Final Oscar Predictions: Original Song Billie Eilish and Finneas Could Become Youngest Two

Posted by Jenniffer Sheldon on Saturday, January 13, 2024

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2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Original Song

Weekly Commentary (Updated March 7, 2024): With an original song win, Billie Eilish, 22, and Finneas, 26, would become the youngest artists ever to win two Oscars before the age of 30. The pair won for James Bond theme “No Time to Die” in 2022, and are nominated this year for “What Was I Made For,” from “Barbie.” Only three individuals have clinched two Oscars before turning 30: Luise Rainer earned back to back Oscars by the time she was 28 for “The Great Ziegfeld” (1936) and “The Good Earth” (1937); Jodie Foster in 1989 for “The Accused” (age 26) and in 1992 for “The Silence of the Lambs” (29); and Hilary Swank in 2000 for “Boys Don’t Cry” (26) and in 2005 for “Million Dollar Baby” (29).

Meanwhile, Diane Warren faces a less enviable milestone with her 15th nomination for “The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot,” potentially tying with the late Alex North and the still-active Thomas Newman for the second-most number of nominations without a win, just behind sound mixer Greg Russell’s 16.

Will Win: “Barbie” (“What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell)
Could Win: “Barbie” (“I’m Just Ken” by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt)
Should Win: “I’m Just Ken”
Should have been here: “The Iron Claw” (“Live That Way Forever” by Laurel Sprengelmeyer and Richard Reed Parry, Little Scream) and “The Color Purple” (“Workin’” by Blitz Bazawule and Nick Baxter)

Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.

The 96th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10.

And the Nominees Are:

  • “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) — “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas
  • “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) — “I’m Just Ken” by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
  • “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures) — “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People” by The Osage Tribe
  • “Flamin’ Hot” (Hulu/Searchlight Pictures) — “The Fire Inside” by Diane Warren
  • “American Symphony” (Netflix) — “It Never Went Away” by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson

    • Eligible Titles (Alphabetized by Studio)**

    • “American Symphony”: “It Never Went Away”
    • “Asteroid City”: “Dear Alien Who Art in Heaven”
    • “Barbie”: “Dance the Night,” “I’m Just Ken,” “What Was I Made For”
    • “The Beanie Bubble”: “This”
    • “Bella”: “The Easy Way”
    • “Bobi Wine: The People’s President”: “Everything’s Gonna Be Fine”
    • “The Boy and the Heron”: “Spinning Globe”
    • “Carmen”: “Slip Away”
    • “Champions”: “Tell Somebody That You Love Them Right Now”
    • “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget”: “My Sweet Baby”
    • “The Color Purple”: “Superpower,” “Keep It Movin’”
    • “Creed III”: “Blood, Sweat & Tears”
    • “Dicks: The Musical”: “Out Alpha the Alpha”
    • “Dreamin’ Wild”: “A Dream Is Beautiful”
    • “Drift”: “It Would Be”
    • “Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”: “Wings of Time”
    • “80 for Brady”: “Gonna Be You”
    • “Elemental”: “Steal the Show”
    • “The Face of the Faceless”: “Barala Tribal Song,” “Ek Sapna Mera Suhana,” “Jalta Hai Suraj” “Flamin’ Hot”: “The Fire Inside”
    • “Flora and Son”: “High Life,” “Meet in the Middle”
    • “A Good Person”: “The Best Part,” “I Hate Myself,” “Stardust”
    • “Heart of Stone”: “Quiet”
    • “Here. Is. Better”: “A Little More Time”
    • “The Home Fairy”: “Amar em Segredo”
    • “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”: “Can’t Catch Me Now”
    • “The Inventor”: “From This Tiny Seed”
    • “The Iron Claw”: “Live That Way Forever”
    • “Jacob the Baker”: “Better Times”
    • “Joe Haladin: The Case of the Missing Sister”: “It’s Precious We Have It Today”
    • “John Wick: Chapter 4”: “Eye for an Eye”
    • “Journey to Bethlehem”: “Mother to a Savior and King”
    • “Killers of the Flower Moon:”: “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)”
    • “King Coal”: “King Coal”
    • “Knights of Santiago”: “Las Navas de Tolosa”
    • “Leo”: “When I Was Ten”
    • “The Little Mermaid”: “For the First Time,” “The Scuttlebutt,” “Wild Uncharted Waters”
    • “The Magician’s Elephant”: “Found”
    • “M3gan”: “Tell Me Your Dreams”
    • “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3”: “We’re All Together”
    • “My Love Affair With Marriage”: “Lion / My Love Affair With Marriage”
    • “Nimona”: “T-Rex”
    • “Nyad”: “Find a Way”
    • “Origin”: “Falling Into Place,” “I Am”
    • “Orlando, My Political Biography”: “Pharma Coliberation”
    • “Our Son”: “Always Be My Man”
    • “Past Lives”: “Quiet Eyes”
    • “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie”: “Down Like That,” “Learning to Fly”
    • “The Peasants”: “End of Summer”
    • “Prisoner’s Daughter”: “Shotgun Clown”
    • “Radical”: “Sader”
    • “The Road Dog”: “Remember Me”
    • “Ruby Gelman, Teenage Kraken”: “Rise,” “This Moment”
    • “Rustin”: “Road to Freedom”
    • “Saving Ana”: “Missing Children”
    • “Scream VI”: “In My Head,” “Still Alive”
    • “She Came to Me”: “Addicted to Romance”
    • “Silver Dollar Road”: “Wounded Heart”
    • “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”: “Am I Dreaming”
    • “Spinning Gold”: “Greatest Time”
    • “The Starling Girl”: “Ace Up My Sleeve”
    • “State of the Unity”: “One Mile,” “Songbird,” “Hides”
    • “Stephen Curry Underrated”: “Lil Fish, Big Pond”
    • “Strays”: “All of You”
    • “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”: “Peaches”
    • “Suzume”: “Kanata Haluka.” “Suzume”
    • “Sweetwater”: “Taking Me Higher”
    • “Theater Camp”: “Camp Isn’t Home”
    • “They Cloned Tyrone”: “Drunk AF”
    • “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”: “On My Soul”
    • “Trolls Band Together”: “Better Place (Reunion)”
    • “Uncharitable”: “All of Our Dreams”
    • “We Dare to Dream”: “Don’t Need to Sleep”
    • “Wish”: “I’m a Star,” “This Is the Thanks I Get?!,” “This Wish”
    • “Wonka”: “A World of Your Own”

    2022 category winner: “RRR” (Variance Films) — “Naatu Naatu” by M. M. Keeravani (music) and Chandrabose (lyrics)

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