Billie Eilish matches rare awards feat last achieved by Celine Dion in 1998

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Billie Eilish and her brother/songwriting accomplice Finneas have gained their second Oscar for Best Original Song, this time for his or her Barbie soundtrack contribution, “What Was I Made For”.

They last scooped the coveted music prize in 2021, with their James Bond theme “No Time to Die”.

The duo accepted the award on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday (10 March), shortly after performing the track dwell in entrance of their star-studded viewers.

Eilish, 22, is now the primary artist since Celine Dion to win each Song of the Year and the Oscar for Best Original Song in the identical yr. Dion gained each prizes in 1998 together with her Titanic theme, “My Heart Will Go On.”

This signifies that Eilish is the one artist to realize the feat in her lifetime, given she was not but born when Dion collected her trophies.

She now joins an elite group of artists to have scooped each trophies in the identical yr. It additionally consists of songwriting duo Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, who pulled a double with “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s (profitable the Oscar for Best Original Song in April 1962, then the Grammy for Song of the Year one month later), and “Days of Wine and Roses” from the movie of the identical identify, in 1963.

Other notable winners embrace Alan Menken and Tim Rice for his or her Aladdin track “A Whole New World”, which can be the one track from an animated movie to win each awards, and Bruce Springsteen along with his debut track for a function movie, “Streets of Philadelphia”, in 1994/1995.

In the winner’s room, Eilish spoke of how she’d satisfied herself that she was a failure, aged 12, after watching Matilda on Broadway.

“I was balling, (thinking) I am never going to amount to anything because I am not in Matilda,” she stated. “Just give yourself some time, do what you love and I know that is easier said than done, some of us don’t know what we love. You’ll figure it out.”

After thanking her academics in her acceptance speech, Eilish gave recommendation to younger folks in the winners’ room, saying: “Don’t do it for other people, don’t do it for the numbers or for some sort of specific thing, that is not really ever something anyone should be looking for.

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“I want everyone to be doing something they feel passionate about and proud of and makes them feel like the best version of themselves.”

Eilish added that Barbie made “a lot of people feel very seen, that can be rare, especially as a woman”.

Elsewhere in the course of the Oscars, Barbie star Ryan Gosling, who was additionally up for Best Original Song with “I’m Just Ken”, delighted the viewers with a scorching pink efficiency of the monitor full with backing dancer Kens.

Quite a few viewers noticed how Gosling made a number of references to Marilyn Monroe’s iconic look and routine to “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”, from the 1958 movie Gentleman Prefer Blondes.

You can discover the most recent updates from the 2024 Oscars right here, and a full record of winners at this yr’s Academy Awards right here.

Additional reporting by Press Association