Steve Pond
Steve Pond
Steve Pond’s inside look at the artistry and insanity of the awards race, drawn from more than three decades of obsessively chronicling the Oscars and the entertainment industry.
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‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Review: Anya Taylor-Joy Takes Over in a Brutal Return to Fury Road
Cannes 2024: The fifth “Mad Max” installment contains as many vehicular stunts as a “Fast & Furious” flick but still felt at home in the Grand Theatre Lumiere at Cannes
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‘Wild Diamond’ Review: Cannes Character Study Is Empathetic and Unforgiving
Cannes 2024: First-time director Agathe Riedinger presents social media and reality TV stardom as a pie-in-the-sky way to escape a life of poverty
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A Serious Cannes Film Festival Opens With a Goofy Comedy, ‘The Second Act’
Cannes 2024: Quentin Dupieux’s film about the making of the first AI movie is an amusing trifle, and very meta
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‘Top Boy,’ ‘Such Brave Girls’ Win at BAFTA Television Awards
Acting winners include “Succession” star Matthew Macfadyen and “Happy Valley” lead Sarah Lancashire
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Academy Launches $500 Million Campaign to Celebrate 100th Oscars
The Academy100 campaign is aimed at deepening the organization’s international impact
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Lily Gladstone, Eva Green to Join Greta Gerwig’s Cannes Film Festival Jury
Others getting jury duty at the fest include directors Kore-eda Hirokazu, Nadine Labaki and Juan Antonio Bayona
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Oscars Will Require Expanded Theatrical Runs for Best Picture Eligibility for 2025 Awards
The rules are particularly restrictive for films that wish to compete in the Best Picture category
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Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Selection to Include 8 Films From North and South America
The festival also announced three documentaries and six narrative films in its ACID program
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Cannes Critics’ Week Picks 11 Films From 16 Countries for 2024 Lineup
Constance Tsang’s “Blue Sun Palace” is the only American film in the sidebar devoted to first and second features
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Writers Guild Awards 2024: ‘The Holdovers,’ ‘American Fiction’ Win Top Film Awards
TV awards go to “The Bear,” “Succession,” “The Last of Us” and “Beef”
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New Films from David Cronenberg, Yorgos Lanthimos Headed to Cannes Film Festival
The festival’s main competition also includes work from Francis Ford Coppola and Paul Schrader, plus a film about the young Donald Trump
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Bruce Springsteen Hits Hollywood, Proves There’s a Lot of Life in Aging Rock Stars
The same week he appeared on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and a biopic landed at Disney, the Boss delivered a roof-shaking celebration that was also a meditation on loss
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Oscar Predictions 2024: The Barbenheimer Showdown Will Be Pretty One-Sided
“Oppenheimer” is likely to win a lot, “Barbie” a little
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The Big Oscars Question for ‘Oppenheimer’: How Much Can It Win?
Christopher Nolan’s movie is favored to win a lot, but Oscar voters haven’t been in the mood for sweeps in recent years
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‘Barbie,’ ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Win at Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell take home Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film for their Oscar-nominated track, “What Was I Made For?”
