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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

Nominees:

• Oppenheimer
• The Holdovers
• Poor Things
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Anatomy of a Fall
• American Fiction
• The Zone of Interest
• Barbie
• Maestro
• Past Lives

Oppenheimer leads the charge for this year's Best Picture award as a heavy odds-on favourite. Christopher Nolan's atomic biopic centred on J. Robert Oppenheimer received a whopping 13 nominations - the most of any 2024 nominee.

Poor Things and The Holdovers are the next two closest films in contention, set around the 14/1 mark, meaning bookmakers believe 2024's most coveted prize is simply a foregone conclusion.

Best Director 2024

• Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
• Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)
• Bradley Cooper (Maestro)
• Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)
• Colman Domingo (Rustin)

There is often a link between the Best Picture and Best Director winners, which appears will be the case once again in 2024. Christopher Nolan is a massive favourite to take home his first Oscar following a a second Director nomination.

Also featured in the running is American veteran Martin Scorsese, who secured his 10th nomination for Killers of the Flower Moon - a harrowing Western crime-drama based on the Osage murders and the founding of the FBI.

Despite three women-directed films present on this year's shortlist of 10 Best Picture nominees, only one has made it into the Best Director category - Anatomy of a Fall's Justine Triet.

Best Actor 2024

Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy's six collaboration has garnered nominations for both its director and leading actor, with Murphy the frontrunner to receive the 2024 Best Actor statuette. The Brit and the Irishman have previously worked together on The Dark Knight trilogy (2005-2012), Inception (2010) and Dunkirk (2017).

A lot closer than in the Best Picture and Best Director race, this category sees Paul Giamatti a genuine challenger at 9/4 for his portrayal of a cranky history teacher forced to remain on the campus of a remote prep school over the holidays. Director-writer-producer Bradley Cooper has received enormous plaudits for his work on Maestro, which is duly reflected with nominations in each of these three categories, including Best Actor.

Best Actress 2024

This year's tightest contest could come from the Best Actress list, where second favourite Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) is hot on the heels of odds-on favourite Emma Stone (Poor Things).

Barbie's Margot Robbie is considered one of this year's major snubs, with Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera both represented in their respective supporting categories.

Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall) and Annette Benning (Nyad) are the other three names whittling this shortlist down to five contenders for the award on 10th March.

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Using our grids, you can easily compare Oscars odds across a variety of categories, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director. Our comparison grids present odds prices from the best betting sites in the UK. 

Track Other Awards Shows

The Oscars is the final awards ceremony of the year in the film world. As such, the winners at other major awards ceremonies offer a useful guide to potential Oscar triumphs. Keep an eye on winners at the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild, the BAFTAS and the Cannes Film Festival. 

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Former Oscars Winners

Three films are tied as the most decorated in Oscars history with 11 awards: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).

Katharine Hepburn is the most successful actress in Oscars history with four wins, all for best actress: Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981). Meryl Streep holds the record for most acting nominations with 21, nine more than Hepburn. 

Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis and Walter Brennan are all tied as the most successful actors in Oscars history, each with three wins. 

Here’s a table detailing the recipients of the Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Picture awards at the last ten Oscars.

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