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The 2008 Oscar Winners were coming in following a record shattering day here at Gambling911.com. This is Carrie Stroup and we have been slammed all day as millions of people take part in the ultimate celebration of the Oscars - Academy Awards betting. Oscar betting inquiries amazingly surpassed that of the Super Bowl with over a hundred inquiries registered per minute the hours leading into awards show. There were betting options in nearly a dozen different categories and upsets started happening early. The first award given out was on "best animated feature" with Ratatouille the huge -1000 favorite. Ratatouille was so good many people thought it should have been nominated for a "best picture" award. It won for "best animated feature".
Ratatouille is the
Pixar animated
feature that tells
the story of Rémy
(voiced by Patton
Oswalt), a rat
living in Paris who
wants to be a chef,
but is pressured to
do otherwise by the
disapproval of his
family and the
prejudice of humans.
It was released on
June 29, 2007 in the
United States, to
both critical
acclaim and box
office success.
Peter and the Wolf won for "best short film animation", with betting odds featured at some online gambling websites. It was the even favorite coming in. The winner for "supporting actress" was Tilda Swinton in a complete Oscar upset. Her role in Michael Clayton paid $800 for every $100 bet. This was the most competitive category. The "best actress" award was won by Marion Cotillard (nominated for La Vie En Rose) and paying $200 for every $100 bet. This was somewhat of a surprise as Julie Christie was the slight favorite to win. The Counterfeiters won for "best foreign film" as the favorite. As for the "best actor" Oscar, that went to Daniel Day-Lewis, who was the huge favorite to win for There Will be Blood. He was one of the closest to a "lock" outside of Bardem in this year's Academy Awards. "Best director" went to Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men and no real surprise here. They were around a 1/3 favorite to win the Oscar in this category. And the big one...."best picture". That went to No Country for Old Men, which was the favorite. The film was written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen and stars Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem, who won for "best supporting actor" earlier in the evening.
No Country for Old
Men draws heavily on
McCarthy's themes of
chance and fate; it
tells the story of a
drug deal gone wrong
and the ensuing
cat-and-mouse drama
as three men
crisscross each
other's paths in the
desert landscape of
1980 West Texas. --- Carrie Stroup, Gambling911.com
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2008 Oscar Winners
(And Payouts)