Oscar Odds

Here are some of the odds on tonight's Oscars:

Best Picture
The Aviator 1/2
Million Dollar Baby 7/5
Sideways 9/1
Finding Neverland 45/1
Ray 5/9

Best bet is Million Dollar Baby

Best Director
Martin Scorsese (The Aviator) 1/6
Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby) 5/6
Alexander Payne (Sideways) 30/1
Mike Leigh (Vera Drake) 60/1
Taylor Hackford (Ray) 25/1

Eastwood should have won last year - so he should get it but has Scorsese ever won? This is a toss up.

Best Actor
Jamie Foxx (Ray) 1/20
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator) 8/1
Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) 30/1
Johnny Depp (Finding Neverland) 30/1
Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby) 22/

Everybody is saying Jamie Foxx - so I'm going the other way and saying either Don Cheadle in a surprise or Johnny Depp for more of a life-time achievement deal.

Best Actress
Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) 1/12
Annette Bening (Being Julia) 3/1
Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake) 12/1
Catalina Sandino Moerno (Maria Full of Grace) 50/1
Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) 25/1

Really - who cares? Swank will probably win but since I think she has a "butter" face - I'm going with Bening in another of those "lifetime achievement" awards.