The 6/4 Must Be Taken - If You Can Get On

BrianH

BrianH

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Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese are the only two who can possibly win the Oscar for Best Director. Scorsese has been ignored every time he has been nominated - no one knows why, but it's a travesty. However, Eastwood won the Golden Globe and has now won the Screen Directors' Guild award. 50 of the 56 winners of this award have gone on to win the Academy Award. There is still a little 6/4 around, though all firms have maximum stakes. I have so far had five different bets. If you can get it, take it.
 
Clint Eastwood is now evens, odds-on with Hills and a couple of others. It was hard work getting the price (thanks to another forum member I even got a bit of 13/8). This is a two horse race and after yesterday's SDG award Clint should be the favourite.

Speaking for myself, if my bet loses I will have the consolation of knowing that Martin Scorsese has at last won the award that he deserves. He has been nominated four times and with his two best films he was beaten both times by an actor who had turned director!

Martin Scorsese has been nominated for Best Director five times, including this year. His previous nominations were for:

1980 - Raging Bull
1988 - The Last Temptation Of Christ
1990 - Goodfellas
2002 - Gangs Of New York

In 1980 the Oscar went to Robert Redford for Ordinary People and in 1990 it was won by Kevin Costner for Dances With Wolves.

Marty isn't alone - other great directors never to have won the Academy Award for Best Director include Hitchcock (5 nominations), Altman (5 nominations) and Kubrick (4 nominations).
 
I quite like Scorcese but Gangs of New York was fecking garbage and how it got nominated for anything positive beggars belief.
 
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Originally posted by BrianH@Jan 31 2005, 05:51 PM
To £30 only I believe
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I've never had a bet with them, although I have a web account, tried for a bet of £1000 to see what the max was, got the following message:

"Stake too high - Maximum total stake for this bet is 80.85."

You must've had too many winners with them!
 
I ended up with 350 @ 2.1 and layed Scorcese at 1.9 to lose the other 650 (I was sure I already posted this info but can't find it above ?????????). Anyway, Eastwood now stinks on betfair where it's approx 4/5 Scorcese, 5/4 Eastwood.

Oh dear. :lol:
 
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