Bridges, Bullock Talk Screen Actors Guild Wins

Coming off their wins at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night, Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock sat down to discuss the surreality that is the awards season with The Hollywood Reporter. Bridges has been the leading candidate for Best Actor for about a month, and prior to that, there was no talk about his work in Crazy Heart at all. Behold the power of Fox Searchlight. These two performances are coming from different places. In a year without one or two stand-out lead actor performances, Bridges has taken over in part because of his distinguised career. Is he really better than Clooney or Jeremy Renner or Colin Firth? Maybe, maybe not, but he's never won and he has no Forest Whitaker or Daniel Day-Lewis sure bets in the category. For Bullock, her work in The Blind Side has charmed voters, although I'm far from convinced it's either the best work in her career (the sorely undervalued Infamous) or the best work of the year (take your pick from easily a half-dozen performances). And it's curious that she might be in a position to win Best Actress after spending 15 years mostly avoiding serious work, as opposed to Bridges, who has 35 years of it. Also, for fanboys, Bridges talks about TRON Legacy for about a minute, so that's worth watching.

Comments

[Kanye]

Carey Mulligan or Meryl Streep should bring me as their date to the Oscars next month.

So when that mediocre film actress Sandra Bollocks wins her undeserved Best Actress prize, I can go on the stage and do my thing.

"Hey, Sandra, I'mma let you finish and everything, but Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan had the best performances of this year! THIS YEAR!!"

Seriously, the star of "All About Steve" better not be cited as this year's best.

[Thomas]

I won't know what to make of it if Bullock wins. I agree that she was sorely underappreciated by everyone in Infamous; but a highly respected and highly regarded actress doesn't deserve a win (an ACADEMY AWARD for that matter) because she is liked by everyone in the industry. That is what the People's Choice Awards are for -- awarding favorites, not the best.

I partially agree with "Kanye" on this because I think Mulligan is THE best performance of the year by a lead actress. "Kanye" did say "best performances" so Streep could be number two ... I'm still thinking Abbie Cornish is being overlooked and robbed!

An Oscar is supposed to be the pinnacle of acting achievement. In an effort to appeal to a larger audience and garner higher television ratings, the Academy is losing its integrity by making the Oscars pedestrian. If they hand the award to Bullock on Oscar night, they will successfully kill the significance of Oscar and lessen the win of all Oscar winners of the past. The award will have lost all merit.

I just cannot believe that the Academy would commit industry suicide in an effort to achieve higher ratings!

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[Madeleine]

I thought Sandra Bullock's award was an embarrassment. She was so very outclassed by the other serious actresses in the category, pretty pathetic and even insulting to them that she won seemingly just because she is a likable person with a flair for oscar getting PR. Truly devalued the award. Shame.