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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How Andrew Garfield Went From Jonathan Larson to Jim Bakker to Spider-Man in One Crazy Year
TheWrap magazine: “It was a very mystical, profound thing, a kind of storytelling ritual of grief and even gratitude,” says Garfield of his role in “tick, tick…BOOM!”
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Guillermo del Toro on ‘Nightmare Alley’: No Monsters, No Problem
TheWrap magazine: “In my movies, the real monster is man, and it was about time to try it without any fantastical elements,” says the director
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How Oscar Voters Could Make the Best Picture Category Even Weirder This Year
Expanding the category to 10 nominees could increase variety, but only if voters take advantage of the opportunity they’ve been given
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‘My Sunny Maad’: Making an Animated Film That Doesn’t Feel Like Animation
TheWrap magazine: “I wanted to make a film where people would forget it’s animated,” says Czech director Michaela Pavlatova
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Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz on Pain, Friendship and Sexy Mothers
TheWrap magazine: “When Penélope arrived in the Spanish cinema, let’s just say that housewives and mothers became much more attractive,” says Almodovar
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Shakespeare Shares Scripter Award Nomination With Joel Coen for ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
The Bard finally gets recognition for Hollywood awards
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‘Dune,’ ‘Encanto,’ ‘Loki’ Top Visual Effects Society Award Nominations
Other films with multiple nominations include “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”
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‘The Morning Show’ Design Problem: Go Around the World Without Leaving L.A.
TheWrap magazine: Production designer Nelson Coates had to stage scenes set in China, New York, New Orleans and Italy, all in Southern California
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The Hardest Costume Design Challenge on ‘Cyrano’ Had Nothing to Do With the Lead Character
TheWrap magazine: “They are the aliens of the 1700s,” says costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini of the characters that caused him “a great deal of suffering”
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‘The Harder They Fall’ Wins Top Prize at African American Film Critics Association Awards
Jeymes Samuel’s Western wins four awards, and “King Richard” takes another four
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The Big Design Challenge for ‘Licorice Pizza’: Find 1970s L.A. in the 2020s
TheWrap magazine: “We were looking for pockets where people hadn’t demolished their ranch houses to build white modern monstrosities,” production designer Florencia Martin says
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Finally Busts Into the Oscar Voters’ Screening Room
And here are the 150-plus other films available to Academy members as nomination voting approaches
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How ‘The French Dispatch’ Designer Created Wes Anderson’s New World
TheWrap magazine: “My first reaction was sort of a slight panic,” production designer Adam Stockhausen says of the sheer number of designs he needed to create
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How Andrew Garfield Wants to Celebrate His SAG Nomination: Go Bowling and Hug Will Smith
Nominated for “tick, tick…BOOM!,” Garfield says he’d also like to celebrate with an In-N-Out Burger
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Inside SAG Award Nominations’ Many Snubs and Surprises, From Kristen Stewart to Ben Affleck
Bypassing Stewart and Aunjanue Ellis and sending mixed messages on “West Side Story” and “The Power of the Dog,” SAG makes an odd season even odder
