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Billie Eilish and brother Finneas win Oscar for 'No Time To Die' theme song |
| No Time to Die managed to scoop an award at last night's 94th Academy Awards.
The film won the Best Original Song category for the No Time to Die Bond theme, bringing the total number of awards won by the Bond franchise up to six in 60 years.
The No Time to Die theme from the film of the same name was written by 20-year-old pop star sensation Billie Eilish and brother Finneas O'Connell. The musical duo also performed their theme song during the ceremony with Finneas on the piano, while Eilish sang from the centre of the stage wearing a ruffled black custom gown by Gucci.
They beat out fellow nominees Diane Warren, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Van Morrison and Beyoncé to take home the gold!
The Best Original Song nomination marks the first time the sister and brother team have been up for an Oscar and having been just 18 years old at the time the song was written, Eilish also has the accolade of being the youngest artist to ever record and write a 007 theme.
The ecstatic pair thanked the whole Bond team during their acceptance speech, including No Time To Die director Cary Joji Fukunaga, producer Barbara Broccoli and absent 007 star Daniel Craig.
They began their acceptance speech with Eilish saying: "This is so unbelievable I could scream."
O'Connell, 24, also expressed gratitude for their parents during their speech and said they 'have always been our biggest inspirations and our heroes.'
Best Original Song was the only win for Bond on the night though, having lost out in the Make-up and Styling and Sound and Visual Effects categories.
The Bond films have previously won five Academy Awards over the official 25-film span in categories including sound effects, (now sound editing) and special visual effects.
An Oscar's win for No Time to Die has also marked the first time in the Bond franchise that three films have won successive awards.
With the two previous Bond films, Skyfall and Spectre, having both bagged an Oscar for best song, this year's win for No Time to Die is not only the first time that three successive James Bond films have won Oscars but also the first time that they have won in the same category.
The last time that successive Bond films won at the Oscars was back in the Sean Connery era when Goldfinger and Thunderball won back-to-back awards. Goldfinger won in the sound effects category in '65 and Thunderball won for special visual effects in '66.
The Academy Awards also set aside a moment to celebrate 60 years of James Bond with a fun montage of clips paying tribute to the franchise's 25-film run.
Set to Wings' "Live and Let Die," which was featured in Roger Moore's first outing as 007 in 1973, the montage showed some of Bond's best espionage and martini-swilling moments.
Find a full list of the Oscars 2022 winners here. |
