
Steve Pond
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How a Casual Hangout Led to Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s Native American Tale ‘War Pony’
By Steve Pond | May 17, 2022 @ 8:45 AMTheWrap Cannes magazine: ”We are true allies to the indigenous community, and this film was made by many indigenous people,“ Keough says of the intimate film
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How Being Uprooted as a Boy Inspired Kenneth Branagh to Write ‘Belfast’ (Video)
By Umberto Gonzalez | March 17, 2022 @ 11:43 AMTheWrap Screening Series: ”I never really got over being uprooted, fairly savagely, along with everybody else in that part of the world,“ Branagh says
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Are Oscars Playing Catch-Up? No Other Televised Awards Show Presents Every Category Live Either
By Steve Pond | March 7, 2022 @ 11:50 AMHere’s a rundown of how other awards shows handle below-the-line categories
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Oscar Race Gets Blurrier as ‘The Power of the Dog’ Faces Surging Rivals
By Steve Pond | March 4, 2022 @ 12:34 PM”CODA“ wins big at SAG Awards, Sam Elliott complains and the heat is on for Jane Campion’s drama
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Oscar Nominations Analysis: Voters Give Power to ‘The Dog’ in a Year Marked by Change
By Steve Pond | February 8, 2022 @ 7:09 AM“It’s such a weird year – nobody knows what’s going to happen,” one studio executive says after some idiosyncratic nominations
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13 Oscar Nomination Records That Could Be Broken on Tuesday
By Steve Pond | February 7, 2022 @ 1:55 PMKenneth Branaugh, Jane Campion and Denzel Washington could all make history when nominations are announced
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Oscars 2022: We Predict the Nominations in All 23 Categories (Photos)
By Steve Pond | February 5, 2022 @ 7:00 AMTheWrap’s awards editor Steve Pond predicts all of this Tuesday’s nominees, from ”Dune“ to ”Belfast“ to ”The Power of the Dog“
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Oscar Nomination Predictions: Expect ‘Dune’ to Dominate in Another Weird Year
By Steve Pond | February 4, 2022 @ 6:00 AMBy our reckoning, ”The Power of the Dog,“ ”Belfast“ and ”West Side Story“ will also come on strong
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The Sundance Blues: Good Films Can’t Overcome a Muted Virtual Festival
By Steve Pond | January 25, 2022 @ 5:45 AMSundance 2020: This year was supposed to be a triumphant return to an in-person festival, but the pandemic other plans
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‘The Story of Film’ Review: Cannes Kicks Off With a Cinematic Celebration, Not a History Lesson
By Steve Pond | July 6, 2021 @ 9:00 AMCannes 2021: Mark Cousins’ documentary about movies in the 21st century spends more than two-and-a-half hours drawing odd and compelling connections
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How Renee Elise Goldsberry Embraced Her Inner Diva for ‘Girls5Eva’
By Steve Pond | June 19, 2021 @ 9:28 AMTheWrap magazine: “Every moment of my life, I can relate to the part of Wickie that craves stardom and the fulfillment of her dream,” says the ”Hamilton“ actress
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Why the Music Doc Series ‘1971’ Wasn’t Just About Music
By Steve Pond | June 15, 2021 @ 11:35 AMTheWrap magazine: Director Asif Kapadia says. “It’s not, ‘Listen to this piece of music, and then this one’ — what’s the bigger picture around it?”
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Why Giancarlo Esposito Thinks His Career (and TV Itself) Got Better During the Pandemic
By Steve Pond | June 3, 2021 @ 4:30 PMTheWrap Magazine: ”Television has become much more personal because we finally learned how to use our remotes the last year,“ says Esposito
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Fran Lebowitz Says Good Riddance to Trump: He ‘Never Deserved New York’
By Steve Pond | June 1, 2021 @ 11:27 AMTheWrap magazine: ”I wish that when he left, he’d have taken that big pile of junk on Fifth Avenue,“ says the subject of the docuseries ”Pretend It’s A City“
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5 Oscar Burning Questions With Voting Underway, Including That Crazy Best Actress Race
By Steve Pond | April 16, 2021 @ 11:58 AMAnd can anything stop the Best Picture momentum for ”Nomadland“?