Oscars 2024 Betting

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The Oscars, also known as the Academy Awards, are the pinnacle of recognition for anyone in the film industry. On Sunday, February 9, 2020, glitz and glamour will ooze from every angle at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood for the 92nd Oscars.

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Oscars 2021 Betting Odds

NJ sports betting sites as well as Indiana sportsbooks both accepted betting on the Oscars in 2020, so it is likely they will in 2021 as well once finalists are announced. Additional states could join in. These are the odds for Best Picture posted at British bookmaker Ladbrokes:

Oscars 2021 Best Picture Odds

FilmOdds
Nomadland+150
The Trial of the Chicago 7+400
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom+1200
One Night In Miami+1200
Promising Young Woman+1200
Mank+1600
Minari+1600
Da 5 Bloods+2000
News of the World+2000

Oscar 2021 Best Actor Odds

ActorFilmOdds
Chadwick Boseman Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom-300
Anthony Hopkins The Father+400
Riz Ahmed Sound of Metal+1200
Delroy Lindo Da 5 Bloods+1600
Gary Oldman Mank+2000
Kingsley Ben-Adir One Night in Miami+2000
Tom HanksNews of the World+3300

Oscar 2021 Best Actress Odds

ActressFilmOdds
Viola Davis Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom+175
Carey Mulligan Promising Young Woman+200
Frances McDormand Nomadland+600
Vanessa Kirby Pieces of a Woman+600
Andra Day The United States vs. Billie Holliday+800
Sidney Flanigan Never Rarely Sometimes Always+1200
Amy AdamsHillbilly Elegy+2000
Meryl StreepThe Prom+2000

Best Oscars Markets to Bet on

Right behind Best Picture betting, comes the Oscars Best Actor betting, and the odds on Best Actress. These are the three most important awards, and Oscars betting markets, but there are plenty of others. Here are the six key betting markets that you can bet on ahead of the Oscars:

You can actually bet on almost any Academy Award, odds opening on more and more titles as the big night approaches - and, you will also be able to bet on things such as: “Who will give the longest acceptance speech?” and “Will the same film win Best Picture and Best Director?”


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Oscars Betting Tips

Betting on the Oscars is tricky. It's not like betting on sports when nobody knows the outcome. However, our top Oscars betting tip is to follow the three preceding major awards that fall in January. In the past 21 years:


That is not a foolproof Oscars betting system, but it does narrow the field of odds. The next tip to consider when betting on the Academy Awards is to follow social issues, and other Oscars trends. For example:

  1. Real People - 12 of the last 18 Best Actors won for playing real people, like 2017 winner Gary Oldman (Winston Churchill). This used to be a good system for betting on all of the acting roles, but for women that had changed, until Olivia Colman (Queen Anne) sprung a surprise in 2019. She was the second Best Actress this decade to win for playing a real person. Renée Zellweger then won in 2020 for her portrayal of Judy Garland.
  2. Moonlight - #Oscarssowhite, or Oscars Whitewash, was a movement protesting against the lack of color in the Oscars nominations in 2016. The Academy stressed it would address this, so there were non-white nominations for 2017 - and it could be argued, there had to be a major winner. Moonlight, an independently-made film about a young black man, won Best Picture.
  3. MeToo - Female empowerment dominated Hollywood, and the world, in 2017, and was like many major social issues, reflected in the Oscars. Golden Globe Best Actor winner James Franco, a short price in the Oscars odds, was not nominated after being accused of sexually-exploitative behavior. Best Picture was won by a film with a dominant female lead for the first time since 2004 with The Shape Of Water taking the victory.

When are the other movie awards?

The biggest mover of the Oscars betting odds are the three other major awards, which will all take place in late February and the first half of March 2021: the Golden Globes coming on February 28, the Critics Choice on March 7, and the Screen Actors Guild's on March 14.

With the Oscars not announcing nominations until January 13, 2020, if there is going to be any early moves in the Oscars betting odds, they are likely to relate to December nominations:


Oscars History

April 2021 will see the 93rd Oscars being presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, each winner walking away with one of the famous golden statuettes that give the Academy Awards their name.

Since that first dinner on May 16, 1929, where a 15-minute ceremony handed out 15 statuettes, it has grown into a 3.5-hour production, televised live to 225 countries. A total of 3,120 Oscars have been awarded, here are the most recent big winners at the Academy Awards.

Recent Best Picture Winners

YearFilmAccepted By
2019Parasite Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin Ae, Miky Lee
2018Green BookJim Burke, Charles Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga
2017The Shape Of WaterGuillermo del Toro & J Miles Dale
2016MoonlightAdele Romanski, Dede Gardner & Jeremy Kleiner
2015SpotlightBlye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar
2014BirdmanAlejandro Iñárritu, John Lesher & James Skotchdopole
201312 Years A SlaveBrad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Anthony Katagas

Recent Best Actor Winners

YearActorCharacterFilm
2019Joaquin PhoenixArthur Fleck/JokerJoker
2018Rami MalekFreddie MercuryBohemian Rhapsody
2017Gary OldmanWinston ChurchillDarkest Hour
2016Casey AffleckLee ChandlerManchester By The Sea
2015Leonardo DiCaprioHugh GlassThe Revenant
2014Eddie RedmayneStephen HawkingThe Theory Of Everything
2013Mathew McConnaugheyRon WoodroofDallas Buyers Club

Recent Best Actress Winners

YearActressCharacterFilm
2019Renée ZellwegerJudy GarlandJudy
2018Olivia ColmanQueen AnneThe Favorite
2017Frances McDormandMildred HayesThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2016Emma StoneMia DolanLa La Land
2015Brie LarsonJoy NewsomeRoom
2014Julianne MooreAlice HowlandStill Alice
2013Cate BlanchettJeanette FrancisBlue Jasmine

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