Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas have shared their excitement for being nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category for Barbie song What Was I Made For? at the 96th Academy Awards.
“We are so incredibly honoured to receive a nomination for 'What Was I Made For,” they wrote on Instagram on Wednesday alongside a picture of her hugging Barbie star Margot Robbie.
The brother-sister duo further expressed how the nomination means “everything” to them as they are “lifelong fans of film, music in film and the Academy Awards”.
Eilish, who wrote the song with her brother and collaborator Finneas in the course of a single night, said they are grateful to the Academy and its members for recognising them amongst so many other songwriters. “Our deepest gratitude and thanks go out to the incomparable Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach for their genius vision and execution, the entire Barbie cast and crew, Lucky Chap Entertainment and the Warner Bros Pictures team,” they also wrote.
The duo also thanked British DJ-record producer Mark Ronson and American musician Andrew Wyatt, who jointly composed the Barbie soundtrack, for “weaving their song into the fabric and heart of this film so well”. They signed off by giving a shout out to Margot Robbie, lauding the actress for her “incredible foresight” as a producer and “brilliant performance” that resonated with them while writing the lyrics of the song.
“Thank you so much to the members of @theacademy for nominating “What Was I Made For?” we are endlessly grateful for this honour and to have been a part of @barbiethemovie 🎀,” the Ocean Eyes singer captioned her post.
Barbie song What Was I Made For? marks the brother-sister duo’s second Oscar nomination after their first-ever win in 2022 for the James Bond theme song No Time To Die. The song also recently bagged the Best Original Song Award at the 81st Golden Globes.
Ryan Gosling’s I’m Just Ken song from Barbie, Scott George’s Wahzhazhe (A Song for my People) from Killers of the Flower Moon, Becky G and Diane Warren’s The Fire Inside from Flamin' Hot and Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson’s It Never Went Away from the Netflix documentary American Symphony are the other nominees in the same category.
