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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‘Da 5 Bloods,’ ‘One Night in Miami’ Land on AFI’s Top 10 List
“Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Soul” are also on a list that is heavily weighted toward films that deal with the Black experience in America
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‘MLK/FBI’ Director: ‘America Has Reached a Tipping Point’
TheWrap magazine: “Let’s hope that the fact that communities are being galvanized can make progress toward a change in the American psyche,” Sam Pollard says
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Iranian Oscar Entry ‘Sun Children’ Cries Out Against Child Labor
TheWrap magazine: “If we don’t make the kids’ lives easier, we are destroying our own future,” says director Magid Magidi
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Why ‘Beginning’ Director Filmed Sexual Assault Scene Quietly, From a Distance
TheWrap magazine: “Everyone can feel the terror of this moment, and I thought as a director I don’t need to emphasize anything,” says director Dea Kulumbegashvili
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Caleb Landry Jones’ Brother Told Him to Take ‘The Outpost’ Role: ‘You’re Doing This One’
TheWrap magazine: Jones recounts how his brother, an ex-Marine and combat veteran, read the script to Rod Lurie’s immersive Afghanistan drama and made the choice for him
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How a Weird Oscar Season Might Depress the Number of Best Picture Nominees
Tastes could be fragmenting and votes might be spread out in a way that potentially impacts the Oscars’ top category
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How India Whipped Up the Year’s Wildest, Craziest Oscar Entry With ‘Jallikattu’
TheWrap magazine: “I wanted you to compare the film to what the world actually is,” says director Lijo Jose Pellisserry of his film that descends in rampaging chaos
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‘Charlatan’ Director Explains Why Films Need to Deal With Politics
TheWrap magazine: “We have so many challenges and dangers with authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, and filmmakers cannot pretend that it is not going on,” says Agnieszka Holland
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From Battling Brain Cancer to Directing an Oscar Contender: Maria Sodahl’s Dramatic Journey to ‘Hope’
TheWrap magazine: “I hate sentimental cancer movies, and I didn’t want to do something like that,” Sodahl says of turning her own diagnosis into art
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How a Severed Hand Led to Taiwan’s Oscar Contender ‘A Sun’
TheWrap magazine: “I imagined that the incident happened on a rainy day, and the hand dropped into a hot pot,” says director Chung Mong-hong
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Elisabeth Moss on How Her ‘Thoughtful’ Career Choices Led Her to ‘Invisible Man,’ ‘Shirley’
TheWrap magazine: “I am interested in playing everything from superhero women to antiheroes,” the actress tells TheWrap
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Orion Lee’s Secret to Becoming a Leading Man in ‘First Cow’: Take It One Scene at a Time
TheWrap magazine: “I’d never played a lead before on screen, but I knew I could do scenes,” says the actor in Kelly Reichardt’s quiet drama
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How ‘The Truffle Hunters’ Turned Dogs Into Cameramen for Documentary
TheWrap magazine: “We lost a lot of cameras (that) flew off into the trees,” says co-director Gregory Kershaw
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How Guatemalan Horror Film ‘La Llorona’ Used Genre to Examine Genocide
TheWrap magazine: Director Jayro Bustamante says his Oscar entry was a way to use horror elements to examine issues that viewers don’t want to talk about
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‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Star Sidney Flanigan on Why She Set Aside Music for Her First Film Role
TheWrap magazine: “Reproductive rights have always been under threat, so artists (should) keep using their tools to make people aware,” says the first-time actress
