--- title: These Are the Weirdest Oscar Bets You Can Place description: Sportsbet.com is letting users put money on bizarre aspects of the Oscars. authors: - name: Kerry Close url: https://money.com/author/kerry-close/ at_money_since: 2016 articles: 182 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/kerryclose former_staff: true published: '2016-02-25T23:00:19.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T10:58:26.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Academy Awards - gambling - Oscars - pubdesk word_count: 289 canonical: https://money.com/weird-oscar-bets-academy-awards/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Leonardo DiCaprio attends the EE British Academy Film Awards at The Royal Opera House on February 14, 2016 in London, England.](https://img.money.com/2016/02/160226_em_oscarbets.jpg?crop=0px%2C41px%2C2100px%2C1181px&quality=85) *Leonardo DiCaprio attends the EE British Academy Film Awards at The Royal Opera House on February 14, 2016 in London, England.* Are you an Oscar viewer who wishes there were a way to make money off predicting the color of Cate Blanchett's dress or if an award recipient will completely forget his or her acceptance speech? Good news: The Internet (of course) has a solution for you. [Sportsbet.com](http://www.sportsbet.com.au/betting/hollywood/oscars) is taking bets on the (probably) unlikely antics of stars at the 88th annual ceremony. For example, with odds of 21:1, you can potentially make money off an Oscar victor falling on stage while receiving their award. Also at 21:1, you can bet that an award presenter will announce the incorrect recipient for a particular category. Or at 34:1, you can wager that a recipient will refuse to accept his or her award. Best Actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio is also a popular target of the site. At odds of 91:1, you can put money on the likelihood that Leo walk onstage and accept the Oscar for Best Actor even if he does not win the category. And if you're a real gambler, at 476:1 odds, you can bet that the *Revenant* star will announce his candidacy for president at the ceremony. Sportsbet.com also offers host of wagers surrounding host Chris Rock, including the person who will be a target of his first joke. Conservative betters might want to take up the 7:1 odds on Donald Trump, but for risk-takers, the 81:1 odds on "the Mexicans" might pay off (but honestly, it probably won't). There's also a bet on the likelihood of the Rock dropping the f-word, with two options: over 2.5 times and under 2.5 times (each with odds of 1.83:1). The site also allows you to bet on who will win the actual awards, but honestly, what fun would that be? ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/weird-oscar-bets-academy-awards/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Movies", "item": "https://money.com/movies/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "These Are the Weirdest Oscar Bets You Can Place" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/weird-oscar-bets-academy-awards/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/weird-oscar-bets-academy-awards/", "name": "These Are the Weirdest Oscar Bets You Can Place", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-02-25T23:00:19.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/weird-oscar-bets-academy-awards/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/weird-oscar-bets-academy-awards/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-16T10:58:26.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "These Are the Weirdest Oscar Bets You Can Place", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/02/160226_em_oscarbets.jpg?crop=0px%2C41px%2C2100px%2C1181px&quality=85", "width": 1012, "height": 569, "caption": "160226_EM_OscarBets" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kerry Close", "url": "https://money.com/author/kerry-close/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/kerry-close/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/kerryclose" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-02-25T23:00:19.000Z", "description": "Sportsbet.com is letting users put money on bizarre aspects of the Oscars.", "abstract": "Sportsbet.com is letting users put money on bizarre aspects of the Oscars.", "@id": "https://money.com/weird-oscar-bets-academy-awards/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-05-16T10:58:26.000Z", "wordCount": 289, "keywords": [ "Academy Awards", "gambling", "Oscars", "pubdesk" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Film", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film" ] } ] } ] } ```