🎵 2022-03-28 05:13:38 – Paris/France.
Billie Eilish set a number of records by winning the Oscar for Best Original Song for 'No Time to Die', including being the first person born in the 21st century to win an Oscar.
At 20, however, she is not the youngest winner in songwriting history. Czech-Icelandic singer-songwriter Markéta Irglová, who co-wrote "Falling Slowly" with Glen Hansard for the film "Once," was four days away from turning 20 at the February 2008 ceremony.
If “No Time To Die” had been released as originally planned in 2020 and Eilish had been nominated and won, she would have been 19 years and two months old if the Oscars had gone as usual in February 2021. And she would have always been a few months younger than Irglová at the stripped-down ceremony that finally took place in April.
Eilish and her brother Finneas, 24, also became the first American songwriters to win for writing an original James Bond song. Previous winners Adele and Sam Smith are both British – and incidentally, they were both 24 when they picked up their wins, for 2012's 'Skyfall' and 'Spectre's 'The Writing's on the Wall' respectively. in 2016.
Previously nominated American Bond songs are “The Look of Love” by Burt Bacharach and Hal David from “Casino Royale”, “Nobody Does It Better” by Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager from “The Spy Who Loved Me” and the song title "For Your Eyes Only", by Bill Conti and Mick Leeson.
Eilish and O'Connell are also the first sibling songwriter pair to win Best Original Song since the legendary team of Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman won for 'Chim Chim Cher-ee'. from “Mary Poppins” in 1965.
“No Time to Die” has been racking up awards for over a year, winning a Grammy in March 2021 and a Golden Globe in January.
An incredulous Eilish pointed at the Oscar, exclaiming, “Whoa. Oh my God. You guys! It's so amazing, I could scream!
Finneas, meanwhile, joked, “Last thing, we want to thank our parents who have always been our biggest inspirations and heroes. We love you as parents and we love you as real people too. Thanks to the Academy. We promise not to lose them.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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