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Steve Pond

Steve Pond

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Executive Editor, Awards

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Experience:

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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Education:

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

  • Good Morning, Oscar: Thursday

    Podcasts, predictions and a documentary that’s saving lives.

    By

    Steve Pond
    September 3, 2009 @ 9:11 AM
    9:11 AM
  • Worst Version Ever of an Oscar-Nominated Song?

    Laker Ron Artest makes a titanically bad YouTube video

    By

    Steve Pond
    September 2, 2009 @ 10:03 AM
    10:03 AM
  • Filmmakers Jump Through Hoops to Qualify Docs for Oscars

    There’s one pretty tricky rule that can make it difficult to get into the Oscar race.

    By

    Steve Pond
    September 2, 2009 @ 9:34 AM
    9:34 AM
  • Let’s Get to Know Each Other Better

    Some random observations about past Academy Award telecasts.

    By

    Steve Pond
    September 2, 2009 @ 9:22 AM
    9:22 AM
  • Oscar’s Latest Change — Hollywood Reacts

    Around town and around the web, there’s been plenty of fuss about the effect of the new best-picture voting rules.

    By

    Steve Pond
    September 1, 2009 @ 3:21 PM
    3:21 PM
  • Meet Your Oscar Blogger

    Welcome to The Odds, a six-month excursion into the heart of the awards season.

    By

    Steve Pond
    September 1, 2009 @ 9:20 AM
    9:20 AM
  • Academy Makes Big Changes in Best Picture Voting

    When the best picture is named at next year’s Academy Awards, the honor might not go to the film that receives the most votes.

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 31, 2009 @ 7:51 AM
    7:51 AM
  • Is 2009’s Best Picture Winner Already Under Our Noses?

    First off, I need to say that making Oscar forecasts in early September is an insane thing to do, and anybody who tries to tell you what’s going to be nominated or what’s going to win at this point is a complete fool. Got that? Good. Now I will don my fool’s cap and make…

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 31, 2009 @ 12:50 AM
    12:50 AM
  • In Some Categories, Three Times More Oscars?

    Attention, all you old legends, Hollywood do-gooders and veteran producers who’ve been sitting around wondering when the Academy might take notice of your awards-worthiness: your time has come.   Maybe.   Let’s just say that your time is a lot more liable to come than it was two months ago. That’s when the Academy’s Board…

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 27, 2009 @ 3:04 PM
    3:04 PM
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