Oscars 2012 Betting

The glitz and glamour of the film world will showcase its talents on the red carpet on the 26th of February 2012 as we celebrate the 84th Academy Awards – or better known as the Oscars to you and me.

Earlier in the week we heard the nominations for each category and immediately the bookies published their Oscar 2012 betting odds on whom Billy Crystal will be announcing come ceremony night.

Best Picture seems to be a two-horse race between the black and white, silent film ‘The Artist‘ (which collected 10 nominations overall) and family drama ‘The Descendants‘ (which collected 5 nominations overall) starring George Clooney.

Bookies have made ‘The Artist‘ favourite on the Oscars 2012 betting for Best Picture. The Artist is currently a best bet of 2/7 from Ladbrokes. The Descendants is not far behind with Sky Bet offering odds of 9/2 that it will pick up some goldenware come Oscar night. You can receive the latest free bets news on all sorts of Entertainment betting news by signing up to Free Betting Online’s newsletter.

Oscar Betting : Best Picture 2012

The Artist	1/4	1/4	2/9	2/7
The Descendants	4	4	4	9/2
Hugo	12	12	11	10
War Horse	12	12	14	16
Midnight in Paris	33	33	33	33
The Help	33	33	25	33
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	33	40	40	50
Moneyball	33	50	40	40
The Tree Of Life	50	50	50	50

Oscar 2012 Betting Odds Last Updated: 25/01/2011 (Betting Odds Correct at Time of Writing)

Best Actor betting currently has George Clooney as favourite to collect his first ever leading male Oscar. Clooney won a best supporting oscar back in 2005 and has been nominated twice before for the Best Actor category but without success. There’s every possibility that Jean Dujardin from ‘The Artist’ might steal Clooney’s thunder, won the Golden Globes, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, ok, not quite the same thing but it’s enough to keep Clooney sweating on the award.

Oscar Betting : Best Actor 2012

George Clooney	4/9	2/5	4/9	2/5
Jean Dujardin	7/4	2	7/4	2
Brad Pitt	14	14	14	14
Gary Oldman	25	33	20	33
Demian Bichir	25	-	11	25

Oscar 2012 Betting Odds Last Updated: 25/01/2011 (Betting Odds Correct at Time of Writing)

Best Actress betting seems to be sewn as Meryl Streep’s depiction of Margaret Thatcher in ‘The Iron lady’. This is Streep’s 17th Oscar nomination but you need to reverse all the way back to 1982 for the last time she won this award. Viola Davis (The Help) is second-favourite and looking to emulate Halle Berry as only the 2nd black actress to win an Oscar in this category.

Oscar Betting : Best Actress 2012

Meryl Streep	1/2	1/2	4/9	4/9
Viola Davis	3	10/3	3	9/4
Michelle Williams	7/2	10/3	7/2	7/2
Glenn Close	25	33	20	22
Rooney Mara	25	20	22	25

Oscar 2012 Betting Odds Last Updated: 25/01/2011 (Betting Odds Correct at Time of Writing)

From the rest, Best Supporting Actor looks to be between Christopher Plummer (Beginners) and Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn) in the Oscars 2012 betting. Best Supporting Actress will be a close call between Octavia Spencer (The Help), Berenice Bejo (The Artist) and Jessica Chastain (also The Help).