steve mcqueen "12 years a slave," alexander payne, "nebraska" david russell "marine hustle." best motion picture drama, "12 years a slave," "gravity," "fill mena," "rush." "captain philips." thank you. >> congratulations to our nominees. >>> please don't forget to joan us sunday, january 12th for the 71st annual golden globe awards hosted by tina fey and amy poe hler live on nbc. thank you and good morning. >> all right. that's cool. you should be with us as we listen to these nominations, because he goes crazy. you said this is huge, this is huge that oprah winfrey wasn't nominated. >> she was not nominated for her performance in "the butler." in fact the movie got no nominations at all. best picture, best actor. nothing. that was a surprise. that was a movie that did very well. seemed to be doing well. could still get oscar nominations. the hollywood board didn't go for it. >> anything else jump out at you? >> well "12 years a slave" and "american hustle" four cast members an three from "12 years a slave" also some surprises like the movie "rush" ron howard race car movie a

really good movie directed by alexander payne who i think is one of our best filmmakers. >> so spielberg had that criticism a while back. everyone's making blockbusters and cg and everything else. is that changing at all now >> well, i don't know if it's changing. it's hard to figure out what's going on in the movie business but it does seem to happen that every spring and summer, people are complaining about the blockbusters and sequels and all the action movies and grown-up people are just more curious audience members do a lot to go and see. but then in the fall -- this happened last year you know when there was spielberg's own "lincoln" and "django" and "argo." this fall we have a ton of really interesting, good movies of all different kinds to see, from "gravity" to "12 years a slave" to "nebraska." so, it does seem like it's possible. i think it's hard sometimes for these movies to find a big enough audience. i think that's really the challenge. they do seem to get made. >> i surrender that i'll ever see a romantic comedy in the theater any time soon, but i want to ask you about th

now the kids want to work for alexander payne. or quentin tarantino. it's the same kind of a feeling as i had with mr. kazan. and it's very challenging. but at the same time he gives you fabulous teammates. it works on the paper when he gave me the script. there's, i've invented a lot of stuff to keep characters alive in my career. embroidered, if you will. i didn't have to do any of that in this movie. it was all on the script. when we go in the house and there's a scene where i say, this is my room and my old house. and the wife says you know this is where woody's little brother david died and will my son says to me do you remember that, dad? and the line that's written is i was there. i was there. who says stuff like that? but this guy has it in his script already. you don't have to come up with that stuff. and that's just, my daughter laura, did a series called "enlightened." that's enlightenment. you know? it's been wonderful so far. it feels good that people the biggest thing is i'm trying to get people to go out and see the movie. because we're

payne in suspected of cyber fraud was shipped to the u.s. from the dominican republic but russian officials as well as the man's family only learned to batted a month later artist tom barton has not he's accused of being a master internet fraudster alexander punin is currently believed to be in a prison in the u.s. state of georgia extradited there last month from the dominican republic his friends didn't know what had happened to him but other commissions only after one month we found out he was indeed arrested and held but that's all we know. even his own mother was left in the dark eager to belgium was when he was already on his way back to russia we were waiting for him at home but he didn't arrive he simply disappeared a keen computer programmer from moscow the twenty four year old was wanted for embezzlement through internet scams used on banks including u.s. ones of at least five million dollars the russian government has lashed out at the u.s. saying he was snatched without their knowledge not question was about someone to us that we

alexander payne, "nebraska." david o'russell, "american hustle." best motion picture drama. "12 years a slave." "captain phillips." "gravity,", "philomena." >> congratulations. >> they've got the nominees for the golden globes coming up in hollywood. >> kind of a solemn moment for something that should be celebratory. >> 'cause they are still up too early. they were probably at a laker game last night. >> you think so? >> not to stereotype. >> 16 minutes before the top of the hour. >> i'll take it from here. we're talking about people seeking unemployment benefits. we will analyze the numbers right after this break >>> we've got quick headlines for you now. the fcc is holding a vote today on whether air passengers should be allowed to talk on their cell phones while on the airplane. according to a new quinnipiac poll, 60% of americans don't want that to happen. they would fly in peace -- they would like. and thousands of people don't have mail. yahoo mail down since monday night. the company blames the problem on hardware. it's always something. >>