Who will win Oscar glory?

The odds are that Nicole Kidman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Scorsese and the producers of Chicago will be smiling deliriously come March 23. That is if the bookies’ Oscar predictions all come true.

But favourites don’t always win and the Academy Awards often throw up surprises. Denzel Washington wasn’t expected to beat Russell Crowe last year, while many film buffs still wonder how, in 1954, Grace Kelly (for The Country Girl) saw off opposition from the magnificent trio of Judy Garland in A Star Is Born, Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina and Jane Wyman in Magnificent Obsession.