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Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock leads a group of four football films as the leading-All-American winners at the box office. The star of “The Blind Side” who portrays NFL lineman Michael Oher’s adoptive mother, teams with the director of “The Rookie” John Lee Hancock to deliver a popular picture.

In a role that carries the ball forward in a picture based on a true story, Sandra Bullock’s performance as Leigh Anne Tuohy, a gutsy, self-confident, well-off Southern woman with hyper-protective instincts garnered her an Oscar as Best Actress at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held Sunday.

Written and directed by John Lee Hancock (“The Rookie”) this is the story of a young black teen Michael Oher and his unusual path to success on the gridiron and a better life when he is taken in by an upper class white family after growing up virtually abandoned in the poverty-stricken projects of Memphis where he had few options and even fewer opportunities.