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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In a Weird Oscars Race, 2020 Is Forcing Voters to Redefine What a Movie Is
Los Angeles film critics gave their top film prize to a TV limited series, but they’re not the only ones grappling with definitions these days
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Ryan Murphy on ‘The Prom’: ‘The World Was Feeling Dark, I Wanted to Make Something Light’
TheWrap magazine: “It was one of those weird things where everything fell into place, which has never really happened in my career so far,” says the director
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Inside George Clooney’s ‘The Midnight Sky,’ From Felicity Jones’ Surprise Pregnancy to His ‘Santa Claus’ Beard
The actor-director even drew on his work on the ’90s medical drama “ER” for lessons in how to get the audience invested in his postapocalyptic sci-fi drama
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How the ’76 Days’ Filmmakers Found the Personal Stories in a Pandemic
TheWrap magazine: “I just wanted to focus on the human moments,” says director Hao Wu of his film about the early days COVID in China
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‘Crip Camp’ Directors Grappled With a Question: Did a Teen Summer Camp Really Launch the Disability Rights Movement?
TheWrap magazine: “My jaw hit the floor, because I never in my life imagined a radical hippie summer camp for teens with disabilities in the ’70s,” says co-director Nicole Newnham
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Oscars Documentary Race Tops 200 Entries to Shatter Old Record (Exclusive)
A huge group of 93 films was added to the list of contenders just before Christmas
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For Ron Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard, Documentaries Are a Family Affair
TheWrap magazine: The father and daughter are in the Oscars doc race this year with “Rebuilding Paradise” and “Dads” — and if they go head-to-head, Ron won’t be rooting for himself
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Directors of Voter Suppression Documentary ‘All In’ Definitely Aren’t Surprised by This Year’s Election Mess
TheWrap magazine: “Trump’s claims about voter fraud weren’t new and different, they were part of the playbook we’d already explored in the film,” says co-director Liz Garbus
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Steve McQueen’s ‘Small Axe’ Series Named Best Picture of 2020 by LA Film Critics
Acting awards go to Chadwick Boseman and Glynn Turman for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Carey Mulligan for “Promising Young Woman” and Youn Yuh-jung for “Minari”
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5 Films From 2021 That Could Shake Up the 2020 Oscars Race
Upcoming films could bring Andra Day, Zendaya, Robin Wright and both Denzel Washington and his son John David Washington into the race
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Oscars International Entries Are Close to New Record, But Voters Can’t See Them All Yet
91 different countries are known to have made submissions in the category, but at the moment only 30 of those films are available to voters in the Academy screening room
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‘Monster Hunter’ Review: Don’t Go Hunting for a Good Movie in This Videogame Silliness
Milla Jovovich, Tony Jaa and Ron Perlman star in Paul W.S. Anderson’s hyperkinetic sci-fi melodrama drowning in CGI
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Paul Greengrass Celebrates Christmas Opening of ‘News of the World’: ‘We’re Only Going to Recover by Daring to Release Movies’
“As an expression of faith in our business and faith in the healing power of the movies, I think that what we gain is beyond measure,” director says
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Sundance Film Festival’s 2021 Lineup Includes Films From Robin Wright, Questlove and Edgar Wright
50% of the 140 features, shorts and episodic projects were directed by women, and 51% by artists of color
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Why Stacey Abrams Wanted to Make Sure Voting Doc ‘All In’ Was Not About Her
“She really felt that as soon as you make it about one person, it can be written off,” says director Liz Garbus of her and Lisa Cortes’ sobering documentary
