but next, lesley stahl with the director of hugo, martin scorsese. >> talking to me?o me? >> i'm the only one here. >> it's sunday morning on cbs, and here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: the actor is robert d denear owe and the movie is taxi driver directed by martin scorsese. with oscar night exactly four weeks away we're going hollywood these next few sundays. we begin with martin scorsese with his oscar-nominated hugo. how his movie came to be is a story he tells our lesley stahl of "60 minutes." >> reporter: welcome to hollywood east, martin scorsese's manhattan office. where he edits his films and screens old favorites. you have, of course, of your posters. >> i like these films. >> reporter: it's a wall-to-wall shrine to the greats of the past. most of them are kind of the older directors. >> it's like trying to stay in touch with that initial creative impulse and say i want to do that. i want to do something like that. the inspiration. >> reporter: one inspiration and the subject of hugo is the pioneering film maker george melier. >> melier actually was a

to start us off on our red carpet countdown lesley stahl talks with the nominated director whose latest film represents a total change of pace. >> reporter: martin scorsese's new film hugo got 11 oscar nominations this past week without a single punch thrown or gun fired. so hugo, no stabbing, no shooting, no gun fire. no one gets whacked. is martin scorsese going soft on us? >> you know, have i mellowed in a sense? >> reporter: later on sunday morning, the maestro of movie mayhem tells us why he made hugo, his very first family film. >> osgood: score skazy's film does pay tribute to remarkable machines that were operating in high gear many years ago. seth doane will be rewinding us back through time. >> reporter: a mechanical work of art. and centuries old mystery. do people even know when you're talking about when you say i've written a book about an atomic-on. >> i just keep talking. usually i do say that it's a wind-up mechanical figure. >> reporter: the wonder of the automaton later on sunday morning. >> osgood: brad pit is a movie star very much of our own time so much so that he'

i'm lesley stahl. the information technology revolution changes our world on a daily basis, but one thing that doesn't change is our fascination with the so-called nerds who not only transformed society but became billionaires in the process. this edition features a trio of these tech titans: bill gates, the man who created the world's most valuable software company, microsoft; mark zuckerberg, the young, geeky computer programmer behind the internet phenomenon facebook; and sergey brin, the cofounder of google. we'll begin with brin. has there ever been a brand name like google? in less than five years, it went from an idea to a global verb, as in, "i googled this," or, "i google that," or, "i google you." back in 2006, shortly after the company went public, google opened its doors for the first time and let us google them. >> we have north america. >> oh, look at that. google cofounder sergey brin is showing us an electronic globe that displays the mountains of google searches happening around the wo

. >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm morley safer. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm lara logan. >> i'm scott pelley.onight on "60 minutes." larry, we just had the carpets cleaned! that was the pizza guy. you said you bought a digiorno. but the pizza came with cheesy breadsticks. [ male announcer ] digiorno pizza and breadsticks. it's not delivery. it's digiorno pizza & breadsticks. she found the box! maybe because you left it right on the counter. she follow the wings. on my, i've learned that when you ask someone in texas if they want "big" savings on car insurance, it's a bit like asking if they want a big hat... ...'scuse me... ...or a big steak... ...or big hair... i think we have our answer. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. [ tea kettle whistle ] [ male announcer ] beat your worst flu symptoms. theraflu max d contains the most powerful medicine allowable without a prescription to fight your worst flu symptoms. theraflu max d. serious power. >> stahl: 2011 will be remembered as a year of perpetual gridlock in washington, and open combat between the

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. >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm morley safer. >> i'm lara logan. >> i'm byron pitts. >> i'm scott pelleys tonight on "60 minutes." >> good evening. for the first time in 25 years, cadillac is rolling out a compact car, this one called the a.t.system. gas prices jumped nine cents this week to an average of $3.37 a gallon, and "the devil inside" won the weekend box office with $34.5 million. i'm jeff glor, cbs news. >> pelley: there's no greater desperation than to be told that you, or your child, has a disease for which there is no hope. many people with incurable illness look forward to the promise of stem cells. stem cells have the potential to turn into any kind of cell and, in theory, they could repair damaged cells, though, scientists tell us that we're years away from realizing that dream. there is no stem cell miracle today, so conmen, have moved in to offer the hope that science cannot. just look online and you will find hundreds of credible looking web sites offering stem cell cures in overseas clinics. two years ago, we began investigating stem cell charlatans. we worked with pa

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