Sandra Bullock named entertainer of the year by 'Entertainment Weekly'

Entertainment Weekly has named Sandra Bullock as their Entertainer of the Year for 2013 (among 15 others), but she is the cover girl for the issue. The Oscar winner did have a great year, both with The Heat, the cop comedy starting Melissa McCarthy, and the obvious big hit for the year, Gravity.

Bullock, 49, gave an amazing performance in Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity when she played Dr. Ryan Stone. Her role as the woman caught out in space will likely get the actress a nod at the Academy Awards.

EW said: "Bullock's tremendous talent and range - to say nothing of the woman's trademark grace and good humor in good times and bad - is what earned her the top spot on our annual list of the most exciting performers in 2013."

Bullock has been praised for not only having a range for the type of characters she can play, but she is known for being an extremely hard worker on set and thoughtful about how her role contributes to the film as a whole.

For Gravity, Bullock suggested to Cuaron that her character be mourning the loss of her child instead of the original storyline, in which she has a child back at home on earth.

"What if she had absolutely nothing to fight for?" Bullock says she proposed. "She's lost a child, there's nothing back home, she's a person who's basically a machine. That was my idea and Alfonso was so open to it."

Bullock is clearly invested in her work and strives for depth and meaning in roles like Dr. Ryan Stone.

Some of the other entertainers being acknowledged in the EW issue are the creators of Breaking Bad, Jennifer Lawrence, Tom Hanks and Matthew McConaughey.