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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’32 Sounds’ Wins Cinema Eye Honors Award as Top Documentary
“20 Days in Mariupol,” “Kokomo City,” “The Eternal Memory,” “Four Daughters” and “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” also win awards
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How Vanessa Kirby Learned to Play the ‘Many Different Versions’ of Empress Josephine in ‘Napoleon’
TheWrap magazine: The Oscar nominee and “The Crown” star says the character was “one of the most deeply surprising and interesting people I’ve ever learned about”
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We Interrupt This Awards Season to Bring You Last Year’s Emmys (Notes & Predictions)
TheWrap offers our predictions for the winners at an upcoming ceremony devoted to shows that aired seven to 19 months ago
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How ‘They Shot the Piano Player’ Made the Journey From ‘Stupid Idea’ to Oscar Contender
TheWrap magazine: “This was very complicated — making it real in three languages, working with documentary material but keeping the strategies of fiction storytelling,” says director Fernando Trueba
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How ‘The Peasants’ Used 40,000 Oil Paintings to Make an Animated Movie
TheWrap magazine: “We are doing this because we want to push the boundaries of film,” says director Hugh Welchman
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Martin Scorsese on Why He Never Fit in Hollywood: ‘I Was Always an Outsider’
TheWrap magazine: “I wanted to belong, but I never belonged,” the “Killers of the Flower Moon” director says of the studio system
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Annie Award Nominations: Disney, Pixar Shut Out of Best Feature Category for First Time as ‘Nimona’ Leads
The Netflix feature picked up nine nominations in total, followed by the likes of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and “The Boy and the Heron”
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Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan Nominated for Directors Guild Awards
Other nominees are Yorgos Lanthimos and Alexander Payne; first-time director nominees include Cord Jefferson and Celine Song
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One Big Thing Is Missing From Awards Season So Far: Voters Who Make Movies for a Living
“Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things” and “Past Lives” have been winning awards, but we have yet to hear much from industry voters
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Cillian Murphy on the Brain-Drain of Playing Oppenheimer: ‘Being That Brilliant Is a Burden’
TheWrap magazine: “Hyper-intelligent people see the world in different dimensions than we do,” says the Golden Globe-winning actor
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‘Succession’ Dominates Directors Guild TV Nominations, Again
Two years after landing all five nominations in its category, the drama series takes four out of five for its final season
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Academy Promotes Teni Melidonian and MaryJane Partlow to Exec Oscar Roles
Melidonian will become chief Oscars officer while Partlow is instated as executive VP of awards production and special events
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‘Barbie,’ ‘Ferrari’ Land Nominations From Cinema Audio Society
“Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro” and “Oppenheimer” are also singled out in a category that usually predicts Oscar nominees
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‘Oppenheimer’ Leads AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards Nominations
“Killers of the Flower Moon,” “The Color Purple,” “Barbie” and “Maestro” are also nominated in the top category
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How Honorary Oscar Winner Carol Littleton Fought to Make Film Editing More Diverse
TheWrap magazine: “I was not happy being sidelined because of nepotism and strict rules, and I was bound and determined it wasn’t going to happen to anybody else,” she says