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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Going Inside the Music of ‘Sirât’: Radical, Experimental – and Maybe Even Comical?
“It was one of the boldest moves I’ve ever done,” says composer David Letellier, aka Kangding Ray
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‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Sinners,’ ‘Wicked: For Good’ Nominated for Art Directors Guild Awards
The ADG unveiled nominees in feature film, television, commercial and music video categories
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How Nick Cave Wrote the Theme to ‘Train Dreams’ in His Sleep
“Really, this just never, ever happens to me,” says the Australian rock icon of writing the Oscar-shortlisted song while on vacation
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‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ ‘Elio’ Lead Annie Award Nominations
The awards for animated films, TV programs and other projects also gave multiple nominations to “Little Amelie” and “Zootopia 2”
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The Favorites Are in Place, but Can Any Longshots Crash the Oscars’ Acting Races?
The list of contenders has narrowed, but we have to hope there’s room for surprises
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YouTube Deal Could Help an Embattled Oscars Hit the Reset Button
The move says to the Academy: You don’t have to do what you’ve been doing
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How Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell Wrote ‘Hamnet’ Together: Chaos and Organization
TheWrap magazine: “I would leave her these epic voice notes that were just trains of thoughts,” says director and co-writer Zhao
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‘Hamnet,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ Nominated for Scripter Awards
“Train Dreams” and “Peter Hujar’s Day” are also finalists for the award that goes to film and TV adaptations
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‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Wicked: For Good’ Earn Nominations From Costume Designers Guild
Other films singled out by the guild include “Bugonia,” “Hamnet,” “Hedda” and “Sinners”
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Tom Basden’s Scariest ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Ask: Carey Mulligan’s Mumford & Sons Husband Hearing His Songs
TheWrap magazine: “I had to send them to Carey knowing that Marcus Mumford would listen to them and might have an opinion,” the writer-actor says
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Billy Idol Wrote a Song About Himself and It Made Him Cry
TheWrap magazine: “I can really see the landscape of my life, and that’s what we were trying to evoke in the song,” says Idol of the tune written for the documentary “Billy Idol Should Be Dead”
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‘We Grew Up Together, Bro’: How Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan Blazed Their Way to ‘Sinners’
TheWrap magazine: The two creative forces explain how their 13-year partnership yielded the critical and box office smash about the blues, the Jim Crow South and vampires
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It’s Time for Oscars Shortlist Voting, but Where Will the Surprises Come From?
Checking in on the documentary, international, music and casting categories
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Composer Daniel Blumberg Says the Wild Music of ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Had to Be ‘As Extreme as Possible’
TheWrap magazine: “It was very experimental in all senses of the word,” Blumberg says
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Diane Warren Wrote a Song to Her 14-Year-Old Self – Who, if She’d Heard It, ‘Would Have Told Me to F–k Off’
TheWrap magazine: “Maybe I would have listened, but at that time I didn’t listen to a lot of people,” says the 15-time Oscar nominee
