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Oscars 2024 Odds
The Academy Awards is the most star-studded, glitz and glamour-filled night of the year. Celebrities don their finest outfits and walk the red carpet before enjoying an evening of indulgence in celebration of the year’s biggest and brightest achievements in the world of film. Read More
2024 will be no exception, with a host of heavy-duty talent vying for the most coveted statuettes awarded to the year's Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
The next Oscars ceremony hits March 10, 2024, and here is where you’ll find the latest information on who could be nominated, as well as early odds in the major betting markets. We’ll also do our best to point you in the direction of who to expect to return home with their names etched on those prestigious trophies.
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There are 24 awards at the Oscars, covering each facet of the filmmaking process. The awards are voted for by a group of roughly 10,000 Oscars members, divided into 17 specific branches of filmmaking. Below is a list of the biggest 12 awards – you’ll find competitive Oscars odds at our recommended sites on all of these categories.
- Best Picture — The most illustrious award at the Oscars, the Best Picture goes to the year’s best film. Everything Everywhere All at Once won the award in 2023.
- Best Actor — The award for the best leading male performance. Brendan Fraser won the Best Actor award in 2023 for his performance in The Whale.
- Best Actress — The award for the best leading female performance. Michelle Yeoh won in 2023 for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
- Best Director — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert collectively won 2023’s Best Director award, again for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
- Best Supporting Actor — The award for the best supporting male performance. Ke Huy Quan won for Everything Everywhere All at Once in 2023.
- Best Supporting Actress — The award for the best supporting female performance. Everything Everywhere All at Once became the third film in history to collect three acting awards when Jamie Lee Curtis won in 2023.
- Best Original Screenplay — This is a writing award for the best screenplay not based on previously published material. Kwan and Scheinert won last year for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
- Best Visual Effects — This award goes to the film displaying the best special effects. Avatar: The Way of Water picked up this Oscar in 2023.
- Best Sound — The film with the best sound effects wins this Oscar. Top Gun: Maverick won best sound at last year’s ceremony.
- Best Cinematography — Like a caddie in golf, a cinematographer's job is to select the right camera, film stock, lens, filter and other technical elements for each shot. The Best Cinematography award therefore goes to the film that achieved the best visual storytelling, combining both artistic and technical decisions. James Friend won in 2023 for All Quiet on the Western Front.
- Best Original Score — This is a music award given to the composer that’s produced the best body of music written specifically for a film. Hauschka won the Oscar in 2023 for All Quiet on the Western Front.
- Best Costume Design — The award for the film with the best character costumes. Ruth E Carter won in 2023 with her designs for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Best Picture 2024
Outside of "Oscar season", astute counter-programming during the year's blockbuster schedule can help some contenders to make an early impression and ultimately stand out in a busy crowd.
July saw the release of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer; a screen adaptation of the Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin biography American Prometheus about theoretical physicist and The Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose team created the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
Two of the Brit's films - Inception in 2011 and Dunkirk in 2018 - have been nominated in this category, lending weight to bookmakers' assumptions that he'll be well involved in next year's conversation. Oppenheimer is currently the market favourite.
August triggers Killers of the Flowers Moon - the latest from acclaimed American-Italian director Martin Scorsese. The film traces the trajectory of the real-life Osage Indian murders in the 1920s, which helped birth the FBI.
Scorsese re-teams with his frequent collaborator Leonardo Dicaprio for the pair's sixth-feature film outing. Roberto De Niro - another favourite of the 80-year-old filmmaker - also stars in the AppleTV+ financed production.
At around the 7/2 mark, the odds suggest that the Queens-born filmmaker's latest effort will stand a good chance of finally earning a first Academy Award win for Best Picture.