{"id":3401,"date":"2009-01-24T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/2009-academy-awards-las-vegas-odds\/"},"modified":"2009-01-24T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T21:24:00","slug":"2009-academy-awards-las-vegas-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/2009-academy-awards-las-vegas-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Academy Awards Las Vegas Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Though movie fans wait for most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a> to post the Vegas odds for the 2009 Academy Awards in their <font color=black><span style='color:black'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/entertainment-betting-odds.aspx\">entertainment and political betting odds<\/a><\/span><\/font> section, we do have the betting lines for the 2009 Oscars courtesy of Grandmaster <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">sports handicapper<\/a> Joe Duffy. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For the most prestigious of the awards, Best Picture, <span class=SpellE>Slumdog<\/span> Millionaire is the overwhelming favorite at 1-3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is 7-2, followed by Milk at 9-1, Frost\/Nixon at 12-1, and the Reader at 18-1. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Mickey <span class=SpellE>Rourke<\/span> (The Wrestler) is likely to get the Oscar for Best Actor as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">oddsmakers<\/a> have him at 8-11. He&#8217;s followed by Sean Penn (Milk) at 13-8, Frank <span class=SpellE>Langella<\/span> (Frost\/Nixon) at 7-1, Brad Pitt (Benjamin Button) 14-1, and Richard Jenkins (The Visitor) at 20-1. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Other favorites in the major Academy Awards categories include Kate <span class=SpellE>Winslet<\/span> at 8-11 and Anne Hathaway at 7-4. Best Director Vegas lines has Danny Boyle at 2-5 and David Fincher at 7-2 leading the way. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The late Heath Ledger brings new meaning to overwhelming favorite. He is 1-14 to win Best Supporting Actor, odds not seen much since Michael Phelps in the Olympics. The Best Actress has Penelope Cruz at a 4-5 favorite.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>American Idol 2009 odds will likely come out soon and <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font color=blue><span style='color:blue; font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b> and the betting <span class=SpellE>blog<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/\">JoeDuffy.net<\/a> will report them when posted.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\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\/2009-academy-awards-las-vegas-odds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2009 Academy Awards Las Vegas Odds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}