{"id":1545,"date":"2009-01-24T16:23:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T21:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/vegas-odds-2009-oscar-awards-betting-lines-posted\/"},"modified":"2009-01-24T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T21:23:49","slug":"vegas-odds-2009-oscar-awards-betting-lines-posted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/vegas-odds-2009-oscar-awards-betting-lines-posted\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Odds: 2009 Oscar Awards Betting Lines Posted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><\/p>\n<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Though movie fans wait for most <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a> to post the Vegas odds for<br \/>\nthe 2009 Academy Awards in their <span style='color:black'><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/entertainment-betting-odds.aspx\">entertainment<br \/>\nand political betting odds<\/a><\/span> section, we do have the betting lines for<br \/>\nthe 2009 Oscars courtesy of Grandmaster <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">sports handicapper<\/a> Joe Duffy. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>For the most prestigious of the awards, Best Picture, <span\nclass=SpellE>Slumdog<\/span> Millionaire is the overwhelming favorite at 1-3.<br \/>\nThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button is 7-2, followed by Milk at 9-1,<br \/>\nFrost\/Nixon at 12-1, and the Reader at 18-1. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Mickey <span class=SpellE>Rourke<\/span> (The Wrestler) is<br \/>\nlikely to get the Oscar for Best Actor as the <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">oddsmakers<\/a> have him at 8-11. He\u2019s<br \/>\nfollowed by Sean Penn (Milk) at 13-8, Frank <span class=SpellE>Langella<\/span><br \/>\n(Frost\/Nixon) at 7-1, Brad Pitt (Benjamin Button) 14-1, and Richard Jenkins<br \/>\n(The Visitor) at 20-1. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Other favorites in the major Academy Awards categories<br \/>\ninclude Kate <span class=SpellE>Winslet<\/span> at 8-11 and Anne Hathaway at<br \/>\n7-4. Best Director Vegas lines has Danny Boyle at 2-5 and David Fincher at 7-2<br \/>\nleading the way. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The late Heath Ledger brings new meaning to overwhelming<br \/>\nfavorite. He is 1-14 to win Best Supporting Actor, odds not seen much since<br \/>\nMichael Phelps in the Olympics. The Best Actress has Penelope Cruz at a 4-5<br \/>\nfavorite.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>American Idol 2009 odds will likely come out soon and <b\nstyle='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='color:blue'><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/b> and<br \/>\nthe betting <span class=SpellE>blog<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/\">JoeDuffy.net<\/a><br \/>\nwill report them when posted.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though movie fans wait for most sportsbooks to post the Vegas odds for the 2009 Academy Awards in their entertainment and political betting odds section, we do have the betting lines for the 2009 Oscars courtesy of Grandmaster sports handicapper Joe Duffy. For the most prestigious of the awards, Best Picture, Slumdog Millionaire is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/vegas-odds-2009-oscar-awards-betting-lines-posted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vegas Odds: 2009 Oscar Awards Betting Lines Posted<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[253,255,254],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news","tag-academy-awards-odds","tag-academy-awards-vegas-line","tag-oscars-lines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}