Steve Pond is TheWrap’s Executive Editor, Awards and has been writing and overseeing awards coverage on the site since 2009. He spent decades writing about film, television, music and the entertainment industry for the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Premiere, New York Times, Playboy and many other publications. He is the author of the L.A. Times bestseller “The Big Show,” a behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Awards based on 15 years of unprecedented access to that show.
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Steve received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from California State University, Long Beach.
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‘The Painted Bird’ Director Explains Why His ‘Brutal’ WWII Film Is Timelier Than ‘The Avengers’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I don’t want to live in the world of the Avengers, I do this for the real world,” writer-director Vaclav Marhoul says
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‘Father Soldier Son’ Film Review: Military Documentary Is Sobering, Disturbing
Even-handed New York Times filmmakers want us to understand where former soldier Brian Eisch comes from, where his family is going and what that says about the state of American manhood, particularly in the heartland
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Emmy Nominations 2020: 10 Things to Watch, From Greedy Shows to Dead Nominees
From “Saturday Night Live” to the Duchess of Sussex to Pete Buttigieg to Fred Willard, here are some areas of interest as the Emmy nominations approach
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‘Showbiz Kids’ Movie Review: Child Stars Tell Troubled Tales in Sobering Documentary
Evan Rachel Wood, Jada Pinkett Smith, Henry Thomas, Wil Wheaton or Milla Jovovich aren’t casualties by any means, but their stories make Alex Winter’s film a powerful lesson in why kids might want to steer clear of Hollywood
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‘Palm Springs’ Film Review: Andy Samberg Puts an Indie Rom-Com Spin on ‘Groundhog Day’
The comedy starring Samberg and Cristin Milioti finds a freshness playing with the time-loop premise and messing with romantic comedy tropes
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‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’ Film Review: Sad, Boozy Reverie Looks for Truth and Beauty in a Dive Bar
The Ross brothers movie is “The Iceman Cometh” transplanted to the outskirts of Las Vegas, a fiction/nonfiction blend where verité meets improv and the whole thing is shot through with the skid-row romanticism of a Tom Waits song
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Can the Emmys Buck This Year’s Trend of Terrible Awards Shows?
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Even before the coronavirus and the George Floyd protests, this year’s awards shows dealt with widespread criticism and record low ratings
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How ‘The Great’ Star Elle Fanning Handled Producing, Comedy and That Peeing Scene (Video)
“Most everyone that I talked to, what they know her for is this rumor that she had sex with a horse, which is so reductive and sad,” Fanning says of Russian ruler Catherine the Great, whom she plays in the Hulu series
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‘Greyhound’ Film Review: Tom Hanks Battles Nazi Submarines in Old-Fashioned War Movie
Written by Hanks, directed by Aaron Schneider and originally scheduled to be released theatrically by Sony, the drama is a minimalist war film that treats combat as a job to be done
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‘The Old Guard’ Film Review: Charlize Theron Is Back in Warrior Mode in Melancholy Comic-Book Adventure
Gina Prince-Bythewood becomes the latest director who doesn’t seem particularly suited to the world of comics, but who brings a new sensibility to that world
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Nicole Kidman on Her ‘Big Little Lies’ Battle With Meryl Streep: ‘Intimidation Was a Wonderful Thing’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “It’s not superwoman stuff — it’s real human behavior that you’re watching,” Kidman says
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New Emmy Rules Aimed at ‘More Inclusiveness’ Will Reduce the Number of Nominees This Year
30 categories will have more nominees this year than they did last year, but 36 others will have fewer nominees
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How ‘Hunters’ Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Found a Personal Connection in Story of Nazi Hunters
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I identified with the bigger theme of people who are marginalized searching for justice or a voice in the world, fighting for their existence,” says the Mexican-American director
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How Diego Luna Overcame His Hesitation to Play a Drug Dealer on ‘Narcos: Mexico’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “Characters like Félix Gallardo are really important to understand why El Chapo exists today, but I wanted to make sure we could go into the gray areas that we normally miss,” Luna says
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2020 Emmys Race by the Numbers, From Categories to Voters to Contenders
We have all the statistics on this year’s race
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