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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New York Film Critics 2022: ‘Tar’ Named Best Film
Acting winners are Colin Farrell, Cate Blanchett, Ke Huy Quan and Keke Palmer; S.S. Rajamouli wins directing award for Indian film “RRR”
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Rian Johnson Also Thinks ‘Glass Onion’ Should’ve Had a Longer Theatrical Release
TheWrap magazine: “I would’ve loved to have as big and long a theatrical run as we could get, but I’m grateful to Netflix for stepping out of their comfort zone,” says the director
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‘She Said’ Cast Say They Made Movie for Harvey Weinstein’s Victims
TheWrap magazine: “When a system is built to support a monster, everyone is implicated,” Zoe Kazan says
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‘Bardo’ Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu: Autobiographies Lie, but Fiction Tells the Truth
TheWrap magazine: “Autobiography pretends it’s making factual claims, but it’s not,” says the director of “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”
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Michelle Yeoh to Receive International Star Award at Palm Springs Film Awards
The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” star joins previously announced honorees Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Sarah Polley
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Gotham Awards 2022: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Named Best Feature
TV awards go to “Pachinko,” “Mo,” “We Need to Talk About Cosby” and “This Is Going to Hurt”
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Academy Screening Room Tops 100 Films, But It’s Missing Lots of Big Oscar Contenders
Members can watch “Top Gun,” “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Tár” at home, but not “The Fabelmans,” “Women Talking” or “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
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‘The Swimmers’ Review: Syrian Drama Mixes Sports, Politics, Wartime Horrors and Happiness
Director Sally El Hosaini follows Syrian refugees who fled that country’s civil war to pursue their athletic careers
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on the ‘Endless Amount of Experimenting’ They Did to Write for Cannibal Lovers in ‘Bones and All’
TheWrap Magazine: The Oscar-winning composers explain how they penned the song “(You Made It Feel Like) Home”
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‘Tár,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ ‘Women Talking’ Receive Indie Spirit Award Nominations
Acting nominees include Cate Blanchett, Brian Tyree Henry, Regina Hall and Michelle Yeoh
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Brandi Carlile and Tanya Tucker on Doing Things Their Own Way While Engineering a Comeback
TheWrap magazine: The famed singer-songwriters collaborated to write an original song for the documentary “The Return of Tanya Tucker”
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Joe Jonas on Writing the Song ‘Not Alone’ for ‘Devotion’: ‘It Was Exciting, but Also Overwhelming’
TheWrap Magazine: “I’d been trying to separate the two passions of mine, acting and music, but this project was so dear to my heart that I wanted to do it,” Jonas says
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Governors Awards Mix Campaigning, Calls for Action and a Long-Awaited Oscar for Diane Warren
Directors Peter Weir and Euzhan Palcy and actor Michael J. Fox are also honored at the annual ceremony
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Sarah Polley Named Director of the Year by Palm Springs International Film Awards
The “Women Talking” director will receive the honor at a ceremony on Jan. 5
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How ‘RRR’ Composers Wrote the Euphoric, Show-Stopping Tune ‘Naatu Naatu’
TheWrap magazine: The insanely catchy song would be the first Indian-composed nominee in the Best Original Song category in 14 years
