one lessen from alexander payne, the director? >> oh, my gosh. alexander, talking about him will bring tears to my eyes, he's such a powerful man. he's the kind of guy who thinks before he speaks so every word he says is deliberately placed in a sentence. and he's so creative and is so soft and calm and he makes the set comfortable. i've learned patience and serenity from him. >> by the way, the way he speaks, is also the way he makes movies. he doesn't rush into stuff, he takes years in some cases to do it. and they come out great, by the way. how was hawaii? >> oh, magical, no big deal. >> it was okay? >> yeah, i had never been there. it's a magical place on this planet. it's the abundance of oxygen was so welcomely overwhelming to my body. >> i like the way that's said. >> it has more chickens than buildings. >> you started commercial acting -- >> commercial acting. >> i started acting when i was five. a fun thing to do. i was young. i started in commercials, small things on tv. and then i worked up from there. >> and that's helped you. now yo

. >> we have alexander payne and matt saxen and jim rush for the dtsz, john logan for hugo. george cluooneclooney. steve zalian for money ball. richard o'connor and peter strawn for tinker tailor soldier spy. >> from belgium, from israel, footnote, from poland, in darkness, from canada, and from iran, a separation. >> that's the one i'd like to see. >> have you seen any of the other ones? >> no. >> a cat in paris. >> i like the title. >> do you like cats? >> i like cats. >> kung fu panda. jennifer nelson. "puss in boots," and "rango." >> finally film selected as best picture nominee -- >> here we go. >> steven spielberg and kathleen kennedy. "the artist" thomas langman, producer. "moneyball," michael de-luca, rachel and brad pitt, the producers. the "descendants," jim burke, alexander pain and jim taylor, producers. "the tree of life," nominees to be determined. >> no, "the help," no "the hugo." >> then we'll get it. >> yeah, there you go. >> that changed this year, ten, right? >> we didn't know exactly how many we had, yeah. >> i think it's 6-5, by the way. >> "extremely lo

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

russell for "american hustle," alfonso cuaron for "gravity," alexander payne for "nebraska," steve mcqueen for "12 years a slave" and martin scorsese for "the wolf of wall street." >> for best performance by an actress in a leading role, nominees are amy adams in "american hustle," cate blanchett in "blue jasmine," sandra bullock in "gravity," judi dench in "philomena" and meryl streep in "august: osage county." >> for best performance by an actor in a leading role, the nominees are christian bale in "american hustle," bruce dern in "nebraska," leonardo dicaprio in "the wolf of wall street," chiwetel ejiofor in "12 years a slave" and matthew mcconaughey in "dallas buyers club." >> and finally we are pleased to announce that the films selected as the best picture nominees for 2013 are "american hustle," charles roven, richard suckle, megan ellison and jonathan gordon, producers, "captain phillips," scott rudin, daniel brunetti and michael de luca, producers, "dallas buyers club," robbie brenner and rachel winter, producers, "gravity," alfonso cuaron and david heyman, producers, "her," megan

. >> director alexander payne cast him alongside bruce dern in his oscar nominated film nebraska. >> mom and i have looking at reality and you better start too, the home is in his best interest. >> bobb bob odenkirk has becomen acting powerhouse, even as a former comedy sketch writer, doesn't necessarily believe it himself. >> i still don't entirely trust this performance thing. >> do you really? >> not entirely, but i still think i am a couple of years away from talking about myself as an actor. and meaning it, and believing it myself. >> i just think -- come on, you have to earn it. >> next, a story with bite. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >> this he is, ladies and gentlemen. >> osgood: this coming tuesday is groundhog day, the day which has its origin in the christian hollywood of cannedness church goers traditionally celebrate that day with a blessing of candles, hence the name, and beginning centuries ago they looked to this midwinter day as a sort of long range weather forecast, cloudy weather meant an early spring, they also looked for clues from higher nateing animals such as hedgehogs, badge

. >> it st alexander payne who is one of my favorite directors and have i been desperate to work with him. >> stephen: the descendants, sideways, election. >> about schmilt, he has just-- he never made a movie that wasn't fantastic. and so he came to me with this idea b okay, so norwegian scientists found a way to shrink humans down to five inches in height and six percent of the global population decides to do this as a way to offset climate change and i just looked at him and i just didn't think he was being serious with me. i thought he was-- it was lake a test. but then he gave me this script that he and jim taylor, his cowriter had been working on. and they had it for ten years. and it was fantastic. and he described it to me as he wanted it to be a hal ashby movie with great special effects and that is really-- hal ashby was a brilliant film maker who made in the 1970s kind of in the wheelhouse of american cinema made some incredible movies and this movie to me feels like it is a giant sattire, feels like it could have been made in the '70s. i am enormously proud of it and would