Oscars Bets 2025: Odds, Predictions, Favorites, Nominations

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Xenia Luch

20 January 2025

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Oscars 2025

The wait is nearly over for the 97th Academy Awards — the most prestigious night in film and one of the longest-running entertainment award ceremonies in the world. Presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the Oscars will celebrate the best cinematic achievements from the past year. Bookmaker that always accepts bets on Oscars with good odds — 1xBet.

NOTE: At 1xBet, these lines appear under the “TV Games” section, and the event is labeled “Academy Awards. 2025,” rather than the “Oscars” name you might expect.

  • This star-studded event will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. 
  • The ceremony will be broadcast live at 12:00 am CET/11:00 pm GMT (note: for some viewers in Europe, it will already be the early hours of March 3) on ABC and available for streaming on platforms like Hulu Live TV, YouTube TV, AT&T TV, and FuboTV. For international viewers, tune in via your regional broadcasters.
  • Conan O’Brien will host the 2025 Oscars.

After what felt like an eternity of delays, rumors, and exhausting anticipation, the full list of nominations was finally revealed on January 23. Now that we’ve made it through the chaos, the betting odds are painting us a much-needed clearer picture of the potential frontrunners based on the latest betting odds.

Oscars Best Movie Predictions 2025

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist has taken the top spot as the favorite for Best Picture, carrying a 57.5% chance of winning according to the latest odds. This historical drama stunned audiences at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. 

Right behind it, though, are Emilia Pérez, a musical crime comedy, and Conclave, a political thriller about Vatican intrigue, with 21.1% and 18.0% probabilities, respectively.

* Odds are based on the info available and are subject to change.

Best Director

Brady Corbet
Brady Corbet, director of The Brutalist

With The Brutalist popping up in almost every major category, Brady Corbet’s clearly having a moment. But let’s be real — at just 36, with a pretty lean directing portfolio, he’s walking into a room full of heavyweights. This is the same category where it took Nolan a literal career of blockbusters to finally grab his first win last year. The Academy has a habit of making fresh talent ‘wait their turn’.

Sean Baker has taken the second place among favorites, carrying more than a 30% chance of winning according to the latest odds for bets. His Anora has already won The Palme d’Or this year.

Oscars Best Actor Prediction 2025

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Adrien Brody, scene from The Brutalist

Most bookies seem to agree on this one — The Brutalist is a heavyweight contender, but its chances come with a caveat that only the Academy could cook up. It’s rich territory for an actor of such caliber as Adrien Brody, and let’s be honest — set in the same historical pocket as The Pianist, it’s practically begging for comparisons. Historically, however, the Academy rarely doubles down in this way. 

In the Best Actor category, punters can place bet on Oscars at these 1xBet odds:

Best Actress

Betting odds are already calling it, and honestly, they might be onto something — Demi Moore (she already won the Golden Globe) has emerged as the frontrunner to take home the Best Actress Oscar for her transformative role in The Substance. The satirical body horror, in which Moore plays a fading celebrity who uses a drug to create a “better” version of herself, has racked up multiple European awards, including Best Screenplay at Cannes. For a genre that usually struggles with the Academy, The Substance has been unusually well-received, with a 78 on Metacritic and 7.3 on IMDb.

But don’t count out Mikey Madison, who now sits as the second favorite. At just 25, Madison seems poised to become one of the youngest winners in Oscars history if she can pull it off. Hollywood loves a “meteoric rise” narrative, and Madison’s leap from her small but memorable role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to leading a Palme d’Or-winning film is basically catnip for Academy voters.

Anora, movie
Mikey Madison, scene from Anora