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Day-Lewis odds-on favorite for Oscar hat trick

You can't bet on the Oscars in Nevada, but that doesn't stop the bookmakers for posting odds for your debating pleasure.

Bookmaker William Hill make Daniel Day-Lewis an 1/8 favorite to win the Best Actor Oscar and to become the first ever to win this category three times.

The giant British bookmakers also announced its disappointment that the Academy snubbed the latest Bond film, "Skyfall," in the big Oscar categories. It got five nominations but none for Best Picture or for Judi Dench and Javier Barden as Supporting Actress and Actor.

Here are the odds:

BEST PICTURE: 2/5 "Lincoln", 4/1 "Les Miserables", 5/1 "Zero Dark Thirty", 7/1 "Argo", 20/1 "Life Of Pi", 25/1 "Silver Linings Playbook," 50/1 "Amour", 66/1 "Beasts of the Southern Wild", 66/1 "Django Unchained"

BEST DIRECTOR: 2/5 Steven Spielberg ("Lincoln"), 4/1 Ang Lee ("Life Of Pi"), 8/1 David O Russell ("Silver Linings Playbook"), 8/1 Michael Haneke ("Amour"), 33/1 Benh Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild")

BEST ACTRESS: 1/2 Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings Playbook"), 15/8 Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty"), 12/1 Emannuelle Riva ("Amour"), 14/1 Naomi Watts ("The Impossible"), 20/1 Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"),

BEST ACTOR: 1/8 Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln"), 8/1 Denzel Washington ("Flight"), 9/1 Hugh Jackman ("Les Miserables"), 10/1 Joaquin Phoenix ("The Master"), 20/1 Bradley Cooper ("Silver Linings Playbook")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: 1/8 Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables"), 9/1 Sally Field ("Lincoln"), 9/1 Helen Hunt ("The Sessions"), 16/1 Amy Adams ("The Master"), 33/1 Jacki Weaver ("Silver Linings Playbook")

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: 4/6 "Skyfall" (Adele), 11/10 "Suddenly" (Hugh Jackman)

NUMBER OF BOND WINS: 6/4 Bond wins two or more Oscars

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