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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5 Oscar Burning Questions With Voting Underway, Including That Crazy Best Actress Race
And can anything stop the Best Picture momentum for “Nomadland”?
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‘Da 5 Bloods’ Composer Calls Scoring War Movies a ‘Sonic Battle’ Between Guns and Music
TheWrap awards magazine: Terence Blanchard breaks down the crucial scene between Chadwick Boseman and Delroy Lindo
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‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ and ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’ Win Artios Awards for Casting
Television winners include “The Great,” “Euphoria,” “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Succession” and “Normal People”
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‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Director on Why Art Is Necessary to Confront Tragedy
TheWrap awards magazine: “Without art and culture, our lives wouldn’t make any sense,” says director Jasmila Žbanić, whose film chronicles the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
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How ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’ Mixed the Art World and a Refugee Crisis
TheWrap magazine: “I wanted to see this luxurious world through his gaze,” director Kaouther Ben Hania says of the desperate refugee who becomes a contemporary-art commodity
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Maria Bakalova on Why That Rudy Giuliani Scene Still Makes Her Nervous
TheWrap awards magazine: “He called the police and we were running away from the police, and we left the state, and the next day we even left the country,” the Bulgarian actress says
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Diane Warren on Which of Her 12 Oscar-Nominated Songs She Absolutely Thought Would Win
TheWrap awards magazine: The prolific songwriter, who has yet to win, also revealed whom she was “happy to lose to”
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A Journal of the Weirdest Awards Season Ever, From Streams to Vaccines and Everything in Between
TheWrap magazine: The COVID-19 pandemic and the recognition of systemic racism transformed this awards season into a marathon like no other
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‘Ma Rainey,’ ‘Mulan,’ ‘Promising Young Woman’ Win Costume Designers Guild Awards
Television winners include “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Westworld,” Schitt’s Creek” and “Hamilton”
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Why ‘My Octopus Teacher’ Directors Brought in an ‘Octopus Psychologist’ for Their Documentary
“She helped us get inside the mind of an octopus as much as she could,” says co-director Pippa Reed of the cephalopod expert they consulted for their film
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‘Soul,’ ‘Watchmen’ Win at Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
Film awards also go to “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Promising Young Woman,” “The Cuban” and a song from “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
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‘Nomadland’ Wins Big at BAFTA Awards – Complete List of Winners
Acting prizes go to Frances McDormand, Daniel Kaluuya, Yuh-Jung Youn – and Anthony Hopkins, who scored an upset victory over the late Chadwick Boseman
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‘Mank,’ ‘Tenet’ Win Top Film Prizes at Art Directors Guild Awards
Television winners include “The Mandalorian,” “Ozark,” “The Queen’s Gambit” and “What We Do in the Shadows”
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Chloe Zhao Wins Directors Guild Award for ‘Nomadland’ – Complete List of Winners
Zhao is now the second woman to win the award, after Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker”
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‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ ‘Mank’ Win Awards in BAFTA’s Below-the-Line Ceremony
“Ma Rainey” is the only two-time winner in a show that presented awards in six below-the-line categories and two short-film categories
