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 Board Election Has New Rules – But Expect the Same Old Results
Incumbents rarely need any extra help to prevail when the Academy members pick their board, but they might have gotten a boost anyway
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‘End of Sentence’ Film Review: John Hawkes and Logan Lerman Take an Affecting Irish Road Trip
In Elfar Adalsteins’ drama, the two actors prove to be subtle, naturalistic performers who spin gold out of settings that could easily seem clichéd
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‘The High Note’ Film Review: Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross Music Biz Drama Is a Little Flat
The Nisha Ganatra film bounces around like a musical artist determined to show off the whole repertoire in the course of a few songs
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Golden Globes Add New Category Names and Definitions – and Not Because of Pandemic
The changes, which focus on acting, directing, foreign-language and TV categories, are unrelated to recent changes made because of the coronavirus
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Oscars Change Rules to Streamline Board of Governors Election
Instead of a runoff election in each branch, the preferential system will be used to determine winners after a single round of voting
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Online Festival ‘We Are One’ Sets More Than 100 Films to Screen Free on YouTube
The festival is a collaboration between 21 different international film festivals, including Tribeca, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance, Venice, London and New York
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Inside the Crazy Final Scene in That Quarantine Episode of ‘Mythic Quest’
Creator and star Rob McElhenney explains how they pulled off the Rube Goldberg-meets-Zoom sequence, which he calls “probably the hardest thing that I’ve ever been a part of”
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‘The Lovebirds’ Film Review: Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae Can’t Make This Race Amazing
Nanjiani and Rae are funny and likable people who try very hard to bring some life to this enterprise, but the action is too preposterous for the laughs to make much headway
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‘The Painter and the Thief’ Film Review: Art Heist Documentary Gets Downright Weird
The story of an artist who recruited the man who stole her paintings to pose for her, Benjamin Ree’s film is a fascinating, perplexing, occasionally annoying chronicle of a truly crazy relationship
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Producers Guild, Directors Guild Awards Allow Streaming Releases to Qualify for Top Film Honor
The move follows similar action from the Oscars, Golden Globes and SAG Awards, among others
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‘Inheritance’ Film Review: Lily Collins and Simon Pegg Face Off in Clunky Potboiler
The Vaughn Stein film acts as if it would like to be a meditation on power and guilt, but at heart it’s a pulpy thriller in a bespoke suit
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New Oscars Documentary Rules Have Already Qualified More Than 90 Docs
But voters with lots of time on their hands still can’t see most of the contenders
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‘The Trip to Greece’ Film Review: Fourth Time’s Still a Charm for Steve Coogan-Rob Brydon Talkfest
Like the three previous “Trip” movies, the two men drive around a beautiful location, eat fabulous meals, talk about stuff and try to make each other laugh, often with dueling impersonations
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‘Scoob!’ Film Review: Animated Scooby-Doo Reboot Starts by Making Fun of Itself
The film determined to have its cake and eat it, too – to give the kids an animated action mystery but also keep up a steady stream of inside jokes
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Academy Allows Documentaries to Qualify for Oscars at Film Festivals
For the first time, films will be able to qualify for the Best Documentary Feature award without playing theatrically
