Billie Eilish (USA, born December 18, 2001) has completed the “triple crown” of film music awards at just 20 years and 99 days old.
The “triple crown” film music award wins an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Grammy for music created specifically for a film.
Eilish earned those accolades with “No Time to Die,” created for the latest James Bond blockbuster of the same name starring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek and Léa Seydoux.
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At the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, 2022, Eilish won Best Original Song, having previously won Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 63rd Grammy Awards (March 14, 2021) and Best Original Song at the 79th Golden Globe. Awards (January 9, 2022) — all for “No Time To Die.”
Eilish co-wrote the song with her brother Finneas O’Connell, with orchestral arrangements provided by Hans Zimmer. Zimmer also won a 2022 Academy Award for Best Original Score for the sci-fi film. Dunes (USA, 2021). O’Connell co-produced the track with Stephen Lipson.
The making was made even more special as Eilish and O’Connell performed the number together at the Oscars, staged at the Dolby Theater Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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“No Time to Die” peaked at its first position of No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 29, 2020.
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Eilish is also the youngest musician to write and record a James Bond theme songwriting and recording the track when she was just 18 years old.
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Although Eilish is the youngest person to win the “triple crown” film music awardsshe’s not the first musician to get the “triple crown” on the back of an iconic Bond theme.
Adele (UK, b. May 5, 1988) won the coveted three awards for ‘Skyfall’, the theme from the James Bond film celestial fall, at the Grammys on January 26, 2014, at the age of 25 years 266 days.
Other previous Triple Crown winners include;
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- Ryan Bingham (American, born March 31, 1981) – for “The Weary Kind” (with T Bone Burnett)
- Justin Hurwitz (United States, born January 22, 1985) – in connection with The Earth (USA, 2016)
- Hildur Guðnadóttir (Iceland, born September 4, 1982) – in connection with Joker (USA, 2019)
John Legend (American, born December 28, 1978; 37 years 49 days old) and Hans Zimmer (Germany, born September 12, 1957; 37 years 196 days old) also won the “triple crown” of film music before their 40th anniversary.
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Eilish holds a host of other records, including Youngest Grammy Record of the Year winner (aged 18 years and 39 days with “Bad Guy”) and youngest solo artist to win album of the year at the Grammy Awards (18 years 1 month 8 days with first album When we all fall asleep where do we go).
With time on this record-breaking musician’s side, we can’t wait to see what record she’ll break next.
