2021 Academy Awards Betting Odds for Top Categories

  • Nomadland has -600 odds to win Best Picture at the 93rd Academy Awards.
  • Chadwick Boseman is a huge -1200 favorite to win Best Actor.
  • Odds list Best Actress as up for grabs as Casey Mulligan (+125) and Viola Davis (+175) lead the way.

LOS ANGELES – The 93rd Annual Academy Awards will take place this Sunday as the best films of 2020 and early 2021 will be celebrated and awarded.

Most betting odds have a clear-cur frontrunner for each award, but entertainment betting fans still have opportunities to cash a ticket with some value.

Betting Odds for Best Picture

Nomadland is a sizable favorite to take home this award with -600 odds. It should be noted that online sportsbooks also have Nomadland as the favorite to win Best Adapted Screenplay. The Trial of the Chicago 7 is the only other film with odds short of 15/1.

Odds To Win Best Picture

  • Nomadland -600
  • The Trial Of The Chicago 7 +500
  • Minari +1600
  • Promising Young Woman +2000
  • Judas And The Black Messiah +4000
  • Mank +4000
  • Sound Of Metal +8000
  • The Father +8000

Betting Odds for Best Director

In what is listed as one of the most lopsided odds of any category, Chloe Zhao, the director of Nomadland, is the -3000 favorite to be named just the second woman to ever win this award.

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Odds To Win Best Director

  • Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) -3000
  • David Fincher (Mank) +900
  • Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) +2000
  • Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) +2000
  • Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) +2500

Betting Odds for Best Actor

Chadwick Boseman, who unfortunately passed away last August, is the betting favorite to win Best Actor for his performance as Levee Green in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. This would be Boseman’s first Academy Award.

Odds To Win Best Actor

  • Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) -1200
  • Anthony Hopkins (The Father) +550
  • Riz Ahmed (Sound Of Metal) +1400
  • Steven Yeun (Minari) +2800
  • Gary Oldman (Mank) +3300

Betting Odds for Best Actress

The Best Actress prop is the only one where betting on the favorite will reward plus value. Casey Mulligan (+125) and Viola Davis (+175) have the shortest odds and are the most likely winners of the award.

Odds To Win Best Actress

  • Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) +125
  • Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) +175
  • Frances McDormand (Nomadland) +400
  • Andra Day (The United States Vs. Billie Holiday) +550
  • Vanessa Kirby (Pieces Of A Woman) +2200

How to Watch

The Academy Awards will be aired on ABC this Sunday, April 25, at 8 p.m EST.