The Oscars: Everything Everywhere All At Once big favourite for best film
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Michelle Yeoh favourite for best actress in Oscars betting odds
The red carpet will be rolled out in the early hours of Monday morning as the stars come out for the 95th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is the overwhelming favourite to win an Oscar, having been shortened once more to 1/10 for best film.
“The intensity of the emotions, and the sincerity of the love, is so tangible and so real that you want to be a part of Evelyn and Deirdre's world.” 💞 Everything has led to this. pic.twitter.com/c7UPv1LhDP
— Everything Everywhere (@allatoncemovie) March 3, 2023
All Quiet on the Western Front has been cut from 33/1 to 12/1 after scooping a Bafta for best film as well as six other awards.
Black comedy The Banshees of Inisherin, set in Ireland and starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, is out to 20/1 from 10/1.
Elvis actor Austin Butler became the new favourite to be crowned best actor after his double success at the Golden Globes and the Baftas, but Brendan Fraser leads the way once again for his performance in The Whale.
Michelle Yeoh has overtaken Cate Blanchett as the new favourite to land an Oscar for best actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Here are the main contenders to win a golden statue for best film and the latest Oscars betting odds for the acting and director categories.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Michelle Yeoh plays the lead role of unhappy Chinese American woman Evelyn Wang who runs a laundromat with her husband in this inventive indie sci-fi movie.
Everything has led to this. A huge congratulations to the #EverythingEverywhere family on receiving 11 #AcademyAwards nominations 🌟 #Oscars95 pic.twitter.com/uDkSxfzHS6
— Everything Everywhere (@allatoncemovie) January 24, 2023
The starting point is their battle with a tax collector played by Jamie Lee Curtis but soon dovetails into parallel universes and increasingly absurd worlds in which Wang witnesses different versions of herself.
A stunningly original piece of work from Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert who wrote and directed the film produced by the Russo brothers.
Missed out on a Golden Globe and a Bafta, but won a Critics’ Choice Award for best picture.
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Netflix anti-war epic, directed by German filmmaker Edward Berger and based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, broke the record for the highest number of Baftas for a foreign language film previously held by Italian coming-of-age drama Cinema Paradiso, which claimed five in 1988.
This harrowing and powerful movie tells the tale of teenager Paul who patriotically joins up towards the end of the First World War expecting a victory march to Paris only to be caught up in horror and bloodshed.
Rights to the novel for screen adaptation were secured 15 years ago by Scottish-born athlete and filmmaker Lesley Paterson and producer Ian Stokell.
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— BAFTA (@BAFTA) February 19, 2023
Three years ago the pair enlisted the help of German producers Edward Berger and Malte Grunert to bring the project to life.
Berger said shooting for the film was long and “extremely strenuous”, with the high-quality production budget provided by backers Netflix used to create an authentic no-man’s land, including barbed wire, bomb craters, animal carcasses and corpses.
Was only nominated for best motion picture in a foreign language at the Golden Globes, but momentum is firmly on its side following a spectacular night at the Baftas.
Oscars betting odds: 12/1
The Banshees of Inisherin
In Bruges writer Martin McDonagh reunites with Farrell and Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin which won the best motion picture: musical or comedy category at the Golden Globes.
#BansheesMovie has been nominated for NINE Academy Awards including BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR Martin McDonagh, BEST ACTOR Colin Farrell, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan, and BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Kerry Condon! #Oscars95 pic.twitter.com/xjyN0Gzzqc
— The Banshees of Inisherin (@Banshees_Movie) January 24, 2023
This black comedy set off the west coast of Ireland during the civil war in the 1920s tells the tale of two lifelong friends that meet in the pub every day until the elder Colm decides he does not want anything to do with Padraic any more so that he can purportedly concentrate on an air he is composing called The Banshees of Inisherin.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri director McDonagh won a Golden Globe and a Bafta for best screenplay for this bitter-sweet film which documents male depression and loneliness, although there are still laughs aplenty mixed with the macabre.
Oscars betting odds: 20/1
Top Gun: Maverick
Tom Cruise reprises his role as a naval pilot training a group of graduates for a dangerous mission in this adrenaline-packed follow-up to the iconic 1986 original.
The second highest grossing film of 2022 sees Cruise confront his past, including the son of his dead best friend, in leading an elite team in a raid on a nuclear enrichment plant
Maverick has not lost his need for speed 40 years later, but faces stiff competition from possibly worthier candidates.
Oscars betting odds: 20/1
The Fabelmans
Spielberg has won the Oscar twice for best picture, in 1994 for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan five years later, and the legendary American director could land his first of the 21st century for this endearing semi-autobiographical film about his childhood which won one of the top prizes at the Globes.
The young Sammy Fabelman discovers his love of film when watching the Greatest Show on Earth at a cinema in the 1950s which inspires him to shoot his own home movies against a backdrop of his parents’ crumbling marriage.
#TheFabelmans has been nominated for 7 Academy Awards. #Oscars #Oscars95 pic.twitter.com/fjOiAYzkUO
— The Fabelmans (@thefabelmans) January 24, 2023
Emotional, but restrained in its treatment of big subjects, Spielberg makes full use of his expert film-making craft to produce one of the best movies of the year.
Accepting his Golden Globe, Spielberg said: “I’ve been hiding from this story since I was 17-years-old. I put a lot of things in my way with this story. I told this story in parts and parcels all through my career but I never had the courage to hit the story head-on.”
Oscars betting odds: 33/1
The best of the rest
Tar, starring Cate Blanchett as an internationally-renowned composer/conductor, is 50/1, while Elvis is available at 66/1.
Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron’s lengthy and much-anticipated sequel to the 2009 original which was the highest grossing film of last year, is available at 100/1, with black comedy Triangle of Sadness and the harrowing Women Talking both 200/1.
Best Actor
Brendan Fraser is the favourite again at 4/7 in the Oscars best actor odds for his heartbreaking performance as an overweight, reclusive professor in psychological drama The Whale which was not nominated in the best film category.
What an inspiration. Thank you, Brendan! #SAGAwards pic.twitter.com/6bgVi7LZ33
— SAG Awards® (@SAGawards) February 27, 2023
Fraser rose to prominence as Rick O’Connell in The Mummy trilogy, but The Whale is a much more serious role which earned him a first Golden Globe nomination, a Critics’ Choice Award for best actor and won outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Austin Butler won a Golden Globe in the best actor in a motion picture category and a Bafta for his portrayal of Elvis Presley and is now the 5/4 second favourite to land the big one.
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— BAFTA (@BAFTA) February 19, 2023
Thirteen years after winning his first Golden Globe for his role as an assassin in the film In Bruges, Colin Farrell won a second for his role as a dairyman in The Banshees of Inisherin and is 12/1 third favourite for an Oscar – his first nomination.
It continues a successful awards season run for the Irishman, having been nominated for both a Critics’ Choice and Screen Actors Guild gong for his performance.
Best Actress
Michelle Yeoh is 4/7 for her role as a laundromat owner in Everything Everywhere All at Once which earned her a Golden Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy.
The 60-year-old Malaysian also won outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role from the Screen Actors Guild.
A little Michelle Yeoh motivation for your week 🙌 pic.twitter.com/LbbxHSxgVT
— SAG Awards® (@SAGawards) February 27, 2023
Cate Blanchett won an Oscar for best actress as a New York socialite in Woody Allen’s 2013 film Blue Jasmine and is in the running to win another for her performance in the stylish Tar.
The 53-year-old Australian, who was also best supporting actress in 2004’s The Aviator, puts in a magnetic performance as a crisis-hit, world-renowned conductor and is 5/4 in the Oscars best actress odds following her success at the Golden Globes and the Baftas.
Blanchett also recently won a third Critics’ Choice Award for best actress.
Andrea Riseborough was a surprising nomination and makes up the top three at 25/1 for her role in low-budget film To Leslie, with Michelle Williams 33/1 as Steven Spielberg’s mother in The Fabelmans and Ana de Armas dropping to 66/1 for her performance as Marilyn Monroe in Blonde.
Best Director
Steven Spielberg was the early runaway leader to win a third Oscar for The Fabelmans, but the legendary filmmaker is now second favourite at 6/1, with Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known collectively as Daniels, now well ahead of the field at 1/12 for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Tar director Todd Field is third favourite at 20/1, with Martin McDonagh next at 25/1 for The Banshees of Inisherin, followed by Ruben Ostlund at 50/1 for Triangle of Sadness which is also up for best original screenplay and best picture.
All odds and markets correct as of date of publication
