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- Cillian Murphy is now 1/12 to win Best Actor at this weekend's Oscars
- Lily Gladstone is 1/2 to win Best Actress with Emma Stone just behind at 6/4
- When do the 2024 Oscars take place?
Cillian Murphy is now 1/12 to win Best Actor at this weekend's Oscars
Irish actor Cillian Murphy remains the clear favourite to win the Best Actor Oscar this weekend with bookmakers continuing to offer odds ahead of the event.
The 96th Academy Awards are set to take place this weekend and the Best Actor category is one of the biggest of the night alongside Best Actress and Best Picture.
Murphy has long been favourite for this category for his title role as J. Robert Oppenheimer in the biopic about the scientist that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
William Hill's latest betting odds put Murphy as the heavy favourite at 1/12 to win the Academy Award with the category looking like a straightforward one.
| Oscars 2024 Best Actor Winner | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer | 1/12 | 92.3% |
| Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers | 11/2 | 15.4% |
| Bradley Cooper - Maestro | 14/1 | 6.7% |
| Colman Domingo - Rustin | 50/1 | 2.0% |
| Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction | 50/1 | 2.0% |
What the expert says..
Lily Gladstone is 1/2 to win Best Actress with Emma Stone just behind at 6/4
Lily Gladstone has moved into 1/2 favourite to win the Best Actress Academy Award with this category changing favourites on a weekly basis.
Emma Stone has previously been favourite for the award with the top two in the betting market changing round multiple times since it was first released.
The latest odds give an implied probability of 66% that Gladstone wins the award this weekend with Stone's current probability at 40%.
| Oscars 2024 Best Actress | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon | 1/2 | 66.7% |
| Emma Stone - Poor Things | 6/4 | 40.0% |
| Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall | 16/1 | 5.9% |
| Carey Mulligan - Maestro | 33/1 | 2.9% |
| Annette Bening - Nyad | 33/1 | 2.9% |
When do the 2024 Oscars take place?
The 2024 Academy Awards are set to take place this weekend on Sunday 10 March, kicking off at 11pm GMT.
This year's Oscars will start an hour earlier than usual which is good news for film fans here in Britain with an earlier night's sleep guaranteed.
As always the show will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and this year will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel for the fourth time.
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