>> reporter: when you think of the oscars, you think of the steps down the red carpet and up to the stage.ou so much. the steps they had to take to get there, the journey. tonight for the first time this year's oscar nominees take you back to their beginnings.'t afford even a happy meal. >> reporter: they faced overwhelming obstacles. >> i thought it was an enormous >> reporter: stared down their fears.retreat, this was the alamo. >> reporter: and discovered what >> i'm learning a ton every day

>> reporter: join us tonight foredition of "20/20," journey to the oscars. welcome, everyone, to journey to the oscars.night we're going to give you an insider's take on the most competitive categories. and we'll also discuss the controversy concerning the lack s year's nominees. that's later. but first, we have some stories to tell. when you think of sylvester stallone you think movie star, right?of course, rocky balboa. you might not think artist, but he's all three of those. sylvester stallone's big break came about through the sheer power of his imagination when he hatc launched his career but began the 40-year saga that we still can't get enough of. let's start from the beginning.that you doubted yourself? >> yeah.

basically in this flop house. very transient people, you don't know anybody on the planet. literally no one. >> reporter: i think i recall you saying your acting low and you said you couldn't even get in a -- >> oh, i couldn't even get cast as an italian. hundred guests. they said, "no." i go, "what part of me didn't make it past the italian identification aspect?"'t know. you just don't fit in." that's telling you something. >> reporter: that's gotta play with your psyche a little bit. >> a little bit. >> reporter: i know! but it didn't and you decided to own hands by writing "rocky." >> you know i've been coming in for six years and for six years you been sticking it to me. i wanna know how come.now? >> i want to know now! >> okay, i'm going to tell you! because you have the talent to become a good fighter and instead of that you became a leg-breaker.able to

the movie that went on to be best picture. you wrote in three and a half days. >> yes. yes. it just flowing out of you? >> it was, i knew that this was going to be very flawed but if i could get to from the beginning to the end and with some semblance of a character.rest along the way. >> reporter: and you want to star in it! and you're told "no." you were even offered $250,000. >> 360. you're a struggling actor. you can't make ends meet. you're getting offered all this money but you didn't take it. >> no.nd how the rules of life were played at that point but this character i understood. eporter: to say that "rocky" touched a nerve would be an understatement. in the 1980s, "rocky" epitomized america's attitude and self r continued to evolve in the new

reappearing every few years to reflect america's changing until finally it appeared that the journey was at an end. before "creed," the final scene, was it your way of saying good-bye to the character? good-bye to that.e to everything. good-bye to the best chapters of my life at least professional life, it really was. then along comes this young guy out of oakland and i go, "what?"ler. >> ryan coogler. >> reporter: when director ryan coogler first met with d as a feature filmmaker. but he had an intensely personal franchise. coogler's father had fallen gravely ill a few years earlier.there was only one thing the elder coogler wanted to watch. >> the father is a very soulful,

the shell of his former self. but, oddly, he watches "rocky" again and again and again. his son who loves his father and he's watching his father disintegrate before his very eyes. the traumatic impact was so g man that he never got over it. so he comes to me and goes, we're going to, you know, revive rocky." i go, "how?" and when he told me the story i said, "this is insane, wrong. you're a young kid, you haven't done anything yet, but i appreciate the thought."see you around." and he goes out and does a masterpiece, "fruitvale station," wins the cannes film festival. every studio wants him. what's he want to do? "creed."y here is just trying my patience or he reminds me of a guy i used to know. >> reporter: i was going to say that was you 40 years ago. >> yeah. absolutely. then i realized this is not a movie for him, it's for his father.

to his father.own deep and you ask a real "rocky" fan why he likes the movies, it's usually because they're watch it with somebody that they love. what's so great about them is it's so personal to people. with their family. >> he writes me the role of a lifetime and then he has michael b. jordan, who's also m now pulled along, tugged out, by the present generation, a character that could be their grandfather. >> what do you mean don't think about this?eatment? >> i'm not doing no chemotherapy. i'm not crazy at all. if i can take everything that was good and put it into a bowl omething and say, "hey, here, i would like to buy a day with my wife," i'd do it. everything i got is moved on and i'm here. >> i never wanted to do this movie.ky is so counterintuitive to what rocky really is designed for. i just laid there, i said, "can n the

because i've never done that. my wife goes, "you're a coward." you word. she goes "no, no. you're basically a coward. it goes against every undeclared artistic rule."thing, that's the commitment of the artist. unknown. to go someplace where he's at odds with himself. >> you all right there, old man? >> yeah. you know, if you look hard enough you can see your whole life from here. >> how's it look? >> not bad at all.ave up and realized this movie belongs to michael b. jordan, who is the youth, he's the engine. you're the caboose.i am burgess meredith, i am wisdom. i am experience. >> reporter: what do you remember from the oscars 40 years ago? >> i remember driving up to the oscars and i had a rented tux

and the tie was a little loose and as i was adjusting it, it went "sprung" and it broke.e "eh, don't worry about it. you can borrow mine." i said, "no, no, no, no." so i take it and put my collar out which at that time was disco fever and i go in. and people are looking at me like, "how? and i'm like, "what's going on? is it my cologne?" i had no idea. and it was just again, naivete, i didn't think we were gonna e up against extraordinary works of cinematic filmmaking, i mean, on every level. >> films nominated for the r are "all the president's men," "network," "rocky," "taxi driver," and the winner is -- "rocky". >> reporter: what i remember most from the oscars, how wide-eyed you were. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: first of all, you had to bdidn't want to go up. >> they brought me on stage and

here we go." >> i'd like to thank youour dream with us, and for giving a performance that has enriched all our lives. >> for all the rocky world, i love you. >> reporter: when you said, "this is for all the rockys." >> this is for all the rockys in the world. yeah. >> reporter: who do you think are al >> we're all rockys in a sense. we all have this struggle to try to realize our dream. which is trying to be appreciated in our own lifetime, say, know what? i'm not the fastest, i'm not the prettiest, i'm not the tallest, but i just like to take a shot at it. one time and then i'll know. how to fight again, and i'm going to go home and fight this thing, but i want you to fight too. >> you know, eize that my ship has come and gone. my sunset is halfway down. i really -- i'm really paying attention. like this right now, i'm photographing this in my mind. moment

that many moments left. you know, they are really so thank you. >> reporter: thank you. >> i'm going to hang this one on the wall. >> reporter: thank you for sharing this moment with us. coming up, matt damon, anston, our take on diversity and the oscars. and up next, hollywood's new "it" girl, brie larson. (toilet flush) manage your chronic pain, you may be sooo constipated it feels like everyone can go ...except you. ngs? still struggling to find relief? you may have opioid-induced constipation, oic. it's different and may need opioids block pain signals, but can also block activity in the bowel.

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single mom who was a waitress, we were on food stamps to how am i here now?seriously considering leaving acting. and my mom called and she said, "i will never speak to you again if you turn your back on this.it gave me that one little bit of a nudge." >> i was always sort of shy but i always loved acting. i was naive enough to think that's just what you did when you grew up. >> i didn't get into theatre school.t i might go in another direction, but then i dared to believe that i would at least give it a few more years to try. >> reporter: in the intensely ilm "room," a young mother is held captive with her 5-year-old son in a garden shed. it's the only world her son has ever known.y a remarkable young actress named brie larson, whose career has been forever changed with this

it's so big you wouldn't even believe it and the room is just one stinky part of it. >> roolieve in your stinky world. >> reporter: as a young girl, brie moved to los angeles with her newly single mother and theyo apartment. brie would draw upon her mom's experience for her character in "room," a young mother fiercel >> what i forgot up until in the middle of the night with me and my sister, my mom all in the same bed. hearing my mom like covering herng trying to not make a sound for us to hear. it wasn't until i was prepping "room," where i realized that he only crack. thinking, "my kids were asleep, i can release," because where

my mom was struggling while space with two children and being sure to not put any of it on us. you realize how hard she tried is perspective that you couldn't as a kid.n a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall. and my mom couldn't afford even a happy meal. we ate top ramen.ad like two shirts, and like a pair of jeans and that was it. but i had my mom all to myself g the coolest period of time. i was really, really shy. painfully shy.e wanting to do something extremely extroverted seemed bizarre and unnatural.

there's like these sayings like just keep on going, it's just around the corner and it just felt like this is the longest block, ever. this is lie block waiting for that corner to turn. >> reporter: while successful as a supporting player in both tv and film, brie was stie that would show her true talents. and then she read the screenplay for a small, independent film thing inside her clicked. >> good morning. good morning, tv. good morning, sink.now. you're 5 and you're old enough to understand what the world is. you have to understand. you have to understand. we can't keep living like this. you have to help me. character allowed her to create an homage to her own mother and to connect more deeply with her co-star. >> this is a mothering role.create this

boy. how could you not want to just ve to that brilliant little kid? he's the best and i felt so much responsibility.m being an actor the same age jake was and how badly i really wanted to be respected and i wanted to do a good job. and i saw that in jake right away.r real. i understood that he wanted to be respected and so i was going to make him feel like a creative force. >> are you better now? >> yeah, i'm starting to be. >> "room" was really making it ing it about his experience and it in a deeper way.

like what's on the page.giving up her son. she thinks that he's going to be die. i always assumed that it was gonna be about that. when we started doing it and i would remember just holding on to jacob and that rug and i felt this gut-wrenching feeling of o go and i realized that was me letting go of a 7-year-old. that's me letting go of my inner child. and letting go of that girl and it back. >> reporter: brie's breakthroughowerful performance of her career and gave her closure with the little girl she used to be. >> it's such a powerful metaphortrips me out

that's given me that experience.ay bye-bye to room. >> it's saying good-bye to the 7-year-old that was in the blissfully unaware and also so hopeful of what was gonna happen. it's saying good-bye to my old normal. and that's what i have to do as well. >> you're going to love it. >> what? >> the world. up next, bryan cranston.llion-mile journey from mars to the oscars. song: "that's life" song: "that's life"

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special edition of "20/20."h an actor whose journey to his first nomination has taken him decades. bryan cranston.e to tell you it has been more than worth the wait. >> hello. >> reporter: hello.ine here. how are you? >> reporter: good to see you. >> good to see you too. >> reporter: congratulations. >> thank you. >> reporter: please sit. this is your hood. >> it is. i know.ound the corner. >> reporter: it has to be here. you're back here as oscar-nominated bryan cranston. about as far away from the boy who was raised in this area as you can get. i was not raised with the idea that you could achieve that.grew up here, in the los angeles suburb of

the town's blue collar work ethic would inform his own. to my childhood. when i was raised in canoga parkseemed pretty normal. it was kind of a typical suburban life.r and he made his living getting a job here, getting a job there. sometimes doing fairly well and l. one year we had a pool put into our backyard.later or so my mother saying, "we can't swim this summer because we can't afford the chemicals to go in the pool."interesting, that up and down life. >> reporter: do you remember that first time seeing him on

>> yeah.re everywhere. >> he was an army guy and he was on top of a building saying, "no, the sector 7 looks fine here." >>ur location. >> and then behind him we see this large grasshopper coming up behind him. and then we just here -- we would go, "oh! >> reporter: bryan walked to his elementary school every day.torium. >> reporter: and it was here he decided to walk in his father's footsteps. his first performance would be a so. so you are this tall and everything seems really big and you are supposed to say -- >> president lincoln will finish address when he returns to the white house. and instead i said, "president lincoln will finish writing the

which was this department store, this chain of department stores all throughout southern california.up. everybody was laughing. and i thought it was an enormous failure. but later on i realized the power.enly misplaced one word, and that did this. >> reporter: and just one word. >> one word. >> reporter: bryan's rough moment on stage passed fairly ced deeper stresses at home, where his parents struggled to keep their family together.ather and mother came to an impasse and split up. unfortunately, my father left didn't see him from the time i was 12 to the time i was 22. >> reporter: bryan initially considered bec but the pull of the stage was

in junior college he enrolled in an acting class.i read says, "teenage boy and girl are making out on a park bench." oh, my god. i look at the girl, she's really cute.d i sat on a bench and she sat on a bench and she sat on the bench. i had the first line. and i put oor and before i could turn she's on to me, she's kissing me and i'm leaning back and kissing me and tongue and hands and she straddles my leg and kissing andlike, "oh, my god." so in a break i come up to her and i'm going to ask her out and she looked at me like i was a lost puppy.t realize she was acting? >> i completely believed her. the power that she exuded at as an actor, was immense.

back. >> reporter: during the '80s and '90s, bryan was the ultimate journeyman, appearing in dozens of television shows and commercials. his father he considered himself blessed simply to be a working actor. your father wanted to be successful.. that did not happen for him. did that break him? >> i think it did.as inflated to the point where he felt that was what was important.mething that you enjoy doing and love to do, then it doesn't really matter where that takes you because you're in love. >> mr. white? >> yes. >> you understood what i just said to you. >> yes.

inoperable. reason i was able to become dalton trumbo. >> surprise!an's portrayal of walter white, the science teacher turned meth kingpin, was one of the crowning achievements of modern television. but brian never would have been advocacy of the show's creator. >> vince gilligan was my champion because the network and, "well, wait a minute. you're talking about walter white being played by the silly dad from 'malcolm in the middle?'"credit and my benefit, said, "he's an actor. this is what he does, you know, he can do this." gets shot, you think that of me? no. i am the one who knocks. >> reporter: from then on he's ts.

johnson in "all the way."ver sought it, he has arrived at the place his father always coveted. he is an oscar-nominated movie star for his performance as writer "dalton trumbo." >> trumbo, we can't afford you. >> all right, i will write you a$1,200. >> and you don't want your name on it. >> no. you don't want my name on it. >> we should be able to embrace someone's different culture, different ideals.omeone's point of view that differs from ours as a threat to my own point of view but to be intrigued by it. >> whisper a movie you've written in secret. maybe i've heard of it.be you have. >> reporter: at this point in r, as opposed to early on, your 20s, getting the

>> i think that it came to me at the right time. i think i'm mature enough to be his life and at some point on this wonderful thrill ride of a roller coaster that i'm on, it's going to pull into the station again, stop, that bar will lean up, and i'll be asked to step out and i think i'll do it gladly. it's like, okay. and i'll look at the next person and, have a great ride, go on, take it. have fun. up, matt damon, ridley scott, and our look at the oscars' diversity issue. when this "20/20" continues. anything but simple. so finally, i had an important conversation with my dermatologist about humira. rks inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to my symptoms. in clinical trials, most adults saw 75% skin clearance.

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see this incredible charismatic actor.t is he doing? what i was watching was "streetcar named desire." and that was marlon brando. that's where the acting bug started.r: at the academy awards we celebrate great stories. but there's another story taking center stage this year. none of this year's nominated actors and actresses are people of color.ro. so tonight as we focus on the remarkable journeys of our nominees we also take a look at the journey of the oscars themselves.t seems more than just a plaque of gold. it opens the doors of this room, and enables us to embrace the >> reporter: years before jackie robinson, decades before martin

became the first to win an oscar. >> my heart is too full. may i say thank you, and god bless you. oscars seemed to be on the cutting edge of racial equality. but over the next 50 years, only three more actors of color won oscars. until whoopi goldberg's win for "ghost."talk about how long it had been between hattie mcdaniel and another black woman. i was kind of shocked by that. but the difference between my win and another woman is a much shorter time. >> and the oscar goes to -- halle berry. halle berry was the first african-american to win best leading actress. >> this moment is for every because this door tonight has been opened.

hington winning best actor that same night, many people believed that real racialrrived at the oscars. between that moment and this one, seven other actors of color won oscars. second year in a row, not even a single nominee. with a viral hashtag and several high-profile celebrities and skip the event, people are taking a deeper look not just at the oscars, but at hollywood. >> when i host the academy e same thing happened, people said, "well, we got to boycott it because there's no folks of color." you can fill the academy with sian, latino and stuff and if you don't put folks in the movies that are the caliber that they should be, you're going to have the same issue.not open

ourselves and find the flaws rong. >> reporter: perhaps this zero-nomination moment is necessary to begin creating real and lasting change.r the nominations were announced, the academy did adopt a series of changes to the voting and membership process. we will see how effective those changes prove to be.p on "journey to the oscars," you may think "the martian" put you through the emotional wringer. >> we knew we needed a moment cks. >> thanks for >> we're on it. >> reporter: but matt damon's collaboration with producer and director ridley scott is an emotional story in and of itself. so you don't have to stop. because you believe in go. onward. today's the day. carpe diem.

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god, i have not been asked that question. >> i love that you're asking me that because my wife has brought this up many times. >> hmm. >> i think the toilet is a wonderful place to practice just about anything.as a rehearsal room space. >> i never ever practiced an oscar speech. >> i hten them. this year i'm not going to prepare anything to really be able to speak from my heart in that moment. i think that would be a pretty courageous thing to try and do.nything, i just stand in the shower and scream. >> reporter: matt damor for best actor. and sir ridley scott produced and directed this year's best picture nominee "the martian." before this film. but when they finally did, it

>> everyone's had a crack at t when jimi hendrix played the guitar, you knew it was jimi hendrix, right? and when ridley scott is being completely simple and completely ridley scott's frame. >> there's an innocence to matt. i think that's what makes him fresh.l expected the amazing visuals. we expecteces. but none of us expected "the martian" to become hollywood's perfect storm of 2015.g blockbuster that struck an emotional chord around the world. >> i got it. >> reporter: the story of "the martian" is surprisingly an intensely personal story, one that could only have been told at this moment by these two men -- ridley scott and matt damon.

because you're by yourself.nd of mitigated by a master standing next to you the entire time, you know. had it not been ridley i wouldn't have done the movie.everything. and by doing it, you're literally shooting the film on paper in your head first.wn, by myself, and think it through quietly, a bit like a writer. what touches me? what gets to me?r: for nearly 40 years ridley scott has followed the same daily ritual of sitting down in his study and drawing the pictures that came into his head. the resulting storyboards have hing pads for some of the most memorable worlds in cinema history. from the depths of outer space in "alien" --s of ancient rome in "gladiator" --

and louise."are one excuse for not being good in a movie is that we don't know what movie we're in. what ridley does is he absolutely arms you with all of . so you not only know what movie you're in, you know what lens size you're on, you know what shot he's cutting from and what shot he's cutting to. all of that makes your job much, much easier.thod springs from his training as a painter at london's royal college of art. his first film marked the lifelong creative partnership with his brother tony scott. that's tony on the bike. >> tony was his best friend. they were very, very, very, very close.ound bond between them. my dad was, in some ways, tony's protector and guide. >> reporter: tony would become a director and producer as well. scott free, one of the most successful production companies in hollywood.

that company.it in him, and he flew eventually. >> reporter: ridley and tony scott produced a staggering 157 films and television shows, p gun" and "crimson tide" to "blackhawk down" and "american gangster." bu happened. with their company at the height of its powers, tony scott took his own life at the age of 68.he darkest moment of ridley's life. but in the darkness he worked his way toward the light. >> i always learned if you sit at a problem long solution. you've just got to keep going at it. >> reporter: he turned to the process that had been his creative bedrock.dy and drew the pictures that came into

an alien or a gladiator. instead he drew a man much like himself.ing book a man facing the abyss who somehow, step by step, found a way to survive. point, everything's going to go south on you. everything's going to go south. and you're gonna say, "this is it. this is how i end." now you can either accept that, . >> the methodology of what he is doing and how he does it is exactly as my father would do it.anded on mars, he would work it out. >> you just begin. you do the math. then you solve the next one. and then the next. and if you solve enough problems, you get to come home. tony in it.

himself up. rone person. he was always like, drive his motorcycle through the back of the garage. that's tony.r: sir ridley scott infused the set of "the martian" with his brother's buoyant spirit. he attracted "a"-listers and out his cast and oversaw every detail of the massive production. and for matt damon, whose character was forced to spend nearly the entire movie alone, ery step of the way. >> in the preproduction, we went through the script starting on page one and just went through every single moment. technically, studying emotion of human, saying, "this is funny, tears here, maybe."eded a moment where mark's armor cracks. >> about two minutes. how you doing down there? >> i'm good.

thanks for coming back for me.ors had already wrapped, they'd gone home. so it was just ridley and i in budapest shooting that scene and as we started to do the scene, ridley dicky. he put the sound of the other actors inside my helmet. it just struck me that it was the first time i'd heard u know, almost two years. >> captain. >> go. > go. >> recovery. >> go. >> secondary recovery. >> go. >> just went. but it happened because of ridley. and it surprised me. i don't think it surprised ridley. >> and he said, "i just lost it. was that too much?" and i said, "no. it was perfect, dude." but that's him. that's him.ng that happens at the end of "the martian"

and he looks down in between hise sees that little through the cracks, that's all my dad. he sees beauty in everything. >> this little green stalk that could be ridley scott. nothing is gonna stop that guy. he's gonna make a lot more movies. i'm just hoping i'm in them. coming up on "journey to thetake on this year's oscar races. what a good deal looks like... no.y? we'll give it a 6 for composition. scary.t just putting a fair, no haggle price on the window?

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what do you see for that? >> well, i think this has been the most exciting race that thpicture in a very long time. >> it could have been you, me,s. >> now "spotlight," it's a classic american story about journalism done right and it has a lot of heart. then all of a sudden, "the big short," loaded with movie stars. it takes on something that's so contemporary.the revenant," it feels epic. it feels important. you've got leonardo dicaprio in the lead and audiences are loving it.e films that i think it's gonna boil down to, one of those three. >> reporter: you bring up leo. it's his time? is in his favor. this is his sixth nomination. but this being the oscars i would never say that there is anything like a sure thing. you've got michael fassbender, e jobs." eddie redmayne, he won last

it's a great group of actors. >> reporter: let's talk about the women. >> what's really exciting to seen of young actresses coming up. i mean, saoirse ronan's fantastic. she was nominated as a teenager years earlier. i think no one could argue that brie larson is hollywood's "it" girl of the moment. it could be interesting to see becomes a household name. >> reporter: all right, krista, thank you for your insight. and we'll be watching sunday to see if you're right. be sure to watch as chris rock awards. i'm robin roberts, and i'll see you on the red carpet. good night. >> the worst role i ever played?two" and "mirror mirror three." >> i played a loon, yes, the bird. >> i died in the first one and then came back as another ond one

c1 the driver door swings open. a heavyset guy, gun in my face. >> a night out of friends turns into a nightmare for a local man who simply goes looking for his i.d. but it could have been worse if not for a twist of fate. he talked with the victim about the terrifying ordeal. >> reporter: the father of four said he just got out of the hospital today. he has not got that picture out of his head of steering down the barrel of a loaded gun. >> he gained a limp and a few stitches but didn't lose life. a gun spared him. anthony wasn't ready for what waited outside his driver's