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These are photos of Sandra Bullock at this year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival, where she picked up the American Riviera Award. First, I love Sandra’s dress. So, so pretty. It’s completely appropriate for the occasion, appropriate for her age and her aiming-for-classy style. The fit is amazing, and Sandra looks great. I hope that whatever stylist put her in this dress also dresses Sandra for the Oscars, because sometimes, Sandra can be a hot mess on the red carpet. Speaking of Sandra’s style, a website that tracks star fashions points to Bullock as the most-watched and copied woman for this year’s awards season. StyleSpot.com calls Bullock “the Oscars’ Actress Most Likely to Sell Fashion.”
While accepting her award at the festival, Bullock told the audience that she’s very good at predicting the Oscar winners, and she predicts that she will not go home with a little gold man. She claims she “already knows who’s going to win” but she won’t say. She probably thinks Meryl Streep will win, that’s my guess:
Sandra Bullock has news for anyone waiting to see her give an acceptance speech at the Academy Awards – don’t hold your breath!
“I’m so not winning an Oscar,” Bullock, who received her first-ever nomination, as best actress for The Blind Side, told reporters at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Friday, where she received the American Riviera Award for her influence on film.
Bullock considers herself an expert oddsmaker for the annual awards show, so she has strong feelings about her own chance for victory. “Nine times out of ten I always pick who’s going to win,” the actress, 45, said. “And I already know who’s going to win. I’m not going to say, but nine times out of ten, I’m right.”
Bullock isn’t practicing false humility. After all, she’s already won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award this year. She’s just not overanxious to snag the trophy. “I have to say, all the ladies in our category, we don’t care who wins,” she said. “Someone’s going to win and the rest of us will be really happy for whoever won. We’re just happy to be here. And we like the company we’re in.”
Bullock admitted she has to push herself into enjoying the build-up to the Academy Awards. “It’s amazing how you are asked to hit the ground running the minute you hear the news,” she said. “It’s not like you can sit back and have bonbons and champagne.”
“I thought that’s what it was about,” she said. “I had it already. I said, ‘OK, where are the bonbons and champagne?’ No one brought me any. They just told me I had to work. So I’m like, ‘OK.’ ”
Everyday Tasks
“I’m so bad at taking in compliments or flattery,” she said. “I’m better taking in the bad than I am the good. So I’m trying very hard just to be present and enjoy the moments.”She’s also embracing the everyday tasks at home which keep her grounded. “You go home and you have to pick up dog poop – and we have a two-legged dog,” she says. “To me, that’s not mundane, though. Life is tricky enough that I actually love and embrace the normal day-to-day rituals. You get up, you make your coffee, read your paper, you do the school run, you go do your things. I’m just lucky that I get to do them.”
[From People]
I like Sandra a lot, but I do think this is part of her Oscar campaign. There’s nothing wrong with that – humility works well when you’re campaigning-while-pretending-not-to-campaign. I think Sandra would love to win an Oscar, but that being said, I don’t think she would be completely devastated if she didn’t. Especially if she lost to Meryl Streep. How can you be upset if you lose an award to Meryl? Aren’t you just like “Oh, of course. She’s an acting goddess, of course she won.”
Sandra Bullock at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on February 5, 2010. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures.
Written by Kaiser
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I love Sandra (despite the blatant faux modesty – she ain’t THAT good an actress!!), but if she wins the Oscar it’ll be because it’s “her time”, not because it was necessarily the best perfomance – remember no-one was even talking about the Blind Side as an Oscar contender until it broke the magical $200m-for-a-female-led-movie marker. That said, I don’t think she, or any of the other women nominated this year, wouldn’t be a deserving winner.
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Homegirl please! She is compaigning hard and she is going to win. Undeservedly imo.
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honestly,she’s far to be as good as the other nominated actress but she looks great for her age(even if i dislike her dress)!
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One can only hope?
I like Sandra, but really?
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I do love this achiever of a woman
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LOVE her dress…so pretty, and it suits her.
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I just watched The Blind Side this weekend. Great film! Cried almost the whole way through it. She did an excellent job.
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+1 cedarfalls.
The Oscars are not a measure of quality, despite what the AMPAS says. (Anyone want to argue District 9 with me?) Here’s what goes into their picks:
The populist nominees, cuz gosh darn everyone loves’ em. (Bullock, Clooney)
The “even up” calls…passed over for previous work, these people get their due regardless of their curent performance’s quality. (Gyllenhaal, Bridges)
The “we automatically nominate these people regardless” category. (Mirren, Streep. Judi Dench always gets this, too.)
The newcomers. (Renner, Kendrick)
The box office vote. (Avatar, James Cameron)
Really though, were any of the films or actors I just mentioned truly ground-breaking, heart-stopping, pivotal examples to be lauded as the best 2009 had to offer? With the exception of Jeff Bridges, I gotta say “no way.”
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Kelly,
Avatar was pretty groundbreaking, and the first time all the elements – story by Pocahontas, CGI backdrops by George Lucas, Real-D 3D, photo-real motion-capture – came together in one gloriously beautiful whole. It’s just a shame the dialogue was written by a teenage boy who’d played too much World of Warcraft!
(My top film of 2009 was Star Trek, though…)
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“I hope that whatever stylist put her in this dress also dresses Sandra for the Oscars, because sometimes, Sandra can be a hot mess on the red carpet.”
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Amen. For a such a pretty girl she is not known for being able to dress to impress.
But she has looked lovely this year, with the exception of that purple strapless dress she wore. She looked great (makeup/hair) but the dress was iffy at best.
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My guess is that her guess is Gabourey Sidibe will win. Even though everyone in the category was amazing im 99% certain the oscar is going to gabourey
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I saw An Education this weekend and Carey Mulligan was so good. I really think she deserves it.
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Sandra Bullock’s modesty seems real to me. At the GGs she admitted that she stopped acting for several years because she wasn’t doing good work. I can imagine few actors who would admit that or even do it. She seems to be grateful that she’s able to work in the field. She may not be the best actress in the world, but I enjoy watching her and look forward to her films.
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Haha…I just read an interview in Newsweek with Sandra and a few other actors and she requested that we leave our names and email addresses when we criticize her and her peers so that she can email us and have a chat. It’s just not fair the way we pick on these poor, defenseless celebrities. They didn’t choose to be so amazing! It’s a curse.
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Hmmm, Ms. Bullock is entering that realm of plastic surgery where she is beginning to not look like herself anymore. Though she denies having had any, I believe we can all see that a 46 year old woman whose face is morphing and beginning to look like someone else, and is also not ageing…well, it’s not credible. Her time is past, she’s done way too many mediocre, repetitive movies. Guess she’ll have to keep spell-casting and bj-ing to keep working, plus botoxing. Not a fan any more. Best work she ever did was “While You Were Sleeping” but she’s had the same persona in almost every subsequent film.
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just buy the brand they all like if they all enjoy the same food im sure feeding a dog catfood or vice versa isn’t going to matter.
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