Sandra Bullock Did Not Really Deserve the Oscar for Best Actress
Winning an Oscar and a Razzie Award Shows that Sandra Bullock is Inconsistent Actress
Shouldn't the Oscar for Best Actress be presented to someone who consistently delivers great performances? While Sandra Bullock had a very good year in 2009 with box office hits in "The Proposal" and "The Blind Side", there was also the disastrous flop in "All About Steve". Sandra Bullock has also turned in some terrible performances in recent years in "Premonition", "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Dangerous" and "The Lake House".
Yes, the annual Quigley Publishing Company listed Sandra Bullock as the top box draw of 2009. This list is based on a polling of what stars the exhibitors perceive as the biggest draw into the movie theaters. It is not based on the exact box office total receipts. So these theater owners really selected Bullock because of the high dollar draw of "The Proposal", which grossed $315 million. Is this enough to support Sandra Bullock's win of the Oscar for Best Actress?
The night before the Red Carpet and glitz of the Oscar's, Sandra Bullock was honored with a totally different award. Sandra Bullock actually showed up to accept her Razzie Award for her hideous performance in "All About Steve". The last actress to show up in person and accept the Razzie award was Halle Berry in 2005 for her performance in "Catwoman".
The annual Razzies have been in creation since 1980 and was started by John Wilson, he is known as the "Head Raspberry". This tongue-in-cheek awards ceremony celebrates all the absolute worst productions that Hollywood has to offer in the cinemas. Bullock won for her role as a crossword puzzle creator that also happens to need a thorazine-big-gulp on a regular basis. She becomes a stalker and it just gets more boring and asinine from there. Let's just say that this Razzie Award was well deserved by Bullock.
So the question remains: Did Sandra Bullock deserve to win the Oscar for Best Actress? Based on the inconsistent performance history, and the winning of the Razzie Award the night before she won the Oscar for Best Actress, my answer to this question is a resounding 'No'. I am sure that many people will disagree with me on this answer, but I stand by it.
What do you think?
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13 Comments
Post a CommentSandra Bullock has absolutely no talent! Along with Cameron Diaz and Katherine Heigl, shes the worst actress in Hollywood!!! Her winning the Oscar was a joke. Its also an insult to talented actresses who actually EARNED the Oscar, like Charlize Theron in Monster. Its pretty grim that the Oscars are getting this bad, handing out Academy Awards to people who can barely tastefully appeal, much less act.
Yes, I think Sandrahis, should have won an Oscar. What I think does not matter because her peers voted for her. You are being paid to write this article, so what you think does not matter either.
I think an actor should only win the Oscar based on the performance they are getting nominated for, not past performances, or whether or not they have a reputation for being exceptionally nice. In bullocks case, she is also exceptionally naive, to believe a guy once married to a porn star would stay faithful. She deserves a 'life razzie' for that.
Whether Sandra Bullock deserved the Oscar or not, I gotta say you have a bit of a twisted take on what "Best Actress" means. It is meant to be for a specific performance in a specific movie. Based on your thinking, no one would ever win if it is their first movie even if they give a performance that absolutely knocks it out of the ballpark. So based on your thinking, Gabrielle from "Precious" should not have even been nominated right??????? If the Oscars were only based on past performances, I guess there would be maybe 10 people ever nominated! Get Real!
Also, first of all "The Proposal" is a chick flick, and second, the majority of people who saw that movie went to see Ryan Reynolds, not Sandra Bullock. Reynolds should receive the praise for that box office success; maybe he should get an oscar, too...
To Deb Thorn - Really? Sandra Bullock is an "exceptional actress" ? Have you seen any work by Meryl Streep, Kate Blanchett, Kate Winslet? Are you serious? Sandra Bullock was given the Oscar to bolster a lackluster movie year it was a simply corporate decision. If Sandra Bullock can win an Oscar, really, anything in this world is possible. Ms. Zeiher, excellent article.
I was disgusted to read this article. Obviously the author doesn't know her, well you know, from a hole in the ground! I have had great respect for Sandra Bullock and her abilities since the first movie I ever saw her in. More than that - she is a well grounded, intelligent, class woman. So I ask you, what does this snarky article say about the author?
I think Sandra Bullock is an exceptional actress who very much deserved the Oscar. I love most of her movies, but what I love most is her humble humility that is not seen in Hollywood. She is a real person and uses her life to play her characters.
I think Sandra is an exceptional actress and what makes her even more of a star is her peronality when she is not acting. Anyone should be up for an Oscar, not only actors and actresses that have been in the business for years and years, but newcomers too, if they do exceptional work in a film.
I disagree with the author of the article. I saw Miss Congeniality and was seduced, the sequel was acceptible but not exceptional in terms of overall plot.
The Blind side was not only exceptional material, but Bullock, acted differently from what we might have expected. In other words she performed as professional actors do. That is to say, not stuck in just one role, but demonstrating versatility; for that reason I submit that she highly deserved the Oscar!