Betting at Oscars 2007: So predictable you can’t lose? (1 of 2)
And the Oscar goes to… All over again…
The road to the 2007 Oscar Awards is so straight and narrow it might as well lead to heaven. Which it likely will for at least four people everyone’s expecting to win: Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Eddie Murphy, and Jennifer Hudson.
Not only do we suspect they’ll win, we can practically see how they’ll take it. But if Oscar predictability is bad news for film buffs, it is good news for proposition betting. There is almost no losing money on the dead foreseeable turn-out of the 79th Academy Awards, to be held on February 25th, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.
Below, find some Oscar predictables, er, Oscar predictions on who and what we ought to be ready for.
If Forest Whitaker wins Oscar Best Actor, prepare for Jamie Foxx meets the Rainman. His thank-you’s will be 50% fanatical thanking in stutters and broken sentences, 
50% gasping for air in disbelief. “Wow… wow…” How many wins does Forest need to start believing his luck?
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role has Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland with 2/13 odds to win at Bodog film betting online. Peter O’Toole for Venus has odds of 4/1, a record 44 years apart from the last time he earned any Oscar nomination.
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness has 9/1 odds to win, and will simply have to try harder by cutting his romantic comedies down to half. Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond has 14/1 odds, but who knows how much harder he can try after multiple nominations at the 2007 Golden Globes? Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson has 20/1, which is okay as he had won MTV Movie Awards‘ Best Kiss already.
If Helen Mirren wins Oscar Best Actress, prepare to shout, ‘Long Live the Queen!’, regardless of which queen you mean. But you’d be ill-advised to refer to 2007 Razzie queen Sharon Stone, who can take the cue from Helen, Judi, Cate, and Jeremy Irons: If you want an award, play the queen. (And audition for queen roles only.)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role has Helen Mirren for The Queen with 1/20 odds, followed by nominees only too familiar with queenly period costumes and snooty English accents. Bodog betting odds to win are 10/1 for both Kate Winslet for Little Children, and Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada, while Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal has 20/1 odds.
Foreign-accented if often less clothed herself, Penélope Cruz for Volver has 14/1 odds to win. After being Oscar-deprived Tom Cruise‘s household queen, she is now reigning royalty, along with superb director Pedro Almodóvar, at Hispanic film awards.
If Eddie Murphy wins Oscar Best Supporting Actor, prepare to meet not Eddie in the flesh but his robot look-alike. Apparently, after a lifetime of an Oscar-ignored comedy movie career, Eddie is now too alienated by film awards to reveal any real emotion upon winning. Also, Jamie Foxx will be thanked once more.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role has Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls with 2/9 odds at Bodog betting props, Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine with 2/1 odds, Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children with 11/2 odds, Mark Wahlberg for The Departed with 12/1 odds, and Djimon Hounsou for Blood Diamond with 13/1 odds.
If Jennifer Hudson wins Oscar Best Supporting Actress, prepare to cover your ears. She will use ‘dream’ in a sentence, or whole paragraphs, and launch into another cheeky speech belonging more to American Idol. Which altogether make America Ferrera, who won a 2007 Golden Globe for Ugly Betty, the better and wiser underdog.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role has Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls with 1/9 odds, the super-cute Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine with 7/1 odds, Rinko Kikuchi for Babel with 8/1 odds, Oscar twice-winner Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal with 9/1 odds, and Adriana Barraza for Babel with 10/1 odds.
Stay tuned for more online betting odds for the 2007 Oscar Awards.
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:54 am
[...] Most suspect of this year’s Oscar predictability are the Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress awards — especially for betting favorites Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Eddie Murphy, and Jennifer Hudson, respectively. Read all about it in part one of this post. [...]
February 15th, 2007 at 3:11 am
[...] It must be a tad insulting to the 2007 Oscars Awards that their nod to the best in films has to share February with the worst in movies of the 2007 Razzie Awards. Just imagine what the United States, hell-bent on its counterfeit crackdown, must feel about Asia, in heaven with its bestseller fakes. [...]