With their Oscar, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell achieve a hat-trick, for the second time in two years

“Lucky and honored.” The 96th Academy Awards honored, as in 2022, Billie Eilish with her title What Was I Made For, designed for Barbie, Greta Gerwig’s film featuring a peroxide doll, Margot Robbie. The singer thus won her second Oscar, at only 22 years old. A consolation for feminist comedy, nominated in eight categories, but left with this only statuette.

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Without managing to capsize the Dolby Theater as Ryan Gosling achieved with his rendition of I’m Just Ken, the singer delivered an honest performance of her ballad, accompanied on the piano by her older brother Finneas O’Connell. A few minutes later, they received the Oscar for Best Original Song from Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. “I did not expect that. I feel incredibly lucky and honored, exclaimed the singer who was nevertheless listed as the favorite in the category. Thanks Greta, I love you! I’m so grateful for this song and this movie, and how they made me feel.”

The Oscar crowns a title already awarded in January with the Golden Globe for best original song in January. A month later, do it again. The song was nominated five times for the Grammy Awards, the American equivalent of the Victoires de la Musique. She won two, including the Grammy for best song of the year. “Thank you to my brother, my best friend in the world, who made me the person I am today,” said Billie Eilish. And thanks to Greta Gerwig for making the best film of the year.” This is the fourth time she has won the Song of the Year award at the Grammys.

Golden Globe, Grammy Award and Oscar… This is the second time that the Eilish – O’Connell duo has been triple rewarded for a single song. In 2022, their title No Time To Die, composed for the James Bond film of the same name, won over everything in its path. The Golden Globe and Grammy Award for Best Original Song in January and February. Then the consecration, a month later, with the Oscar for best song written for a visual medium. “We did it,” she wrote in the caption of an Instagram post.