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- Cillian Murphy is the favourite in the betting market to win the Best Actor award
- Leonardo DiCaprio is the second favourite for his role in Killers of the Flower Moon
- Christopher Nolan is favourite to win Best Director at next year's Oscars
Cillian Murphy is the favourite in the betting market to win the Best Actor award
Irish actor Cillian Murphy is now the 5/4 favourite with bookmakers to win the Best Actor award at the 2024 Oscars for his starring role in Oppenheimer.
Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer in the biopic about the scientist who developed the atomic bomb during the second World War.
The performance ticks a lot of the boxes for previous Best Actor winners with 6 of the last 10 winning performances from actors who have portrayed real people.
Critics have praised Murphy's role as Oppenheimer and the latest betting odds suggest that there's a 44% chance of him winning the award.
| Oscars 2024 Best Actor Winner | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer | 5/4 | 44.4% |
| Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon | 7/4 | 36.4% |
| Bradley Cooper - Maestro | 10/3 | 23.1% |
| Colman Domingo - Rustin | 4/1 | 20.0% |
| Barry Keoghan - Saltburn | 6/1 | 14.3% |
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Leonardo DiCaprio is the second favourite for his role in Killers of the Flower Moon
Leonardo DiCaprio is second favourite for the Best Actor award at next year's Oscars ceremony for his lead role in the Martin Scorsese movie Killers of the Flower Moon.
The film has yet to be released with it's pencilled in release date 20 October 2023 but that hasn't stopped bookies from placing DiCaprio as one of the favourites for Best Actor.
DiCaprio finally won his Best Actor award back in 2016 for his role as Hugh Glass in the movie The Revenant and 8 years on he could be on for another award.
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Christopher Nolan is favourite to win Best Director at next year's Oscars
Christopher Nolan is the 6/4 favourite to win the Best Director award at the 2024 Oscars for the incredible Oppenheimer.
Nolan has received 5 Academy Award nominations so far in his career at the Oscars but has yet to win Best Director, Best Picture of even Best Adapted Screenplay in the 22 years since his first nomination.
The latest odds now say there's a 40% chance that Nolan wins Best Director and it wasn't until 2017 release Dunkirk that he was even nominated for the award.
| Oscars 2024 Best Director Winner | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer | 6/4 | 40.0% |
| Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon | 7/4 | 36.4% |
| Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest | 3/1 | 25.0% |
| Celine Song - Past Lives | 4/1 | 20.0% |
| Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two | 6/1 | 14.3% |
