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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Chloe Zhao, Emerald Fennell Make History With Directors Guild Nominations
Until this year, only eight women had been nominated by the DGA in the feature-film category
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‘Nomadland,’ ‘Rocks’ Lead Heavily Indie BAFTA Nominations
Carey Mulligan, Viola Davis, Gary Oldman and Sacha Baron Cohen are among the top Oscar contenders bypassed after a 2020 overhaul of BAFTA voting procedures that was designed to make the selections more diverse
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A Guide to Oscars’ Shortlisted Live-Action Shorts – With Tilda Swinton, Oscar Isaac and Joey Bada$$
Filmmakers represented on the strong list of 10 films include Pedro Almodóvar and “The Daily Show” writer and comic Travon Free
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‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Lead Directors Guild TV Nominations
Drama series nominees include “Ozark,” “The Mandalorian” and “Bridgerton”
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Producers Guild Nominations Range From ‘Nomadland’ to ‘Borat’
Major movie studios were almost shut out of a lineup that leans heavily toward streamers and indies
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How ‘Earwig and the Witch’ Dragged Studio Ghibli Into the World of CG Animation
TheWrap awards magazine: “We had to create a team and a whole infrastructure from scratch,” says director Goro Miyazaki, son of the company’s legendary founder Hayao Miyazaki
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‘The Croods: A New Age’s’ Big Challenge: Creating a New World During a Global Pandemic
TheWrap awards magazine: “We had great momentum and chemistry, and then it was like, Wait — we’re going to have to do all of this separately in our homes?” says first-time director Joel Crawford
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‘Nomadland’ Is an Uneasy Front Runner as Oscar Voting Begins
We’re at that crucial point in the awards calendar when critics stop voting and the industry starts
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How ‘The Midnight Sky’ Visual Effects Team Pulled Together That Bloody Space Scene
TheWrap awards magazine: “I wouldn’t have trusted me to deliver the sequence we did,” visual effects supervisor Matt Kasmir says of the complicated scene
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How ‘My Favorite War’ Put a Country’s Collective Trauma Into Animated Documentary
TheWrap magazine: “Only in the last 10 years did I start to realize how wrong my beliefs were as a child, and I wanted to put my life into perspective,” says Latvian-born director Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen
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Why Glen Keane Brought a Touch of Pink Floyd to Chinese Folk Tale ‘Over the Moon’
TheWrap magazine: The veteran Disney animator who won an Oscar with Kobe Bryant for “Dear Basketball” makes his feature directing debut with the Netflix animated film
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How Many Votes Does It Take to Get an Oscar Nomination in 2021?
Here’s the category-by-category breakdown, from a high of 457 to a low of 27
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How Pixar Navigated Religion and Race in ‘Soul’
TheWrap awards magazine: “We said, ‘Let’s try to steer clear of anything that would upset people — either that, or we should try to offend everybody,’” says director Pete Docter
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‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Wins Top Prize at AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards
Sophia Loren and Anthony Hopkins win acting awards, while “This Is Us” and “The Queen’s Gambit” take first AARP TV awards
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Costume Designers Guild Puts ‘Emma,’ ‘Mank’ on the Best-Dressed List
Television nominees include “The Mandalorian,” “Snowpiercer,” “Emily in Paris,” “Bridgerton” and “The Queen’s Gambit”
