that “caused concern”
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Sundance 2023: ‘A Thousand and One,’ ‘Radical’ Win Top Awards
Other winners include “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project,” Scrapper,” The Eternal Memory,” and “Kokomo City”
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‘The Fabelmans,’ ‘Women Talking,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Land Writers Guild Nominations
Several Oscar nominees, including “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Living,” were ineligible for WGA Awards
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Oscar Voters Jump Into the Multiverse by Mixing Huge Hits and Tiny Indies | Analysis
Academy members embraced “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the movie, and everything everywhere all at once, the concept
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Sundance So Far: The Delayed-Gratification Festival Faces Major Challenges for Film
Sundance Film Festival 2023: At the first in-person Sundance in three years, the initial glee has turned to cautious optimism
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‘Eileen’ Review: Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway Go Dark in Boldly Provocative Film
Sundance Film Festival 2023: William Oldroyd’s followup to 2016’s “Lady Macbeth” is a blackly humorous riff on film noir and a tour de force for its cast
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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
