Steve Pond
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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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The Big Oscars Question for ‘Oppenheimer’: How Much Can It Win?
Christopher Nolan’s movie is favored to win a lot, but Oscar voters haven’t been in the mood for sweeps in recent years
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‘Barbie,’ ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Win at Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell take home Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film for their Oscar-nominated track, “What Was I Made For?”
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‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘The Holdovers’ Win at ACE Eddie Awards
TV winners at the editing awards include “Beef,” “The Bear” and “The Last of Us”
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‘American Fiction’ Wins Scripter Award for Adapted Screenplays
“Slow Horses” wins the television award for the second year in a row
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‘Oppenheimer’ Dominates, Lily Gladstone Surges and Other Lessons We Learned on a Big Awards Weekend
The Screen Actors Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards and Producers Guild Awards set the table for the Oscars
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What’s Left to Learn in the Biggest Awards Weekend Before the Oscars?
The SAG, Indie Spirit and Producers Guild Awards may still have a few things to teach awards-watchers
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How the Supreme Court Spurred the Oscar-Nominated Short ‘Red, White and Blue’
TheWrap magazine: Director Nazrin Choudhury says she wrote the abortion-themed film in “two or three hours” after the court overturned Roe v. Wade
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Inside the Wacky World of Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Poor Things’ With His Irish Producers
TheWrap magazine: “Ignorance was bliss,” Andrew Lowe says of his and Ed Guiney’s leap into their largest production ever
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‘The Creator’ Wins 5 Categories to Top Visual Effects Society Awards
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” swept the VES animation categories, while “The Last of Us” dominated the TV awards
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3 Oscar Nominations in 4 Years? That’s Short Work for Ben Proudfoot
TheWrap magazine: “The Last Repair Shop,” which the filmmaker made with Kris Bowers, is his third documentary short nom
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How ‘American Fiction’ Composer Laura Karpman’s Fight for Diversity Led to Her First Oscar Nomination
TheWrap magazine: “I have benefited from my own advocacy, but that was never the intent,” she says
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‘American Fiction,’ ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ Nominated for Writers Guild Awards
Several Oscar-nominated screenplays, including “Poor Things,” were ineligible for the strike-delayed guild awards
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‘Zone of Interest’ Producer Says Filming at Auschwitz Took a Toll
TheWrap magazine: “It was, without doubt, the most challenging film I’ve ever produced,” James Wilson says
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How Cord Jefferson and Celine Song Grabbed Oscar Success With Their First Movies
TheWrap magazine: A conversation with the directors who got Best Picture nominations with their film debuts, “American Fiction” and “Past Lives”