If you haven't filled out your office Oscar pool yet, we've got you covered. Here are the odds-on favorites to win the major categories on Sunday . . . plus the nominee with the second-best odds, if you want to change it up a little. We even listed some of the more obscure categories, since those may be the hardest for you to call.
Best Picture: "Birdman", followed by "Boyhood"
Best Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Birdman"), followed by Richard Linklater ("Boyhood")
Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne ("The Theory of Everything"), followed by Michael Keaton ("Birdman")
Best Actress: Julianne Moore ("Still Alice"), followed by Reese Witherspoon ("Wild")
Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons ("Whiplash"), followed by Edward Norton ("Birdman")
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette ("Boyhood"), followed by Emma Stone ("Birdman")
Best Adapted Screenplay: "The Imitation Game", followed by "Whiplash"
Best Original Screenplay: "The Grand Budapest Hotel", followed by "Birdman"
Best Animated Feature Film: "How to Train Your Dragon 2", followed by "Big Hero 6"
Best Foreign Film: "Ida" (Poland), followed by "Leviathan" (Russia)
Best Documentary Feature: "CitizenFour", followed by "Virunga"
Best Original Score: "The Theory of Everything", followed by "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Best Original Song: "Glory" ("Selma"), followed by "Everything Is Awesome" ("The Lego Movie")
Best Costume Design: "The Grand Budapest Hotel", followed by "Into the Woods"
Best Animated Short Film: "Feast", followed by "The Bigger Picture"
Best Live-Action Short Film: "The Phone Call", followed by "Boogaloo and Graham"
Best Production Design: "The Grand Budapest Hotel", followed by "Into the Woods"
Best Visual Effects: "Interstellar", followed by "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"
Best Cinematography: "Birdman", followed by "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: "The Grand Budapest Hotel", followed by "Guardians of the Galaxy"
Best Film Editing: "Boyhood", followed by "Whiplash"
(Check out a full list of odds at Bovada.lv. Naturally, the lines may shift a little over time. Note: For some reason, they didn't include a few, like Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing. You can revisit all the nominees, here.)
13 Oscar Facts, Including the Number of Oscars Handed Out Since 1929, and Male Oscar Winners Are More Likely to Divorce
The Academy Awards are this Sunday . . . here are 13 random facts about the Oscars.
1. Last year's ceremony was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres and averaged 43.7 million viewers . . . 30-second commercial spots went for $1.8 million.
2. 6,124 people vote on the Oscar nominees . . . that's the number of active voting members in the Academy.
3. Robert Duvall is nominated for Best Supporting Actor this year for "The Judge". He's 84, which makes him the oldest guy to be nominated for an acting Oscar. The oldest actress to be nominated was Gloria Stuart, who was 87 when she was nominated for "Titanic". She didn't win.
4. The number of Oscars handed out since the first ceremony in 1929 is 2,809. The Oscar statuettes are 13.5 inches in height, and weigh 8.5 pounds.
5. They were originally made of gold-plated bronze. But during World War Two, when materials were scarce, they were made from painted plaster. Now they're made from a metal mixture called britannium, and plated in gold.
6. The origin of the nickname 'Oscar' is disputed, but the most popular story is that an Academy librarian started it in 1931 by because the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar.
It was used as early as 1934 in a story about Katharine Hepburn's first Best Actress win, but the Academy didn't officially adopt it until 1939.
7. There's only been one winner NAMED Oscar . . . Oscar Hammerstein the Second, who won two Oscars for Best Original Song.
8. Since 1950, winners have to sign an agreement promising that neither they, nor their heirs, will sell their statuette without first offering it back to the Academy for $1.
9. The producers ask acceptance speeches to last no longer than 45 seconds. Greer Garson holds the record for longest acceptance speech . . . she won Best Actress in 1942 for "Mrs. Miniver", and talked for five-and-a-half minutes.
10. The first Oscars ceremony in 1929 lasted 15 minutes, but wasn't televised. The shortest one on TV was in 1959, at one hour and forty minutes. The LONGEST Oscar telecast was in 2002, at four hours and 23 minutes.
11. "Ben-Hur", "Titanic", and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" are tied for the most Oscar wins, with 11. "Return of the King" did it by sweeping all 11 categories it was nominated in.
The record for most nominations is a tie between "Titanic" and the1950 movie "All About Eve". They both had 14.
12. Walt Disney won 22 Oscars, which is more than any other person.
13. According to a new study, male Oscar winners are three times as likely as other actors to get a divorce during their first year of marriage.
And male actors NOMINATED for an Oscar are twice as likely as actors who aren't nominated to get divorced during the first year of marriage.
