Earlier on Oscars night, Billie Eilish revealed that writing a song for the James Bond franchise had been a longtime dream for her and her brother, Finneas, ...
I wanted him to feel like it represented his years and his last film. “I just really wanted [Daniel Craig] to love it. It just was the most amazing experience ever.”
The duo's James Bond theme was nominated for Best Original Song against music by Beyoncé, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Diane Warren.
“No Time to Die” won Best Original Song tonight. The song previously won Eilish and Finneas the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. Earlier this year, the track earned them the Golden Globe for Best Original Song. It was nominated alongside Beyonce’s King Richard track “Be Alive,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Encanto song “Dos Oruguitas,” Van Morrison’s “Down to Joy” from Belfast, and Diane Warren’s “Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days.
It's the third consecutive Academy Award for music in the long-running spy franchise, following Adele's win for 2012's “Skyfall” and Sam Smith's for “Writing's ...
Eilish and Finneas wrote “No Time to Die” in late 2019, as post-production on the 25th 007 epic was underway. “We love you as parents and as real people, too,” he said. “No Time to Die” was repeatedly COVID-delayed, finally opening in London in late September 2021.
This year is the first time that the sibling musicians have been nominated for one of the prestigious statuettes, with them taking home the award for Best ...
Eilish is now reportedly the youngest person to win the “triple crown” of film music, having won an Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe for ‘No Time To Die’. “ Johnny Marr for taking our song and making it worthy of James Bond,” she said. The pair also performed ‘No Time To Die’ at the event, backed by string players and percussionists.
Recording an original song for a James Bond film is a modern rite of passage for ambitious songwriters. But, though Sheryl Crow, Adele, Alicia Keys, ...
“We’d been telling our team for years that we want to do something with Bond...We recorded the vocals in a bunk in the dark on the bus in a basement in Texas,” Eilish told Vulture of the song's creation. So when the “Happier Than Ever” singer took to the 2022 Oscars stage with her brother and co-writer Finneas, her high-pitched trills and power-ballad belts set the tone for an already emotionally charged ceremony. The resulting track, “No Time To Die,” effortlessly encapsulates the mood of the film with which it shares a name: powerful but haunting, long but lingering.
Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell performed their James Bond theme song “No Time To Die” at the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony.
No Time To Die ended up being released in the fall of 2021. “No Time To Die” was first released in February 2020 when the James Bond film was scheduled to come out that spring. Oscars 2022: Watch Billie Eilish & Finneas Perform James Bond Theme “No Time To Die”