Oscars Betting Odds 2024

The best picture favorite, Nomadland staring Frances McDormand, illustrates how clunky the release calendar was last year. It had a one-week streaming release in early-December, was in select IMAX theatres in late-January and then opened both in theatres and began streaming on Hulu on February 19, 2021. The favorite to win the 2020/21 Oscar for best picture saw an odds jump from -300 to -600 (bet $600 to win $100) where it has remained steady for several weeks. Not bad for a film that was just released to a broad audience in mid-February.

The movie with the second-best odds at +500 (risk $100 to win $500), Trial of the Chicago 7 was originally scheduled to be a broad theatrical release, but due to the pandemic, its distribution rights were sold to Netflix. It was released in select theatres (think big cities) back in September and began airing on Netflix streaming platform come mid-October.

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Best Actor Odds

Chadwick Boseman is nominated for best actor for the film “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” – where the late actor remains the favorite at -1200, down from -1600 a few weeks ago. As you may know, Boseman died of colon cancer in late-August 2020. In the days following his death, it was learned that he was undergoing cancer treatment while filming his breakout role of T’Challa in Marvel’s “Black Panther.”

If Anthony Hopkins could pull off the upset at +550, it would be his second Oscar for best actor after earning the trophy for his haunting portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in 1992’s “Silence of the Lambs.”

Best Actress Odds

Three leading ladies boast odds 4-to-1-or-better to win Best Actress. Carey Mulligan remains the favorite at +125 for her role in “Promising Young Woman,” while Viola Davis saw a significant odds jump up to +175 after winning a Screen Actors Guild Award. Frances McDormand’s odds dipped to +400, but she remains in the mix for her lead role in “Nomadland.”

Mulligan earned a best actress nomination back in 2009 for the film, “An Education.” Viola Davis won an Oscar for best supporting actress back in 2017 for her role in “Fences.” Two-time best actress, McDormand has taken home the hardware for her efforts in 2018’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and the iconic 1997 film “Fargo.”

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Chloe Zhao remains the heavy favorite to win best director at -3000 (risk $3000 to win $100) for her efforts on the best picture favorite, Nomadland. At only 38 years old, Zhao has previously received Independent Spirit Award nominations for her directorial work. Nomadland is just her third feature-length film.

With Aaron Sorkin off the board, David Fincher now owns the second-best odds, at 9-to-1, for his directorial talents on the film “Mank” which takes a look at 1930’s Hollywood and Herman J. Mankiewicz’s efforts to finish “Citizen Kane.”

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Best Supporting Actor Odds

Daniel Kaluuya, best-known for his lead role in the film “Get Out,” is now the landslide favorite to win best supporting actor at -3000 for his work in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” followed by Paul Raci 12-to-1, Sound of Metal, and Sasha Baron Cohen 14-to-1, known best for his Borat alter-ego, for his portrayal of Abbie Hoffman in Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” Leslie Odom Jr. (+1600) isn’t on the board for playing Aaron Burr in Disney’s “Hamilton,” but for “One Night In Miami.”

Best Supporting Actress Odds

After losing ground to rising star Maria Bakalova last month, Youn Yuh-jung has regained strong control as Best Supporting Actress favorite at -600, up from -300 two weeks ago.

Youn Yuh-jung’s career dates back to 1969 when she won an award for best new talent. Over the next five decades, Yuh-jung was nominated for dozens of awards and won time after time. With her resume, you could do a lot worse than +175.

Bakalova made headlines last fall when a clip featuring her and Rudy Giuliani in an out-of-context compromising position went viral on social media. Speaking of which, Bakalova and Giuliani are the favorites to win the 2021 Razzie for “Worst Screen Combo”.

At 73 years old, and knowing the wide range of films she’s appeared in, it’s amazing to learn that Glenn Close has never won an Academy Award. However, her odds have slipped back to +1100 for her role in Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy.”

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