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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‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’ Film Review: Sad, Boozy Reverie Looks for Truth and Beauty in a Dive Bar
The Ross brothers movie is “The Iceman Cometh” transplanted to the outskirts of Las Vegas, a fiction/nonfiction blend where verité meets improv and the whole thing is shot through with the skid-row romanticism of a Tom Waits song
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Can the Emmys Buck This Year’s Trend of Terrible Awards Shows?
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Even before the coronavirus and the George Floyd protests, this year’s awards shows dealt with widespread criticism and record low ratings
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How ‘The Great’ Star Elle Fanning Handled Producing, Comedy and That Peeing Scene (Video)
“Most everyone that I talked to, what they know her for is this rumor that she had sex with a horse, which is so reductive and sad,” Fanning says of Russian ruler Catherine the Great, whom she plays in the Hulu series
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‘Greyhound’ Film Review: Tom Hanks Battles Nazi Submarines in Old-Fashioned War Movie
Written by Hanks, directed by Aaron Schneider and originally scheduled to be released theatrically by Sony, the drama is a minimalist war film that treats combat as a job to be done
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‘The Old Guard’ Film Review: Charlize Theron Is Back in Warrior Mode in Melancholy Comic-Book Adventure
Gina Prince-Bythewood becomes the latest director who doesn’t seem particularly suited to the world of comics, but who brings a new sensibility to that world
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Nicole Kidman on Her ‘Big Little Lies’ Battle With Meryl Streep: ‘Intimidation Was a Wonderful Thing’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “It’s not superwoman stuff — it’s real human behavior that you’re watching,” Kidman says
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New Emmy Rules Aimed at ‘More Inclusiveness’ Will Reduce the Number of Nominees This Year
30 categories will have more nominees this year than they did last year, but 36 others will have fewer nominees
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How ‘Hunters’ Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Found a Personal Connection in Story of Nazi Hunters
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I identified with the bigger theme of people who are marginalized searching for justice or a voice in the world, fighting for their existence,” says the Mexican-American director
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How Diego Luna Overcame His Hesitation to Play a Drug Dealer on ‘Narcos: Mexico’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “Characters like Félix Gallardo are really important to understand why El Chapo exists today, but I wanted to make sure we could go into the gray areas that we normally miss,” Luna says
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2020 Emmys Race by the Numbers, From Categories to Voters to Contenders
We have all the statistics on this year’s race
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D’Arcy Carden Hates to Say Goodbye to Janet in ‘The Good Place’: ‘I Miss Her Forever’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “She was a joy in every iteration: Good Janet, Bad Janet, everything in between,” says the actress who played an all-knowing assistant in the afterlife
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw on ‘The Morning Show’ Sexual Assault Story: ‘Women Don’t Want to See Themselves as Victims’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “There is a lot of shame in questioning how much you brought the situation on yourself,” says the actress of her character’s state of mind in the series
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How Natalie Dormer Kept Her 4 Different Roles Straight in ‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “Ordinarily I would stay in an American accent entire time — but in this job is there was no point in that, because I was jumping around so much,” the British actress says
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A ‘Hamilton’ Newbie’s Take on the Disney+ Version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Powerful Musical
The filmed stage show feels like a powerful piece of work that has some dazzling moments but goes on for a very long time
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Screen Actors Guild Awards Move 2021 Ceremony to March 14
SAG will also extend the eligibility period by two months, following the lead of the Academy Awards