10 Oscar Winning Performances That Are Actually Terrible

By Jack Pooley / August 17, 2018

6. Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side

Surely the worst Oscar-winning performance of the last decade by a huge margin, Sandra Bullock gives an effervescent yet soulless performance in The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy, a well-off Christian woman who adopts an impoverished black teen and helps him become a college football star.

At best, her character and performance are patronising, and at worst they're flabbergastingly insulting. Bullock goes totally down-the-middle here, making Leigh a bland white saviour with little for audiences to empathise with or relate to.

In a year where Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) were both nominated, Bullock's win for an utterly forgettable, dull turn remains one of the Academy's biggest recent embarrassments.