What You Can Bet On For The 2025 Oscars

• The 97th Academy Awards are on Sunday, March 2, 2025, with 23 different award categories.
• The most popular awards to bet on are going to be Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.
• Bovada and BetOnline are just two of many sites that offer users to bet on the Oscars.

LOS ANGELES – The 97th Academy Awards are happening on Sunday live from the Dolby Theatre in California. With many different nominees, the odds are heating up with who could win in the most popular categories.

When wanting to bet on entertainment, legal sportsbooks show players where to bet and how to bet. Legal entertainment betting allows players to wager on many different award ceremonies in all categories.

The 2025 Oscar Nominations List has 23 categories in which an award can be won. With this multitude of choices, the most popular categories are Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. All the nominees in each category are listed below along with their odds of taking home the award.

Best Picture

• Anora -200
• Conclave +250
• The Brutalist +600
• A Complete Unknown +2000
• Emilia Perez +6500
• Wicked +6500
• Dune: Part Two +10000
• I’m Still Here +10000
• Nickel Boys +10000
• The Substance +10000

It is looking like the award for Best Picture will likely go to Anora or Conclave. With the odds at -200 for Anora and Conclave close behind at +250, it is going to be a close race between these two films.

Best Director

• Sean Baker – Anora -175
• Brady Corbet – The Brutalist +140
• Jacques Audiard – Emilia Perez +2000
• Coralie Fargeat – The Substance +3000
• James Mangold – A Complete Unknown +4000

Going right along with Best Picture odds, the director of Anora, Sean Baker, is currently favored with odds of -175 to take home this award. Brady Corbet, director of The Brutalist, is keeping this race tight with his odds at +140. It really could be anyone.

Best Actor

• Adrien Brody – The Brutalist -225
• Timothee Chalamet – A Complete Unknown +165
• Ralph Fiennes – Conclave +2000
• Colman Domingo – Sing Sing +5000
• Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice +5000

Adrien Brody currently sits at the top with odds of -225 to win Best Actor for his role in The Brutalist. With many great actors in the running, Timothee Chalamet’s odds of +165 for his role in A Complete Unknown see him slowly catching up to Brody.

Best Actress

• Demi Moore – The Substance -250
• Mikey Madison – Anora +190
• Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here +1500
• Cynthia Erivo – Wicked +3500
• Karla Sofia Gascon – Emilia Perez +4000

Demi Moore currently holds the top spot to win Best Actress for her role in The Substance with her odds of -250; however, Mikey Madison has +190 odds of taking home the award for her part in Anora, a movie that is a front runner for two other awards.

Best Supporting Actor

• Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain -5000
• Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown +1200
• Guy Pearce – The Brutalist +1500
• Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice +1500
• Yura Borisov – Anora +2000

Kieran Culkin sits in favor of winning Best Supporting Actor with odds of -5000. Culkin’s role in A Real Pain was incredible as can be seen by his almost guaranteed odds of winning. When it comes to betting on this award, Culkin is the best person to put your money on.

Best Supporting Actress

• Zoe Saldana – Emilia Perez -3000
• Ariana Grande – Wicked +1000
• Felicity Jones – The Brutalist +1500
• Isabella Rosselini – Conclave +2000
• Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown +2500

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