Kevin Costner 'was very touched by' John Mulaney's 'amazing' Field of Dreams ... trends now Kevin Costner loved John Mulaney's funny, random tribute to his 1989 film Field of Dreams during the 96th Academy Awards ceremony so much he watched it twice. 'I couldn't believe that guy. Amazing! I watched it a second time,' the 69-year-old Yellowstone star gushed to People on Sunday. 'What a chance, because there's always people in the Oscars trying to rush you. And he went fast. But what he said, I was very touched by it. I should talk to him because I was really impressed. He was a genius. I loved what he did.' The 41-year-old comedian brought up the importance of Kevin's film about an Iowa farmer transforming his corn field into a baseball diamond while presenting the Oscar for best sound on March 10. 'You know, for years movies didn't have sound and then they figured it out,' John said onstage Hollywood's Dolby Theatre. Kevin Costner (L) loved John Mulaney's (R) funny, random tribute to his 1989 film Field of Dreams during the 96th Academy Awards ceremony so much he watched it twice 'What about that moment in Field of Dreams where we hear, "If you build it, he will come," and then Costner does it. He builds a baseball field. Or I guess he doesn't build it. He mows down corn, and then there is a field and he's like, "I'm going to watch ghosts play baseball." And the bank is like, "You wanna pay your mortgage?" And he's like, "Nah, I'm gonna watch ghosts play baseball." 'And then he finds James Earl Jones, who wrote The Boat Rocker, which I thought was a real book deep into my 20s, and he's like, "People will come, Ray." He's the only one with a financial plan. But what's weird is Timothy Busfield pushes little Gaby Hoffmann off the bleachers and she falls down and she's unconscious. 'And then Burt Lancaster pats her one the back a couple of times and he's like, "Hot dog, stuck in the throat," and then he can't go back in the game because I guess there's a rule in ghost baseball that if you leave the field at any point to become an elderly ghost and do the Heimlich maneuver, you can't return to the field.' Mulaney concluded: 'I love Field of Dreams. That should win best picture, though they'll will probably go with one of this years.' Costner previously reacted to the three-time Emmy winner's gesture via Instastory on March 13 where he Instastoried a clip captioned: 'Not a bad summary, @johnmulaney!' Phil Alden Robinson's critically-acclaimed film - based on W. P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Shoeless Joe - received three Oscar nominations and amassed $84.4M at the box office. And in 2021, the two-time Oscar winner threw out the first pitch during the MLB's special neutral-site game between the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees at the original Dyersville, IA farm. On March 13, John's babymama Olivia Munn announced that she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer back in April 2023, and she has since undergone four surgeries including a double mastectomy which put her into medically-induced menopause. The 69-year-old Yellowstone star gushed to People on Sunday: 'I couldn't believe that guy. Amazing! I watched it a second time' (pictured April 9) Kevin continued: 'What a chance, because there's always people in the Oscars trying to rush you. And he went fast. But what he said, I was very touched by it. I should talk to him because I was really impressed. He was a genius. I loved what he did' The 41-year-old comedian brought up the importance of Costner's film about an Iowa farmer transforming his corn field into a baseball diamond while presenting the Oscar for best sound on March 10