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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Documentaries Invade the Oscars International Race, Again
A year after “Honeyland” became the first film ever nominated in both the doc and international categories, seven more films are trying to do the same
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5 Documentaries That Helped Change Oscars Rules – And One That Didn’t
From “Hoop Dreams” to “O.J.: Made in America,” these films caused AMPAS to rewrite the rule book
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In a Weird Oscars Race, 2020 Is Forcing Voters to Redefine What a Movie Is
Los Angeles film critics gave their top film prize to a TV limited series, but they’re not the only ones grappling with definitions these days
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Ryan Murphy on ‘The Prom’: ‘The World Was Feeling Dark, I Wanted to Make Something Light’
TheWrap magazine: “It was one of those weird things where everything fell into place, which has never really happened in my career so far,” says the director
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Inside George Clooney’s ‘The Midnight Sky,’ From Felicity Jones’ Surprise Pregnancy to His ‘Santa Claus’ Beard
The actor-director even drew on his work on the ’90s medical drama “ER” for lessons in how to get the audience invested in his postapocalyptic sci-fi drama
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How the ’76 Days’ Filmmakers Found the Personal Stories in a Pandemic
TheWrap magazine: “I just wanted to focus on the human moments,” says director Hao Wu of his film about the early days COVID in China
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‘Crip Camp’ Directors Grappled With a Question: Did a Teen Summer Camp Really Launch the Disability Rights Movement?
TheWrap magazine: “My jaw hit the floor, because I never in my life imagined a radical hippie summer camp for teens with disabilities in the ’70s,” says co-director Nicole Newnham
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Oscars Documentary Race Tops 200 Entries to Shatter Old Record (Exclusive)
A huge group of 93 films was added to the list of contenders just before Christmas
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Directors of Voter Suppression Documentary ‘All In’ Definitely Aren’t Surprised by This Year’s Election Mess
TheWrap magazine: “Trump’s claims about voter fraud weren’t new and different, they were part of the playbook we’d already explored in the film,” says co-director Liz Garbus
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George Clooney on How the Pandemic ‘Changed the Temperature’ of His Sci-Fi Drama ‘The Midnight Sky’
“The first thing they said was, ‘Don’t worry, it only affects elderly people — people 55 and older.’ I’m like, ‘What??? I’m the elderly??’” the actor-director says
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Steve McQueen’s ‘Small Axe’ Series Named Best Picture of 2020 by LA Film Critics
Acting awards go to Chadwick Boseman and Glynn Turman for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Carey Mulligan for “Promising Young Woman” and Youn Yuh-jung for “Minari”
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5 Films From 2021 That Could Shake Up the 2020 Oscars Race
Upcoming films could bring Andra Day, Zendaya, Robin Wright and both Denzel Washington and his son John David Washington into the race
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Oscars International Entries Are Close to New Record, But Voters Can’t See Them All Yet
91 different countries are known to have made submissions in the category, but at the moment only 30 of those films are available to voters in the Academy screening room
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‘Monster Hunter’ Review: Don’t Go Hunting for a Good Movie in This Videogame Silliness
Milla Jovovich, Tony Jaa and Ron Perlman star in Paul W.S. Anderson’s hyperkinetic sci-fi melodrama drowning in CGI
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Paul Greengrass Celebrates Christmas Opening of ‘News of the World’: ‘We’re Only Going to Recover by Daring to Release Movies’
“As an expression of faith in our business and faith in the healing power of the movies, I think that what we gain is beyond measure,” director says
