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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‘Pose’ Creator Steven Canals on Life After His Groundbreaking Show: ‘I’m Greedy and I Want More’
TheWrap magazine: “I want to see whose stories are not being told, and allow that to inform my next project,” he says
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‘The Sparks Brothers’ Film Review: Edgar Wright Makes Playful Documentary About Elusive Band Sparks
Wright tackles the idiosyncratic, influential band without ever giving away too much or losing an air of mystery
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Jana Schmieding on Her ‘Rutherford Falls’ Breakthrough: ‘It Took Another Native Woman to See My Value’
TheWrap magazine: “Most of the time, indigenous folks on television or in film are relegated to what we call ‘feathers and leather,’” says the Native writer and actress
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How Renee Elise Goldsberry Embraced Her Inner Diva for ‘Girls5Eva’
TheWrap magazine: “Every moment of my life, I can relate to the part of Wickie that craves stardom and the fulfillment of her dream,” says the “Hamilton” actress
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How Comedy and Drama Series Races Stack Up as Emmy Nomination Voting Begins
TheWrap magazine: Lots of past nominees are ineligible this year — but the categories are still jammed with contenders
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‘Miss Juneteenth’ Film Review: Mother-Daughter Drama Packs a Quiet Punch
First-time feature director Channing Godfrey Peoples’ film is relentlessly understated, casting a sad but affectionate eye on a community’s daily life and on the rituals that hold it together
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Was Kenny Leon’s Job Directing ‘Mahalia’ a Good Assignment or Divine Inspiration?
TheWrap magazine: The veteran director isn’t sure, but he’d been listening to Jackson’s music every single day before he got the call to direct the Lifetime movie
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How Krysta Rodriguez Learned to ‘Pump Up the Liza’ for ‘Halston’
TheWrap magazine: “When I got the script, I thought, this is either something that changes my life or breaks my heart,” says the actress of portraying Liza Minnelli
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How Daveed Diggs Found Common Ground Between Frederick Douglass and Modern Rappers
TheWrap awards magazine: ‘We have a similar understanding of what it’s like to mine your past for your fame in the present,” Diggs says of his role as abolitionist Douglass in “The Good Lord Bird”
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Why the Music Doc Series ‘1971’ Wasn’t Just About Music
TheWrap magazine: Director Asif Kapadia says. “It’s not, ‘Listen to this piece of music, and then this one’ — what’s the bigger picture around it?”
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Bo Burnham Crashes the Emmy Race With Netflix Special ‘Inside’
But his one-man show will be going up against “Hamilton,” Beyoncé and the “Friends” reunion in a very crowded and competitive category
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Why Giancarlo Esposito Thinks His Career (and TV Itself) Got Better During the Pandemic
TheWrap Magazine: “Television has become much more personal because we finally learned how to use our remotes the last year,” says Esposito
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Cannes Film Festival Lineup to Include New Paul Verhoeven, Oliver Stone Films
The first full-scale Cannes since 2019 will also feature new films by Wes Anderson, Leos Carax and Sean Penn
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‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Tops Critics Choice Real TV Award Nominations
The reality series has a chance to win its third consecutive award in the three-year-old awards ceremony
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Fran Lebowitz Says Good Riddance to Trump: He ‘Never Deserved New York’
TheWrap magazine: “I wish that when he left, he’d have taken that big pile of junk on Fifth Avenue,” says the subject of the docuseries “Pretend It’s A City”
