Billie Eilish credited her Barbie song for having ‘saved me a little bit’ during an especially difficult time as she accepted a Golden Globe award on Sunday.
The bad guy hitmaker and her brother, co-writer Finneas O’Connell, accepted the Best Original Song prize for What Was I Made For? from Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster, and the 22-year-old star reflected on how she was feeling low when she first saw the movie and was asked to be part of the project.
Taking to the stage alongside her sibling, Billie said: ‘Thank you so much to the Golden Globes, I was not expecting this in this moment.
‘Thank you to my brother Finneas, you’re the reason I am who I am.
‘I wanna thank Greta and Noah for making this incredible film, I want to thank Margot for being the Margot we know and love I want to thank Mattel, and Interscope, my label, and Dark Room, and my incredible team, my managers and my mom. My mom, and my dad, and my brother again.
Billie Eilish credited her Barbie song for having ‘saved her’ during an especially difficult time as she accepted a Golden Globe award on Sunday
Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell were awarded the Best Original Song prize for What Was I Made For?
‘It was exactly a year ago almost that we were shown the movie I was very, very miserable and depressed at the time. And writing that song kind of saved me a little bit. A year later, and here we are, and it’s really surreal. I feel incredibly, incredibly lucky and grateful.’
Billie admitted the honour ‘means the world’ to her but she couldn’t help but feel nervous around the assembled Hollywood royalty at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
She added: ‘You guys scare the living hell out of me, everyone in this room.
‘Thank you so much, this means the world.’
Two other songs from the Barbie soundtrack were also nominated for the award, Dance the Night by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Dua Lipa and Caroline Ailin, and I’m Just Ken, which was also written by Mark and Andrew.
In addition, Bruce Springsteen’s Addicted to Romance from She Came to Me was on the shortlist, as was Peaches – which was written by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond and John Spiker – from The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Lenny Kravitz’s Road to Freedom from Rustin.
The wildly successful musician arrived to the show in a smart black blazer, a beige skirt, and stripped blouse finished off with a satin ribbon.
Eilish also wore a unique pair of footwear to the A-list event – thrifted shoes
The siblings pictured with their brand new awards in the press room
Billie admitted the honour ‘means the world’ to her but she couldn’t help but feel nervous around the assembled Hollywood royalty at the Beverly Hilton Hotel
Golden Globes 2024 WINNERS: AT A GLANCE
FILM
Best Motion Picture – Drama: Oppenheimer
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Poor Things
Cinematic and Box Office Achievement: Barbie
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama: Lily Gladstone – Killers Of The Flower Moon
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Emma Stone – Poor Things
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Best Director – Motion Picture: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Best Original Song – Motion Picture: What Was I Made For? – Barbie – Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell
Emma Stone triumphed as she earned Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
TELEVISION
Best Television Series – Drama: Succession
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy: The Bear
Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television: Beef
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama: Sarah Snook – Succession
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama: Kieran Culkin – Succession
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy: Ayo Edebiri – The Bear
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy: Jeremy Allen White – The Bear
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Ali Wong – Beef
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Steven Yeun – Beef
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television: Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television: Matthew Macfadyen – Succession
‘I just like that it looks like shorts but it’s a skirt,’ she said told Entertainment Tonight of the skirt.
Most interestingly, she attended the A-list event wearing second hand footwear.
The songstress purchased the Mary Jane shoes from a thrift store in 2023.
She wore her red-accented hair into an edgy updo with bangs framing her complexion and a slick of lip gloss adding some glam.
This isn’t the first Golden Globe Billie has won – in 2021 she was awarded Best Original Song for her track No Time To Die
This isn’t the first Golden Globe Billie has won – in 2021 she was awarded Best Original Song for her track No Time To Die.
The 81st Golden Globe Awards honors the best in film and American television of 2023 – with the glittering ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.
The most hotly anticipated movies of the past year – Barbie and Oppenheimer – led the nominations.
The 81st Golden Globe Awards will be the first major broadcast of awards season, with a new home on CBS and will be hosted by 52-year-old comedian Jo Koy.
