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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TV’s Breakout Comedy Stars on Pandemic Humor and Cancel Culture
TheWrap magazine: Hannah Einbinder, Maya Erskine, Charlotte Nicdao and Punam Patel talk about entertaining viewers — and themselves — during a difficult time
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‘Miss Juneteenth’ Film Review: Mother-Daughter Drama Packs a Quiet Punch
First-time feature director Channing Godfrey Peoples’ film is relentlessly understated, casting a sad but affectionate eye on a community’s daily life and on the rituals that hold it together
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Was Kenny Leon’s Job Directing ‘Mahalia’ a Good Assignment or Divine Inspiration?
TheWrap magazine: The veteran director isn’t sure, but he’d been listening to Jackson’s music every single day before he got the call to direct the Lifetime movie
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How Krysta Rodriguez Learned to ‘Pump Up the Liza’ for ‘Halston’
TheWrap magazine: “When I got the script, I thought, this is either something that changes my life or breaks my heart,” says the actress of portraying Liza Minnelli
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How Daveed Diggs Found Common Ground Between Frederick Douglass and Modern Rappers
TheWrap awards magazine: ‘We have a similar understanding of what it’s like to mine your past for your fame in the present,” Diggs says of his role as abolitionist Douglass in “The Good Lord Bird”
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Why the Music Doc Series ‘1971’ Wasn’t Just About Music
TheWrap magazine: Director Asif Kapadia says. “It’s not, ‘Listen to this piece of music, and then this one’ — what’s the bigger picture around it?”
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Bo Burnham Crashes the Emmy Race With Netflix Special ‘Inside’
But his one-man show will be going up against “Hamilton,” Beyoncé and the “Friends” reunion in a very crowded and competitive category
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Why Giancarlo Esposito Thinks His Career (and TV Itself) Got Better During the Pandemic
TheWrap Magazine: “Television has become much more personal because we finally learned how to use our remotes the last year,” says Esposito
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Cannes Film Festival Lineup to Include New Paul Verhoeven, Oliver Stone Films
The first full-scale Cannes since 2019 will also feature new films by Wes Anderson, Leos Carax and Sean Penn
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Fran Lebowitz Says Good Riddance to Trump: He ‘Never Deserved New York’
TheWrap magazine: “I wish that when he left, he’d have taken that big pile of junk on Fifth Avenue,” says the subject of the docuseries “Pretend It’s A City”
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Oscars Move 2022 Ceremony to March, Extend COVID-Era Eligibility Rules
With films that were released in January and February eligible for the 2020 Oscars, the 2021 ceremony will cover only 10 months’ worth of releases
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It’s a Golden Age for New Shows at the Emmys – But Not THE Golden Age
A bumper crop of first-year series could be nominated in top categories, but it’ll be hard to beat the new shows from the early ’70s
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Can (and Should) Anything Replace the Golden Globes?
The Critics Choice Awards have claimed the date of the 2022 ceremony, but that doesn’t make it the new Globes
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Emmy Season Begins With Clear Favorites – But Are They Safe?
“The Crown,” “Ted Lasso” and “The Queen’s Gambit” may be front runners, but the Oscars proved that doesn’t always mean much
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12 Lessons From a Long and Broken Awards Season
From virtual screenings to the HFPA’s implosion to messing with the order of the Oscars show, here’s what we learned in the longest season ever
