14 DAY TRIAL // Over the weekend, thanks to two very different but equally important award ceremonies, Sandra Bullock became the first actress ever to win both a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year, one for “All About Steve” and the other for “The Blind Side.” In a recent interview cited by IMDB, the star revealed that she did not plan to hide her Razzie, having learned being in showbiz meant taking the good with the bad.
True to her word, on Saturday, Bullock attended the Razzie Awards, which reached its 30th edition, thus becoming one of the few stars coming in person to collect her award in history. She won both Worst Actress of the Year and Worst Onscreen Couple, but graciously accepted her “win” and even brought along a case of DVDs with the film to make members of the academy see there were performances worse than hers. The second day, she won an Oscar for Best Actress of the year for “The Blind Side.”
Those thinking she might want to hide the Razzie and display only the Oscar were wrong, Sandra herself says. “They’re going to sit side by side, as they should. You know we’re in the entertainment business. That’s what we’re supposed to do. You take the good with the not so good,” the actress explains, as quoted by IMDB. This is along the same lines as her acceptance speech at the Golden Raspberry Awards on Saturday night.
“I had the best time at the Razzies... It is what it is and, you know, it probably means more that both of them [awards] happened at the same time because it’s the great equalizer. Nothing ever lets me get too full of myself. It quickly chops me off at the knees, and I like it that way because it keeps things stable. They’ll sit side by side in a nice little shelf somewhere; the Razzie maybe on a different shelf, lower,” the star goes on to say.
In her acceptance speech at the Academy Awards, Bullock stayed true to her funny self that audiences had come to love over the years, saying she believed she had been given the award because she’d tired everyone out. She then went on to thank her mother for not allowing her to go out with boys with cars until a certain age, the other nominees and her “lover, Meryl Streep.”