Billie Eilish Breaks Silence On Oscar Nomination For 'Barbie' Song

Billie Eilish has spoken out after she was nominated for an Oscar for her song 'What Was I Made For?' from the movie 'Barbie.'

As you may know, earlier this year, Eilish and Finneas won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for the 'Barbie'-movie hit, and now they could take home the Academy Award too!

Following the release of the 2024 Oscar Nominations, the 'Happier Than Ever' singer released a statement on her and Finneas's behalf.

"We are so incredibly honored to receive a nomination for 'What Was I Made For?'" As lifelong fans of film, music in film and the Academy Awards, this means everything to us. We are so grateful to the Academy, its members, and to be recognized alongside so many songwriters that we respect and admire."

The statement continued, "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."

She went on to thank Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt "for weaving our song into the fabric and heart of this film so well."

"And a special shout out to Margot Robbiefor her incredible foresight as a producer and brilliant performance that resonated with us so profoundly when writing this song," the statement continued, concluding with, "We are truly honored. Thank you."

Previously, Billie Eilish opened up about the process behind making the song, stating, “It was as if this song was a tiny creature inside of me for years, scratching the inside of me. As soon as we got that prompt, the creature was like, ‘Okay, I’m out,’ and we [meaning Billie and her brother-collaborator, Finneas O’Connell] wrote that song in an hour or two.”

“We wrote it in a period of time where we couldn’t have been less inspired and less creative," the singer continued explaining regarding how the song came to be. "That day we were making stuff, and were like, ‘We’ve lost it. Why are we even doing this?’ And then those first chords happened, and ‘I used to float / now I just fall down’ came out and the song wrote itself. I have the whole video of us writing the song, and the first thing we wrote were those lines in the first 10 minutes.”

She added, “We wrote most of the song without thinking about ourselves and our own lives, but thinking about this character we were inspired by. A couple of days went by, and I realized it was about me. It’s everything I feel. And it’s not just me — everyone feels like that, eventually.”

The other Oscar nominees for Best Original Song are as follows:

• 'The Fire Inside' - 'Flamin' Hot' (Diane Warren)
• 'I'm Just Ken' - 'Barbie' (Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt)
• 'It Never Went Away' - 'American Symphony' (Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson)
• 'Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)' - 'Killers of the Flower Moon' (Scott George)
• 'What Was I Made For?' - 'Barbie' (Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell)

The 2024 Academy Awards take place on March 10, 2024.