Undoubtedly you’ve been inundated by critics and pundits giving their best guess on who will win or who should win the Academy Awards. In most categories, the winners are a foregone conclusion. So why watch this year’s Oscar broadcast? For the prop bets, of course! The odds-makers at SportsBettingDime.com have placed odds on the likelihood the following propositions come to pass. So whip out that wallet and make a few bucks of your friends and family. Here are the 2018 Academy Award Prop Bets and Odds.
Odds on the subject of Jimmy Kimmel’s first joke:
Himself – 7/1
Trump – 12/1
Last year’s Best Picture fiasco – 15/1
Russia – 15/1
Harvey Weinstein – 24/1
Matt Damon – 24/1
Jennifer Lawrence – 35/1
Odds Jimmy Kimmel will say these words or phrases during the monologue:
Guns: 1/9
NRA: 1/3
Harvey Weinstein: 1/1
Accountant: 2/1
La La Land: 3/1
Moonlight: 3/1
MeToo: 4/1
Time’s Up: 5/1
Warren Beatty: 5/1
PriceWaterhouseCoopers: 5/1
Over/Under number of times Kimmel says ‘Trump’ during monologue: 1.5
Over/Under length of Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue: 8.5 minutes
Odds wrong winner is announced for any Oscar: 75/1
Odds President Trump tweets during Oscars broadcast: 1/4
Odds of the color of Jimmy Kimmel’s tux:
Black – 1/19
White – 24/1
Other – 99/1
Odds Frances McDormand wears a dress vs a pant-suit:
Dress – 1/10
Pantsuit – 11/1
Other – 124/1
Color of Frances McDormand’s outfit:
Dark Blue – 3/2
Light Blue – 3/1
Black – 4/1
Field – 17/3
Odds ABC’s Oscars broadcast draws more viewers than last year (32.9 million, second lowest ever): 4/1
Odds any award presenter or winner suffers wardrobe malfunction or falls on the way to the stage: 15/1
Odds an award winner mentions “the President” or “Trump” in their acceptance speech: 4/1
Over/Under on the number of times Dave Chappelle is censored: 1.5
Odds Tiffany Haddish plugs Groupon: 9/1
Over/Under on the # of “alrights” from Matthew McConaughey: 2.5
Odds Jane Fonda mentions Trump, #timesup or Grace & Frankie first:
TimesUp: 1/2
Trump: 3/1
Grace & Frankie: 10/1
Odds Rita Moreno references West Side Story: 3/1
Odds Rita Moreno or Gina Rodriguez references DACA: 6/1
Odds Lin-Manuel Miranda mentions Puerto Rico: 2/1
Odds Lin-Manuel Miranda Raps: 15/1
Odds Helen Mirren Raps: 99/1
Odds to win most Oscars:
The Shape of Water (13 nominations) – 1/2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (7 nominations) – 3/1
Dunkirk (8 nominations) – 10/1
Odds Shape of Water breaks the record for most Oscars won by a single movie: 500/1.
(Three films have won 11 Academy Awards: Ben-Hur (1959); Titanic (1997); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003))
Over/under Oscars won by:
Star Wars (4 nominations) – 1.5
Odds Timothee Chalamet becomes youngest to win Best Actor:
this year: 15/1
in the next 6 years: 8/1
