Billie Eilish and Finneas led the stars reacting to their Oscars 2024 nominations on Tuesday morning as they earned a nod in the Best Original Song category.
The 22-year-old singer and her 26-year-old older brother earned their second Academy Awards nod for their track What Was I Made For? which was featured on the soundtrack for blockbuster Barbie.
The two siblings have already won an Oscar once before as they were recognized for the track No Time To Die from the James Bond film of the same name in 2022.
Billie – born Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell – reacted to the news in a short interview with Good Morning America as she said: ‘We are feeling so good and excited and honored. Oh my god, this is crazy. Crazy morning.’
Finneas – bornย Finneas Baird O’Connell –ย then chimed in: ‘We just woke up at five in the morning in LA so it feels a little bit like we are dreaming.’
Billie Eilish and Finneas led the stars reacting to their Oscars 2024 nominations on Tuesday morning as they earned a nod in the Best Original Song category; the siblings are seen at the Critics Choice Awards last week
Billie – born Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell – reacted to the news in a short interview with Good Morning America as she said: ‘We are feeling so good and excited and honored. Oh my god, this is crazy. Crazy morning’
Finneas – born Finneas Baird O’Connell – then chimed in: ‘We just woke up at five in the morning in LA so it feels a little bit like we are dreaming’
The duo will face off against another Barbie song titled I’m Just Ken which was performed by Ryan Gosling and written by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt as both tracks are up againstย The Fire Inside from Flamin’ Hot,ย It Never Went Away from American Symphony, andย Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) from Killers of the Flower Moon.
The Oscar nominations for 2024 were announcedย from the academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills,ย Californiaย on Tuesday morning.
As expected, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon dominated the list.
Nolan’s three-hour opus came away with a leading 13 nominations,ย receiving nods for best picture; Nolan’s direction; acting nominations for Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt; and multiple honors for the craft of the drama.
Barbie received eight nominations including nods for best picture; Ryan Gosling for best supporting actor; and two best-song candidates. However, Gerwig was left out of the best director category.
For best actor in leading role Bradley Cooperย and Cillian Murphy are set to duke it out for the award. Colman Domingo, Paul Giamatti and Jeffrey Wright received nominations as well.
Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced the Oscar nominations for 2024 from the academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California on Tuesday morning
What Was I Made For and I’m Just Ken from Barbie received their expected nominations for best original song
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was nominated for best director and a host of other awards
Lily Gladstone is the first Native American nominated for best actress, for her performance in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things took home 11 Oscar nominations and Killers of the Flower Moon landed 10.
Annette Bening, Lily Gladstone, Sandra Huller, Carey Mulliganย and Emma Stone have been nominated for best actress in a leading role.
Gladstone isย the first Native American nominated for best actress, for her performance in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
What Was I Made For and I’m Just Ken from Barbie received their expected nominations for best original song.ย
Sterling K. Brown,ย Robert De Niro, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan Goslingย and Mark Ruffalo received nominations for best actor in a supporting role.
Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks, America Ferrera, Jodie Foster and Da’Vine Joy Randolph received nominations for best actress in a supporting role.
Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer were nominated for best directing, snubbing Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.
Though Nolan is regarded as the big-budget auteur of his era, he’s never won an Academy Award, nor have any of his films won best picture.ย
American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things and The Zone of Interest landed best picture nominations.ย ย
The 96th Academy Awards will be held on March 10 at 7 p.m. live on ABC, hosted for a fourth time by Jimmy Kimmel.ย
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