--- ---  # Sandra Bullock Is Now Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actress ## Video: Sandra Bullock Commencement Speech to Recent Grads [Watch (HLS stream): Sandra Bullock Commencement Speech to Recent Grads](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/9XGQtIvl.m3u8) (3:22)  _Published 2014-05-20. Sandra Bullock Commencement to Easton Grads_ by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Aug 5, 2014 8:34 AM UTC  Sandra Bullock attends Spike TV's Guys' Choice Awards held at the Sony Studios in Los Angeles on June 7, 2014 Sandra Bullock attends Spike TV's Guys' Choice Awards held at the Sony Studios in Los Angeles on June 7, 2014Tommaso Boddi—WireImage by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Aug 5, 2014 8:34 AM UTC With estimated earnings of $51 million, Sandra Bullock [made more money than any other Hollywood actress](http://news.yahoo.com/sandra-bullock-tops-list-hollywoods-best-paid-actresses-020835091.html;%5Fylt=AwrBJR.HQuBTtTgAvMXQtDMD) over the past year. No doubt this has a lot to do with the explosive success of the sci-fi film _Gravity_, in which she plays an astronaut left to drift through outer space after her shuttle is destroyed by a debris storm. The movie earned nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars — more than twice the revenue of _The Blind Side_, which won Bullock an Academy Award in 2010. Jennifer Lawrence and Jennifer Aniston were the second and third highest-paid actresses, respectively. Sandra Bullock Is Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actress ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3081701/sandra-bullock-is-now-hollywoods-highest-paid-actress/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3081701/sandra-bullock-is-now-hollywoods-highest-paid-actress/"},"headline":"Sandra Bullock Is Now Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actress","datePublished":"2014-08-05T08:34:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:30:03.208Z","description":"Mostly because of Gravity, which made nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars","url":"https://time.com/3081701/sandra-bullock-is-now-hollywoods-highest-paid-actress/","keywords":["movies","celebrities","Jennifer Lawrence","Hollywood","Sandra Bullock","Gravity","jennifer aniston"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda4cb61f5fd22d3e/69869e613bc99987c31a4cb8/450270724.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda4cb61f5fd22d3e/69869e613bc99987c31a4cb8/450270724.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Spike TV's \"Guys Choice\" Awards - Show","caption":"Spike TV's \"Guys Choice\" Awards - Show","creditText":"Tommaso Boddi—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3081701/sandra-bullock-is-now-hollywoods-highest-paid-actress/","name":"Sandra Bullock Is Now Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actress"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Sandra Bullock Commencement Speech to Recent Grads","description":"Sandra Bullock Commencement to Easton Grads","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/9XGQtIvl/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-05-20T15:29:10.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/9XGQtIvl.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3081701/sandra-bullock-is-now-hollywoods-highest-paid-actress/","duration":"PT3M22S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3081701/sandra-bullock-is-now-hollywoods-highest-paid-actress/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```