Not to be outdone by the categories of awards themselves, a betting company in the UK is creating their own inventive assembliges to incentivize anyone who wishes to gamble this year. At Bodog.com (supposedly the world’s largest betting brand) instead of voting for the usual “Best Film”, “Best Director”, “Actor” or “Actress”, one can place a wager on the following:
- How many of the big 3 award winners (Director, Actor, Actress) will visibly cry when receiving their award?
- None: 4/7
- 1: 3/2
- 2: 5/1
- All 3: 20/1
- Oscars Specials – How many times will the word Thanks or Thank You be used in the acceptance speech of the Big 3 Awards (Director, Actor, Actress)?
- Over/Under 20: 10/11
- What will be the Predominant Color of Natalie Portman’s Dress at the Awards Ceremony?
- Black 3/1
- White 3/1
- Blue 4/1
- Cream/Beige 9/2
- Pink 9/2
- Red 5/1
- Will Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds attend the Oscars together? Yes 6/1
- Will any Oscar recipients fall on their way to the stage? Yes 15/1
- Will Geoffrey Rush be wearing a hat? Yes 6/4
Now you may be asking yourself “why”? Well, apparently there is a feeling that the Oscars look even more predictable than normal this year (Colin Firth is 1/50 to win Best Actor!) so the categories were put togteher to help the long evening be a little more entertaining. Perhaps our own moviewalla listeners could come up with a few inventive categories of our own???
