Sandra Bullock makes history with best/worst actress awards
Sandra Bullock named best actress at Oscars for The Blind Side
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Monday, 08, Mar 2010 05:09
By Matthew Champion.
Sandra Bullock has become the first person to win an Oscar and a Golden Raspberry award in the same year after picking up the best actress statute last night.
The 45-year-old lived up to her pre-ceremony favourite's billing by walking away with the prize for best actress for The Blind Side.
Just 24 hours earlier however she had received the dubious honour of being named worst actress of the year at the Razzies.
"Did I really earn this or did I finally wear y'all down?" Bullock joked as she accepted the Oscar last night, beating co-nominees Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan, Helen Mirren and Gabourey Sidibe.
On Saturday the actress had delighted fans and received a standing ovation when collecting her Razzie, for ill-received romantic comedy All About Steve, in person, arriving on stage with a trailer full of DVDs of the film for everyone present.
The actress, for whom critical acclaim has arrived after a career based mainly on rom-coms and big budget action films, said in her acceptance speech at the Kodak Theatre last night: "All the people who have been good to me when it wasn't fashionable, and all the people who were mean to me, including George Clooney who threw me in a pool years ago, I'm still holding a grudge about that."
In The Blind Side Bullock plays Leigh Anny Tuohy, who along with her husband adopts a young homeless black man who goes on to become one of the most valued players in college football.
"I would like to thank what this film was to me, which are the moms who take care of the babies and the children no matter where it is they come from," she said, going on to thank her own mother for teaching her that there is "no race, no religion, no class system, no colour, no sexual orientation that makes us better than anyone else; we are all deserving of love".