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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Sean Baker Traces the Road to an Unlikely Oscar Frontrunner: ‘It’s Surreal, Quite Honestly’
TheWrap magazine: The director of “Anora” discusses the state of independent film: “I can’t imagine having to break in now”
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Jeremy Strong on the Dark Legacy of Roy Cohn: ‘We’re Living in His World Now’
TheWrap magazine: The Oscar-nominated star of “The Apprentice” says Cohn’s “brute force and misinformation” is seen in today’s politics
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How Kobe Bryant Set Kris Bowers on the Path to an Odd Oscar Landmark
TheWrap magazine: “It’s a very small niche,” Bowers says of being nominated for documentary short one year and original score the next
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‘Emilia Pérez’ Director Jacques Audiard Receives a 4th Oscar Nomination as Academy Names Eligible Producers
Audiard joins “Anora” writer-director-editor-producer Sean Baker as a rare person to be nominated four times for one film
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‘The Wild Robot’ Dominates Annie Awards for Animation
The DreamWorks Animation epic won in all nine categories in which it was nominated; “Flow” won two awards
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Producers Guild Victory Completes Remarkable Awards-Race Surge for ‘Anora’
With wins at the Critics Choice Awards, Directors Guild and Producers Guild in only two days, Sean Baker’s freewheeling film has to be considered an Oscar frontrunner
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‘A Complete Unknown’ Wins Top Prize at AARP Movies for Grownup Awards
Acting awards, which are restricted to performers over 50, went to Demi Moore, Adrien Brody, Joan Chen and Peter Sarsgaard
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‘Nosferatu,’ ‘Wicked,’ ‘Conclave’ Win Costume Designers Guild Awards
TV honors go to “Shōgun,” “Hacks,” “Dune: Prophecy” and “The Masked Singer”
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AFI Awards Lunch: ‘Emilia Pérez’ Gets a Warm Reception but ‘Wicked’ Brings the House Down
The lunch had been rescheduled because of the L.A. wildfires, and moved to a date where it seemed that the only thing in flames was “Emilia Perez”
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This Weekend’s Big Awards Shows Won’t Mean as Much, Thanks to the ‘Emilia Pérez’ Mess
Critics Choice, Directors Guild and Producers Guild awards can be good Oscar predictors, but their voting mostly took place before the damaging revelations about Karla Sofía Gascón’s social media history
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Oscars Won’t Make Any Past Best Actress Winners Praise Karla Sofía Gascón on Stage
The “Fab 5” format in which each individual nominee is lauded by a former winner will be used in below-the-line categories this year
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Karla Sofía Gascón’s Oscar Campaign Is Dead. Can ‘Emilia Pérez’ Survive?
The path forward for Netflix’s one-time Oscar frontrunner will have to involve both isolation and repudiation
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Karla Sofía Gascón Did Not Violate Oscar Rules While Calling Out Social Media Posts of Fernanda Torres Fans, Academy Says
The “Emilia Pérez” Oscar nominee is under fire for comments she made in a Brazilian interview about the film “I’m Still Here” and its lead actress
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Oscar Nominations: Love for ‘Emilia Pérez’ and ‘The Apprentice’ Could Make Oscar Night Donald Trump’s Nightmare
Hey Mr. President, a Spanish-language musical about a transgender Mexican drug lord just broke Academy Award records
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2025 Oscars Will Skip Performances of Nominated Songs
The show will celebrate Los Angeles and “move away from live performances” of the songs, Academy leadership says
