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Standing in front of an international audience clutching her Best Actress Oscar, Sandra Bullock was perhaps the only person at the Kodak Theatre willing to admit some level of surprise about her giddy ascension to the ranks of Meryl Streep and Dame Helen Mirren - two of the acting titans she sweetly steamrolled over for the acting honor...
...answer would be a yes to both, but she might have added "charmed" to the equation. With her often outrageous sense of humor, self-deprecation and class throughout the long awards season, it has been easy to root for Bullock in her role as the outspoken matriarch Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side. "It just was such odd circumstances, and things came together in a way that I just didn't see coming," Bullock said backstage at the Oscars. "That no one saw coming. And I think that's what makes it so overwhelming and unexpected...
...Actually, many people saw this as a sure-thing vote. At some point it simply became her time. Bullock had been the favorite for various Best Actress awards in the weeks - even months - leading up to the Oscars, and it's almost hard to remember a time when it was unthinkable to see the 45-year-old actress at a podium...
...Before 2009, that would have been pretty easy. Though Bullock was part of the ensemble cast of Crash, which won a Best Picture Oscar in 2006, even she seemed content to have a career marked as a box-office champion, screen comedienne and shrewd producer of such hits as Miss Congeniality and Two Weeks Notice. (See the top 10 Oscar-nomination snubs...
...Finest, with Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes, Ethan Hawke and Richard Gere, snagged a better-than-expected $13.5 million for second place, two notches above another Kings County policier, Cop Out. Martin Scorsese's Shelter Island took third place and is nearing the $100 million mark. In other milestones, Sandra Bullock's sports inspirational The Blind Side broke $250 million; Valentine's Day topped $100 million; and Dear John and Percy Jackson hit $75 million. Jeff Bridges' Crazy Heart, the one "indie" drama to reap box-office benefits from Oscar buzz, stayed in the top 10 and is grazing $30 million...