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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Golden Globes Analysis: If an Awards Show Announces Nominations But Nobody Cares, Have They Really Voted?
The Hollywood Foreign Press took time out from their self-improvement push to release nominations that aren’t likely to have any impact on this awards season
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How Finnish Oscar Entry ‘Compartment No. 6’ Rewrote the Ending After a Surprise Snowstorm
TheWrap magazine: “Our catering tent flew away to the sea. It was a crazy moment,” director Juho Kuosmanen says
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Why Tilda Swinton Headed to the Colombian Jungle to Make Her Weirdest Movie Ever
TheWrap magazine: “It was a place where we could build a dreamscape,” says Swinton of “Memoria,” her collaboration with Thai visionary Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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‘Ascension,’ ‘Flee’ and ‘Summer of Soul’ Land Producers Guild Documentary Nominations
“In the Same Breath” and “The First Wave” are also on the list of eight nominees
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How Rufus Wainwright Wrote a Sexy Song About Nuns – That’s Now an Oscar Contender
TheWrap magazine: “It’s a seductive call to go out and be a part of humanity,” the singer-songwriter says of “Secret Sister” from the documentary “Rebel Hearts”
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How Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi and Team Wrote a Love Song for the End of the World in ‘Don’t Look Up’
TheWrap magazine: “It’s a time capsule kind of song,” lyricist Taura Stinson says of the lush doomsday ballad “Just Look Up” from Adam McKay’s film
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Director of Oscar Entry ‘Hive’ Explains Why Kosovo Has Become a Hotbed for Strong Female Filmmakers
TheWrap magazine: “It’s a case of being inspired by one another,” says Blerta Basholli, the third woman in four years to represent the country at the Oscars
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Details His ‘Hectic’ 2021: 4 Movies and a Bunch of Oscar Song Contenders
TheWrap magazine: “I can withstand a certain amount of hectic, but it all kinda got crushed into one year,” the prolific actor, director and songwriter says
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How Billie Eilish Overcame ‘Performance Anxiety’ to Write a James Bond Song
TheWrap magazine: “The pressure we put on ourselves was pretty crazy,” says Eilish of writing the Grammy-winning song for “No Time to Die” with her brother Finneas
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Inside Brian Wilson’s Autobiographical Song for the Doc ‘Long Promised Road’
TheWrap magazine: Co-writer James explains how he based the lyrics to “Right Where I Belong” on old interviews Wilson had given
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‘Encounter’ Film Review: Riz Ahmed Shines in Confused Sci-Fi Hybrid
The star is the best thing about Michael Pearce’s film, which mixes “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” with a more serious character study
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How Costa Rican Drama ‘Clara Sola’ Became Like ‘Carrie Meets Cinderella in Latin America’
TheWrap magazine: “Both films have a very juicy release or explosion,” director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén says
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With ‘Lingui, the Sacred Bonds,’ Chad’s Top Director Hopes to Change How His Country Views Abortion
TheWrap magazine: “I’m used to making films about men, but I knew I had to become a spokesman for these women,” Mahamat-Saleh Haroun says
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How International Breakout Star Renate Reinsve Learned to ‘Surrender to the Chaos’
TheWrap magazine: The Norwegian star of the Oscar favorite “The Worst Person in the World” says “it’s impossible to wrap my head around” the attention she’s received for the film
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How the Pope Francis Doc ‘Francesco’ Helped the Director Recover From Trauma
TheWrap magazine: “I wanted to find the positive side of humanity,” director Evgeny Afineevsky says of the film he made after documenting war and the refugee crisis
