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Oscars 2010 – Best Actress: Touchdown for Bullock

Despite the logic and previous award wins, every sign pointed to a Bullock win and yet I’ve been cringing this moment for about three months now. So glad that Gabbie won on Friday and that Streep has both won and lost before.

Eric Lavallée

Published on March 7, 2010

The Noms:

Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
Helen Mirren in “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan in “An Education”
Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”

Who Will Win: Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”
Who Should Win: Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”
Who Won: Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
Commentary: Despite the logic and previous award wins, every sign pointed to a Bullock win and yet I’ve been cringing this moment for about three months now. So glad that Gabbie won on Friday and that Streep has both won and lost before. We’ll look back on this as the Erin Brockovich award win – a beloved actress who is liked by the public at large and not cared for by the film snobs.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).