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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Nia DaCosta’s Recipe for ‘Hedda’: Mix Ibsen With Race, Sexuality and a Big Party
TheWrap magazine: “Some of my favorite films are set at a party that gets out of hand,” the writer-director says
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Bringing ‘Frankenstein’ to Life: How Did Guillermo del Toro’s Crafts Team Do It?
TheWrap magazine: The film’s cinematographer, production and costume designers, composer and makeup artist on creating a new kind of monster (but don’t call him that)
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Here’s Why ‘A House of Dynamite’ Is So Damn Tense
TheWrap magazine: Editor Kirk Baxter, sound designer Paul N.J. Ottosson and composer Volker Bertelmann explain how they gave Kathryn Bigelow’s film its breathless drive
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‘Sinners’ Dominates Critics Choice Awards Below-the-Line Shortlists
Ryan Coogler’s vampire drama picked up 13 mentions in 11 categories in the CCA’s first-ever shortlists
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Why the Climax of ‘Hamnet’ Uses Composer Max Richter’s Greatest Hit Instead of New Music
TheWrap magazine: “Are you sure?” the composer said when Chloé Zhao told him she was using the ubiquitous “On the Nature of Daylight”
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State of the Oscar Race: 4 Months Is a Lot of Time for Bored Voters to Shake Things Up
The favorites haven’t changed much in the last couple of months, but there’s interesting stuff out in the margins
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Tom Cruise Uses Governors Awards to Lobby for Moviegoing – Even If You Have to Sneak In
Cruise received an Honorary Oscar, along with Dolly Parton, Wynn Thomas and Debbie Allen
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SAG Awards Gets a Name Change: Now It’s the Actor Awards
The new name is meant to clarify the show’s identity for casual viewers
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Cinema Eye Honors: ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka,’ ‘The Perfect Neighbor,’ ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Lead 2025 Nominations
The New York-based documentary awards also gave multiple nominations to “Cover-Up” and “Seeds”
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Cameron Crowe Looks Back: David Bowie, ‘Almost Famous’ and the Interview That Pissed Him Off for Decades | Video
“I realized I was holding a wound and I really got to confront it,” Crowe says of the process of writing his memoir “The Uncool”
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Lucy Liu, Lee Byung-hun to Receive Awards at Asian World Film Festival
The festival will screen films from more than 30 Asian countries, including 23 Oscar submissions in the Best International Feature Film category
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‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Wins Top Prize at Critics Choice Documentary Awards
Other films or series that won multiple awards included “Mr. Scorsese,” “Orwell: 2+2=5” and “Ocean With David Attenborough”
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From Film School to ‘Wake Up Dead Man’: Rian Johnson and DP Steve Yedlin on Their 30-Year Collaboration
TheWrap magazine: The friends first met in the ’90s as students in USC’s cinematic arts program … which finally accepted Johnson on his fifth try
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‘One Battle After Another’ Leads Gotham Awards With Record 6 Nominations
Other Best Feature nominees include “Hamnet,” “Bugonia,” “Train Dreams” and “The Testament of Ann Lee”
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Oscars International Category Sends 86 Films to Voters
The total is one more than qualified last year, and includes “Sentimental Value,” “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and “It Was Just an Accident”
