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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James Cameron Justifies ‘Avatar 2’s Lengthy ‘Hangout’ Sequences: ‘People Forget to Put Beauty Into a Film’ (Exclusive Video)
The filmmaker also tells TheWrap that Fox tried to cut flying scenes from the first “Avatar” for lack of plot
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James Cameron on the New Market Challenges Facing ‘Avatar 2’: ‘I Thought We Were Dead’ (Exclusive Video)
The filmmaker also offers his own divergent hypothesis on why the theatrical experience is unique
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How ‘Women Talking’ Turned a Hayloft Into a ‘Sacred Space’
TheWrap magazine: “We talked a lot about the idea of a cathedral,” says director Sarah Polley
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The Making of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
For TheWrap magazine, James Cameron and his collaborators pull back the curtain on how they crafted the innovative sequel
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How ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Composer Simon Franglen Honored the Late James Horner
TheWrap magazine: “There’s no reason that a reef tribe would have the same sound (as a jungle tribe),” the composer says
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‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Sound Mixer Created Live Sound Design for the Actors During Mo-Cap Filming
TheWrap magazine: “A lot of what we did, nobody had done before,” Julian Howarth says
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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
