Actor: Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock became a star in Speed and spent a decade in romantic comedies where the appeal is a specific and undervalued thing: the audience simply wants her to be all right.

She won Best Actress for The Blind Side and was nominated for Gravity, which required her to carry almost the entire film alone in a harness against a green screen.

Miss Congeniality and The Proposal are the commercial peaks, and Crash won Best Picture with her in the ensemble.

She has produced extensively and negotiated back-end deals on Gravity and Bird Box that made her among the highest-paid performers of the period.