Tonight on Netflix: Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for this movie, but almost no one saw it!

This is a rather rare fact to emphasize: the film that crowned the leading actor in Hollywood was never released in French cinemas. This film is The Blind Side, for which Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for Best Actress in 2010. Good news: you can find it on Netflix!

In The Blind Side, based on the novel The Blind Side: The Evolution of the Game Written by Michael Lewis in 2006, Sandra Bullock, one of the 12 highest-paid stars in history, plays Lee Ann Tuohy, a wealthy woman who adopts Michael Oher, a young black American from humble origins who is particularly talented at American football. Thanks to the love of his adoptive family and his talent for sports, the boy will find his way…

“I liked the story, but I didn’t know how to play my character”Sandra Bullock said At the Guardian’s microphone. “After eight months, the director John Lee Hancock He told me I should go meet the real Leigh Anne Tuohy so she could explain everything to me. I went to see him and was really blown away by the energy he exuded. I stopped thinking like an actor about a role, and finally the story took me.”

Sandra Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the role of Leigh Ann Tuohy, originally intended to be played by Julia Roberts. The one who competed in the prestigious ceremony for the first time in his career can be proud of the fact that he “beat” the legendary Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren. Note that in the same year, Bullock made the cutest split at the Razzie Awards for his performance in All About Steve.

Released directly to VOD in France and thus under the radar, The Blind Side still brought in nearly $310 million worldwide. What if you discovered this little-known Oscar-winning film on Netflix?

Sandra Bullock recently starred in “The Secret of the Lost City”: