BETTING THE OSCARS ODDS: BEST PICKS FOR THE 90TH ACADEMY AWARDS
The Academy Awards offer you the most enticing betting event of the year. The top achievements in moviemaking out of 2017 will face off for gold statuettes in a variety of categories and the Oscars gambling odds permit you to profit on these films worthy of Hollywood’s top honor.
Who better to break down the top bets for the 90th Academy Awards compared to a movie buff from Las Vegas? Film critic Josh Bell provides his insights into which movies should walk away with the major awards–along with the cash — if the Academy Awards air on ABC Sunday, March 4 at 8:30 p.m. ET
Best Picture
Three Billboards External Ebbing, Missouri 7/5
The Shape of Water 2/1
Get Out 13/2
Lady Bird 22/1
Dunkirk 50/1
Phone Me Phantom Thread 80/1
The Post 100/1
Darkest Hour 100/1
THESE TWO LIVE UNDERDOGS ARE PROVIDING BETTING VALUE IN THE OSCAR ODDS FOR BEST PICTURE
The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri are front runners to win Best Picture in the 90th Academy Awards, but lovers of the underdog could find worth in Lady Bird or Get out when the Oscars hand out the hardware to the best in Hollywood on March 4.
What’s Going to Win: The momentum is behind Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, following its wins at the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the BAFTAs – all reliable ancient Oscar indicators. Additionally, it has a social conscience that is timely but not overly divisive, which may place it right in the sweet spot of what Academy voters want to market (or to be seen as marketing ).
What Should Win: The Shape of Water also picked up some significant ancient awards from critics groups, as well as the top honor from the Critics Choice Awards, and it boasts the maximum overall nominations (with 13). Guillermo del Toro’s fable about the love affair between a mute cleaning woman and a mysterious amphibious humanoid creature is also more creative and ambitious than the majority of the other nominees, but it may prove too bizarre to prevail as Best Picture.
Best Actor
Darkest Hour 1/10, gary Oldman Timoth??e Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name 18/1 Phantom Thread 40/1, daniel Day-Lewis Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out 50/1
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq. 100/1
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