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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‘Hallelujah’ Directors Explain How They Turned Leonard Cohen’s Song Into a Whole Movie
TheWrap magazine: Dayna Goldfine said they wanted to answer one question: “What is it about Leonard Cohen that made him the only person in the universe that could written a song like Hallelujah’?”
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How ‘Memory Box’ Turns a Stack of Teenage Notebooks Into a Movie
TheWrap magazine: “I had this strange personal archive, and we thought it would be interesting to do something with it,” says co-director Joana Hadjithomas
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Irish Oscar Entry ‘The Quiet Girl’ Has a Secret Weapon: Silence
TheWrap magazine: “The different types of silence in the film are reflective of Irish society and certain aspects of our past,” says director Colm Bairéad
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How Ukraine Oscar Entry ‘Klondike’ Tells a Timely Story Set in the Past
TheWrap magazine: “We made this film to very carefully ask the international audience: ‘What do you think about the situation on the border of Russia and Ukraine?’” says director Maryna Er Gorbach
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How Son Lux Made ‘Mountains of Music’ for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
TheWrap magazine: “The challenge was to keep it from being a total mess,” says Ryan Lott, whose group Son Lux wrote the song “This Is a Life,” featuring Mitski and David Byrne
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How ‘Descendant’ Searched for a Slave Ship and a Community’s History
TheWrap magazine: “My mom talked about it like a ghost story or myth — it wasn’t something you talked about out loud,” says director Margaret Brown
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‘Abbott Elementary’ Leads Critics Choice Awards TV Nominations
FX, HBO and Netflix tie with 15 nominations each
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‘EO’ Director Had a Secret Weapon to Coax a Great Performance From a Donkey – Carrots
TheWrap magazine: “In difficult moments, carrots work miracles,” 84-year-old Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski says
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Why Brett Morgen Refused to Define David Bowie With ‘Moonage Daydream’
TheWrap magazine: “Bowie defies facts, defies definition and is beautifully mysterious,” the famed documentarian says
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‘Argentina, 1985’ Asks a Timely Question: How Fragile Is Democracy?
TheWrap magazine: “There was a lot of mistrust, a lot of misinformation, a lot of skepticism in the air,” says actor Ricardo Darín of the case study behind Argentina’s Oscar entry
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Why the New ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Needed a German Perspective on World War I
TheWrap magazine: Director Edward Berger says he wanted to infuse the classic anti-war story with “a sense of guilt, shame, terror, horror”
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‘Hunt’ Review: ‘Squid Game’ Actor Lee Jung-jae Brings a Dense Spy Thriller to Cannes
Lee’s directorial debut fictionalizes Korean history and throws in double agents, buried secrets and lots of broken arms
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Early Oscar Predictions: The Audience Is Staying Away From Awards Movies, But Will Voters Care?
“The Fabelmans,” “The Banshees of Inisherin” and others should be able to win over voters despite tepid box-office returns
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New York Film Critics 2022: ‘Tar’ Named Best Film
Acting winners are Colin Farrell, Cate Blanchett, Ke Huy Quan and Keke Palmer; S.S. Rajamouli wins directing award for Indian film “RRR”
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Rian Johnson Also Thinks ‘Glass Onion’ Should’ve Had a Longer Theatrical Release
TheWrap magazine: “I would’ve loved to have as big and long a theatrical run as we could get, but I’m grateful to Netflix for stepping out of their comfort zone,” says the director
