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Steve Pond, Executive Editor, Awards, joined TheWrap to lead its awards season coverage, and stayed on. His column is an informed, bemused, skeptical and authoritative look at all aspects of the Academy Awards race, from the campaigns to the halls of AMPAS to the movies that itā€™s all supposed to be honoring. A former L.A. Times reporter, Pond is also author of the L.A. Times bestseller ā€œThe Big Show,ā€ and has been covering this particular circus for more than two decades, much of that time as the only reporter with full backstage and rehearsal access to the Oscar show.