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- Emma Stone is the 2/1 favourite to win Best Actress for the second year in-a-row
- Bookies also offer odds on the 2025 Best Actor award
- Dune: Part Two is the favourite to win the 2025 Best Picture award
Emma Stone is the 2/1 favourite to win Best Actress for the second year in-a-row
Betting is already available on the 2025 Academy Awards just weeks after the 2024 ceremony and this year's Best Actress winner Emma Stone is favourite to win it again.
Stone will once again pair up with Yorgos Lanthimos for the film Kinds of Kindness this June after the success that they had for the movie Poor Things.
Bookies have placed Stone as the betting favourite to win Best Actress for her role in the movie with the first trailer expected to be released this week.
With odds of 2/1, the latest betting market puts Stone just about favourite with Lady Gaga second favourite at 3/1 for her role as Harley Quinn in the latest Joker movie.
| Oscars 2025 Best Actress | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Emma Stone - Kinds Of Kindness | 2/1 | 33.3% |
| Lady Gaga - Joker: Folie A Deux | 3/1 | 25.0% |
| Saoirse Ronan - Blitz | 7/2 | 22.2% |
| Angelina Jolie - Maria | 4/1 | 20.0% |
| Jessica Lange - Long Day's Journey Into Night | 6/1 | 14.3% |
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Bookies also offer odds on the 2025 Best Actor award
Colman Domingo is the favourite for the 2025 Best Actor award after previously losing out to Cillian Murphy for this year's Oscar for the same category.
Domingo stars as John "Divine G" Whitfield in Sing Sing which premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and is expected to have a larger release in June this year.
Some massive names appear in the betting market for next year's Best Actor award with Daniel Craig second favourite behind Domingo.
| Oscars 2025 Best Actor | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Colman Domingo - Sing Sing | 2/1 | 33.3% |
| Daniel Craig - Queer | 7/2 | 22.2% |
| Ralph Fiennes - Conclave | 4/1 | 20.0% |
| Jesse Eisenberg - A Real Pain | 9/2 | 18.2% |
| Sebastian Stan - The Apprentice | 11/1 | 8.3% |
Dune: Part Two is the favourite to win the 2025 Best Picture award
It's not just the actress and actor categories that bookmakers are offering odds for but the main Best Picture award too with Dune: Part Two the early favourite.
The second movie of the Dune franchise has been the biggest Box Office release of 2024 so far and it is 2/1 to win the Best Picture at next year's Oscars.
Maria though has been shortening in the odds and is just 9/4 to win the award although it's unclear when the Maria Callas biopic will be released with filming only taking place at the end of 2023.
| Oscars 2025 Best Picture | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Dune: Part Two | 2/1 | 33.3% |
| Maria | 9/4 | 30.8% |
| Megalopolis | 5/1 | 16.7% |
| Joker: Folie A Deux | 6/1 | 14.3% |
| Mickey 17 | 6/1 | 14.3% |
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