{"id":99135,"date":"2019-02-24T08:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=99135"},"modified":"2019-02-24T13:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T21:15:56","slug":"oscars-betting-why-roma-is-the-the-favorite-and-not-the-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/oscars-betting-why-roma-is-the-the-favorite-and-not-the-favourite\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars Betting: DiCaprio\u2019s Butterfingers and Why \u2018Roma\u2019 is the Favorite and not \u2018The Favourite\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Hollywood\u2019s scandalous bright young things agonize over whether to Ralph & Russo or Prada their way into the 91st\u00a0Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater later today, Casino.org<\/em> has been in a similar state of torment over the bookmaker\u2019s odds.<\/p>\n

\"Oscars
Bookmakers aren\u2019t offering odds on who will be the worst dressed celebrity at the 2019 Oscars, but if they were, on current form these guys would be the favorites. Clockwise from left: St. Vincent, Andra Day, Lindsey Vonn, Taraji P. Henson, Whoopi Goldberg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our conclusion: unlike red-carpet fashion statements, when it comes to Oscars betting, the quirkier is always the better.<\/p>\n

While Americans will have to content themselves with office sweepstakes — unless they live in New Jersey<\/a> — Europeans are presented with a tempting smorgasbord of prop betting options.<\/p>\n

For example, among the usual array of Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Makeup and Hairstyling-style Oscar bets, bwin is also offering wagers on random but important stuff, like \u201cWill a person born in Sweden win an Oscar?\u201d — just one of almost 100 Oscar bets up for grabs.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes\u201d is a 23\/10 proposition. But do the Swedes have a shot?<\/p>\n

Well, since we\u2019re here, here\u2019s how we see it. There are two Swedish nominees: Ludwig G\u00f6ransson, who wrote the score for Black Panther<\/em> — up for Best Original Score and Best Original Song — and Border<\/em>, a fantasy movie about a sexual liaison between two trolls, which is up for Best Makeup.<\/p>\n

Neither are favorites within their respective categories (more of which later), so — unless we\u2019re missing something big, like Rami Malek is secretly Swedish — we\u2019ll pass on this one. Sorry, Sweden.<\/p>\n

Oscar Dropping Unprecedented \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Of course, you can also bet on which winner will deliver the longest speech, although bear in mind that, since 2010, the time limit for speeches has been set to 45 seconds. Let\u2019s face it, though, rules are there for the breaking.<\/p>\n

If you want to bet that the wrong winner will be announced inadvertently, as was the case in 2017<\/a>, you have that too, at 9\/1.<\/p>\n

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Bwin is also offering odds on whether either the Best Actor or Best Actress will drop their Oscar on stage. But do we detect a whiff of chauvinism in work of the odds setter here?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Best Actor is marginally less likely to drop his Oscar (9\/1) than the Best Actress (8\/1) presumably because \u2013 what? \u2013 women are more emotional?<\/p>\n

Studying the form on this one is easy. In the 90-year history of the awards, no one has ever dropped an Oscar on stage — neither man nor woman — although it was reported that Leonardo DiCaprio butterfingered his 2016 Oscar for The Revenant<\/em> on his way out of the Dolby Theater as he was waving to fans, causing it to shatter into three parts.<\/p>\n

Having waited a long time for that award, DiCaprio was described by onlookers as \u201ccrestfallen.\u201d<\/p>\n

World\u2019s Safest Betting Market?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Novelty betting aside, perhaps the biggest question from this year\u2019s Oscars — other than who is actually hosting it — is whether Roma <\/em>will be the first movie in a foreign language to win Best Picture, and if it does, will it also take Best Foreign Language film?<\/p>\n

Bookmakers have the Golden Lion-winning movie by director Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n (not Swedish, we checked it out) as a firm favorite for Best Picture across the board. That means it\u2019s very likely to make Oscars history.<\/p>\n

Because Oscar winners are decided by over 6,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science — and the bookies\u2019 favorite is decided by a large sample size of the betting public — they usually arrive at the same conclusion.<\/p>\n

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It doesn\u2019t matter that the bookies\u2019 own cross section of the public is not composed of \u201cexperts\u201d — with the right sample size, the broad consensus will usually overcome the smaller pockets of left-field tastes and contrarian opinion to deliver the same answer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Since 2004, the bookmakers\u2019 favorite has won Best Actor every year apart from 2009, which means betting on the favorite at the Oscars may be the surest bet out there.<\/p>\n

We should clarify: when we say \u201cbet on the favorite,\u201d we don\u2019t mean \u201cbet on The Favourite<\/em>.\u201d The British period comedy The Favourite<\/em> is not the favorite — it\u2019s third favorite at 20\/1. So don\u2019t bet on it. Clear?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Hollywood\u2019s scandalous bright young things agonize over whether to Ralph & Russo or Prada their way into the 91st\u00a0Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater later today, Casino.org has been in a similar state of torment over the bookmaker\u2019s odds. Our conclusion: unlike red-carpet fashion statements, when it comes to Oscars betting, the quirkier is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":99138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,19,19853],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOscars Betting: Why \u2018Roma\u2019 is the the Favorite and not \u2018The Favourite\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oscars betting: bookmakers are offering markets on everything from the longest speech at the 91st Academy Awards to whether the best actor or actress will drop their Oscar. 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