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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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?”
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‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘The Holdovers’ Win at ACE Eddie Awards
TV winners at the editing awards include “Beef,” “The Bear” and “The Last of Us”
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‘American Fiction’ Wins Scripter Award for Adapted Screenplays
“Slow Horses” wins the television award for the second year in a row
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‘Oppenheimer’ Dominates, Lily Gladstone Surges and Other Lessons We Learned on a Big Awards Weekend
The Screen Actors Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards and Producers Guild Awards set the table for the Oscars
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What’s Left to Learn in the Biggest Awards Weekend Before the Oscars?
The SAG, Indie Spirit and Producers Guild Awards may still have a few things to teach awards-watchers
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How the Supreme Court Spurred the Oscar-Nominated Short ‘Red, White and Blue’
TheWrap magazine: Director Nazrin Choudhury says she wrote the abortion-themed film in “two or three hours” after the court overturned Roe v. Wade
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Inside the Wacky World of Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Poor Things’ With His Irish Producers
TheWrap magazine: “Ignorance was bliss,” Andrew Lowe says of his and Ed Guiney’s leap into their largest production ever
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‘The Creator’ Wins 5 Categories to Top Visual Effects Society Awards
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” swept the VES animation categories, while “The Last of Us” dominated the TV awards
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3 Oscar Nominations in 4 Years? That’s Short Work for Ben Proudfoot
TheWrap magazine: “The Last Repair Shop,” which the filmmaker made with Kris Bowers, is his third documentary short nom
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How ‘American Fiction’ Composer Laura Karpman’s Fight for Diversity Led to Her First Oscar Nomination
TheWrap magazine: “I have benefited from my own advocacy, but that was never the intent,” she says
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‘American Fiction,’ ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ Nominated for Writers Guild Awards
Several Oscar-nominated screenplays, including “Poor Things,” were ineligible for the strike-delayed guild awards
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‘Zone of Interest’ Producer Says Filming at Auschwitz Took a Toll
TheWrap magazine: “It was, without doubt, the most challenging film I’ve ever produced,” James Wilson says
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How Cord Jefferson and Celine Song Grabbed Oscar Success With Their First Movies
TheWrap magazine: A conversation with the directors who got Best Picture nominations with their film debuts, “American Fiction” and “Past Lives”
