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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‘Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry’ Film Review: Watch the Teen Star Grow Up Over 2½ Hours
R.J. Cutler’s documentary takes the Billie Eilish that you hear in the music and fleshes her out not with big revelations but with dozens of small moments
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Oscars Set a 50-Year Record With 366 Qualifying Films
More films are in contention this year than at any time since 1970, though the field is well short of the all-time record
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Golden Globe Predictions: How Much Are Sacha Baron Cohen and ‘The Crown’ Going to Win, Anyway?
Embattled Globe voters usually like to spread the wealth, but they have a chance to pile it on in this strangest of years
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A Guide to Oscars’ Shortlisted Animated Shorts, From Diana Rigg to Pixar’s First Gay Hero
The 10 semi-finalists in the Best Documentary Short category range from commercial comedies to art movies
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‘Mank,’ Tenet,’ ‘Promising Young Woman’ Land Nominations From Art Directors Guild
Television nominees include “The Crown,” “The Queen’s Gambit” and Beyonce’s “Black Is King”
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Maria Bakalova on Her ‘Completely Insane’ Journey From Bulgaria to ‘Borat’
TheWrap magazine: “I thought, ‘Nobody is going to be giving a platform to an Eastern European person with an accent — forget about this, it’s just a dream,’” says the Golden Globe and SAG-nominated actress
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Which of the Oscars’ Special 2020 Rules Are Here to Stay?
TheWrap magazine: Online viewing? Streaming movies qualifying for film awards? Extended eligibility dates?
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Why Making ‘Nomadland’ Left Chloe Zhao ‘Emotionally Drained’
TheWrap magazine: “I wasn’t used to going into a place, getting attached to it and to people and then leaving it behind,” says the writer-director whose next film will be Marvel’s “The Eternals”
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‘Nomadland’ Film Review: Frances McDormand Hits the Road in Quiet, Lyrical Drama
Chloé Zhao’s film is a gentle, uncommonly rich drama in which the main character hits the road not to get away from home, but to find it
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A Guide to Oscar’s Shortlisted Documentary Shorts, From the Holocaust to Sophia Loren
The doc-shorts semifinalists offer a guided tour to many of the pressing issues of our time, but they throw in a few surprises, too
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George Clooney to Receive Cinema Audio Society’s Filmmaker Award
The CAS Awards will take place in a virtual ceremony on April 17
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‘I Care a Lot’ Film Review: Rosamund Pike Is Very Bad, and That’s Pretty Good
J Blakeson’s black comedy is a nasty little piece of provocation based around scenery-chewing badness from Pike and Peter Dinklage
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Sofia Coppola to Receive Honorary Award From American Society of Cinematographers
Coppola’s father, Francis Ford Coppola, received the Board of Governors Award in 1998
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Writers Guild Nominates ‘Trial of the Chicago 7,’ ‘One Night in Miami’ – and ‘Borat’ Too
More than half a dozen major Oscar screenwriting contenders, including “Mank,” “Nomadland” and “Soul,” were not eligible under WGA rules
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Oscar Race Finally Delivers Some Surprises, From ‘Jingle Jangle’ to Sia’s ‘Music’
Between the Oscar shortlists and some recent nominations, voters have managed to inject a bit of the unexpected (and sometimes the jaw-dropping) into this year’s competition
