96th Academy Awards Betting Odds to Win

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94th Oscar Betting Predictions for Best Director & Best Picture Award

For the 94th time, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out golden statues for the best in the film business. In last week’s entertainment article, we analyzed and made picks for best actor and best actress. In this blog, we’ll analyze and make picks for best director and best picture. Check out current Academy Award lines, analysis, and a free top play and underdog play for best director and best picture. 

94th Academy Awards Oscars Ceremony

• When: Sunday, March 27
• Where: Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, CA
• TV / Streaming: ABC

Best Director Nominations & Odds

 It’s going to be very difficult to beat Jane Campion. She hasn’t made a film in a long time. Not only that, but The Power of the Dog received a nomination for Best Picture and has won almost everything during awards season. 

Campion, no doubt, is a strong top play. So if you want to cash, accept the -3500 odds and then brag to your non-gambling friends during the Oscar telecast that you “knew all along” and “won some money”.

If you can’t get yourself to back chalk, then go for it by throwing a few dollars behind Ryusuke Hamaguchi. The Drive My Car director could get enough votes to upset Campion if the votes that should go to Campion are spread among Branagh, Spielberg, and Anderson.

Hamaguchi does an excellent job. The movie is fantastic. So why not?

Best Director Top Pick: Jane Campion 

Best Director Underdog Pick: Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Best Picture Nominations & Odds

How did Don’t Look Up get a nomination? Sometimes, we must wonder whether anybody in the Academy is watching these films.

In any case, The Power of the Dog will be tough to beat. But the odds on CODA must make you wonder, right? +120? Strange for sure.

Still, the chalk is the top play. The Power of the Dog has won more overall awards than CODA, stars three known thespians, Kirsten Dunst, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Jesse Plemons, and is from one of the best woman filmmakers in the world. 

Drive My Car is the top underdog pick. Yes, it has everything to do with the fact the movie is the only foreign film nominated. If votes are spread among the American movies, then who knows?

Maybe Drive My Car, which has gotten the most buzz since December, steals the golden statue from The Power of the Dog’s grasp. 

Best Picture Top Pick: The Power of the Dog 

Best Picture Underdog Pick: Drive My Car 

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94th Oscar Betting Predictions for Best Actor & Best Actress Award

Oscar voting’s final week starts on March 17 and ends a few days before the 94th Academy Awards Ceremony. We’re posting nominations, odds, and free picks for the top categories. In this week’s entertainment blog, we choose the top pick and underdog pick for Best Actor and for Best Actress. Check out the nominees, their current Academy Award odds, the choice to win, and the likeliest dog to upset the chalk. 

94th Academy Awards Oscars Ceremony

• When: Sunday, March 27
• Where: Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, CA
• TV / Streaming: ABC

Will Smith has won a couple of acting awards, the SAG and the Critic’s Choice Award, which explains why he has not only overtaken pre-awards season favorite Benedict Cumberbatch, but is now a -650 underlay to win the statute.

At those odds, Smith is supposed to win. But the Critic’s Choice Award winner doesn’t always score Oscar gold. 

In 2014, Michael Keaton won the Critic’s Choice Award only to lose to Eddie Redmayne on Oscar night. Last year, Chadwick Boseman won for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, but lost the Oscar to Anthony Hopkins in The Father.

No doubt, Smith will be tough to beat. But at the odds, he’s a play against. Benedict Cumberbatch, who gives a terrific performance and might be due, is the top pick.

The second choice is Javier Bardem. Yes, he’s a longshot. But Bardem hasn’t won the gold statue since taking home the 2008 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in No Country For Old Men.

Bardem plays Ricky Ricardo in Being the Ricardos. The Academy loves to award Oscars to actors who play past industry heroes. So Bardem could pull off the upset.   

Best Actor Top Pick: Benedict Cumberbatch   

Best Actor Underdog Pick: Javier Bardem 

Best Actress Nominations & Odds

Jessica Chastain deserves to win for playing the title character in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Chastain is one of the world’s top actresses. So it’s time she gets an award.

But on March 27, she won’t win. Instead, the Academy will hand it to Nicole Kidman for playing Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos. Kidman is an Academy and fan favorite. She plays one of the most important television personalities in history.

Kristen Stewart is the top underdog play. Stewart is breathtakingly terrific as Diana in Spencer. Few actresses have the chops to play Princess Di. So many have tried. Few have pulled it off.

Stewart sets the bar for future actresses. She and Chastain should be neck and neck in this category. The fact they aren’t probably means Kidman is a lock. 

Best Actress Top Pick: Nicole Kidman 

Best Actress Underdog Pick: Kristin Stewart 

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94th Oscar Betting Predictions for Supporting Actor & Supporting Actress

As we hurtle towards the 94th Academy Awards Oscars Ceremony, one thing is becoming clear. The Power of the Dog is going to be difficult to beat. The Netflix movie has the chance to dominate on March 27. But although The Power of Dog should win multiple Oscars, it may not take gold home in the top acting categories. Check out Academy Award odds, analysis, and free picks for the 2022 Oscars for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

94th Academy Awards Oscars Ceremony

• When: Sunday, March 27
• Where: Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, CA
• TV / Streaming: ABC

Best Supporting Actor Nominations & Odds

Kodi Smit-McPhee is a strong favorite. However, upsets have happened in the supporting thespian categories before. For example, Benicio Del Toro won for his role in Traffic at the 2001 Academy Awards even though everyone agreed that Ben Kingsley gave one of his best performances ever as Don Logan in Sexy Beast. 

So going against Smit-McPhee as our top choice makes sense. Troy Kotsur, who is deaf, is fantastic in CODA. He provides one of the best performances of the year for sure. Kotsur is the top pick.

The second pick is JK Simmons. J. Jonah Jameson in the Spiderman movies, Simmons won an Oscar for playing ruthless Jazz instructor Terence Fletcher in 2014’s Whiplash. 

Simmons plays William Frawley in Being the Ricardos. As always he’s great. He’s also the underdog pick because Jesse Plemons, who deserves to also win, figures to split the vote with Smit-McPhee.  

Best Supporting Actor Top Pick: Troy Kotsur 

Best Supporting Actor Underdog Pick: JK Simmons 

Best Supporting Actress Nominations & Odds

Is Ariana DeBose a lock? Probably. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t handicap the Best Supporting Actress race. There’s a possibility that neither of the favorites, DeBose or Kirsten Dunst, gets the gold.

Anjanue Ellis plays Oracene Price, Venus’ and Serena’s mother and tennis coach. She has as much, if not more, to do with the Williams’ sisters’ success on the court than Richard Williams. Ellis if terrific and for sure deserves the statue. 

The underdog pick is Judi Dench. The Academy has nominated Dame Dench 7 other times. She’s won just a single Oscar, for playing Elizabeth I in Shakespeare In Love. Give Dench a must better chance to win her second golden statue than the +2500 odds imply.  

Best Supporting Actress Top Pick: Anjanue Ellis  

Best Supporting Actress Underdog Pick: Judi Dench