Excuse me for being late with this one, but there are actual people calling for Sandra Bullock to return her Academy Award?
Hey, don’t get me wrong, her 2010 win for “The Blind Side” was underserved, she was possibly the worst of the five nominees that year, but really? Have people gone insane?
The outcry stems from former pro football player Michael Oher claiming that Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy never actually adopted him and instead used the story for financial gains, a discovery Oher made nearly 15 years after “The Blind Side,” based on his life, came out.
My favorite tweet is from brainiac X user @LLCalrissian:
If the Michael Oher allegations are true then we have to go AND TAKE THE OSCAR back from Sandra Bullock and give it to Gabourey Sidibe for 'Precious'" and "Sandra Bullock should give her Oscar back. She knows she didn't deserve that s***.
Quinton Aaron, who played Oher opposite Bullock in The Blind Side, defended his co-star by saying, “To make a statement like that doesn’t make any sense…Sandra Bullock didn’t have anything to do with the real story that we’re reading as of right now…She gave a brilliant performance…And that shouldn’t be tarnished for something that had nothing to do with her.”
There is no logic to this movement. Bullock’s work in “The Blind Side” has nothing to do with Oher’s recent court filing, which is already showing major holes. Regardless, that doesn’t matter to most. People have already sided with Oher and the Tuohys are the bad guys. Case closed.
Sean Tuohy is calling BS on Oher, saying the family's only option to legally make him part of their family was a conservatorship — as he was over 18 — and each family member made about $14,000 from the movie ... including Oher.
The Tuohys’ family attorney also claims Oher threatened to "plant" a negative story in the press about the Tennessee family unless they paid him $15 million.
The timing of this backlash against Bullock has come at a terrible time for her. She recently lost her longtime partner Bryan Randall to ALS. She’s presumably in mourning, and now has to deal with deranged corners of the internet calling for her to return her Academy Award.
Remember when, back in August, we learned “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth” would be playing in only around 350 U.S. theaters, "maybe fewer"? Well, it's fewer. A lot fewer.