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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Guillermo del Toro Says His ‘Pinocchio’ Is Dark, But ‘There Are More Dangerous Things in Shampoo Commercials’
The director didn’t make his movie for kids, but he thinks “there’s nothing in this movie unacceptable to watch in family environments”
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As Holidays Arrive, Oscars Screening Room Fills Up With Everything But ‘Avatar’ and ‘Babylon’
178 films are now available for voters to stream, including almost all of the main Best Picture contenders
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Can Dark Horses Survive Under the Oscars’ New International Voting System?
Rule changes in the Best International Feature Film category might make it difficult for smaller films to advance to the upcoming shortlist
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‘If These Walls Could Sing’ Review: Abbey Road Studio Gets a Slight, Sunny Tribute
First-time director Mary McCartney takes an affectionate look at the London studio that her dad’s band helped make famous
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Leads Critics Choice Nominations – But ‘RRR’ Crashes the Party, Too
S.S. Rajamouli’s uproarious Indian film is nominated for Best Picture alongside “The Fabelmans,” “Babylon,” “Avatar,” “Top Gun” and more
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‘Bardo’ and ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Could Break the Language Barrier in Sound Design Oscars Categories
The Netflix films from Mexico and Germany have intricate sound design worthy of awards attention
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How Canada’s Animated Doc ‘Eternal Spring’ Aims to Follow ‘Flee’ Path to Oscar Glory
TheWrap magazine: “I wasn’t concerned that people would think, ‘Someone did an animated doc last year,’” says director Jason Loftus
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Golden Globes Nominations Analysis: 100 New Voters But Business as Usual
The beefed-up organization produced the same kind of noms that the old HFPA always made, with glaring oversights alongside interesting choices
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Composer Carter Burwell Explains Why He Toned Down the ‘Irishness’ for His ‘Banshees of Inisherin’ Score
TheWrap magazine: Burwell received an Oscar nomination for his previous collaboration with director Martin McDonagh (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”)
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‘All That Breathes’ Named Year’s Best Documentary at IDA Awards
“Fire of Love” wins two feature-film awards, while TV winners include “POV,” “Origins of Hip Hop” and “We Need to Talk About Cosby”
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Why ‘Freedom on Fire’ Director Evgeny Afineevsky Felt He Had to Make a 2nd Doc About Ukraine
TheWrap magazine: “If we close our eyes to the crimes and the Russian leadership goes unpunished, then who knows what is next?” he says
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Can the Golden Globe Nominations Give the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Some Credibility?
It seems unlikely, but a strong slate of nominees wouldn’t hurt
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How ‘Three Minutes – A Lengthening’ Turns 1 Family’s Vacation Movies Into a Startling Look at the Holocaust
TheWrap magazine: “As soon as I saw these images, I realized that these are almost certainly the only moving images of this community,” says Glenn Kurtz of his grandparents’ 1938 film
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‘The Blue Caftan’ Faces Morocco’s Ultimate Taboo in Portraying a Queer, Closeted Craftsman
TheWrap magazine: Director Maryam Touzani says that shooting a film that talks about homosexuality was “a big, big risk”
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How ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Composer Created Those ‘Disturbing’ Sounds of War
TheWrap magazine: Volker Bertelmann says he used drums and harmoniums to make military sounds like shooting bullets
