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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Oscar Song Race Drops 20% to 68 Entries, but That’s Enough to Include Everyone From Nick Cave to ‘KPop Demon Hunters’
The dip from recent years is coupled with a smaller reduction in qualifying scores; we have the full lists in both categories
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How the Dardenne Brothers Managed ‘Young Mothers,’ a Movie Full of Babies
TheWrap magazine: “If the baby had to have his bottle or his mom’s breast, everybody waited,” says Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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Raoul Peck Says His Timely George Orwell Doc Is About More Than Just Trump’s ‘Stupidities and Absurdities’
TheWrap magazine: The “Orwell: 2+2=5” filmmaker emphasizes the lesson’s told are bigger than just one leader and that the tools for controlling people “never change”
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‘One Battle After Another’ Dominates National Board of Review’s 2025 Awards
The Paul Thomas Anderson film wins awards for directing and for actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro and Chase Infiniti
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New York Film Critics Circle Awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ Named Best Picture
Acting awards go to Wagner Moura, Rose Byrne, Amy Madigan and Benicio del Toro
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Nia DaCosta’s Recipe for ‘Hedda’: Mix Ibsen With Race, Sexuality and a Big Party
TheWrap magazine: “Some of my favorite films are set at a party that gets out of hand,” the writer-director says
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Bringing ‘Frankenstein’ to Life: How Did Guillermo del Toro’s Crafts Team Do It?
TheWrap magazine: The film’s cinematographer, production and costume designers, composer and makeup artist on creating a new kind of monster (but don’t call him that)
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Here’s Why ‘A House of Dynamite’ Is So Damn Tense
TheWrap magazine: Editor Kirk Baxter, sound designer Paul N.J. Ottosson and composer Volker Bertelmann explain how they gave Kathryn Bigelow’s film its breathless drive
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‘Sinners’ Dominates Critics Choice Awards Below-the-Line Shortlists
Ryan Coogler’s vampire drama picked up 13 mentions in 11 categories in the CCA’s first-ever shortlists
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Why the Climax of ‘Hamnet’ Uses Composer Max Richter’s Greatest Hit Instead of New Music
TheWrap magazine: “Are you sure?” the composer said when Chloé Zhao told him she was using the ubiquitous “On the Nature of Daylight”
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State of the Oscar Race: 4 Months Is a Lot of Time for Bored Voters to Shake Things Up
The favorites haven’t changed much in the last couple of months, but there’s interesting stuff out in the margins
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Tom Cruise Uses Governors Awards to Lobby for Moviegoing – Even If You Have to Sneak In
Cruise received an Honorary Oscar, along with Dolly Parton, Wynn Thomas and Debbie Allen
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SAG Awards Gets a Name Change: Now It’s the Actor Awards
The new name is meant to clarify the show’s identity for casual viewers
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Cinema Eye Honors: ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka,’ ‘The Perfect Neighbor,’ ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Lead 2025 Nominations
The New York-based documentary awards also gave multiple nominations to “Cover-Up” and “Seeds”
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Cameron Crowe Looks Back: David Bowie, ‘Almost Famous’ and the Interview That Pissed Him Off for Decades | Video
“I realized I was holding a wound and I really got to confront it,” Crowe says of the process of writing his memoir “The Uncool”
