The 87th Academy Awards take place tonight and Eddie Redmayne is the bookmakers’ favourite to scoop the Oscar for Best Actor.
The 2015 Oscars ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honours the best films of 2014 and takes place tonight at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles (start time 17:30 PST/03:30 GMT).
Redmayne is the bookmakers’ favourite to scoop the Oscar for Best actor following his recent BAFTA success.
It has been a remarkable few months for the British actor, whose odds of winning the gong at Christmas were still as long as 11/8 behind odds-on favourite, Michael Keaton.
William Hill spokesman Joe Crilly told Crunchsports.com: “Eddie has had plenty of time to perfect the winner’s speech that seems almost inevitable now.
“We cannot see anyone clawing back the deficit now.”
It looks as though the rest of the awards will be spread between a number of different films with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu favourite to scoop the best director gong for Birdman, Julianne Moore favourite for best actress for Still Alice and Birdman favourite for the Best Picture – but only just.
Crilly added: “Birdman just about has the upper hand in the Best Picture category over Boyhood, but not since Crash vs Brokeback Mountain has there been a race this tight for the biggest prize of the night.”
Latest Oscar odds:
Prices courtesy of William Hill
Best picture: 4/6 Birdman; 6/5 Boyhood; 40/1 American Sniper; 40/1 The Grand Budapest Hotel; 40/1 The Imitation Game; 100/1 Selma; 100/1 The Theory of Everything; 100/1 Whiplash
Best actor: 1/3 Eddie Redmayne; 9/4 Michael Keaton; 25/1 Bradley Cooper; 40/1 Benedict Cumberbatch; 100/1 Steve Carell
Best actress: 1/50 Julianne Moore; 16/1 Reese Witherspoon; 25/1 Rosamund Pike; 40/1 Felicity Jones; 50/1 Marion Cotillard
Best director: 4/6 Aleandro Gonzalez Inarritu; 11/10 Richard Linklater; 40/1 Wes Anderson; 50/1 Bennett Miller; 50/1 Morten Tyldum
Best supporting actor: 1/33 JK Simmons; 14/1 Edward Norton; 20/1 Mark Ruffalo; 40/1 Ethan Hawke; 50/1 Robert Duvall
Best supporting actress: 1/50 Patricia Arquette; 20/1 Emma Stone; 33/1 Keira Knightly; 40/1 Laura Dern; 40/1 Meryl Streep
