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Our Cate Blanchett is about to add to her status as the biggest box office-earning actress in cinema history with the worldwide release of Indiana Jones 4: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

It sounds a bit like Monopoly money but Cate’s new film is tipped to earn close to $US1 billion in box office takings around the world, adding to the $US3 billion earned by the three Lord of the Rings films in which Cate played the royal elf, Galadriel.

In Indiana Jones 4: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Cate plays a Russian spy, Irina Spalko, who embarks on a desperate race to find the “crystal skull” ahead of Professor Henry Walton Jones, Jr, better known, of course, as Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford, the

character he played in three previous films and in a one-off appearance in a 1993 episode of the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

The film also stars Shia LaBeouf, as Indi’s new side-kick, Mutt Williams, and brings back the character of Marion Ravenwood from 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, played then and now by Karen Allen.

Allen is now 57, Harrison Ford 64. They shared adventures - and more! - in Nepal and Egypt in that 1981 film.

This time around? See the film - it adds up to great entertainment with lots of surprises unfolding on screen.

Beckham is actually just one of a dozen international football stars playing themselves.

In the first film, Santiago and his family had travelled from Mexico and were living in poverty in Los Angeles until Santiago, spotted by a talent scout, was invited to England to join Newcastle United.

Goal III, set around the FIFA world Championships in Germany, is now in post-production with a possible Australian release late this year.

It’s a film in which audiences may find it hard to believe Academy Award winner Javier Bardem, playing a love-struck romantic, is the same Javier Bardem who embarked on a killing spree in No Country for Old Men.

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CATE Blanchett is the bookies’ choice to win an Oscar for best supporting actress on Sunday night, although they don’t rate her chances for a double victory.

British bookmaking giant Ladbrooke’s has Blanchett at 11-10 to take home the trophy for her portrayal of music legend Bob Dylan in I’m Not There, ahead of Gone Baby Gone star Amy Ryan on 2-1. US online betting site Paddy Power has the Aussie at 6-5. American gaming site Hollywood Stock Exchange also listed Blanchett as favourite. But she is given only a slim chance of winning best actress Oscar for her role in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, with Julie Christie (Away From Her) the hot fancy. Other bookies’ favourites include Brit Daniel Day-Lewis for best actor for his powerhouse performance as a fortune-obsessed oil-magnate in There Will Be Blood. Spaniard Javier Bardem is expected to win best supporting actor for his chilling portrayal of a hitman in violent crime drama No Country For Old Men. The movie, which has already won the Producers’ Guild of America Award, the Screen Actors’ Guild Award and the Directors’ Guild of America Award for best film of the year, is tipped to win best picture Oscar. Blanchett, who is heavily pregnant with her third child, is scheduled to be a presenter at the Oscars, as are fellow expecting actors Nicole Kidman and Jessica Alba. Also confirmed to hand out Oscars are all four of last year’s major winners — Forest Whitaker, Dame Helen Mirren, Alan Arkin and Jennifer Hudson.

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THE winter rain storms that have struck Los Angeles may not be the only thing that soaks Cate Blanchett’s party at today’s 80th Annual Academy Awards.

Blanchett’s hopes of an historic double Oscar win have been dashed with bookmakers and film critics giving her next to no chance of claiming both gold trophies.

No actor or actress in the event’s 80-year history has scooped both the acting and supporting Oscars at the one ceremony.

Bookmakers believe Blanchett will win one Oscar at the ceremony, which is scheduled to begin at noon (AEDT).

However, many influential critics from leading US news organisations predict the 38-year-old expectant mum will go home empty-handed.

%26quot;I’d like to say Blanchett, since her work is time-capsule-worthy,%26quot; Rolling Stone magazine film critic Peter Travers wrote in his analysis of the best supporting category.

%26quot;But watch out for Ruby Dee.%26quot;

Bookmakers in Australia, Britain and the US have rejected the critics, and have kept Blanchett as the short-priced favourite to win supporting actress for her portrayal of Bob Dylan in I’m Not There.

A survey of 32 critics and leading Oscar pundits by the Los Angeles Times newspaper have many picking 83-year-old American Gangster actress, Ruby Dee, or Amy Ryan, for Gone Baby Gone, to upset Blanchett.

Blanchett has odds of 5-4, while Ryan is at 2-1 and Dee, who has received plenty of support in recent days, is at 9-4.

The oddsmakers, critics and pundits all agree Blanchett has little chance of winning the best actress Oscar for her performance in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

Blanchett’s odds have blown out to around 40-1, while the short-priced favourite is British actress Julie Christie for Away from Her at 1-2.

The LA Times today described Blanchett’s nomination for Elizabeth: The Golden Age as %26quot;filler%26quot; in the best actress category.

%26quot;Blanchett plays dress-up and hams it up with the rest of the movie,%26quot; LA Times critic Carina Chocano wrote.

%26quot;It looks like fun, and Blanchett is as always a lovely and commanding presence, but there’s nothing here that draws us into it or illuminates the character in a new way.%26quot;

Australia also is represented at the Oscars in the documentary feature category, with Eva Orner, the 38-year-old producer of Taxi to the Dark Side, a film critical of the US war on terrorism.

Outspoken American documentary maker Michael Moore is nominated for his expose on the American health system, Sicko.

Rain has been falling steadily across Los Angeles the past 24 hours and the Academy has erected a large canopy to protect the nominees and award presenters, including Nicole Kidman, along the 400m long red carpet entrance into Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre.

The favourite for the best actor Oscar is Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood, which is nominated for eight awards.

No Country for Old Men, also with eight nominations, is expected to dominate in the best picture, best supporting actor (Javier Bardem) and best director (Joel and Ethan Coen) categories.

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Glitz and glamour took the night off at the 65th Annual Golden Globes, but Cate Blanchett still came out a winner.

Blanchett was named best supporting actress for playing Bob Dylan in the music legend’s biopic, I’m Not There, at a 30 minute press conference that replaced the usual three hour, star-studded Golden Globes ceremony.

The event fell victim to the two month screenwriter’s strike that has crippled movie and TV production in the US.

Blanchett was a chance to claim a double victory as she was also nominated in the best actress in a film drama category for her stunning performance in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, but the award went to Brit, Julie Christie, for Away from Her.

There were two other Australians nominated - Rachel Griffiths for Brothers %26amp; Sisters and Rose Byrne for Damages - in the best supporting actress TV category, but both were bypassed.

Another British actress was triumphant in the category, Samantha Morton, for Longford.

The shock winner was Atonement, a romantic drama starring Keira Knightley, which scored the best film drama Golden Globe, beating favourites No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Johnny Depp firmed as the frontrunners for the best acting Oscar after wins tonight.

Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood) was named best actor in a drama and Depp (Sweeney Todd) won best actor in a comedy/musical.

French actress Marion Cotillard, for her role as songstress Edith Piath in La Vie en Rose, won the best actress in a comedy/musical Golden Globe and appears the biggest threat to Christie for the best actress Oscar.

In the TV awards, David Duchovny won best actor in a comedy/musical TV series for Californication and Glenn Close was named actress in a TV drama winner.

The organisers of the awards were forced to drop the usual star-studded ceremony after striking Hollywood screenwriters threatened to picket the ceremony.

There are fears next month’s Oscars will also fall victim to the strike. Complete List of Winners: Best Performance by an Actor in a Drama - DANIEL DAY-LEWIS - There Will Be Blood Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama - JULIE CHRISTIE - Away From Her Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy - MARION COTILLARD - La Vie En Rose Best Actor in a Musical Or Comedy - JOHNNY DEPP %26ndash; Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Best Supporting Actress - CATE BLANCHETT - I’m Not There Best Supporting Actor - JAVIER BARDEM %26ndash; No Country For Old Men Best Motion Picture - Drama - Atonement Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Best Animated Film - Ratatouille Best Foreign Language Film - The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Best Original Song in a Movie - Pearl Jam’s EDDIE VEDDER for Guaranteed - Into the Wild. Best Director - JULIAN SCHNABEL - The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Best Screenplay - No Country For Old Men Best Original Score - Atonement Television Winners: Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television - Longford Best Actor In A Television Series - Drama - JON HAMM - Mad Men Best Actress In A Television Series - Drama - GLENN CLOSE - Damages Best Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy - TINA FEY - 30 Rock Best Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy - DAVID DUCHOVNY %26ndash; Californication Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television - JIM BROADBENT - Longford Best Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television - QUEEN LATIFAH %26ndash; Life Support Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Television - SAMANTHA MORTON - Longford Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television - JEREMY PIVEN - Entourage Best Television Series - Drama - Mad Men

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Hollywood is no country for old men, and although some still
think there will be blood with the actors, the writers’ strike
ended with atonement on the part of the studios. This year’s Oscar
telecast will be Tinseltown’s corroboree, the place where it will
celebrate its own uniquely corrupted Dreamtime.
The event will mark significant changes - and high drama - for
the industry. But the union angst didn’t stop the studios deluging
voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
in a most unseemly manner: mass mailing; expensive, promiscuously
Oscar-vote-targeted ads; handouts in the Los Angeles Times,
in Variety, Hollywood Reporter and many more.
The spruiker crassness reached a nadir with the Weinstein
Company’s truncated DVD offering of I’m Not There, featuring
40 minutes highlighting Cate Blanchett’s portrayal of Bob Dylan.
The gist? If you busy academy members and other voters don’t have
time to watch the whole 135-minute movie - then just watch this.
This Reader’s Digest version of movies for speed freaks and
ADHD sufferers is hopefully not a new trend: visualise the versions
for Lust, Caution or Sweeney Todd. It reflects
disrespect to the filmmakers and audiences. Rest assured that
Blanchett read the whole script, folks, so see the complete
film.
Normally, film companies try to maintain some superficial
decorum in influencing academy votes, although the ad blitz,
special screenings with filmmakers, DVD launch parties, promotions
and so on betray the studios’ frenzy. It’s a bit like the drug
companies in America: they harangue TV viewers to buy
prescription-only drugs such as Viagra but the drugs are illegal
unless prescribed by a doctor, and so the ads always say something
to the effect of: “tell your doctor what you are taking”.
Similarly, studios aren’t supposed to lobby or contact voters to
influence their vote. Instead, they spend huge amounts in
publications that anyone can buy but which are clearly aimed at the
academy voters.
Do these ads work? Judging by the millions spent, the answer is
obvious. Many critics join in the carnival. Prostituting their
profession, they go completely over the top with ridiculous
superlatives so they are quoted in ads, promoting their own name
and publication. Many media are beholden to advertisers, so genuine
criticism could become a fossil.
The academy itself, notwithstanding critiques of the Oscar
telecast, has remained classy, not a mean feat in Hollywood. It
regularly stages great exhibitions, dignified memorials to masters
such as Gregory Peck and Otto Preminger, archives film and
documents, honours the art and science of cinema, and is finally
building a cinema museum. It forbids gifts to academy voters.
The Oscars this year have a serious edge, a kind of historical
showbiz vortex, coming on the heels of a three-month strike by
writers against seven conglomerates, against the backdrop of the
presidential election. The best feature film nominations are a
mixed bag, but avoided the barrage of sanctimonious anti-Iraq war
movies that suddenly appeared when George Bush became a lame duck
president. Gutsy move, guys. Couldn’t these movies have appeared
years ago, if true to their intent? Some anti-war documentaries,
not selected by the total academy membership, have been
nominated.
Aside from this self-flagellating, well-meaning and almost
unwatchable anti-war genre, pro-life movies were obvious this year.
Juno is one hip incarnation and it scored. Young girls were
generally encouraged in these films to have the baby under any
circumstances, no matter how dire. So much for Hollywood
“liberalism”.
On the pop psychology front, none of the films nominated seem to
catch the Zeitgeist. Historically, sometimes movies have magically
reflected how most of us feel in some way. Daniel Day-Lewis’s
incarnation of a demonic John Huston in There Will Be Blood
doesn’t exactly catch the vibe of world issues at the moment - or
does it? The film’s heartfelt caricature of a murderous capitalist
harks back to 1930s artists such as George Grosz and John
Heartfield. Javier Bardem’s psychotic terminator with a funny retro
haircut (in No Country For Old Men) doesn’t reflect the
world economy either … well, maybe. Both actors will probably get
Oscars. What these films had in common was a “dark” side,
Hollywood-ese for “specialty” release. No happy ending, rather
formulaically, now means “art”.
The writers’ strike cost the local economy about $2 billion and
flagged the internet juggernaut, itself a key subject of the
strike. US television viewers, repulsed by asinine programming
during the strike, jumped to online viewing in December by a
whopping increase of 34 per cent. Only Disney and Fox seem on top
of the internet universe, although they pale in comparison to
Google’s YouTube, which found a third of the increased viewers.
Significantly, it was the bosses of the most net-savvy studios
(Robert Iger from Disney and Peter Chernin from Fox) who closed the
deal with the writers. Disney particularly is in front, having the
Apple genius and shareholder Steve Jobs on the board. Get ready for
an iOscar.
Hollywood, bipolar between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
since the producer David Geffen promoted Obama in late 2006, will
be waiting for political jokes from the host, Jon Stewart, on Oscar
night. No doubt a subject could be Steven Spielberg protesting
against genocide in Darfur by resigning as an adviser to the
Beijing Olympics. “China disses Spielberg” shouted Variety.
Politics in Hollywood can be an ugly phenomenon. Next fracas is the
impending end of the Screen Actors Guild contract in June, with big
stars brazenly telling their union leaders what to do in ads. This
won’t go down well.
So despite the bonhomie of Oscar night, more scabs are about to
be peeled off Hollywood. Problems persist. The Tolkien estate just
sued New Line, a Time Warner company, for not paying one cent of
its share from the billion-dollar-earning Oscar winner Lord of
the Rings. William Faulkner observed: “Hollywood is a place
where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a
ladder.”
Meanwhile, venerable, naked Oscar, still holding that sword in
front of his privates, must be wondering if someone will ever buy
him some pants. With the millions spent on persuading academy
voters who to vote for, surely the studios next year could at least
also send out a gold G-string for him.
Philippe Mora is a Los Angeles-based film director.

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Thanks to the 5805 poeple who voted. We will see how closely you
mirror the Academy’s voters. In the meantime, you have No
Country for Old Men cleaning up.
Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden
Age
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old
Men
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not
There
Best Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old
Men
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Australian punters have backed Cate Blanchett to be there when
the winner is announced for best supporting actress at the Academy
Awards today.
But it seems there will be no golden age for Blanchett in her
historic quest to pick up a second Oscar in the best actress
category for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I.
Blanchett’s odds to win best supporting actress award for her
depiction of Bob Dylan in I’m Not There have dropped to
$2.00 in the past 24 hours, betting agency Centrebet said.
She will go into the award as favourite, after the odds for her
main rival Amy Ryan blew out overnight.
Ryan had strong support in Australia for her role in Gone
Baby Gone, with her price dropping from $3.40 to $2.40 in
recent weeks. But her price is now at $2.80 after Blanchett’s late
surge.
Ruby Dee from American Gangster remains an outside chance
for the award, with her odds at $5.50.
“There was a big surge on Cate [Blanchett] last night and that’s
why her price has dropped,” Centrebet’s chief media spokesman Neil
Evans said. “But the category remains incredibly close. There’s
really not that much between the top three nominees.”
The best actress award has narrowed to a two-horse race between
Marion Cotillard for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie en
Rose and Julie Christie for her role in Away From Her
.
Blanchett is priced at $34 to take out an Oscar for her role in
Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Meanwhile, Centrebet has Daniel Day-Lewis as the short-priced
favourite at $1.07 to win the best actor award for his role in
There Will Be Blood.
George Clooney’s stunning admission that he had become the
“Hillary Clinton of the Oscars” - such are his declining odds of
winning - did not hurt his price, which fell from $12 to $11.
Meanwhile, No Country For Old Men has been heavily backed
to take out a trifecta of Oscars, according to Centrebet odds.
It is priced at $1.37 to win the Oscar for best film, while
directors Joel and Ethan Coen are at $1.25 to take out the best
director category. Javier Bardem is at $1.08 to take out the best
supporting actor award for his portrayal of a vicious killer in the
film.

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CATE BLANCHETT gripped two Oscar statuettes but had to give both
away, seizing gold only as a presenter, not a winner. But back home
waits an honour that needs no trophy: her inclusion on the list of
people chosen by the Prime Minister to ponder and plot Australia’s
future.
Kevin Rudd yesterday named Blanchett as one of 10 appointees to
the steering committee for the 2020 Summit, to be held in April, at
which 1000 people will weigh the nation’s challenges. Her focus
will be on building a creative nation, a recognition of her status
that many hoped would be echoed at the ceremony in Los Angeles.
She was nominated for best actress for Elizabeth: The Golden
Age, and for best supporting actress for I’m Not There.
She won for neither, with Oscar glory falling on Australian
shoulders less accustomed to such acclaim.
“Overwhelmed, thrilled, unbelievable,” tumbled out of Eva Orner
when her film Taxi to the Dark Side was announced as best
documentary, trumping daunting competition that included Michael
Moore’s Sicko. But Moore’s assault on the American health
system lost out to Orner’s collaboration with the veteran American
filmmaker Alex Gibney, which investigates the death of an Afghan
civilian at the hands of US troops while in military custody.
The Oscar was fulfilment of a dream. When Orner left Australia
four years ago, she told the Herald she wanted “to start a
life, and be successful and make films” in New York.
She has done all that now, and not without controversy. She and
Gibney have both said their film should not be seen as “a left-wing
propaganda film”, but it has had trouble reaching a wider audience.
Gibney last week accused the Discovery Channel of dropping the
documentary because of its subject matter.
“We are so pleased and surprised and so impressed,” Orner said.
“I just want to shout out to Alex Gibney, the amazing director and
producer who had the courage to have me make this film.”
For Blanchett, time in the spotlight was confined to her
presenting the best art direction award, and receiving kudos from
the best actress winner, Marion Cotillard.
“Wow,” Cotillard said. “There are a lot of actors who are so
inspiring - Cate Blanchett. I’m a very big fan of Toni Collette
too.”
Cotillard won her surprise nod at a strangely flat ceremony,
notable for the lack of an American winner in the four acting
categories. The Briton/Irishman Daniel Day-Lewis won best actor for
There Will Be Blood, while the Spaniard Javier Bardem won in
the supporting category for No Country For Old Men.
Cotillard became the first French Oscar winner in 48 years for
La Vie En Rose, while the Briton Tilda Swinton won best
supporting actress for Michael Clayton.
The local vacuum was filled by Joel and Ethan Coen, producers,
directors, screenwriters and film editors of No Country For Old
Men, which won Oscars in the first three categories, including
for best picture.

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Even buckets of rain could not put a serious damper on
Hollywood’s glitziest show of the year.
As rain fell throughout much of the day, thousands of fans
packed the bleachers and streets around the Kodak Theatre in Los
Angeles, hoping to catch a glimpse of Hollywood’s biggest stars as
they arrived for the 80th annual Academy Awards.
The rain, often heavy, arrived hours before the stars did,
drenching fans on Hollywood Boulevard.
But the red carpet remained dry under a hastily-erected tent, as
did the bleachers where people lucky enough to win tickets by
lottery sat waiting to cheer on their favourite stars.
Hours before the show, which gets under way at 5pm local time,
only one celebrity - US television star Regis Philbin - had
arrived.
But most people outside were thrilled just to be there.
After months of fretting over whether this year’s Oscars would
happen, movie fans lined the red carpet to wait for George Clooney,
Johnny Depp and other stars to stroll into the world’s top film
honours.
Oscar producer Gil Cates has promised a ceremony filled with big
stars including Clooney, Australia’s Cate Blanchett, Broadway
songstress Kristin Chenoweth and teen idol Miley Cyrus to cheer the
crowd.
But this Academy Awards season has been a trouble-filled one as
a three-month screenwriters strike, which ended earlier this month,
caused other awards shows to be cancelled or drastically
curtailed.
Oscar-watchers say the best movie nominees reflect the sombre
mood of academy members.
Two front-runners are violent, the third tells of greedy
lawyers, the fourth of family betrayal and the fifth of teen
pregnancy - and that’s the funny one.
No Country for Old Men, directed by brothers Joel and
Ethan Coen, features an insane killer played by Spanish actor
Javier Bardem.
It has eight nominations overall and has earned the favour of
critics and Hollywood’s talent guilds.
Best actor front-runner Daniel Day-Lewis commands the screen in
There Will Be Blood as a sadistic oil man in the early
20th century. It also has eight nominations.
Rival best actor nominee Clooney wins respect as a fixer of
problems at a New York law firm in Michael Clayton, which
looks at corporate greed and shady lawyers.
Atonement tells of a passionate romance derailed by a
lie between sisters and Juno charts the life of a pregnant
16-year-old, played by Canadian best actress nominee Ellen Page,
who plans for her baby’s adoption.
Joining Juno star Page in the Oscar race for best
actress are favourite Julie Christie for the Alzheimer’s drama
Away From Her and French actress Marion Cotillard playing
troubled singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose.
The best actor race looks to be a toss-up between Day-Lewis and
Clooney.
Bardem is the front-runner for best supporting actor as the
killer in No Country.
Among supporting actress nominees are Blanchett for I’m Not
There, Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton and veteran
Ruby Dee for American Gangster.
Blanchett, 38, is the short-priced favourite with bookmakers
around the globe to win the supporting actress for I’m Not
There.
Blanchett, who is six months pregnant with her third child, has
also been nominated in the best actress category for Elizabeth:
The Golden Age.
Her hopes of an historic double Oscar win, however, have been
dashed with bookmakers and film critics giving her next to no
chance of claiming both gold trophies.
No actor or actress in the event’s 80-year history has scooped
both the acting and supporting Oscars at the one ceremony.
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Australian punters have backed Cate Blanchett to be there when
the winner is announced for best supporting actress at the Academy
Awards today.
But it seems there will be no golden age for Blanchett in her
historic quest to pick up a second Oscar in the best actress
category for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I.
Blanchett’s odds to win best supporting actress award for her
depiction of Bob Dylan in I’m Not There have dropped to
$2.00 in the past 24 hours, betting agency Centrebet said.
She will go into the award as favourite, after the odds for her
main rival Amy Ryan blew out overnight.
Ryan had strong support in Australia for her role in Gone
Baby Gone, with her price dropping from $3.40 to $2.40 in
recent weeks. But her price is now at $2.80 after Blanchett’s late
surge.
Ruby Dee from American Gangster remains an outside chance
for the award, with her odds at $5.50.
“There was a big surge on Cate [Blanchett] last night and that’s
why her price has dropped,” Centrebet’s chief media spokesman Neil
Evans said. “But the category remains incredibly close. There’s
really not that much between the top three nominees.”
The best actress award has narrowed to a two-horse race between
Marion Cotillard for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie en
Rose and Julie Christie for her role in Away From Her
.
Blanchett is priced at $34 to take out an Oscar for her role in
Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Meanwhile, Centrebet has Daniel Day-Lewis as the short-priced
favourite at $1.07 to win the best actor award for his role in
There Will Be Blood.
George Clooney’s stunning admission that he had become the
“Hillary Clinton of the Oscars” - such are his declining odds of
winning - did not hurt his price, which fell from $12 to $11.
Meanwhile, No Country For Old Men has been heavily backed
to take out a trifecta of Oscars, according to Centrebet odds.
It is priced at $1.37 to win the Oscar for best film, while
directors Joel and Ethan Coen are at $1.25 to take out the best
director category. Javier Bardem is at $1.08 to take out the best
supporting actor award for his portrayal of a vicious killer in the
film.

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