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- Dune: Part Two is now 2/1 to win the 2025 Best Picture award
- Emma Stone is favourite to retain her Best Actress award at next year's Oscars
- Bookies also offer odds on the Best Actor category at the 2025 Academy Awards
Dune: Part Two is now 2/1 to win the 2025 Best Picture award
We're just weeks after the 2024 Oscars but bookmakers are already offering odds on the 2025 Academy Awards with some of the biggest categories available to be bet on.
The Best Picture category is always the biggest on the night with the show's producers making sure that it's awarded last and there are betting odds on the 2025 winner.
Dune: Part Two is the 2/1 favourite to win the Best Picture award next year after receiving massive critical acclaim following it's release in cinemas earlier this month.
The movie has a 93% score on film review-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes with viewers also giving it a 95% rating as it's success at the Box Office continued.
Maria 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.
| 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% |
What the expert says...
Emma Stone is favourite to retain her Best Actress award at next year's Oscars
Fresh off winning the 2024 Best Actress Oscar this year, Emma Stone is once again favourite to win the award in 2025 with the actress set to star in the summer release Kinds of Kindness.
Stone once again teams up with Yorgos Lanthimos following the success of Poor Things in the past 12 months with the movie winning various awards across the season.
The latest betting market says that Stone is the favourite to be crowned Best Actress once again this year with the odds suggesting a 33% chance that it happens.
| 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% |
Bookies also offer odds on the Best Actor category at the 2025 Academy Awards
Colman Domingo is favourite for the 2025 Best Actor award after being nominated for the award at this year's Oscars before losing out to Cillian Murphy.
Domingo stars as John "Divine G" Whitfield in Sing Sing which premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and it's expected that the movie could make him a contender for the award once again.
Some big names appear in the betting odds for next year's Best Actor award with Daniel Craig second favourite behind Domingo in an already competitive looking category.
| 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% |
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