Awards
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
(2009) -
The Proposal
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Best Actress
(2009) -
The Blind Side
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
(2009) -
The Blind Side
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
(2000) -
Miss Congeniality
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
(1995) -
While You Were Sleeping
Giving new meaning to the term America's Sweetheart, Sandra Bullock won over scores of filmgoers and critics with her wholesome, exuberant portrayals of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances. Since her breakthrough role as Speed's unwitting heroine, Bullock has enjoyed the type of popularity that was in the past reserved for actresses along the lines of Mary Pickford or Shirley Temple.
Born in Washington, D.C., on July 26, 1964, Bullock was the elder daughter of a vocal coach dad and an opera singer mom. Touring through Europe with her mother, Bullock was given her first taste of show business while still a child. Back in the States, she attended high school in Virginia and was a popular cheerleader, whose classmates dubbed her the person Most Likely to Brighten Your Day. After a stint at East Carolina University, Bullock took her sunny nature to New York, where she began concentrating on an acting career. After tending bar and studying her craft with dramatician Sanford Meisner, she got her start with a number of stage productions. It was for one of these productions, the off-Broadway No Time Flat, that Bullock received a rave review for her portrayal of a Southern belle, the strength of which was enough to land her an agent.
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