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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Emmy Submissions in Key Categories Drop for the 2nd Year in a Row
The decline in entries isn’t as big as it was last year, but it suggests that the TV industry hasn’t recovered from the hits it has taken in recent years
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Why Brett Goldstein Returned to Stand-Up Comedy After ‘Ted Lasso’ and ‘Shrinking’
TheWrap magazine: “Stand-up’s really good for your brain,” the writer and actor who made the HBO special “The Second Best Night of Your Life,” says
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Encounters With Brian Wilson: A Tortured Genius Found His Own Love and Mercy | Appreciation
He was troubled and fragile and undeniably brilliant, driven to make music of surpassing beauty, complexity and depth
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On the Set of ‘Hacks’: Intense Conversation and Bad Champagne
TheWrap magazine: It was a cold night on the beach as Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder filmed a scene that turned the tide in Season 4
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How ‘The Studio’ Staged Long Shots and Made Its Own Frank Lloyd Wright Building
TheWrap magazine: Cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra and production designer Julie Berghoff go behind-the-scenes on the production of the Seth Rogen comedy
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With Emmy Voting About to Begin, Can We Please Get a Few Surprises?
We know that shocks tend to be few and far between, but here’s hoping for a little variety and less category-hogging
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The Night Sly Stone Delivered the Most Memorable Awful Concert Ever
On a November night in Hollywood, the audience brought Sly’s music to life because he couldn’t
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‘Adolescence’ Creator Stephen Graham Admits He’s Surprised by Show’s Success: ‘We Didn’t Expect It to Create a Tsunami’
“I wanted it to look at everything and say we’re all slightly accountable,” says the actor-writer-producer of the series about a teenage murder
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John Candy Documentary ‘I Like Me’ to Open 2025 Toronto Film Festival
The film directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds will be the first non-music doc to open TIFF
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The Emmys in the Shadow of ‘Shōgun’ – How the Unprecedented Has Become Predictable
TheWrap magazine: Five of the 10 biggest single-year winners in Emmy history have come in the last four years
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How Documentary Filmmakers Found New Stuff to Say About Sly Stone, Springsteen and The Beatles
TheWrap magazine: Questlove, David Tedeschi, Thom Zimny and Laurent Bouzereau talk about their music docs
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Bono on His Movie, His Memoir and Being ‘Totally Pretentious’: ‘I Promise I’m Coming Back to Rock ‘n’ Roll’
The U2 frontman says the film “Bono: Stories of Surrender” is part of a new approach he calls “radical intimacy”
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Cannes Film Festival Winners 2025: ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Wins Palme d’Or
Cannes 2025: Other awards go to “Sentimental Value,” “Sirat,” “Sound of Falling” and actors Wagner Moura and Nadia Melliti
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‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ Wins Top Award in Cannes Un Certain Regard
Cannes 2025: Other winners include “A Poet,” “Urchin,” “Once Upon a Time in Gaza” and “I Only Rest in the Storm”
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‘It Was Just an Accident’ Review: Jafar Panahi Returns to Cannes in Person, and in Fine Form
Cannes 2025: The Iranian director, who spent most of the last two decades imprisoned or muffled, marries humanism and anger