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- Cillian Murphy is the clear favourite at 4/11 to win this year's Best Actor Oscar
- Emma Stone odds-on to win the Best Actress award for her role in Poor Things
- Oppenheimer is 1/10 to win Best Picture at this year's Oscars
Cillian Murphy is the clear favourite at 4/11 to win this year's Best Actor Oscar
Irish actor Cillian Murphy is the heavy favourite with UK Betting Sites at 4/11 to win the Best Actor at this year's Oscars for his starring role in the blockbuster hit Oppenheimer.
Murphy plays the title role J. Robert Oppenheimer in the biopic about the scientist who developed the atomic bomb during the second World War and received critical acclaim for his performance.
Six of the last ten Best Actor winners have been in roles that have portrayed real people so the Academy Awards eligible voting members definitely have previous around who they like.
Betway make Murphy the 4/11 favourite to win the Best Actor award this year with the latest odds offered suggesting a 73% implied probability of him grabbing Best Actor.
| Oscars 2024 Best Actor Winner | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer | 4/11 | 73.3% |
| Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers | 9/4 | 30.8% |
| Bradley Cooper - Maestro | 15/2 | 11.8% |
| Colman Domingo - Rustin | 33/1 | 2.9% |
| Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction | 33/1 | 2.9% |
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Emma Stone odds-on to win the Best Actress award for her role in Poor Things
The Best Actress award is another one of the big categories of the night at the Oscars and again we have a clear favourite in this one with Emma Stone top of the odds.
Stone though faces tighter competition in this category with Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone the second favourite in the market at 6/5.
Best Actress is the closest category of the night according to the betting odds with the two actresses at the top of the market well clear of the rest.
| Oscars 2024 Best Actress | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Emma Stone - Poor Things | 8/11 | 57.9% |
| Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon | 6/5 | 45.5% |
| Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall | 10/1 | 9.1% |
| Carey Mulligan - Maestro | 16/1 | 5.9% |
| Annette Bening - Nyad | 25/1 | 3.8% |
Oppenheimer is 1/10 to win Best Picture at this year's Oscars
Oppenheimer's big night at the Oscars is expected to be wrapped up by a Best Picture win with the betting odds putting the move as clear favourite.
The Best Picture award is the biggest of the night and presented at the end to the best movie of the year with Oppenheimer massive favourite at the top of the odds.
Director Christopher Nolan is also heavy favourite in the Best Director category for directing Oppenheimer with his odds 1/33 to win that award.
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