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Steve Pond

Steve Pond

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Steve Pond has been writing about film, music, pop culture and the entertainment industry for more than 40 years. He has served as TheWrap’s awards editor and executive editor, awards since joining the company in 2009.

Steve began his career writing about music for the Los Angeles Times, where he remained a contributor for more than 15 years, and Rolling Stone, where he was West Coast Music Editor and wrote 16 cover stories. He moved into film coverage with a weekly column in the Washington Post and became a contributing writer at Premiere magazine, where he became the first journalist to have all access to the Academy Awards show and rehearsals.

He has also written for the New York Times, Movieline, the DGA Quarterly, GQ, Playboy, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, New York, the Christian Science Monitor, Live! magazine and many others.

He is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller “The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards” (Faber and Faber, 2005). He has also written “Elvis in Hollywood” (New American Library, 1990) and contributed to books that include “Cash,” “The Rolling Stone Reader,” U2: The Rolling Stone Files,” “Bruce Springsteen: The Rolling Stone Files” and “The Rolling Stone Interviews: The 1980s.” He was the co-managing editor of the syndicated TV news program “The Industry News” and the creative consultant for the A&E series “The Inside Track With Graham Nash.”

He has won L.A. Press Club awards for stories in TheWrap, the Los Angeles Times and Playboy, and was nominated for a National Magazine Award for a story in Premiere.

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Los Angeles

Education:

Steve received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from California State University, Long Beach.

  • Golden Globes Try to Get Back to Normal — With an International Twist | Analysis

    Global cinema was a big winner in a loose, messy, occasionally moving and mostly inconsequential awards show

    By

    Steve Pond
    January 5, 2025 @ 8:46 PM
    Steve Pond
    8:46 PM
    Golden Globes Try to Get Back to Normal — With an International Twist | Analysis
  • Sarah Winshall, Rachel Elizabeth Seed, Sarah Friedland Win Indie Spirit Emerging Filmmaker Awards

    The awards were handed out at the annual nominees brunch, which this year came only four days after the death of longtime Film Independent president Josh Welsh

    By

    Steve Pond
    January 4, 2025 @ 12:38 PM
    Awards
    12:38 PM
    Sarah Winshall, Rachel Elizabeth Seed, Sarah Friedland Win Indie Spirit Emerging Filmmaker Awards
  • Who’s Going to Win the Golden Globes, and Should We Care?

    The Globes have new owners, new voters, the same old name – and a spotty record of predicting what will do well in awards season

    By

    Steve Pond
    January 3, 2025 @ 11:38 AM
    Awards
    11:38 AM
    Who’s Going to Win the Golden Globes, and Should We Care?
  • Are Gender-Neutral Acting Categories Biased Against Women?

    An examination of five groups that have implemented the categories in the last three years reveals an unusual tilt

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 21, 2024 @ 10:51 AM
    Awards
    10:51 AM
    Are Gender-Neutral Acting Categories Biased Against Women?
  • ‘Maria’: See How Its Designers Blurred the ‘Line Between Reality and Fantasy’ With Angelina Jolie | Exclusive Photos

    TheWrap magazine: “It was my job to wrap this jewel in an incredible jewelry box,” production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas says

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 20, 2024 @ 12:00 PM
    News
    12:00 PM
    ‘Maria’: See How Its Designers Blurred the ‘Line Between Reality and Fantasy’ With Angelina Jolie | Exclusive Photos
  • ‘A Complete Unknown’: How Its Designers Brought Back Greenwich Village – and Bob Dylan’s Skinny Jeans

    TheWrap magazine: “We’re not making a documentary, but we’re trying to excavate the essence of Dylan,” costume designer Arianne Phillips says

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 19, 2024 @ 2:00 PM
    Awards
    2:00 PM
    ‘A Complete Unknown’: How Its Designers Brought Back Greenwich Village – and Bob Dylan’s Skinny Jeans
  • Claustrophobic Cinematography: Inside the Dark, Cramped Shooting of ‘September 5’

    TheWrap magazine: “We thought, let’s do the best we can in these 27 days in what basically felt like a submarine,” Markus Förderer says

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 19, 2024 @ 12:00 PM
    Awards
    12:00 PM
    Claustrophobic Cinematography: Inside the Dark, Cramped Shooting of ‘September 5’
  • ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig,’ ‘I’m Still Here’ Advance to Oscars International Shortlist

    Other films on the 15-film list include “The Girl With the Needle,” “Vermiglio” and “Flow”

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 17, 2024 @ 11:01 AM
    Awards
    11:01 AM
    ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig,’ ‘I’m Still Here’ Advance to Oscars International Shortlist
  • Jason Reitman to Receive Art Directors Guild’s Cinematic Imagery Award

    Reitman’s latest film is the comedy “Saturday Night”

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 16, 2024 @ 9:00 AM
    Awards
    9:00 AM
    Jason Reitman to Receive Art Directors Guild’s Cinematic Imagery Award
  • How Many Votes Will It Take to Get an Oscar Nomination in 2025?

    With the Academy’s voting membership increasing to 9,905, we have the magic numbers in almost every category

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 12, 2024 @ 8:15 AM
    Oscars
    8:15 AM
    How Many Votes Will It Take to Get an Oscar Nomination in 2025?
  • Action Group Seeks State Inquiry Into Documentary Association for Canceling ‘We Will Dance Again’ Ads | Exclusive

    Pens for Swords has asked the California Attorney General to look into the International Documentary Association’s “anti-Israeli discrimination”

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 11, 2024 @ 2:33 PM
    Awards
    2:33 PM
    Action Group Seeks State Inquiry Into Documentary Association for Canceling ‘We Will Dance Again’ Ads | Exclusive
  • A Sea Battle in the Desert? Ridley Scott Made It Happen in ‘Gladiator II’

    TheWrap magazine: Special effects supervisor Neil Corbould says he left the first meeting with the director thinking, “How the hell are we going to pull this off?”

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 10, 2024 @ 4:24 PM
    Awards
    4:24 PM
    A Sea Battle in the Desert? Ridley Scott Made It Happen in ‘Gladiator II’
  • Hairy Styles: How ‘Planet of the Apes,’ ‘Better Man’ and ‘Sasquatch Sunset’ Got All Hirsute on Us

    TheWrap magazine: The visual effects and makeup artists talk about how they dealt with all those bad hair days

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 10, 2024 @ 2:36 PM
    Awards
    2:36 PM
    Hairy Styles: How ‘Planet of the Apes,’ ‘Better Man’ and ‘Sasquatch Sunset’ Got All Hirsute on Us
  • Classic Vietnam War Film ‘Hearts and Minds’ to Receive Cinema Eye Honors’ Legacy Award

    The 1974 anti-war documentary was both influential and controversial when it was released during the final stages of the war

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 10, 2024 @ 11:30 AM
    Awards
    11:30 AM
    Classic Vietnam War Film ‘Hearts and Minds’ to Receive Cinema Eye Honors’ Legacy Award
  • Producers Guild Nominates ‘Super/Man,’ ‘We Will Dance Again’ for Top Documentary Award

    Other nominees include “Gaucho Gaucho,” “Mediha,” “Porcelain War” and “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa”

    By

    Steve Pond
    December 10, 2024 @ 10:00 AM
    Awards
    10:00 AM
    Producers Guild Nominates ‘Super/Man,’ ‘We Will Dance Again’ for Top Documentary Award
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