we are down in the newsroom. it was awful yesterday. that's my best word for it. >> the winds were extremely strong. and some of our viewers ended up with power outages down to even power lines. the winds were serious yesterday. not only that but they provided significant windchill. it felt a lot colder than it actually was. here is a look at the numbers for you. we had 44-mile-per-hour peak wind gusts at national airport. 46 at dwi thurgood marshall and 48 at dulles. take a look. sustained winds now calm. anywhere from 83 -- 3 to 9 miles per hour across the area. gusts in the teens, versus the 30s and 40s. we had one location where our winds were gusting in the 50s yesterday. we are a far cry from where we have been. right now 36 degrees at national airport. winds are from the northwest at nine miles per hour. and into the course of today we are talking high of around 50 degrees. i can give you plenty of sunshine with the light winds. we are getting a break from the wind. that's the good news. and we are headed for a pleasant end of the weekend. some changes coming up in my five-day forecast and i will have those details a little later. >> thank you. i hope they are good ones. new this morning, a house fire in prince george's county, flames were first reported at the two story home in the 8,000 block. right around 5:00 this morning. firefighters were forced from the fire. no one was hurt. five people living at the home were displaced 678 the cause is -- displaced. the cause is under investigation. two firefighters in the burn unit of a d.c. hospital listed in critical but stable condition. they were hurt on friday. that fire was fueled by the high winds that we had. >> reporter: two firefighters bandages walked into riverdale firehouse saying they weren't able to talk about the horrible incident that left two firefighters critically injured. back at the house where this all happened, we did is speak where her son michael was among those hurt. >> he is home. we are thankful. >> cheryl, a former firefighter herself, says her son described what took place. >> they just said it was so quick. nobody really knew what was hitting them. >> there was smoke and everything. >> just after 9:00 when the first 911 calls started to come in. >> everything is going up. smoke and flames. now the wind is blowing. smoke everywhere. >> prince george's county fire chief says the strong wind definitely played a role in what he calls a blow torch effect. in this case they immediately recognized within seconds that there was a problem and they ordered evacuation. the same time the evacuation order was given that the blow torch effect happened. >> two volunteer firefighters remain in critical but stable condition. ethan soreeral and kevin o'toole. this is a picture of ethan receiving an award in 2010. the chief says both men are communicating. one is riding on a pad. family members are at their side and everyone is hoping for the best. >> i am cautiously optimistic. until the doctors give us more of a thumbs up, we will leave it at that. >> in prince george's county, fox 5 news. both men will be in the hospital for sometime. another possible norovirus outbreak at a d.c. area school all weekend activities at willow springs elementary school in fairfax are canceled so it can be thoroughly cleaned. after more than 100 students and seven teachers missed class friday with a stomach bug. george washington and howard universities have reported potential norovirus outbreaks. the mother of one of the survivors of the virginia tech massacre is spearheading an effort to prevent the repeal of a longstanding virginia law. that limits happenedgon purchases to one per month. governor bob mcdonald weighing to sign a bill to overturn it. will thomas has the story. >> i got a phone call at 10:38 a.m. on the morning of april 16 and said, mom, itch' been shot. >> her 19-year-old daughter was sitting in a french class on the campus of virginia tech. the gunman shot her twice in the head. surface wounds. emily became one of only 18 survivors. >> she played dead. i think when the gunman saw her head wounds, she said mom, i played dead as well as i could. >> nearly five years after the campus massacre, which claimed the lives of 32, loris who working on behalf of all of the victims and their family is battling a bill passed by the virginia general assembly two weeks ago. it would repeal the state's current one hand gun a month law. >> the notion that the one hand gun a month policy which has been in effect for almost 20 years is denying virginiaens their second amendment rights is a fallacy. they can still buy sports weapons. they can buy hunting rifles and what they need. the only people asking for this to be repealed is the gun lob even. will benefit from increased sales in hoss and other advocates spoke with governor bob mcdonald saturday afternoon during a conference call. he must act on a bill sitting on his desk by next tuesday or it automatically becomes law. hoss wants him to veto it. >> he has a commitment to make public policy and public safety and we -- >> will thomas, fox 5 news. under the current one hand gun a month law, hoss points to exemptions that exist that could allow law abiding citizens to purchase more than one in a month. if you lost a hand gun or stolen or are buying a gift and several others, you have to fill out a fornl with police state. those applications are rarely denied. now to stories making headlines around the world. nelson mandela underwent minor surgery and now restnic a hospital in yo hnsburg. the former south african president had been complaining about stomach problems. the medical concern when they performed a non-invasive procedure. the 91-year-old is said to be doing well. another big story, defense secretary leon panetta condemning the murder of two american military officers in afghanistan. the two were assigned to nato officials. they say a gunman turned on the pair shooting both in the back of their heads. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack inside a heavily guarded government building calling it retaliation for the burning of qurans on a u.s. military base in afghanistan but the shooters identity hasn't been positively confirmed yet. >> we are not linking this incident as yet. we have to look into the details of what is going to come out. >> all international military advisers working in kabul have been pulled out of the region. secretary panetta received personal condolences and apologies from afghanistan's defense secretary. >> 25 people and hundreds wounded in kabul. 22-year-old tj conrad of roanoke was serving as a military police officer. he and sergeant from florida were shot and killed by an afghan soldier. he was posthumously promoted to sergeant. another virginia man is among steven marines killed in fiery crash of two military helicopters in a remote section of the california desert earlier this week. it happened during a night time exercise. 28-year-old captain michael quinn. it could take weeks before they know what caused the crash. the pakistan now where a demolition team is destroying the compound where osama bin laden died. the pakistani government wants to make sure it doesn't become a shrine for the terror leader. u.s. officials say bin laden lived in the compound for six years before a navy seal team killed him during a raid in may. >> syrians are hitting the polltologist vote on a new constitution that could theoretically end the five decades of one party rule there. little over 14 1/2 people over the age of 18 are able to vote. most opposition are boycotting the election saying they will accept nothing less than president bashur being gob. the silent film the artist is up for a golden statue. we will run down a list of the nominee during a live report. and it is hollywood's biggest night. 84th annual academy awards are hours away. we are live in hollywood with a preview. good morning! >> hey, nice to see you. i will show you what's going on here. they peeled away the plastic on the red carpet. they vacuuming it and took off the plastic covers on the oscar statueouts. this isn't the kodak theater any more. it's now the hollywood and highland center. that's where the action will be taking place. let's talk about the categories that have a lot of competition. the recent most interested in is best actress between viola davis and meryl streep. meryl streep's 17th nomination for her role as margaret thatcher in iron lady and you think maybe she would have it in the bag. her movie wasn't that well received. the academy does love portrayals in history. viola davis won the sag award and critic's choice award and those award shows are the most accurate in predicting who will win an oscar in the acting category. also for best actor. jean dujardin for the artist. he could be the first frenchman to win. the big surprise that could happen is if george clooney stole that from him. but jean dujardin has been winning and same goes for the artist. it's looking like the artist is going to win best picture. it has the best odds in vegas. it's won most of the awards in the season. it has the weinstein company behind it and they have been campaigning like crazy and are politics vived in the oscar race. and a lot of people are hoping a silent film will win again because that hasn't happened since the 1920s. billy crystal back to host the show for the ninth time. he has taken about eight years off from doing that. and he is going to play it safe and traditional. it's kind of looking like it's predictable, lack luster year. i'm sure we will see a lot of fashionable celebrities walking down the carpet later today. of course right now because it's about a little after 4:00 in the morning where you are and we appreciate you getting up that early. is there -- when do things normally get started? how long does it take to get prepared for the big night, what we actually see on tv? >> right, they have so many preshows and then you have to be in your spot and -- i will show you something that's new this year. they used to have these big hedges that were like this big and you have to be stuck behind them. they changed it to these signs. actually, i thought the hedges were prettier. there is the first set of on red carpet arrivals start around 1:30 our time. then on abc that's the show that is hosting around 4:00 so that would be 7:00 and then showcase off around 8:00 or 8:30 on east coast time. it's all out of whack for me. >> no kidding. it's hard to do the math that early in the morning. thank you so much. we appreciate you getting up in the dark to give us a preview of the oscars. >> thanks. and coming up in about 30 minutes we will check with kevin mccarthy for his predictions on who will be the big winners tonight. republican presidential candidates vying for the arizona and michigan primaries and extra leap forward for february and a hot profile arson suspect heads back to court. here are some of the stories expected to make headlines in the week ahead. tuesday voters in arizona and michigan will head to the polls for primarilies. presidential hopefuls will warm up for super tuesday. wednesday is leap day. extra day february 29 only comes around every four years. this day president obama and the first lady will host a dinner marking the end of the iraqi war. the event called a nation's gratitude will honor achievement and sacrifices of american service men and women in iraq. also wednesday wyoming will hold its final republican caucus. thursday a hollywood arson suspect gets to appear in court again. harry burkhart has pleaded not guilty to 100 counts of arson. nearly 50 of the fires terrorized parts of los angeles over new year's weekend. friday iranians will vote in a nationwide parliamentary election. the first vote since the disputed re-election of president mahmoud ahmadinejad in 2009. the washington state republican party will issue a straw poll results official winner of the delegates won't be determined number the -- until the state's convention in noon. major developments coming out of the national spring training fas one of the veteran leaders is on the verge of signing a new long term deal. and slated to be the ace of the team's pitching staff. steven strasburg for a one-on- one interview. sports is next. ♪ [ male announcer ] from our nation's networks... ♪ ...to our city streets... ♪ ...to skies around the world... ♪ ...northrop grumman's security solutions are invisibly at work, protecting people's lives... 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[ male announcer ] ...without their even knowing it. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. making headlines in sports. caps try to make it two wins in a row for the first time since mid-january against toronto last night. early first period the caps on the move and into the defensive zone and marcus johannson skates behind the net. and goes for the wrap around goal. it goes in for the 1-0 lead. alexander will add his 17th goal of the season later in the period. and the caps go on to win 4-2. now to college hoops. hoyas hosting villanova. first minute. the game, the freshman goes down after being elbowed in the face. he left the game but he would return in a big way scoring two of his 15 points on a nice pass inbounds. the hoyas built a 17 point first half lead and go on to win 67-46 to improve to 11-5 in the big east. on the road on the road with georgia tech for the season sweep. in two minutes left maryland down one and terrell drives in the tough layup to give the terps a one point lead. then less than 30 seconds left, brandan reid, he hits the three and maryland falls to georgia tech. some other local scores, george mason lost to bcu9-77. au over lafayette 76-69. and howard falls to delaware state 63-46. northcarolina beats have a have a 54-51 and duke holds off virginia tech 70-65 in overtime. fall squad workouts begin for the nats this weekend. 54 players are fighting for 25 spots. hot topic is ryan zimmerman's contract extension. the two sides talked late into the night and we are told made enough progress for zimmerman to extend the saturday deadline for a deal to be in place. long term deal is expected to be finalized sometime today. >> both sides are working to get over the last little couple hurdles, i guess you could call them. >> you have come a long way to bridge the big gap to where we are currently but we aren't there yet. and this is a very complicated lucrative contract that we are discussing. and we are not quite at the finish line yet. >> our sports director is in vera florida to take in national spring training. he had an opportunity to sit and talk with the team's ace about everything from his elbow surgery to his future. here is felty. >> reporter: when you think about the nationals this season, you think about pitching. when you think of the nat's pitching you think of steven strasburg. 18 months removed from tommy johns surgery and now raring to go. >> i feel really good. obviously it's early so i'm in a great program here at the nationals. and i think if i keep working hard and focus in on getting better every single day, hopefully i will feel just as good at the end of the year. >> yesterday you got injured or years ago? >> it seems like a long time ago. that's for sure. almost feels like last year never happened. obviously time flies and when you are in the repetitiveness of rehabbing day in and day out, it all kind of meshes into one. it went by pretty fast now that i look back on it. >> jordan zimmerman said he talked to you sometimes and he said look, i told him, you pitch, hopefully they won't switch any starts because he didn't like. that then you do your one and when it's done and then you got to wait a month and that's okay, you just had to wait eight months. is that how you see it? >> you never know what's going to happen. and obviously it's a tough situation hopefully i will have a great year and it's really well and get to that point where they are going to potentially shut me down. i know it's going to be hard. seeing how it was for jordan first hand. but right now i'm focused on getting ready for the season and i'm going to take it one start at a time. and really just work on developing the routine that i'm hopefully going to carry on for the rest of my career. >> can you get better? have we seen the best of steven strasburg or can you get better? >> i'm not going to put -- i'm not going to put expectations on myself but i'm not going to say that i'm only going to be this good. i got a lot to learn. that's the big thing is relatively i don't have much major league experience. i feel like i have a great opportunity here especially this year to learn from some of the best. >> people are throwing around the -- word for playoffs. you haven't played a games in that's going to happen when people see who we have on our roster and stuff. that's great. there are a lot of teams going into the season where they are world series down and will make it to the playoffs. we haven't done anything yet. i think we just have to let our play do the talking. >> strasburg received a unique honor. sandiego state his alma mater retired his jersey. in vieira, florida, fox 5 sports. two crucial primaries up for grabs for the republican presidential candidates on tuesday. many pundits believe michigan is a must win for mitt romney. fox news sunday talks with the former massachusetts governor and we will have a preview. and gwen is back with a look at today's weather and workweek preview. stay with us. fox five morning news sunday will be right back. q at lysol, , we discovered a problem. the more products we touch around the sink, the more dirt can spread around the kitchen, and the more germs we can spread on our hands. that's why we created the lysol no-touch kitchen system. one no-touch solution for sparkling dishes, plus clean surfaces, plus healthy hands. because our mission is a healthy home made simple. lysol. mission for health. i don't think we seen in the history of this country the kind of attack on religious conscience and religious tolerance we seen in president obama. >> the romney takes aim at the president and continues to make the claim he is the conservative. the primaries are being held on tuesday. can the former governor of massachusetts win back his home state? romney is a guest on fox news sunday. and the host has a preview of today's program. good morning. >> hey. >> chris, last week on your program newt gingrich said if any of the candidates lost their home state that would probably put them in a weakened position and the end for them and here you have mitt romney only holding on to a slim margin in his home state. what do you think? >> he has a lot riding onism he will continue. i don't think he will drop out of the race if he loses but it would be devastating to his campaign no question about that. particularly because one of the things that romney is selling is -- well two things if you will. one is the aura of inevitably he will be the nominee and electability that he is the best candidate to go up against barack obama in the fall. if he can't carry his home state, the state he grew up in and the state his father was governor of for three terms if he can't carry that in a republican primary, what chance does he have in a general election in the fall in michigan against barack obama? this would be devastating to his campaign. he knows it. he is spending a lot of money there on ads and so is his super pac and is campaigning hard and aggressively against santorum. >> and know what else is interesting. i hear all of the candidates in the race and other people that you asked say, but it's still early. it's still early. at what point does it become not early any more and we know what road it's going down for one of these candidates? at some point it's not early any longer. >> yeah, but if you look at just mathematically, it is kind of early. if one candidate picked up every delegate they could not win the majority which is 1144. it's kind of depressing that i know that fact and can recite it. in late april and given the fact that it's being split, romney has the lead but it's being split up, this race will go into may and you can say, well, okay that's mathematically but they will drop out given the volatility of this race, the fact that gingrich has been the front runner twice and down twice. santorum is having his time in the sun. and then super tuedsay a week from tuesday is almost certain to be a very mixed result with gingrich winning in some southern states. romney in some northeastern states and maybe santorum takes a mid western states. i think almost certainly this race goes on into may, we are still in february, so it is still early still. >> at least it keeps it interesting to watch. also on your program today, indiana governor mitch daniels who again this weekend said no, i'm not interested. i'm not running for the republican nomination no matter what you say. >> well, i know. this gets to this question of it being early. you look at the polls and people are growing increasingly dissatisfied with this republican field. i think in part because it's been so negative and personal. instead of building them up and elevating them, the race tends to diminish them all. let's write a quick scenario. if romney loses michigan and only ahead in the polls by a couple of points if he were to lose michigan there are some republican leaders who say these guys are all damaged goods that santorum and beginningrism certainly have wide margins to obama that romney said he is fragile. can't carry his home state and they will start looking around for somebody else to get into this race, mitch daniels will be on that list, chris christie is on the list, jeb bush, they say no, but you know, circumstances could change wednesday morning if there is an upset in michigan. what you could then get is nobody gets a majority and we end up at the convention in august in tampa and a contested convention with everybody circling around with less than a majority of votes. it always makes it interesting to watch. thanks again for your time. >> you bet, thank you. you can catch fox news sunday at 9:00 a.m. right after our show. there is an unusual explanation about the delays on metro's blue line. animal control rescued an injured bald eagle near the van doran street station yesterday. rescue crews had to board a metro train to get close enough to capture it. the bird is recovering at a facility in falls church. >> that's a nice story. >> sometimes you want to blame the system. and for this one -- >> it was a good thing. >> boy, yesterday, was one of those days where this is terrible. i hate it. saying to my family out loud. this is the worst weather ever. >> it was cold, windy, it felt colder than it actually was because of the winds. and sometime people just suffered with power outages and everything. the winds are a huge factor. let's take a look at the numbers and we will show you what happened at the airport. national airport 44-mile-per- hour wind gusts. 46 at dwi thurgood marshall. the winds were definitely very strong. things are improving today. a little slower in some areas than others. anywhere from calm to nine-mile- per-hour sustained winds now and our wind gusts not too much happening. 16 at manassas and 18 at national and take a look at delmarva. anywhere from 16 to 17-mile-per- hour wind gusts. far cry from where we pr. temperatures are in the low to mid-30s overall. today will be filled with sunshine. you are really going to enjoy it and the five-day forecast is looking good, too. >> looking forward to that. thank you so much. well, coming up gas prices on the rise yet again and a horrible accident has a happy ending after a month of searching one family gives a big thank you to a bus driver who they call a guardian angel. we will be right back. introducing the new flip & fresh from air wick with 100% fragrance oil. it's something new to brighten your home with two scent levels to choose from for when you want something light or something more. it's the new flip & fresh from air wick. the lasting fresh fragrance that brightens your world with a flip. something in the air wick. all those gas prices, they continue to rise and they went up again this weekend. here is the latest numbers. according to triple-a, the average price for gallon of regular in the district is $3.83. $3.67in maryland and $3.66 in virginia. only expected to go higher in the coming weeks. gingrich claims he can get prices down but the obama administration says that just a gimmick and the country has to take a serious approach to reducing dependance on foreign oil. the president wants conservation alternative resources and more drilling. he say domestic production is up but oil industry executives say it's not true. >> that production is a direct result of leases issued before this administration. and as a result of the development on private and state lands. today on federal lands the area where the president has control, production in the gulf of mexico is down 30%. lease sales in the rocky mountains on federal lands are down 70%. >> the early winter spike in prices is due in part to concerns over iran and traders speculating that global demand will rise. in late november there was a horrible auto accident in southeast d.c. this weekend the family of a survivor of that crash gathered to thank a metro bus driver. they believe he was sent by god to save a life. >> reporter: about 20 minutes of the fowler family gathered at a regional rehabilitation hospital in maryland to introduce themselves to this metro bus driver. and no thank him with accommodation and a plaque. >> words cannot express the level of appreciation, gratefulness and things we hold for you. >> this extended family is related to 54-year-old richard fowler who two nights after thanksgiving was involved in a traffic crash that would have killed most people. >> the doctors gave him a 1% chance of survival. they told us that he would never awake. he would remain in a vegetative state forever. >> richard fowler wouldn't have had any chance of survival if james will frk hadn't been driving the number 34 route along pennsylvania avenue that night. you see, the wrecked car caught on fire. >> i moved debris, pulld the seat belt off and made room and pulled the individual from the car to a safer location. upon laying him down, i made sure i kept him company by just talking with him so he -- until he wasn't responding until emergency unit arrived. >> since his bus was not involve in the accident, james got back on board and completed his route. took the family months to track him down. thank him. and make the bus driver an honorary member of their family. >> he can come any time my door is always open. and i can fix him a nice dinner. >> richard fowler is slowly recovering from the accident. and his family members literally thank god that a metro bus driver who was willing to get involved came along at just the right moment. fox 5 news. coming up, the countden to the oscars -- countdown to the oscars, a lot of buzz about the artist. it's considered a front runner for as ons can. kevin will be back with his predictions. getting a break finally from the winds as we end the weekend and we are ending on a good note with all of the sunshine. the five-day forecast has interesting things happening and i will have the details and let you know what that weather will be like for those oscar attendees. we will be back after the break. some the top stories we are following this morning. north coreany -- korean leader if provoked. threat comes one day after the start of south korean military drills. they maintain the 12 day largely computer simulated war games are defensive in nature. prince george's county firefighters battled a fierce house fire this morning. flames reported at two story home in the 8,000 block of 18th avenue around 4:00 a.m. at one point firefighters were forced from the house when the fire picked up. no one was hurt. five people living at the home have been displaced. cause is under investigation. we are learning now that damage is estimated at $150,000. winds and you have is how when these fires they are really a bad combination. >> definitely so. and we had extremely strong winds that day and they continued right through until yesterday as well. we are getting improvement in the wind dements and that's good news because those winds actually made us feel colder than it actually was temperature-wise yesterday. let's take a live look outside and see where things are right now. not bad. we are expecting to see some sunshine today. it's not bad at all across the area. it will be fairly pleasant overall. we will at least get back to calmer conditions with the winds as well and that's started to happen. so not quite as windy today as it was yesterday. that's at least some good news for you and i have plenty of sunshine in the forecast as well. and that's going to be evident in the five-day forecast. also we've got a little bit of unsettled weather that we are looking at when we hit midweek and temperatures will be up and down a little bit. we will be warming up and cooling down and back up again so be prepared for that it's that time of year. you need to know how to dress when heading outside. we well keep you prepared. wind gusts are peaking at 44 miles per hour at national yesterday. at baltimore thurgood marshall 36 miles per hour and 48 at dulles. those winds were strung. laytonsville up to 51 miles per hour wind gusts yesterday. power outages and downed strees in our neighborhoods. the winds a different story. starting out calm this morning. sustained winds and our wind gusts not a whole lot happening and getting improvement here. 60 at gaitersburg and 18 at national ask and delmarva, that's far cry from where we were. highs yesterday into the 40s. 45 at dulles and at thurgood marshall and today's temperatures will be warmer than that but we were starting off chilly this morning with temperatures into the 30s everywhere. so bundle up if you are headed out. sky conditions as i mentioned, a ridge of high pressure so we have plenty of clear skies. a few clouds over the northwest will start to clear out in the course of the afternoon as that ridge of high pressure continues to build in. with that ridge, we have sunshine and fairly mild conditions not bad at all that will hold it steady into the course tomorrow, a cold front moving in but it's a dry one so we aren't looking at precipitation at all. our next weather system will be wednesday and that's when we have a chance of seeing rain. meantime today by mid-day will be about 43 degrees. not all bad and 46 by the five- day forecast hour. plenty of sunshine today for you. light winds i'm happy to say from the northwest and the southwesterly flow is southwestly flow will help us warm up. clear skies chilly night at 45 degree was light southerly wind at 5 to 10 miles per hour. wednesday is the day we will keep an eye on. looking at rain, areas to the north and northwest. however, could see a little bit of wintry mix. we will watch that when the time comes. could see the showers edging in tuesday night so we will keep our eye on that otherwise not bad. the temperatures will be up and down and i will say i checked the los angeles forecast for the os can goers tonight and only a 20% chance of showers but after 10:00. >> good for them. >> that's good tonight. >> know what i love? we are getting into march and getting into spring, i feel like it can only get better from here. >> let's keep our fingers crossed. >> famous last words. the stars will be out tonight in hollywood. 84th annual academy awards hours away. this show airs live from the kodak theater or the former kodak theater and is being hosted by billy crystal. a lot of speculation on which nominees will take home the oscars. our movie reviewer sat down with sarah simmons to give his take who should win. >> you are excited but you have your picks versus who is going to get the award because you kind of lost faith in the oscars a little bit. >> i lost faith in the oscars on march 21, 1999. that was the date that shakespeare in love beat "saving private ryan" for the best picture of the year and i'm going back and doing research and films like rear window, vertigo, usual suspects, singing in the rain, cool hand luke, never nominated for best picture. oscars are out of touch forever. i mean, i thought it was that date and then you go forward and they are always picking these safe artsy movie. like the king's speech last year. everyone is talking about inception and social network. films that have left an imprint on people. this they think about them. the king's speech is a forgotten movie. matt damon said. this oscars shouldn't consider a film for a nomination until ten years after it comes out. you can experience impact that film had on cinema. that's important. >> i heard you say that before. that's an interesting point. let's start with best supporting actress this year. the two that you think -- or i guess who you think will get it versus who should get it. >> in this category it's going to christopher plummer for beginners. he has won every award out there leading up to the oscars. amazing performance and he is one ever the greatest actors of all time. he is a fem actor and definitely going to win the award. i do think that nick nolte deserves it. nick nolte's performance in warrior is one of the best performances. most underrated film in 2011 and felt like that performance legitimately came from the heart. it was a very emotional and very engaging movie. you haven't seen it, check out warrior. think he should win but plummer will take the award. >> this asian lock. stone cold lock. no doubt about. this octavia spencer. octavia spencer for the help. seriously, i loved her performance. i saw it when it came out and i believe it was in august. and amazing performance. totally into the character. she was so fantastic. she deserves every award she has gotten and deserves the academy award. she will win and should win. >> good. so let's go to best actress now. >> this is going to be an interesting category. this is where the oscars actually get exciting because we honestly don't know who will win this category on sunday. i have an incling it will be viola davis. she won the sag award. now meryl streep won the golden globe. a very -- you don't know what's going to happen there. i think out of the five i think michelle williams deserves the award. her performance as marilyn monroe. she captured her essence -- i was taking notes during the movie and any time she was on screen i didn't look down. i was scribbling on my paper. that's how good she is. viola davis, a beautiful performance. i think she does deserve to win. a win i believe for her on sunday. meryl streep has been nominated 17 times. her last win was in 1982 for sophie's choice. they might go that route but i will go with viola for my pick. michelle williams deserved it. >> best actor. >> another interesting category. now, try -- gene duejureden is the lead star -- jean dujardin. he is the -- he is nominated for his performance in the artist. george clooney is up as well. clooney and him are the two front runners. i think -- i personally feel that jean dujardin because the artist has insane momentum and it will take home best picture. but clooney has good momentum als well. if i had to pick right now, i would say that jean will take it but a possibility that george will. jean deserves it because by saying so little he emotionally connected to the audience and with little dialogue. that's an important characteristic. you know who should be in this category, andy circus to played lead ape. he deserves this award. >> how about best director? your favorite is i think a lot of people's favorites. >> here is the deal. over the years if you look back in 2005-2002, they split the award between the director and the picture. generally the best picture matches best director. those four times it did not. spielberg won director for "saving private ryan" but not best picture. i have a feeling they will split it between scorsese. scorsese deserves every award for best director. revolution ielzed 3-d and told a love letter in his voice. i think he will win and should win. hopefully they split it up. >> best movie? >> the artist. unfortunately. listen, i admire the artist it was a fantastic film, well acted, well directed. i felt like hugo was the better love letter to film making and it's a shame that drive is not in this category. drive should be nominated. why give nine nominations. give a tenth one to drive. it's ridiculous. athest will take home best picture. >> safe choice though in silence, it's artsy safe option. >> we will find out for sure what will happen on sunday. >> and follow me at twitter. i will be tweeting during the oscars and you can tweet me any questions you have about any movies this weekend. so go see act of valor. it's awesome. >> back to you guys. we were saying last night that kevin should get an award for his enthusiasm. >> and i think the great thing is as we were talking about a lot of times you don't get time to catch up on all of the oscar movies then you know which ones are really worth your time and money to see. >> it's going to be an 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