Oscar Awards 2024: Two-time Oscar winner at 22; how Billie Eilish shattered 87-year-old record

Oscar Awards 2024: Just 22 and a two-time Oscar winner. It's a feat by American singer Billie Eilish that appears surreal. Filmmaker James Ivory was 89 when, in 2003, he won his maiden Oscar award for the Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me By Your Name in 2003. Anthony Hopkins was 83 when he won his first Oscar, in 2021, for his role in The Father. Eilish was nearly two-year-old when Ivory won his maiden Oscar at 83. Twenty-one years down the line, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Billie, along with her sibling Finneas O'Connell achieved an incredible feat of becoming the youngest-ever two-time Oscar winner when they won the best Song Play trophy.

The siblings won the trophy for 'What Was I Made For' from Barbie.

While Eilish is 22, O'Connell is 26.

Eilish and O'Connell erased from the Oscar history books a 87-year-old record held by Germany-born US actress Luise Rainer, who was 28 when she won her second Best Actress Oscar for the movie- The Good Earth.  

"I feel so incredibly lucky and honored," said a visibly emotional Billie as she took the mic on stage. "This goes out to everyone who was affected by the movie and how incredible it is," she continued. 

For Eilish and O'Connell, it was the second time they were waving the Oscar trophy standing on the stage of the Dolby Theatre.

They won their first Best Original Song Oscar in 2021 for their duet 'No Time to Die' in the James Bond film of the same name, starring Daniel Craig.

In the Oscar ceremony on Sunday, Eilish was nominated for What Was I Made For. The other nominee in Best Original Song category was also from Barbie- 'I’m Just Ken,' written by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt.

Eilish and O'Connell also thrilled the audience at the theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday with their electrifying performance of 'What Was I Made For'.  

And this is not what the duo has achieved this year.

They have already engraved their names on the Grammys and Golden Globes.

They also bagged the Society of Composers and Lyricists award for What Was I Made for? 

And continued in the same vein at the Oscars, making history at a young age.