Oscars Betting 2010
Oscars betting 2010 is squaring up to be another ratings winner for the web's leading event betting bookmakers who each and every year provide a rich source of film content that they informatively believe will pay dividends come Oscars night in down-town Los Angeles, for either themselves or their internet Oscar betting 2010 subscribers – all of whom are looking to cash in on an annually expanding entertainment betting market. The fun of making a calculated guess, backing a hunch or acting on some unfounded 'insider' information as to which Hollywood actor or actress is going to walk off with the Best Actor or Actress or Best Supporting Actor or Actress role is gaining much popularity. A myriad of betting specials markets have appeared based on various potential and protracted outcomes of the Oscar award ceremony itself, where the internet Awards Betting fans can even trade on the eventuality of an Oscar recipient 'doing a Gwyneth'; in tribute to the famous Gwyneth Paltrow tear-filled acceptance speech of a few years back.
In terms of the awards themselves (and therein of specific interest to the Oscars betting 2010 aficionados there), the largest response comes from the naming of what's eventually deemed to be the Best Picture Award; with a raft of hugely famous, entertaining and box office-busting movies having been honoured by the film industry over the years, including the revered likes of recent winners from modern times such as Schindler's List (1994), Forrest Gump (1995), Titanic (1998), Gladiator (2001), The Lord of the Rings (2004) and Slumdog Millionaire (2009).
Avatar v The Hurt Locker in Oscars Betting
With nine nominations each this year’s Oscars online betting looks to be a straight matchup between James Cameron’s Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker. It will be a titanic (get it?) battle between the movie that has smashed all box office records and one that has received critical acclaim from all corners within the film industry and has achieved cult status in doing so. The Hurt Locker may not have the box office figures of its rival but the two movies are in fact a lot more similar than you might otherwise first think: both are about military invasion on foreign land, both have made viewers sit up and think about things that they may otherwise have not and both are quite simply superb films. Whoever comes out on top, the viewing public are the real winners here.
The most interesting of all the categories is certainly the best director where Cameron and Bigelow personally go head to head – the two directors were married between 1989 and 1991. The Oscars Betting 2010 suggests that Bigelow will be victorious and she is 8/13 to scoop the award, Cameron is 2/1. Bookmakers are also offering match bets on which movie will receive the most awards, Avatar looks to be a shoe in on this one and is a 1/3 shot to scoop the more Golden Statues than The Hurt Locker. You can bet on how many awards each film will win with Avatar available at 20/1 to win in all nine of their nominated categories and it is 7/4 that The Hurt Locker will get more than four awards.
And the Nominations are...
Best Picture
• Avatar
• The Blind Side
• District 9
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• A Serious Man
• Up
• Up in the Air
Best Director
• Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron – Avatar
• Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Best Actor
• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Bad Blake
• George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
• Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer
• Morgan Freeman – Invictus as Nelson Mandela
• Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as Sgt. William James
Best Actress
• Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy
• Dame Helen Mirren – The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoy
• Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Miller
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire as Clarieece "Precious" Jones
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child
Best Actor, Best Actress And Best Picture Will Generate Most Online Oscars Betting 2010 Interest
Other current Academy Awards handed out to recipients that habitually grab the headlines in the following day's press include; Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Visual Effects, Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay, Best Writing – Original Screenplay, Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short Film. All the above categories serve as ideal free bets fodder too should the internet betting newcomer wish to ease themselves into the events betting arena with little risk to their initial investment, as most of the net's bookmakers will offer Oscars betting 2010 Free Bets incentives as part and parcel of their bespoke free betting service to ingratiate themselves with new recruits.
Looking ahead to Oscars betting 2010 – and the films and leading men and women who are being tipped for future glory – and here's our very own bite-size heads up on what's considered hot to trot. Focusing on the biggie of 'Best Picture', and there's much speculation that James Cameron's 3-D filmed epic, 'Avatar' will grab the honour, whilst 'Precious' the Coen Brothers' 'A Serious Man', Peter Jackson-directed 'The Lovely Bones'. George Clooney vehicle 'Up In The Air', Pixar's animated box office hit 'Up' and the Amelia Earheart biopic 'Amelia' will be up for more than just a mention on the night. More leftfield option might be Brit write Nick Hornby's 'An Education', actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood's Nelson Mandela story 'Invictus', J.J Abram's re-telling of 'Star Trek' and summer 2009 sleeper hit 'District 9'.
Oscars 2010 Nominations Announced At End Of January
Let's face it, we all love our adventures in the big screen. There's no experience quite like sitting in a row of cinema seats, tub of popcorn in hand, enveloping yourself in the whole panoramic vista and 'almost there' aural soundscape that accompanies immersing yourself in movie land; and that's despite the weekly developments in home entertainment assemblages that continually attempt to sabotage the classic movie-going moments. Second only to football matches and X Factor judges decisions, movies engage, force and ultimately polarise opinion like nothing else, and this of course happens way before the majority of the paying public get to see what all the fuss is about, thanks to the role of movie critics.
Yet whilst movie critics mould the average movie goers then pre-meditated opinion before, the Oscars are film industry awards as decided over and selected by the fiercest of silver screen critics – the acting community itself. Some 22% of the (numbering approximately 1,311 members) are charged with deliberating over nominees for Oscar acknowledgement based on the previous 12 months' film criteria being met, whilst otherwise the remainder of the voting membership comprises subscribers to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
Oscars Receive Global TV Audiences Akin To World Cup Final And Super Bowl
The Oscars serves to recognize and celebrate the work and subsequent excellence of current film industry professionals across the world, including everyone involved at every level in the movie making process; be they production teams, costume designers, editors, musical score creators, make-up supremos or visual effects masterminds, alongside the more populist choices and those synonymous with the Oscars in the eyes of the watching masses. Directors, writers and the actors themselves. Officially the longest standing awards ceremony in the multimedia age in which we live, the Oscars has inadvertently provided the inspiration for other glitzy, global shows that have sprung up to honour the movers and shakers in related fields such as music and television, as testified by the emergence of the Grammy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and the Emmy Awards to name but three.
Traditionally the nominees for Oscars are announced toward the end of January prior to the actual award ceremony taking place in early March each year. In 2010, the Oscars are set to be staged on March the 7th at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre. It's claimed that the global TV audience who tune in to watch the red carpet spectacular totals one billion, and that only the American Football Super Bowl, the Olympics Opening Ceremony and the FIFA World Cup Final draw larger viewing figures. There's no doubting that the Oscars generates much public interest amongst movie fans, yet more and more of you are tuning in to see just how accurate your Oscar betting predictions will be as increasing numbers of online event betting fans turn to film awards for extra-curricular betting kicks.