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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‘No Other Choice’ Review: Park Chan-wook’s Black Comedy Is Really Black and Really Comic
Venice Film Festival: The Korean director’s take on unemployment turns downright homicidal
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‘After the Hunt’ Review: Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri Face Off in Hot-Button Campus Drama
Venice Film Festival: Luca Guadagnino uses a formidable array of actors to explore woke culture in a twisty, stylish way
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‘Jay Kelly’ Review: George Clooney Is Damn Good at Playing a Pampered Movie Star
Venice Film Festival: And Noah Baumbach is back to nailing that tricky balance with a film that moves like a comedy but has a lot on its mind
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‘Ghost Elephants’ Review: Who but Werner Herzog Could Lead Us on This Mystical Search for Giant Pachyderms?
Venice Film Festival: As usual, Herzog finds the poetry in nature and looks beyond the facts to the myths and legends that make them worthy of his attention
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‘Mother’ Review: Noomi Rapace Plays Mother Teresa in Odd, Bold Drama
Venice Film Festival: “Mother” quite deliberately takes a small slice of a large life and treats it in ways that are both contemplative and assaultive
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Kathy Bates’ Road to Her Record-Setting ‘Matlock’ Nomination: ‘I Had No Expectations’
TheWrap magazine: To Bates, her show’s creator, Jennie Snyder Urman, is “the goose that laid the golden egg”
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Exhaustion and Elation: The Story of ‘Adolescence’ as Told by Its Women
TheWrap magazine: Emmy nominees Erin Doherty and Christine Tremarco detail an experience that took a physical and emotional toll
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Awards Season Is Dead. Long Live Awards Season.
As Emmy voting ends, Oscar season will explode at the fall festivals
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Here’s a New Wrinkle in the Newman Family Composing Dynasty: Father-Daughter Emmy Nominees
TheWrap magazine: Thomas Newman and his daughter Julia discuss composing for “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”
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Emmy Icon James Burrows Carries the Torch for Multi-Cam Sitcoms, but He’s Scared They’re Dying
TheWrap magazine: The 84-year-old director received his record 27th nomination for “Mid-Century Modern”
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‘Trapped’ Wins Grand Prize at Hollyshorts Film Festival, Qualifies for Oscars
Other shorts that gained Academy Award eligibility at the festival are “Hurikán,” “A Son and a Father” and “Voices From the Abyss”
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Ike Barinholtz Has a Bold Wish List for ‘The Studio’ Season 2 Cameos: Spielberg, Leo and Tarantino
TheWrap magazine: The Emmy nominee also jokes about campaigning for some thank-you speeches for his character, Sal Saperstein
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First Rule of Writing the Emmy-Nominated Song ‘Harper and Will Go West’: Don’t Be Too Funny
TheWrap magazine: But that doesn’t mean Kristen Wiig and her fellow songwriters couldn’t rhyme go west with brand-new breasts
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How Questlove Put Together the Insane Montage That Opened His ‘Saturday Night Live’ Music Documentary
The musician and filmmaker watched “SNL” episodes every day for a year and gave a score to every musical performance in the show’s history
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Documentaries About Paula Deen, Clergy Abuse and Whistling Contests Headed to Toronto Film Festival
The festival’s TIFF Docs program will include new films from Oscar winners Laura Poitras, Ben Proudfoot, Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
