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 Will Require Expanded Theatrical Runs for Best Picture Eligibility for 2025 Awards
The rules are particularly restrictive for films that wish to compete in the Best Picture category
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Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Selection to Include 8 Films From North and South America
The festival also announced three documentaries and six narrative films in its ACID program
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Cannes Critics’ Week Picks 11 Films From 16 Countries for 2024 Lineup
Constance Tsang’s “Blue Sun Palace” is the only American film in the sidebar devoted to first and second features
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Writers Guild Awards 2024: ‘The Holdovers,’ ‘American Fiction’ Win Top Film Awards
TV awards go to “The Bear,” “Succession,” “The Last of Us” and “Beef”
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New Films from David Cronenberg, Yorgos Lanthimos Headed to Cannes Film Festival
The festival’s main competition also includes work from Francis Ford Coppola and Paul Schrader, plus a film about the young Donald Trump
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Bruce Springsteen Hits Hollywood, Proves There’s a Lot of Life in Aging Rock Stars
The same week he appeared on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and a biopic landed at Disney, the Boss delivered a roof-shaking celebration that was also a meditation on loss
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Oscar Predictions 2024: The Barbenheimer Showdown Will Be Pretty One-Sided
“Oppenheimer” is likely to win a lot, “Barbie” a little
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The Big Oscars Question for ‘Oppenheimer’: How Much Can It Win?
Christopher Nolan’s movie is favored to win a lot, but Oscar voters haven’t been in the mood for sweeps in recent years
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‘Barbie,’ ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Win at Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell take home Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film for their Oscar-nominated track, “What Was I Made For?”
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‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘The Holdovers’ Win at ACE Eddie Awards
TV winners at the editing awards include “Beef,” “The Bear” and “The Last of Us”
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‘American Fiction’ Wins Scripter Award for Adapted Screenplays
“Slow Horses” wins the television award for the second year in a row
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‘Oppenheimer’ Dominates, Lily Gladstone Surges and Other Lessons We Learned on a Big Awards Weekend
The Screen Actors Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards and Producers Guild Awards set the table for the Oscars
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What’s Left to Learn in the Biggest Awards Weekend Before the Oscars?
The SAG, Indie Spirit and Producers Guild Awards may still have a few things to teach awards-watchers
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How the Supreme Court Spurred the Oscar-Nominated Short ‘Red, White and Blue’
TheWrap magazine: Director Nazrin Choudhury says she wrote the abortion-themed film in “two or three hours” after the court overturned Roe v. Wade
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Inside the Wacky World of Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Poor Things’ With His Irish Producers
TheWrap magazine: “Ignorance was bliss,” Andrew Lowe says of his and Ed Guiney’s leap into their largest production ever
