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Typically, at the beginning of each year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presents the Academy Awards ceremony where the best films, actors, directors, and more receive the prestigious Oscar award for their outstanding work.
In June of 2020, however, the Academy announced that it would be postponing the ceremony from its originally scheduled date of February 28, 2021, to April 25 “due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema, thereby extending the eligibility period for feature films through to February 28, 2021.”
The nominees were officially announced in the middle of March, and now we have until the 25th of April to place bets on which of these nominees will be winners, and to help with that we present our predictions, odds and picks for the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards.
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2021 Academy Awards | |
What | 2021 Academy Awards |
Where | Los Angeles Dolby Theatre & Union Station |
When | Sunday, April 25, 2021 |
How to watch | ABC |
2021 Best Picture Nominees | Odds |
Nomadland | -670 BET NOW |
The Trial of the Chicago 7 | +650 BET NOW |
Minari | +1400 BET NOW |
Promising Young Woman | +1400 BET NOW |
Mank | +2800 BET NOW |
Judas & the Black Messiah | +3000 BET NOW |
Sound of Metal | +5000 BET NOW |
The Father | +8000 BET NOW |
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It’s a slow-paced, downer of a story, but the favorite to win here is Nomadland starting Frances McDormand, a beautifully filmed drama that captures the restlessness left in the wake of the Great Recession.
Next in line to win this category is The Trial of the Chicago 7, an actor’s showcase starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Keaton that covers the 1969 court case where the federal government charged seven protestors who participated the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago with conspiracy.
The Father is the longshot in this category, the “devastatingly empathetic portrayal of dementia” starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman that explores the relationship between father and daughter during a heart-breaking time of their lives.
Nomadland -670
2021 Best Documentary Nominees | Odds |
My Octopus Teacher | -335 BET NOW |
Time | +250 BET NOW |
Collective | +800 BET NOW |
Crip Camp | +1700 BET NOW |
The Mole Agent | +3300 BET NOW |
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In the favorite documentary to win, My Octopus Teacher takes us on a fun underwater journey with a diver to a kelp forest off the coast of South Africa to experience the unique world of an octopus.
The other close favorite to win this category is Time, a gritty look at the American Justice System chronicling Sibil Fox Richardson’s refusal to quit fighting for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence for armed bank robbery.
In The Mole Agent, audiences get to experience the charming story of a ‘spy’ in a nursing home, but this documentary is really a treatise on how the elderly are treated (and sometimes mistreated) nowadays.
Time -250
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2021 Best International Film Nominees | Odds |
Another Round | -670 BET NOW |
Quo Vadis, Aida? | +550 BET NOW |
Collective | +800 BET NOW |
Better Days | +1700 BET NOW |
The Man Who Sold His Skin | +2000 BET NOW |
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Mads Mikkelsen stars in this entertaining film as a Copenhagen high-school teacher who gets the idea that day drinking might sharpen his faculties and the results are often hilarious at the surface but dark underneath.
Quo Vadis, Aida? is a gripping war drama that focuses on a genocide-fueled conflict in Serbia and many of the cruelties and devastations that result, all told through the story of a woman named Aida who is a U.N. translator in the small town of Srebrenica.
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A cautionary tale about the fine line between art and commerce, The Man Who Sold His Skin is a quirky satire that has received mixed reviews and is the longshot here.
Quo Vadis, Aida? +550
2021 Best Animated Feature Nominees | Odds |
Soul | -5000 BET NOW |
Wolfwalkers | +700 BET NOW |
Onward | +2000 BET NOW |
Over the Moon | +2500 BET NOW |
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | +3300 BET NOW |
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Soul takes us on a soul’s afterlife adventure, this animated masterpiece by Pixar uses jazz and metaphysics to explore the themes of life and death, the clear favorite in this category according to the odds makers.
Wolfwalkers is a Celtic-inspired adventure that features ancient traditions, profound philosophies and excellent voice work while offering viewers a true visual “feast for the eyes.”
Based on the television series Shaun the Sheep, Farmageddon is a family film that the kids will love, charming and sly as usual, though some critics feel it does not quite measure up to its predecessor.
Soul -5000
2021 Best Original Song Nominees | Odds |
Speak Now (One Night in Miami) | -200 BET NOW |
lo Si (The Life Ahead) | +225 BET NOW |
Husavik (Eurovision Song Contest: Song of Ice and Fire) | +400 BET NOW |
Fight For You (Judas & the Black Messiah) | +1700 BET NOW |
Hear My Voice (The Trial of the Chicago 7) | +3300 BET NOW |
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The song Speak Now from the original motion picture soundtrack of the film One Night in Miami is performed by Leslie Odom Jr. and has already won the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Song.
lo Si (Seen) is from the original motion picture soundtrack of the film The Life Ahead and is performed by the artist Laura Pausini, already a winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Satellite Award for Best Original Song.
Hear My Voice is from the original motion picture soundtrack of the film The Trial of the Chicago 7 and is performed by the artist Celeste.
lo Si +225
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