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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Oscars Screenings Move Online and Earn the Academy $1 Million Plus (So Far)
With physical screenings impossible, more than 80 movies have already paid $12,500 for spots in the Academy Screening Room
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‘Landfall,’ ‘Five Years North’ Win Top Awards at DOC NYC Festival
The documentary festival also gives jury prizes to awards contenders “Time,” “Welcome to Chechnya,” “76 Days” and “Boys State”
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‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’ Wins Top Prize at Critics Choice Documentary Awards
The Critics Choice winner has gone on to be nominated for the documentary Oscar only once in the last four years
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Chadwick Boseman Is on Track to Make Oscar History
His performances in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Da 5 Bloods” are powerful enough to make him a strong contender for not one but two posthumous nominations
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Oscars May Look to 2020’s Indie Films – But How Indie Can They Really Get?
The Academy’s definition of an independent film is likely to be very different from the Gotham Awards’ definition
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‘Monsoon’ Film Review: Henry Golding’s Journey Through Vietnam Is Misty, Not Stormy
Writer-director Hong Khaou’s drama is a lyrical, ambiguous reverie, maddening at times and beautifully resonant at others
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Oscars in April? Here’s the COVID-Altered Awards Season Calendar
With the Oscars taking place later than ever, this season’s events are spread out over seven months
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Women Dominate Gotham Awards Nominations, ‘First Cow’ Leads All Films
Netflix’s controversial “Cuties” receives a nomination in the Best International Feature category
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‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Wins Courage Under Fire Award From International Documentary Association
Other winners at the IDA Documentary Awards will include directors Sam Pollard (“MLK/FBI”) and Garrett Bradley (“Time”)
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‘Gunda,’ ‘Crip Camp,’ ‘Time’ Land on DOC NYC List of Awards-Worthy Documentaries
Other films on the annual Oscar-predicting list include “Boys State,” “Collective,” “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” “The Fight,” “MLK/FBI,” “76 Days,” “The Truffle Hunters” and “Welcome to Chechnya”
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Oscars Supporting Actor and Actress Predictions: Will ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’ Hog the Nominations?
Contenders include a mixture of recent Oscar and Emmy winners (Olivia Colman, Mark Rylance) and names voters wouldn’t have known a few months ago (Maria Bakalova, Yuh-Jung Youn)
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Early Predictions in Oscars’ Lead Acting Races, From Chadwick Boseman to Sophia Loren
In this year of COVID, theater closings, new Oscars rules and an extended eligibility period, chaos still rules the day
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‘One Night in Miami’ Cast Pick Their Categories: 2 in Lead, 2 in Supporting
Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Leslie Odom Jr. and Aldis Hodge star in the ensemble drama directed by Regina King
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Oscars Documentary Race Gets Bigger, More Competitive With New Batch of 33 Films
Bryce Dallas Howard’s film “Dads” will now be competing with her father Ron’s “Rebuilding Paradise” in the category
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‘Us Kids’ Film Review: Parkland Documentary Revisits a Time of Gun Control Progress
The film by Kim A. Snyder is a needed reminder that issues don’t go away just because something else is getting today’s headlines
