you had no idea it was bruce dern.el now you're next to this ledge ♪ >> now i feel great. i got to meet him. >> the action movies keep me focused. >> how has being the masters champion changed your life? >> it's wild. >> does it change everything? >> changes everything. when you step on a golf course now, people expect you to play good. there's bigger crowds around your group. but the charity dollars you can raise is really what changes your platform. goes up a level or a couple levels. you can raise some charity dollars if you really put your mind to >> it any down sides to the fame that's come with it for you? >> everybody expects you to play good. >> so there's like an extra pressure. >> you can go both ways. if you're playing good you're always in the press. when you're playing bad you're always in the press, too. you expect more out of yourself. you want to be up there around the lead going into sunday and all the tournaments now. so you have to learn that it's not going to happen every week. you have to learn to

because there is a unique relationship that developed between you and bruce dern and he was here andn a monologue he talked about his experience in this film which really seemed to have had real meaning to him. he was the center of a film by a distinguished filmmaker, it was black and white, lots of other things, here is what bruce dern said on this program. >> he gave to me the things i expected to get from a father, support. my father gave me a chance to learn and a sense of privilege. alexander put that on the back burner and came to all my sporting events, did all of the things, asked and gave a damn what i did after school, i never got that at home, alexander gave me that. he cast me in the role because i think, because laura started in his first movie, citizen ruth so i don't, i only met him an hour and that was 18 years ago, but there was something -- and he is a movie fan so he sees a lot of the movies that i have been in and there was something in there that he felt he could use to surprise the folks. >> does any of that surprise you? >> i have heard him say similar things.

>>moving on to best actorchristian bale for american hustle, bruce dern for nebraska, leonardo dicapriof wall street, chiwetel ejiofor for 12 years a slave, and matthew mcconaughey for dallas buyers club. >>few actors have generated the kind of respect that matthew mcconaughey has had over the past few years and so he's going to be awarded sunday night with the oscar for best actor. >>i also think because of his transformation physically. >>absolutely. all the cliches that go into winning an oscartransformation, the fact that he's playing a real life characterthere's so many factors that go into it. but the fact is that he's just been on a roll and he's gonna win. >>on to best pictureamerican hustle, captain phillips, dallas buyers club, gravity, her, nebraska, philomena, 12 years a slave, and wolf of wall street. who wins? >>well it has remained a 2 horse race since back in october and i think that gravity is gonna pull through. i think it's gonna win about 7 oscars sunday night and it's gonna end with it winning best picture. >>this is a tough category to me as well. >>it is. it's gon

and june squiane squibb. >> reporter: bruce dern is woody.s a millionaire. >> it's no big deal. >> june squibb is his spit fire wife. >> i liked rose, but my goodness, she was a slut. >> reporter: was that hard? >> no, it wasn't. >> reporter: for dern, this part caps a career filled with great character roles. squibb spent most of her life on broadway. >> i started acting like in the first grade. i remember goldilocks i was good. >> did you play the bear or -- >> goldilocks. >> reporter: this is a coming home for dern. >> one of the more exciting things about "nebraska" they're coming up saying, who knew? >> reporter: do you have special plans? >> no, i go and do what they tell me to do. like walk that red carpet. do the things that you do. >> reporter: the movie is not the only thing they have in common. both are friends with jack nicholson. did you hear from him after your nominati nomination? >> we both heard from him. he gave both of us a gold bottle of champagne after we were nominated. jack kind of discovered me, in a way. so he's looki

bruce dern. those four guys have put together a serious movie. they have a serious career. think it will be leo. i was going to ask about matt. but the ladies would rather talk about leo. >> well, i will put it into context. at this point i think what everyone is praying for is a surprise. because you do get the sense that mcconnaughey is very much a favorite front-runner. you get a strong sense that cate blanchett is a front-runner. in one of these categories, most of us who have been following closely at variety, are praying surprises somewhere. >> and there are some phenomena actresses up for best actress as well. what categories do you think we could see the most surprising pick? >> you have jennifer lawrence. you also have june squib in nebraska. she would be of surprise because people are assuming it's one of the two other ladies. it's very competitive and maybe nebraska could surprise people. i feel like somewhere the nebraska love has to emerge, because i think the academy liked the picture a lot. >> we didn't get you to make a selection on best picture. we all know

bruce dern has taken when he calls the roll of a lifetime.'s woody grant on a road trip across the mid west with his son. >> i knew i waited a long time to get in a position in my age group of guys for that kind of role could come my way, that i would be considered down to maybe last three or four. and this time they actually gave me the baton. it's an alexander payne movie. he may not be synonymous with that yet but as far as i'm concerned, he's six for six. he's made six pretty good movies in a row. secondly, he's basically the lynchpin of the move. he drives the movie a certain way and it kind of follows him. it's teamwork, that's behind the camera too. he's got 85 people on the crew and 47 have worked every day on every movie he's ever made. so you have a family. >> rose: alexander payne you said, you didn't know your father well. but he helped you know your father. >> he gave to me the things i expected to get from a father. support. i never got that at home. alexander gave me that. he's a movie fan so he sees a lot of the movies i've be

. >>> also best actor nominee bruce dern. >> going to "lincoln" is the last thing i.

. >> bruce dern in "nebraska." >> that's right.antomime performance by actor long overdue for love. >> i will not fall in -- he has been overdue for stardom for a decade and in 12 years of live you see his mind work feverishly under that cruelly enforced mask of resignation. >> i want -- >> you have 30 days left. >> and talk about overdue. >> eight nothing out there. >> matthew mcconaughey a joke for years, always thought he rocked definitively wowing the world as an aids stricken cowboy turned drug entrepreneur in "dallas buyers club." >> was all this legal? absolutely not. >> "the wolf of wall street" might be better. leonardo dicaprio's all there and then some as a tie tan particular greed head. amazing group, except for the others. >> we have two approaching with armed intruders. >> tom hanks goes out of his affable comfort zone in "captain phillips" the stunning affect. >> michael b. jordan could have won everything whose portrait of real life shooting station in "fruit vail station" trying to stable himself. what about robert

. >>> also best actor nominee bruce dern. >> going to "lincoln" is the last thing i do.you didn't win anything. it's a complete scam.

. >> i am going to go with bruce dern.could split the difference and could be lifetime achievement award. >> i love bruce dern, by the way. >> a lightning round for actress. >> meryl streep nominated 18 times in her career and won three times. kate blan chet won golden globe, critics choice. i think sandra bullock deserves it. she was in a suit and in a set filming these scenes. how did she do the breathing. this is what he had to say. >> is the breathing more of acting than you are breathing that heavy because you are spinning? >> the breathing is all acting. we had to pick it up where we left off. we had to hypervent late to get back to that level. i didn't like the way it sounded and didn't connect. >> i think she was dealing with a movie. she did a great job. the movie was terrible. >> i am with you on kate blanchet. >> i am thinking meryl. >> now, i say will win. i will be on "fox and friends" this sunday to give my other three major categories. everybody go see "son of god". skip "nonstop" it stinks. wait for the ren

bruce dern in "nebraska" has a 50-year film career and strong sentiment on his side. >> i'm running out. >> anything to declare. >> nada. >> reporter: yet the favorite remains matthew mcconaughey and "dallas buyers club" losing 45 pounds and using his box office superpowers for good. >> they're not illegal. they're unapproved. >> reporter: best picture shapes up as a three-movie donnybrook. "gravity," "american hustle" or "12 years a slave." some academy watchers suggest a h grand bargain has been struck with voters giving "gravity's" visionary alfonso cuaron best director while "12 years a slave" secures the best picture oscar. but you'll be the last to know. >> no, no, no. that's the truth. >> reporter: if you don't watch. >> let's go back, chris to best picture. a lot of factors here. >> a lot of things in play. this is how close the race is. the producers guild, which does the same type of preferential voting during the oscars tied for best picture between "the gravity" and "12 years a slave." so this could be a tie. it could go right down to who lists these movies as second or thir

lot of people love this movie, say it says a lot about family and there is a great performance by bruce dern could fit in eight movies in a week, you can get a ninth one in. >> when you watch the oscars you feel like, i'm invested in this and i have my opinions and i can either rejoice or say "that shouldn't have happened!" >> absolutely. bradley jacobs, thanks so much for counting them through with us, one, two, and three. >> sure thing. thanks, guys. >>> have you heard about atlanta wanting to kick out justin bieber almost before he gets here? >> there are some people here who say please don't come. don't even look at house. there are some folks here in atlanta that are making sure the pop star does not move to town. >>> plus, glowing reindeer? what's going on here? why some farmers say it's going to cut down on car accidents. [ sniffles, coughs ] shhhh! i have a cold with this annoying runny nose. [ sniffles ] i better take something. [ male announcer ] dayquil cold and flu doesn't treat all that. it doesn't? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms plus has a

gravity $269 million, but all the way down at the bottom, bruce dern and nebraska 16 million spent thatsing alone on gravity and american hustle, so what are you saying? what are you thinking? >> not only that, it's probably as much as robert downey's body waxing budget in iron man three. it makes a lot of money, nebraska, alexander pain has a career going on and people involved get a little bit of resume boosting from that film. >> top pick? >> for the oscars? >> yeah. >> i think it's a fight between gravity and 12 years a slave and we'll see what happens sunday night. >> best picture -- best actor. >> for best picture, yeah, matthew mcconaughey is the favorite for best actor and cate blanchett in blue jasmine i think we'll see win best actress. >> bull, thank you very much. get your popcorn ready, i will be watching, as well. we are also watching developments out of russia right now where ousted ukrainian president viktor yanukovych has been speaking now for a little less than an hour, pretty much denying most of the things that he is accused of, including the fact that he is a wanted

including best director bruce dern. kind of a sentimental favorite.irst year they introduced best animated feature. there's a whole other category they introduced and also there was a 9/11 tribute. i think that's why it was longer. >> okay. all right. shorter the better usually. >> another lancaster, pennsylvania, lady, but not together. that's unusual. which of the best actress nominees has not already won an oscar? judi dench, amy adams, cate blanchett or sandra bullock? >> judi dench. >> she did it on purpose because she wanted my cd. >> correct answer is amy adam. >> she's been nominated five times but never won. sad for her. no, she's fine. >> who will win? >> probably cate blanchett. sort of the favorite. >> where are you from, sir? >> tulsa, oklahoma. >> this sunday marks the second time ellen degeneres will host the academy awards. who has hosted the most number of times? >> billy crystal. >> you're gonna love this cd, i'm telling you. >> you know what? i would have guessed him too, but the correct answer is -- >> bob hope. he hosted 14 times.