2025 Academy Awards: How To Watch, Betting Odds, Will A Film About Donald Trump Win Any Awards?

The 2025 Academy Awards will be held on Sunday March 2. Here's a look at how to watch the awards ceremony and how movie fans have more ways to bet on the potential winners.

How to Watch the 2025 Academy Awards: The 2025 Academy Awards will air on ABC and stream on Hulu live for the first time. Both units are owned by The Walt Disney Company DIS, one of the largest media companies in the world.

The awards start at 7 p.m. ET with the ceremony expected to last around three and a half hours.

Disney has reported that it sold out of advertising inventory for both ABC and Hulu ahead of the ceremony. The media company sought out $1.7 million to $2.3 million per 30-second advertisement, as reported by Variety.

Betting Odds: Movie fans will have several ways to bet on the 2025 Academy Awards with sportsbooks like DraftKings Inc DKNG and BetMGM, which is a joint venture from Entain and MGM Resorts International MGM offering betting on the major awards.

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket also offer betting odds on the larger races with contracts paying out $1 for correct picks or $0 for incorrect picks.

Here are the current betting odds from DraftKings for the top categories:

Best Picture

"Anora," Neon: -200
"Conclave," Distributed by Focus Features, a unit of Comcast Corporation CMCSA: +225
"The Brutalist," A24: +600
"A Complete Unknown," Searchlight Pictures (Disney): +3,500
"Wicked," Universal Pictures (Comcast): +5,000
“Emilia Pérez," Netflix NFLX: +6,500
"The Substance," Mubi: +8,000
"Dune: Part Two," Warner Bros. Pictures WBD: +10,000
"I'm Still Here," Distributed by Sony Group Corp SONY: +10,000
"Nickel Boys," Amazon MGM Studios, a unit of Amazon.com Inc AMZN: +15,000

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”: -250
Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”: +150
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”: +1,800
Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”: +3,500
Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”: +5,000

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Demi Moore, “The Substance”: -250
Mikey Madison, “Anora”: +175
Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”: +1,100
Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”: +3,500
Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”: +5,000

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”: -3,500
Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”: +1,100
Yura Borisov, “Anora”: +1,800
Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”: +2,000
Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”: +2,000

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”: -2,500
Ariana Grande, “Wicked”: +800
Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”: +1,400
Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”: +2,000
Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”: +2,500

Best Director

Sean Baker, “Anora”: -175
Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”: +135
Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez”: +2,000
James Mangold, “A Complete Unknown”: +2,500
Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”: +2,500

Kalshi has betting odds on many of the top award categories, including Best Picture Odds listed below:

"Anora": 63%
"Conclave": 21%
"The Brutalist": 13%
"A Complete Unknown": 1%
"The Substance": 1%
"Emilia Pérez": 1%
"Dune: Part Two": <1%
"Wicked": <1%
"I'm Still Here": <1%
"Nickel Boys": <1%

Along with prediction markets for individual award categories, Kalshi also offers a betting market for "Anora" and "The Brutalist" head-to-head for more wins at this year's award show. At the time of writing, "Anora" and the films being tied both have 32% with "The Brutalist" having 22%.

Kalshi users can also predict how many awards many of the top films will take home.

John Ewing from BetMGM broke down where the betting money stood as of Friday in a series of tweets.

Best Actress: 58% of the money on Madison at +220 odds
Best Actor: 53% of bets on Chalamet (+200), while 72% of the money is on Brody (-250)
Best Director: 43% of bets on Baker (-220)
Best Picture: 83% of money on "Anora" (-210)

Key Items to Watch: Emilia Pérez led the overall nominations with 13 nods, setting the record for the most nominations for a non-English language film.

Actress Karla Sofía Gascón also became the first openly trans actor ever nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the film. Gascón has become the subject of recent controversy over past tweets that were found.

The film helped Netflix rank first among studios with 16 total nominations in the main categories, ranking second was A24 with 14 followed by Universal with 13.

Netflix has received plenty of nominations at the Academy Awards including for Best Picture, but has yet to win this top prize. Apple Inc became the first streaming company to win Best Picture in 2022 with “CODA.”

Last year’s most nominated film “Oppenheimer” took home seven wins including Best Picture from its 13 nominations.

Ranking second in overall nominations were “Wicked” and “The Brutalist,” which both received 10 nominations. "The Brutalist" won Best Picture-Drama at the Golden Globes, but has recently come into controversy for its use of artificial intelligence in the film, as reported by Deadline.

Another top storyline could be the fact that “The Apprentice,” a movie about President Donald Trump got nominated for two Academy Awards. Trump fought to get the movie banned from theaters unsuccessfully. Sebastian Stan, who played Trump in the film, was nominated for Best Actor and Jeremy Strong, who plays Trump mentor Roy Cohn in the film, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

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