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24 January 2007
Bookmakers Cut Odds On The
Departed Winning Oscar
Martin Scorsese's thriller
The Departed has been named favourite to win both best
picture and best director at this year's Academy Awards by
Bookmakers.
Ladbrokes
have cut the odds on the film winning best picture to 10/11,
while Scorsese is 1/3 favourite to win his first Oscar,
according to William
Hill.
Dame Helen Mirren is hot
favourite to win best actress for The Queen, with William
Hill offering odds of 1/12.
Forest Whitaker is odds-on
to win best actor for The Last King of Scotland.
This year's Oscar
nominations were announced on Tuesday, with the awards
ceremony to be held in Los Angeles on 25 February
2007.
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In the best picture race,
The Departed's closest challenger is Babel, according to
Ladbrokes, followed by Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen and
Letters From Iwo Jima.
A Ladbrokes spokesman
said: "We opened at 5/4 [for The Departed] but had
to go odds-on when the money flooded in. Often the early
money is the best guide to where the gongs are
heading."
The bookmaker has already
stopped taking bets on Dame Helen because, Ladbrokes said:
"Punters have gone bonkers for Mirren and we can't take any
more punishment."
In the best actor
category, Whitaker's main competition is expected to come
from Peter O'Toole and Leonardo DiCaprio.
DiCaprio is nominated for
his role in action thriller Blood Diamond, which had its UK
premiere in London on Tuesday.
"I couldn't be happier,"
DiCaprio said in Leicester Square. "This is a movie I am
very, very proud of."
DiCaprio, who also appears
in The Departed, said he would be "rooting" for Martin
Scorsese to win best director.
As well as familiar names
from Britain and the US, this year's nominations feature a
significant number of candidates from Mexico.
Adriana Barraza has been
shortlisted for best supporting actress for Babel, while her
director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu will challenge Scorsese
for best director.
And Pan's Labyrinth - a
fantasy set during the Spanish Civil War directed by Mexican
film-maker Guillermo del Toro - has six
nominations.
Laura Ziskin, producer of
the Oscars television broadcast, said the diversity of this
year's line-up was "thrilling".
"The Academy Awards go all
over the world and I think it is only right that we
celebrate the industry throughout the world," she said.
It was "obviously a big
year for the Mexican film industry", she added.
Speaking from Miami,
Barraza called Babel's seven Oscar nominations "a
joy".
"American cinema is
receiving people from all over the world," she said. "This
can open the doors for everybody."
Fellow Spanish-speaker
Penelope Cruz, up for best actress for Volver, said she was
"a little bit overwhelmed" by her nomination.
But the Madrid-born star
said she felt "a bit confused and sad" that her director
Pedro Almodovar had been overlooked.
"I was expecting a
nomination for Pedro for best foreign film and for best
screenplay," she said.
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