What a difference a day makes. Sandra Bullock went from a Razzie nod to an Oscar nod in less than 24 hours. Bullock is up for a Razzie for the year's Worst Actress for All About Steve (top photo, with Bradley Cooper). She's up for an Oscar for the year's best actress for The Blind Side (above, lower photo). Her performance in The Proposal earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow is Peru's first best foreign language film nomination, while Lee Daniels' Precious is the first Best Picture nominee directed by a black person. Daniels is only the second black person to be nominated in the best director category. John Singleton came first, for Boyz n the Hood (1991).
Lee Daniels also happens to be openly gay. So are Rob Marshall and Pedro Almodóvar, who were nominated in 2002 for, respectively, Chicago (2002) and Talk to Her. So, Daniels may be the third openly gay man to be nominated for best director as well. But that's a hard one to track down.
According to reports, prior to Avatar and District 9 only two other sci-fi (or at least sci-fiish) movies were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: George Lucas' Star Wars (1977) and Steven Spielberg's E.T. (1982).
Photos: The Blind Side (Ralph Nelson / Warner Bros.); All About Steve (Suzanne Tenner / 20th Century Fox)
Hope she does not win the Razzie. Any other year, yes. But not this year. Not when she's poised to win the Oscar.
No way. I think Sandra has matured as an actress. She has many more Oscar nominations in her future.
From Razzie to Oscar and probably back to Razzie again next year.