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Carrie Stroup here reporting on the latest Academy Awards betting odds and following No Country for Old Men winning the Screen Writers' Guild Award Sunday night, the film has been made a favorite by oddsmakers at Sportsbook.com. No Country for Old Men comes in at 1-3 odds, requiring a $3 bet to win $1 (plus you get your initial $3 bet back should it win Best Film). Initially, No Country for Old Men opened as only a slight favorite when the Academy Awards odds were first released last week. Something I would like to stress off the bat is that never before has Gambling911.com received so much early interest in the year's Oscar betting. This is going to be one heck of a year for wagering on the big show, assuming of course it goes off as planned with the current Writer's Strike that I am in full support of as someone who has appeared on television shows such as Scrubs and films like “Starsky and Hutch". Ahem, I was passed up for a nomination in that film but no hard feelings here. So what's No Country for Old Men about? Set along the United States–Mexico border in 1980, the story concerns an illicit drug deal gone wrong in a remote desert location. The title comes from the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats. It was directed by one of my favorite brother tandems - Joel and Ethan Coen. The film draws heavily on themes of chance and fate.
Roger Ebert called
it "as good a film
as the Coen brothers
. . . have ever
made." A Guardian
journalist said the
film proved "that
the Coens' technical
abilities, and their
feel for a
landscape-based
western classicism
reminiscent of
Anthony Mann and Sam
Peckinpah, are
matched by few
living directors."
Sportsbook.com updated its odds for the 2008 Academy Awards late Monday January 28, 2008, with odds subject to change. Therefore it is important to lock in your bets and claim your Carrie Stroup 10% signup bonus.
Atonement 5 - 1 Get All The Latest Academy Awards Betting Odds News From Gambling911.com ---- Carrie Stroup, Gambling911.com Originally published January 28, 2008 6:25 pm EST
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No
Country For Old Men
Now The Clear
Favorite Among
Oddsmakers