Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for Best Actress at the 2010 Academy Awards on March 7, 2010. The 2010 Oscar nomination was a first for Bullock, who won both a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in The Blind Side. In this film, Bullock plays the role of Leigh Anne Tuohy. This role is a caring family woman who takes in a down on his luck, overweight and under-educated black teenager. Bullock guides him towards becoming great academically and also a highly successful football player

The Best Actress nominees for the 2010 Academy Awards also included Helen Mirren for The Last Station, Carey Mulligan for An Education, Gabourey Sidibe for Precious and Meryl Streep for Julia & Julia.http://www.ngasal.com/2010/03/14/oscars-2010-best-actress-nominees-sandra-bullock-gabourey-sidibe-meryl-streep/

Sidibe and Mulligan were also first time nominees in 2010. Helen Mirren won the Best Actress Oscar in 2007 for The Queen and was nominated in 1995 and 2002 for Best Supporting Actress. Meryl Streep has two Oscars under her belt, one for Best Actress in 1982 for Sophie's Choice and a Best Supporting Actress in 1979 for Kramer vs Kramer.

Sandra Bullock accepts an Oscar for Best Actress at the 2010 Academy Awards.

• Winner Sandra Bullock starred in The Blind Side where she played Leigh Anne Tuohy, a suburban mother of a family who takes in a homeless African American teenager. The true story is based on the life of Baltimore Raven's player Michael Oher.
• In Julia & Julia, Streep plays chef Julia Child. In The Last Station, Helen Mirren played Countess Sofya Tolstaya.
• Mulligan played a teenager named "Jenny" who is seduced by an older man in the movie An Education.
• Sidibe played Claireece "Precious" Jones in the movie Precious, a drama set in the late 1980s featuring an overweight and illiterate teenager with family problems in New York City.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929632/plotsummary
• Hellen Mirren starred in The Last Stallion.