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Hello gambling couch potatoes hehehe. The award ceremony will be on February 9, 2020 and all
the odds were only copied from nitrogensports.eu.

In any case, I speculate that 1917 might win best picture, best screenplay, best cinematography, sound editing and others if the sportsbooks offer some of them. Nitrogensports has only offered the most basic categories.



Best Picture

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2.370 (+137)
1917 3.400 (+240)
Parasite 4.330 (+333)
Joker 8.000 (+700)
The Irishman 17.000 (+1600)
Marriage Story 34.000 (+3300)
Jojo Rabbit 41.000 (+4000)
Ford v Ferrari 101.000 (+10000)
Little Women 101.000 (+10000)



Best Director

Sam Mendes (1917) 1.710 (-141)
Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) 3.000 (+200)
Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) 7.500 (+650)
Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) 7.500 (+650)
Todd Phillips (Joker) 34.000 (+3300)



Best Actor

Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) 1.083 (-1205)
Adam Driver (Marriage Story) 7.000 (+600)
Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) 21.000 (+2000)
Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes) 21.000 (+2000)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) 21.000 (+2000)



Best Supporting Actor

Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) 1.120 (-833)
Joe Pesci (The Irishman) 8.000 (+700)
Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) 13.000 (+1200)
Al Pacino (The Irishman) 15.000 (+1400)
Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes) 21.000 (+2000)



Best Actress

Renee Zellweger (Judy) 1.120 (-833)
Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story) 8.000 (+700)
Charlize Theron (Bombshell) 13.000 (+1200)
Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) 13.000 (+1200)
Saoirse Ronan (Little Women) 26.000 (+2500)



Best Supporting Actress

Laura Dern (Marriage Story) 1.120 (-833)
Margot Robbie (Bombshell) 8.000 (+700)
Florence Pugh (Little Women) 11.000 (+1000)
Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell) 21.000 (+2000)
Scarlett Johansson (Jojo Rabbit) 21.000 (+2000)

I wouldn't bet my precious money on this Oscar, why? I liked 4 of the movies that are on that oscar but I have no idea how they are selected to be on oscar and how the winner is selected. There are movies that in my opinion are very bad and that's why I do not watch them, but they already won Oscar. Without wishing to exaggerate many movies that have already won Oscar are the kind of movies that I do not like and do not watch. Bet on the movie that will win the Oscar, is the same as betting on the lottery

101% to this one that's why I don't bother myself on shooting up some bucks into these betting.I do also have the questions in mind on what truly is their criteria on selection process.Funny to say but I didn't able to hit up some bets on Oscars that's why im` not really that interested to bet but of course i do have multiple favorites like 1917 same as OP, Once upon a time ..in Hollywood and Joker and the rest are mehh..

I have been considering betting on Oscar for quiet a while now, and I’ll soon decide how much funds I can spare and bet on this. The following are my predictions:

1) In the best picture category I would select Joker because I loved that film, and I truly believe that it deserves to win.

2) For the Best Actor Award I’ll choose Joaquin Phoenix, and I believe many of you’ll will feel the same way too ain’t i right?

I am a fan of movies but I am not a fan of betting on the 6 cafeterias you've shared.

Anyone here who are good at this please tell us which bet is good and why?

Is betting on the heavy favorites profitable or not?

I cannot bet on something like this.

I have not watched most of the movies that are nominated so I cannot even come up with a rough idea on which one will win what.

My only sources on Oscars and the potential winners are news feeds and comments which may likely be subjective.

I'm not the kind of person to watch the entire Oscar Awards, but it's interesting to see. I watch it with the highlights only. Anyways, it's going to be hard to predict because it would also depend on the person accepting the award or not. An addition about Oscar Awards, I do believe that it's nothing but a title but no actual contribution to anything. Maybe for the actor's salary but nothing more. There is no diversity and no equal opportunities for others. Their criteria for judging are quite different compared to the actual results that can be obtained from the Box Office results. I'm not an expert, but it still seems to be the case.

With all that I said above, it's a rant that I want to share, maybe some of you also noticed it. Let's make money on it by gambling, lol.  Below would be my picks:

Best Picture: 1917
Best Director: Bong Joon Ho (Parasite)
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
Best Actress: Renee Zellweger (Judy)
Best Supporting Actress: Laura Dern (Marriage Story)

P.S. These are guesses with little analysis, it's not recommended to follow my picks.

Based on my observation in the past, usually the heavy favorites does not won, just like the Miss Universe, heavy favorites does not won all the time.
I am not watching all these movies as well, first because I don't have time but I like to gamble,.

I just try to make a parlay with the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor and it wasn't possible, This event could be easy money if the casino allows making parlays on them. Looks like that kind of event are just to make single bets.

Anyway, The joker as the best actor is a 100% sure win bet.

So far i didn't watching yet all of the movies for the best picture so i can't compare which movies deserve as the best movie on 2020 but i think Joker have high chance to won it and obviously Joaquin Phoenix too as the best actor on 2020

I have only seen Joker from the list of the movies here and I think it has good chances to win the Oscar this year.I will probably see 1917 movie now that I have read here it is a great movie and maybe is even better than Joker.
These kind of bets rarely are manipulated by the bookies so it is a good opportunity to bet for those who watch every movie that comes out.

i am not betting for now(though i did last year)

because i have watched this 5 movies and i will be unfair as i loved them all,from the actors to the directors and everything about the movie.but if i will choose one?it is Joker for sure.

There is currently a lot of speculation that something made by women will win a shock and this was due to the fact that very few women directors or even stories win oscars. Sort of like before when black actors were very few,,, so who knows, Little Women makes a surprise win when people change their votes!

Once upon a Time was the favorite to win the best picture award but I will be rooting for the joker to coup up into this category. Though I am not betting into this kind of gambling, I am still going to follow the result of the event.

i am pretty sure that Joker and Irishman will gather most of the categories ,both seriousness and the Good delivery of acts and they are so good.the music effects are simple but very pleasing and emotional.

i first watched Joaquin Phoenix in a Movie of Russel Crow and that is "the Gladiator" in which i saw him as a great and functional actor so the very way he could get the Best actor is really indeed.

Usually the betting favorites usually win the Oscars as the winner is selected by juries and you will have inside information about their decisions and i am sure people will be betting big when the Oscar night is approaching and if you bet on the favorites then most probably you will be winning the bet.

My bets are:
Best Actor :Joaquin Phoenix
Best Supporting Actor:Brad Pitt
Best Actress:Renee Zellweger
Best Supporting Actress:Laura Dern

The rest i will pick later.

I have watched those two movies already and several other films included in Oscars, however, I'm not into betting in this kind of gambling as we don't know how the judges really pick for each category. They have their own criteria and most of us have no idea how the mind of film people works. But yes, I am interested also in knowing the winners but this event is really not much of a big deal for me.

I've watched the Joker and I have nothing to say about the movie coz it was great. I just want to comment on how it reflected to me, it seems like Joker shows that life has no ultimate meaning and it rejects the good principles in short it was about negativity. I don't know how would the judges choose among great movies, I don't know their criteria some might and might not agree on me. Many claim that this is the movie of the year but have they watched the rest of nominees? like Parasite from Korea I guess they didn't.

I think you only watched a single movie among the nominees, Indeed Joaquin Phoenix did a spectacular acting on that movie to the point that he owns the whole movie but frankly speaking Leonardo DiCaprio deserves the best actor award for the second time. Betting on this kind of choices is pretty hard though, I'd rather not to give it a call.

IMHO, there shouldn't be any bets for Oscars. Not too many sites host such bets anyway. The reason being, the winners are already told before they're invited to the actual day of the event. If not the winner but the Production company or the theatre team know they're winning before the day of the actual event. You can search for the theories around the same on google. If the bet results are known beforehand, imagine the losses that can be introduced on the bets placed. Having said that, "Joker" and "Once upon a time in Hollywood" is taking most of those awards.

Im intruiged thats why i do a little bit search and i found this one which is worth to read: https://www.businessinsider.com/oscars-academy-awards-rigged-best-picture-nominations-win-2019-2

So dramas would most likely to win?

Well I don't really know. If you look at the bigger picture, it's not hard to bribe one of the members of their deciding team and get that award. Hollywood stars have that much money anyway. In a capitalist society, you never know the possibilities of beating the competition by power for fame. But that's just my opinion if you want to have fun and games, you can place a bet. :)

This is an exciting even to wait for and if there's an actual gambling for this one I would love to try betting small amount of Satoshi, if ever they'll be using crypto. Hopefully, the betting session of this event will be fun and brings luck to everyone who is going to participate with the betting game.
I think looking it quite difficult to look for my bet for best actress and actor.

yes there are sites that support odds for this kind of events   . there was once a thread here on this section before that the op ask for websites about oscar awards betting and it has many site suggestions   .

 its okay if you will bet small because you think that it will be difcult for you to choose if who will be the winner but betting for fun only , why not  ? the joker was also a good movie and im also rooting for it like the others have said   .

I can understand 1917 getting the biggest possibility because it was really not a "acting movie" like for example marriage story was, it was a success mostly due to its director. However at the same time, Joker was a great movie, I get that Joaquin was the person who made that movie, director played a great role in it as well, I didn't watched parasite so I can't comment on that but I certainly feel like Todd deserves it more than Tarantino at least possibly even more than Scorsese.

Plus, seeing Scarlett Johansson at both best actress for marriage story AND best supporting actress for Jojo Rabit, I don't know if that is a common thing in Oscars, I just can't recall anyone having a chance to win both of those awards before, would be very weird to see honestly but it looks like she has a low chance for both of them.

I'm a fan of movies yet haven't watched most of them. Only watched two of them the Joker and Once upon a time in Hollywood. Probably the Joker might get a lot of rewards from this. Joacquin might get another win as the best actor here. Really love his acting as Joker.

all films that are categorized are the best films in the world and IMO the winners of each category are;

• Best Picture

Little Women

• Best Director

Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)

• Best Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)

• Best Supporting Actor

Al Pacino (The Irishman)

• Best Actress

Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)

• Best Supporting Actress

Margot Robbie (Bombshell)
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Here's my picks.


Best Picture
-Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Director
-Sam Mendes (1917)

Best Actor
-Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)

Best Supporting Actor
-Joe Pesci (The Irishman)

Best Actress
-Renee Zellweger (Judy)

Best Supporting Actress
-Laura Dern (Marriage Story)

It is amazing of you guys having these picks. You must have watched most or all of the movie nominees in the Oscars?

Even Joker is still on my to-watch list. Lol.

Anyway, good luck if you made bets on your prediction.

It's funny that I have my own opinion whom I think will will when I've only watched joker from all the movies in the list lol. But I'm already planning to watch parasite because I've heard it was a really nice movie. That's why I think it can win the best picture since this movie won at Cannes Film Festival.
Definitely I won't bet for this since I lack knowledge and I can't analyze it very well since I haven't watched those movies but that's my guess. Parasite for the best picture.

Parasite is Korean movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/
I am not sure, is it a horror movie?, I saw a movie trailer, look like I am interested to see full movie on my country, but didn't available right now.

@stomachgrowls. 1917 for best motion picture. The Oscars love historic period movies hehehe.

@50 Cent. No. It is a movie about a family in poverty scamming a rich family hehe. I will not spoil any further. The director is good, he also directed Snow Piercer, another good film.

It is a Korean movie. I also heard in the news that the movie is one big hit. And it got many awards. In fact, I saw the director being awarded in the last Golden Globe Award. I don't know what particular award or awards that actually go to them but it was well-acknowledged and applauded. The director was nominated as well as the movie itself.

I would rather go with Once Upon... or Irishman. Hollywood went nostalgic and really appreciate those artists that focus on looking on long gone days. Homage to the Golden Era of Hollywood, that's the idea for the Oscar movie. Mark my words.

It is still sad that Hollywood has to fight against netflix, right now netflix is getting low level nominations and I feel like marriage story totally deserved it, the Irishman did as well, these are both netflix movies that netflix was capable of producing, there are still other movies that netflix didn't produced however by the looks of it netflix will only get bigger, they are making billions of dollars every single year while getting their library bigger and bigger with more and more original stuff and keeping the non-netflix productions in there as well.

With more money, they will be capable of making even more films, with more films I am sure will come more nominations. Eventually unless stopped (which doesn't need to be stopped, I love netflix) we may see a year where all nominations are from movies netflix produced, they are getting that much powerful. Does this mean netflix is doing something right or does this mean Hollywood is doing something wrong? I am not sure.

I didn't watch all the nominated movies so I won't bet this time.
But if anyone asked me about the best actor I would choose ADAM DRIVER. Having won accolades from Venice, Telluride and Toronto, it seems that Driver will most likely win the nomination and even win the Best Actor category Oscar 2020.

Netflix got good amount of nominations, Irishman got 10( for me that movie was disappointment. I am big Scorsese fan, but he should have made that movie 10-15 years ago when main actors were a bit younger), Marriage Story got 6 (best movie of 2019 for me) and The Two Popes got 3(another  pleasant surprise, i really liked the film). So all in all i think it was good year for Netflix and progress compared to previous year (Roma won 3 Oscars and had 10 nominations, that was best film of 2018 for me). So 2 years in a row Netflix distributed my personal movie of the year :)

All in all 2019 was good year, and improvement over 2018. These are my personal picks, i watched 90% of the movies that had nominations so doubt i miss anything important that was nominated.

Best picture: Marriage Story
Best director: Sam Mendes
Best actor:Joaquin Phoenix
Best Supporting Actor:Brad Pitt
Best Actress: Scarlet Johansson
Best Supporting Actress: Laura Dern
Bst original screenplay:Marriage Story
Best foreign film: Parasite
Cinematography: Roger Deakins
All sound and music related Oscars:1917
Documentary:Honeyland



I am big fan of Adam Driver, for me he is one of the best actors around, and it was tough call to decide between Phoenix ( who i also like very much) and him. It was pleasure to watch him in Marriage Story, and i watched those new SW films only because of him, he made them watchable.

are there official places and websites to beat on this kind of event?
oscar nominations, elections, so forth and so on?

I don't know much about movies but I really like director Quentin Tarantino so I will choose Quentin Tarantino for Best Director.

Joaquin Phoenix and Leonardo DiCaprio are two formidable rivals for the best actor title but I like Leonardo DiCaprio so I will choose him.

Nice topic, thanks for sharing this! I knew nominees, but I didn't know odds. I saw couple movies only, so I can't be a good judge probably. I will probably place a bet on Joaquin Phoenix  as the best actor and Bred Pitt as best supporting actor. Incredible roles and I think these two were on top of their missions. It's easy choice for actors I think, and pretty safe bets. Joaquin as Joker nailed it, move is good only because of him. I don't think that Joker will win Oscar, Once Upon a time is a better movie for my taste, but I didn't see The Irishman, I plan to do that next week.

I have a family tradition of watching Oscars live (in my country it's at 3 am) every year, and prior to that watching as many movies as we can and predict the winners in each category. I've been placing predictions before, but never with putting my money on Oscars. Perhaps, it's about time I start, but so far I have not been good at predictions, to be honest ;D
Nitrogensports has quite a shady reputation, though, so I don't know whether it's the best website for this... I would use Sportsbet.io, but I don't see Oscars predictions there (I guess it's fair since it's not really a sport). Anyone here who can name a reputable website that accepts bets on Oscars in BTC?
P.S. Pretty sure Joker's getting the Best Movie award.

i have just watched jojo rabbit last night and it is a good movie but i dont think they are getting any awards on those main  category .

i think still Joker star and Leonardo de Caprio will battle for the best actor award and best movie as well.

but also the IrishMan will get some awards .

No isn't. I think they haven't official for beating those even.
Already searched on google, https://www.gamblingsites.com/blog/how-and-where-to-bet-on-the-2019-oscars-top-betting-sites-odds-predictions-and-picks-95264/ Found site like that, I am not sure it best for you.
or you can bet it on https://www.888sport.com/tv-novelty/global/oscars/#/filter/tv___novelty/global/oscars

Agreed on Jojo Rabbit, good funny movie! It might win best costume design, I reckon, which is giving good odds on 11.00 hehehe. The new categories are already on Nitrogensports.

https://nitrogensports.eu/sport/specials/academy-awards

Best visual effects might be an easy decision. Avengers: Endgame on 2.20.

Another is best original score. 1917 on 3.75. The feeling was similar to The Dark Knight, Sicario, Inception. Joker is the favorite, however, it did not give an impactful experience as 1917's musical soundtrack.

For personal reasons I would like it if Parasite was the winner for BEST PICTURE 4.33
Bong Joon Ho to win BEST Director is good odds of 3.0
It already won for Best International Film and Best Asian Film at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards
So anything is possible really but 1917 will be hard to look over         

i have seen parasite the other night and yeah maybe they can take the best picture or cinematography as it is what they deserve.
the Odds are good but i dont think Directorial will come to their position as the director of Joker and Once upon a time is very competent in this category .
but this is Oscar and the basis in choosing is very high so i think the advantage of winning other award giving body's wont take place in this one.
maybe 1917 is a good movie but there are some lapses in directorial and reality about the scenes,when they were on the banker and the explosives explode?they come to manage without any bad damage?their ears might be in pain if that happens to a regular human so i find it negative on their part.

I already appreciated Joaquin Phoenix's acting when he acted as the prince in the move Gladiator and he is so good acting his character as a villain. I realize that he is perfect for the Joker character and he really executed it very well. That's why he well-deserved the Oscar Awards and I bet most of my money to him because I guarantee that he did his best while filming The Joker. Leonardo is a great actor but this time, Joaquin really killed it. I'm looking forward for more of spectacular movie of him, maybe if he wins, that will not be the last.

even the costume in the end seems funny but the originality is there and all the characters seems to be looking really aged on those costumes.


no doubt since Avengers art director is really good so no wonder they will be getting the visual and art directorial as well.
i teared twice in 1917 movie,the first is when his Buddy died because of saving enemy's ass from the plane crash

and last is when he done Heroic job just trying to save the whole garrison from being salvaged and continuously when he met His Buddy's Brother and handed the dog tag and the ring.

Weird tradition to have to watch oscars with family but I actually also remember the same when I was very young! Back then of course we did not have computers and phones and devices,,, no internet just radio and television so I guess most families gathered around to watch something. When it was live it was even better but we actually watched the delayed telecast, but it was still a surprise (no internet?).

No bets for me. I have not even watched a single of those movies, how will I know who wins:)

I've just watched an episode of Honest Trailers when they analyzed Joker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fOCZS0J3qM). And the one thing that stayed in my mind was something about the skills of Joaquin Phoenix. He laughed maniacally. He laughed while crying. He laughed normally. He laughed as an effect of a disease. And he did all this at once.

If he's not gonna get The Oscar, there's something wrong with a world. #sorryleo

Jojo Rabbit is a good movie, (like all others from Taika Waititi, i suggest everyone to check his older movies, especially What We Do In The Shadows) but for me it is not Oscar material, in any category.


For me few scenes stand out in 1917:
-Scene where Blake and Schofield watch dogfight, and then plane goes down
-Night scene with ruined French town
-Soldier singing "Wayfaring Stranger" in the woods before attack. Very touching scene, probably best one in the film for me.
Perfect film to watch in cinema if possible, it would be shame to watch that home on TV.


Parasite is for me top 5 last year, and even though it isn't best film of the year for me, I wouldn't mind  if it wins Oscar, as i love pretty much everything what Bong Joon Ho makes. And it would also set precedent, as foreign film never won Oscar for best picture (Roma should have been first one last year).

Leo already got his oscar after so long and he has one, hell academy maybe just gave him one so people would shut up because I honestly think that he played in much better movies that he didn't won any. Joaquin Phoneix (dude has the coolest name ever) is the favorites in all sportsbooks for a reason, dude played in basically the most oscar movie ever oscared in oscars history, he will 100% get it for sure without a doubt. I have literally seen 1.01 for his win as odds, the worst I have seen was 1.20, that literally means he will get it without a doubt.

However, if we had to really pick anything else, I would still pick Adam Driver over Leo, leo was good and all but Adam Driver literally played his role out of park so good, for a dude who was a Marine while others worked on their theatre, he sure is better than most of the competition.

you said he already won ? why not give chance to others ? other that didnt experience to win a title yet . if he didnt win it does not mean that he is a bad actor but what if im only right ? that judges give chance to other actors to make them proud and worthy so that they can do thier best next time .


lol yeah the name is cool and catchy but aside from the name , he also played cool characters like the joker .speaking of joker , this is one of the hot movies that people are talking so this have a big chance of winning i guess

Its not actually weird yet there were people who do really love to watch these awards together with their families (not common somehow).
Even now we do have internet but family bonding times like this do exist.  :D

Some do like to bet on Oscars but majority wont and i dont know what makes them not to be interested about but honestly speaking
winning a bet in oscars is hard basing on experience.

I already gave my choices on previous page.No need to repeat it.

Comedy movies played by funny actors is worthy for our praises, and I hope there will be chances for them to enter the sets of winners for this Oscar awards. I can't give any further preference to which of them may go into the judges choices, but what I am wishing for that the deserving character must be given this kind opportunity for an award.

Wait, what? Mate I think you're a little bit confused (or it'e just me who got wrong interpretation). This year's Joker, with its lead actor Joaquin Phoenix, is not a comedy movie. It's genre is thriller with a twist of psycho :D.

Anyway, I also tink Joaquin deserve an Oscar's because he portrayed Joker very well which is very obvious on its ticket sales. But I'm just wondering what if the pulse of the mass will not be heard? A lot of people will get mad for sure ;D.

Sometimes it becomes which nominee was more popular among his peers for that given year, not how good his or her performance was in the film. In the best actor category, I reckon the winner is chosen by members of the academy who are also actors.

It's not just about whether he played in better movies when he didn't win Oscar (tbh for me Revenant is better than Aviator, Wolf of the Wall Street and Blood Diamond), what it matters is competition too. In 2004, Jamie Foxx was simply better in the "Ray". In 2007, Forrest Whitaker won, but it was kinda weak year, and wouldn't have been mistake if Leo won, or any other actor for that matter. In 2014 McConaughey kicked ass, no one else had any chance.
Imho, in 2015 that Oscar he won was well deserved, and not a compenstaion, despite what some people were talking. He did a good job there, and competition wasn't too tough either (i liked Fassbender in Steve Jobs , i think he also did a good job there.
And this  year, it will be between Phoenix and Driver,  and as long as Academy chooses one of those two, they won't miss.

were getting near the event yet the candidates still not getting close and it seems that Leonardo are going to win the best actor category .

though i have watched Joker also but i am very amused on how Leo portray the role in Once Upon a time.

i guess he will be on that winning,what you think guys?

This man is a certified couch potato. He knows his movies hehehe!

What would be your bets on the best costume design, best visual effects and best original score?

That's not far from truth, i do watch a lot of movies  ;D

For best costume design i would go with Little Women, for the best original score 1917 and for the visual effects i am kinda torn between 1917 and this latest SW film. While 1917 is for me the best movie of the year when it comes to tehnical aspects and the one i enjoyed the most in the cinema, so i would give it Oscar for effects too, but that's just my opinion. Bare in mind that i haven't seen Avengers:Endgame yet as i am not fan of those movies, and that one might be strong candidate too, maybe even bigger than the one  i mentioned.

Jojo Rabbit on best costume design has become 2nd favorite behind Little Women from 11.00 to 3.25. Bet for it next for the best production design category. 76.00 odds hehehe.

Yes! my vote is in Joker as well! The actor is good as well as how does the story flows and how it catches the attention of the viewers, here in us , it becomes one of the trending movie when it is showing in the cinemas, I would love to watch Parasite as well, it is an Asian movie that has been received many awards in US, many people are recommending it, I think they aren't over rated so I would watch it next week,since there is a special screening here in my country, due to public demand.

well jojo rabbit deserves being in the chosen if they win because the costume is really looking at the time it was played,the oldies look is very german  and even the war moves looks legit(though there are many comedy)i have watched the movie twice now because the copy in Movie123 is clear so winning this category is related to Jojo Rabbit.

I've seen different movies from the nominations, and it's unbelievable for me that the most likely winner is 1917 (I am talking about the Best Movie award right now). I mean, it's a beautiful movie, but it does not have anything too deep in it. Moreover, it's not very relevant today. Joker, on the other hand, is a breakthrough in villain portrayal, it's about a topic that is very relevant nowadays, and it is a kind of movie that has made huge impact on culture already. The odds for betting on Joker are amazing. Today I made my first bet, I put some money on Joker on Sportsbet.io. Let's see how it goes!

The reason why i dont bet up on oscars due to the reason about on how they do set out criterias.Most likely the winners are more on dramatic genre.
My choices are Joker and Once upon a time in Hollywood.When it comes to odds it is indeed attractive for joker.A few days more before the said event would
happen.I might consider or not to throw some dollars to bet.

If you are a bettor on this one, it will be more exciting to follow.
However, on my end, I'll just sit and relax and wait for the winners to be announced.
Because the film industry has their own criteria on how they choose the winners.
People outside their genre would find it hard to guess how their mind works.
I have watched most of the movies in the list so it will be interesting for me also to know the results.

Joaquin Phoenix really deserved that Oscar award because he did his best and we witnessed his acting skills, the facial expression, the emotion, the story the he wants to tell us, you can see it in every scene in The Joker Movie. Leonardo Dicaprio already won an Oscar in 2016 and this time Joaquin Phoenix is suitable to be an Oscar Award Winner. I know that Joaquin is expecting himself to win the award because he knew to himself that he did his part to become the best actor this year. He trained so hard, he push himself to the limit just for us to have the best movie that we want to see.


Let's hope that Joaquin won this time, I also placed a bet on him because it is very obvious that Joaquin literally entitled to be the winner. I think that he will have more project or movie to film and it is not impossible for him to get another award from it. He is a good actor but some of you just noticed and appreciated his skills just this year. I know him for so long and I watched most of his films and some of his movies are not that hyped but I already recognized him since I was young.

Odds update on my predictions for the minor categories.

Best production design - Jojo Rabbit 81.00
Best visual effects - Avengers: Endgame 4.00
Best costume design - Jojo Rabbit 3.75

I also added another bet. Best film editing - Parasite 2.01 hehehe.

All these odds are from Nitrogensports. Cloudbet also offers them. I am also waiting for @Ronnie of Cloudbet to post their predictions and analysis.

Actually I never bet in this kind award because they are art worker and should replace to entertainment us, the money came from ticket and promotion. But as movie fanatic I will say Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) and Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) 7.500 is the best plot in this event, both have quality to become best director 2020. I'm not focus with actor/ actress because all came and direct with amazing person we call director, great award this year and need to see with family and pop corn.

It's difficult to bet to. One reason is that Oscar Awards has been criticized to be biased, manipulated or paid to. Sometimes, it doesn't really make sense and the awards goes to those you don't expect.

Nevertheless, it's still up to you whether you'll risk the money.

ows really  ? were'd you get that source  . what i only know is that oscar awards is one of the prestige events same as on others like the miss u for example . so why woud i be thinking that its manipulated when its too huge  ? small events like local awards night maybe or local contest like ms. gay   .

 but its really difficult to bet indeed because the contenders are too heavy  , almost all of them are great actors and great actreses and thier movies were briliantly done  .

I am Asian and I believe in equality and diversity but even sometimes I feel like not only are things biased,,, sometimes just for the sake of diversity we can see some choices win and I do not want to get in trouble for saying so but sometimes that is how people win.

I hope they take the Joker's words properly and not just vote someone else because they feel the pressure to.

I agree. I am also Asian and I believe in equality amidst diversity. But aside from that, I also believe that everything should be done objectively. The problem is that instead of the typical bias over white actors, the pressure is growing to have "people of color" as winners. So instead of doing away with the existing bias and be totally objective on things, the tendency is to bend more on the other side, on giving the "people of color" some awards lest the entire organization and the bases of judgement are criticized for having a tinge of bias and racism. In the avoidance of this, objectivity might be sacrificed.

If the objective conclusion comes up with a set of winners without a single actor with a "color", that should not be a problem. And people should refrain from criticizing. But if the entire proceeding is characterized with bias, that's the time it should be criticized.

actually in past i have heard this same issues i jut cant remember when and where but i am sure Oscars had been questioned for their credibility,but of course nothing can confirm that because everyone can just throw stone to anyone like that.
but in this i agreed this year almost all the categories are being represented by greatest among all from the industry,so choosing one is really hard to decide but since this is gambling we need to put our bet or just skip the topic.

I'm deliberately going to avoid betting on Joker as a film winner but its still possible Pheonix does win the best actor award.    The reason I doubt it will occur is that the film is a little too dark, no problem but it has more of a specific appeal and in the oscars it comes from the industry itself.   I believe they do go for the most dramatic overall grand performance and production so by far the most likely film to sweep awards is 1917 as always war stays relevant.
  He was excellent in Gladiator and perhaps an even greater villian but that whole film matches the ceremony and grand scale I would most think wins.

I'm taking the outside odds on this one probably Parasite and a couple small bets for the others.  1917 is too much of a favourite to take the risk/reward.

Yep, 1917 with 1.65 odds is not the best bet, as you said risk/reward ratio is not good as there are few good candidates that could scoop award like Joker, Parasite, and even Marriage Story. Same goes for best actor/actress and best supporting actor/actress. For them odds are simply too low (below 1.10) to make it worthwhile.

In general it is problematic to bet on clear favorites when it comes to Oscar as odds are too low, and surprises are more possible than in for example football or basketball. Even highest amount of nominations doesn't guarantee you most wins, as we saw last year, when Roma won only 3/10, while The Favorite was even worse, winning only 1 Oscar out of 10 nominations. I am curious to see  how Joker will end up with 11 nominations.

I've been watching the ceremony live for 10 years or so, but this year was the first time I did not do that (I had important stuff at work, and since I live in Europe the Oscars are early in the morning). Instead, it was the first time I was betting on them. I guess I should've just waited for the results to be announced and relaxed, 'cause I lost all of the bets  ;D It's an interesting thing because even the 'safe bets' were not that safe this year. There've been at least a couple of nominations (including the main one) that resulted in the winning of someone who was not the most likely winner.

Oh if I knew that there is a place where I could bet with crypto for OSCARS , I would have done it...I would have won with 1917...this movies was absolute amazing when I watched it and I would watch it again. The emotional roller-coaster that the viewer must endure its painful as WW1 was really cruel and the movie kinda showed this to us.

Anyway big congrats for those who won the Oscar's especially to my favorite winner Joaquin who absolute nailed the Joker movie with his uniqueness and his charisma. Also big congrats to Brad Pitt as I never watched multiple movies in 1 movie so Once Upon A Time was a great film. Still my favorite movies this year will go to The Irishman with absolute 3 legendary actors <3.

I also placed some bets on the oscars, but also lost 70%  :P. A couple of surprising winners this year, mainly for best film.
Also surprised that The Irishman didn't win even 1 oscar, quite a shame actually. Great movie, great actors, great director, what else do you want ?

Are you kidding?  Where did you check the odds?
The favorites has been the winner in almost all the categories! There have been just few exceptions in the big categories.
But all the small and technical categories have been safe bets with top dog winners.

I let you in on a secret, safe odds are over rated because the pay off vs the risk of it not actually winning makes it a bad bet all round.   You cannot really win anything because it requires too much capital risked to get anything back.    I really dont like the odds that come with popular choices, avoid it imo unless you have certainty of that choice.   Worst thing in the world is to form an opinion based on many others agreeing or recommending a choice, I mean this for all sorts of mainstream or sports type bets.   I really think good value bets can come with unpopular and the unknown but I guess its harder and requires alot of patience to skip where there is no good choice.

The movie Parasite has won this year's Oscars best picture. I still haven't watched the movie so it got me thinking if it's worth to watch. And for the best actor Joker, Joacquin Phoenix won it. Congratulations to the bettors who won also with their picks for the oscars.
List of winners - Oscars 2020 winners: The complete list of results (https://www.cnet.com/news/oscars-2020-winners-the-full-list-of-results/)

I did not win anything on the oscars this year hehehe.

@passwordnow. Parasite also won best director which was very surprising for it to win the 2 categories if it was also nominated and won the best foreign film category.

also have not watched the movie but friend of mine tells me it is a good but did not expect to win over the best Hollywood actors,directors and Teams this is remarkable because i only expect them to be at least nominated is the highest they can get but now?WOW this is amazing Job and very unexpected scene in Oscars Night of awarding for sure.

i am expecting at least Once upon a time,Joker,1917,jojo rabbit and midway will take more awards and will dominate the whole Night.as i have already watched these movies and really all are great.

For Oscar 2020 the Joker has been dominated the categories with 11 categories including the best picture and the best actor but so far of i'm not mistaken this movie only can win for 2 the categories for the best actor and the best original songs but i have to says this movie was very succesful and Joker can surpassing superheroes popularity as the villain

yeah Best original Music score is one of the award taken by joker but the most important one is the Best Actor that has a very tough competition against Leonardo DiCaprio .

Joaquin Phoenix still get the Award and he really deserves this as i have watched the Joker couple of times(but Leo is also very competent in this category).

and that 11 categories nomination is a proof of how good the movie was.

It's okay man hehe. Yes, I forgot to mention about winning the best director so that's another impact and exciting part why this movie has won many titles.

I have seen post on social medias that "if you're looking for a great movie, watch this" and that got me thinking because I have no idea of that movie before but now it makes more interesting.

@passwordnow. A foreign movie winning best picture, best director and best foreign film makes it appear that american cinema is not as creative as it used to be. They are presently only good in creating action comic book movies hehehe.

In any case, watch Snowpiercer from the same director as Parasite. The cinematography goes from left to right when the characters go from a lower social class to higher instead of bottom to top similar to Parasite hehe.

I will lock this thread after some discussions.

Yeah Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the legandary actors  and it's really tough to compete with these guys but it's nice to know that newer actors are now showing what they've got just only to prove thier worth , like this guy joaquin and his joker movie .  

11 category nomination  is alot  .  Before I have voted for this movie but I didn't know back then that it has 11 nomination but now , after knowing it , I am now more confident with my pick  .

There are good American movies, I do not criticizing American movie is justified here.

Bong Joon-ho is a great visionary and an awesome director. It was unfortunate that his earlyier movies were never selected for Oscars. Some of his must see movies are Mother 2009, Snowpiercer 2013  and Okja 2017. Mother 2009 is Korean movie, you should watch this movie first.

i don't think that American movies are less creative now it just happen that foreign movies are very productive and really competent enough to Beat Big names in movie industries,and also this is a Proof how Functional Oscars in regards Choosing the right winner in each categories.
thanks for sharing yeah i will look at this later when i'm Home to check how good this director really is.
yeah it is better to lock the thread but Give others opportunity to express their sentiments since the result is shocking and really unexpected .

i have watched Parasite, and for me, it is not much of a movie, story is unusual, but acting is not that good at all, and these kind of stories you can watch in a tele-novela always, this is just extremely shown with murders at the end, and tele-novela do not have violent scenes at all, but these kind of stories are there

I think the other film was just better than the other nominees but they are also good in sci-fi movies too.  :D
Maybe the criteria today was changed for some reasons, I don't know how they choose but it's the majority that says the film was worthy to take all of those awards.

But films like that give them a lot of money so they can continue to produce films as well.

I think the judges have other opinions why Parasite won an Oscar and could the foreign film give a different feel to other holywood films, It also provides another assessment for South Korea which is more famous for K-POP.

I think Parasite winning was part of the diversity meta thats been a thing in recent years, on a number of vectors.    So this year it was multi cultural and we broke a 90 year trend of mainly favouring USA, everything in the world has self bias so I never really blamed the Oscars for being quite clearly leaning towards its own films every year.    The odds were better then rated for this reason though, so I picked parasite but only as an outsider underdog bet.   Paid off all my losing bets and some extra :)

This breaks down his 7 movies and I have been his fan for some time now

All 7 Bong Joon Ho Movies, Ranked
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/bong-joon-ho-movies-ranked

This might be the case too, it might be the part of Hollywood agenda, or simply opening to the world, as some great  foreign directors in the past never had chance to win best picture. So even if it might be a part of some  agenda, it is still not a bad move as Parasite is a good movie and worth giving Oscar ( not my favorite tho).


I don't like any list  of Bong best films that doesn't have Memories of Murder at the top. That's a true masterpiece, and by far his best film, followed by Mother, and then Parasite at the 3rd place.


There are few other South Korean directors  beside Bong that are good starting point if someone wants to go deeper into South Korea cinema:
Ki-duk Kim (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1104118/?ref_=tt_ov_dr): Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003), Pieta (2012), 3-Iron (2004), Address Unknown (2001)
Chan-wook Park (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661791/?ref_=tt_ov_dr):Oldboy, The Handmaiden (2016), Joint Security Area (2000), Thirst (2009)
Chang-dong Lee (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496969/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0): Burning (2018)- for me the best Korean movie in the last few years, but unfortunately didn't even get Oscar nomination for foreign film,  Oasis (2002), Peppermint Candy (1999), Secret Sunshine (2007)

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Considering the fact that Tarantino said that he will  (probably) make  only 10 movies, and we are at number 9 at the moment (he doesn't count My Best Friend's Birthday),  he  might end up  career without winning best picture Oscar, and join group of some great names like Hitchcock, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Leone, Welles, Fellini, Altman etc. I wouldn't thought so after watching Pulp Fiction back in 1994/1995, i was certain this guys wins an Oscar soon.

The judges have their own reasons why they've chose Parasite to win several titles. It's all worth it and they deserve it and I think this will push the Koreans and other neighboring countries to create more quality films. There's a purpose one they've won and this will encourage many of the filmmakers to make films quality over quantity. We will see if next Oscars, we'll see another Korean film or it will be from another country this time.

I've already put my choice here and everything missed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217702.msg53614793#msg53614793).  I didn't expect "Parasite" to win in the Best Picture, Best Director, International feature films & Best original screenplay.  This is very good progress for the South Korean film industry.

Not my favorite as well and it may be the same views of so many gamblers and betting sites who make such discussion s about different movies and moviemakers so it's all about the one who is doing the best. So it's my own views that parasite should be nominated in the list of best oscar award movies I hope it will win it this year and will be the best movie in 2020 oscar award