2015 Academy Award Betting – Best Actor Oscars Odds

Redmayne backed for Oscars glory after Golden Globe triumph

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It would really be a shot in the arm for British cinema – on a par with the self-congratulatory back-slapping that followed the success of Chariots For Fire in 1982 – if Eddie Redmayne won the Best Actor award at this year’s Oscars. Redmayne, best known for previous film roles in The Other Boleyn Girl, My Week With Marilyn and Les Miserables, is also an accomplished theatre actor and follows in the tradition of notable knights of the realm Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Kenneth Branagh in being equally at home on stage or screen.

Recently-married Redmayne has just pipped fellow Brits Benedict Cumberbatch and David Oyelowo to the Best Actor in a Drama award at the Golden Globes for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in Theory Of Everything. Redmayne was given unfettered access to the Hawking family in pre-production and gives a convincing portrayal of one of the most charismatic scientists of modern times. The Golden Globes are normally a good indicator of what will happen at the Oscars but Redmayne won’t have things his own way on the big night in Hollywood itself as Michael Keaton is also widely touted to receive the Best Actor statuette at the Academy Awards.

Keaton has always had that something a bit different to other actors – Tim Burton‘s original Batman and Beetlejuice being prime examples – and is on top form in Birdman, a black comedy about a washed-up actor who actually starts to believe he is the superhero he once played on screen. Keaton has never been nominated for an Oscar before but Ladbrokes make him their 10/11 favourite to be named Best Actor with Redmayne at 11/10 with bet365 and Coral. Ladbrokes have him at the same odds as Keaton. Needless to say, it is big odds the rest but Britons figure prominently in the betting with Cumberbatch at 16/1 with Ladbrokes, Oyelowo at 33/1 with Coral and Ralph Fiennes at 66/1 with both the aforementioned firms for his role in the popular Grand Budapest Hotel. Alfred Molina is 100/1 with Coral, Ladbrokes and William Hill and Andy Serkis, Colin Firth and Christopher Plummer all rated as 100/1 chances.

The Best Actress award is already done and dusted according to bookmakers with William Hill’s 1/14 the best odds that you’ll get about Julianne Moore picking up the big prize for her role as an Alzheimer’s victim in Still Alice.