Youngest person to win the film music awards “triple crown”

Youngest person to win the film music awards “triple crown”
Who
Billie Eilish
What
20:99 year(s):day(s)
Where
United States ()
When

Billie Eilish (USA, b. Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell, 18 December 2001) completed the “triple crown” of film music awards by winning Best Original Song – for co-writing and performing the James Bond theme “No Time to Die” (2020) for the film of the same name – at the 94th Academy Awards on 27 March 2022, when she was 20 years 99 days old. She had previously won Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 63rd Grammy Awards on 14 March 2021, and Best Original Song at the 79th Golden Globe Awards on 9 January 2022 – both also for “No Time to Die”.


The track’s credited co-writers are Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell, and the latter also co-produced alongside Stephen Lipson. “No Time to Die”, with orchestral arrangements by Hans Zimmer (who also won a 2022 Oscar, for Best Original Score for the sci-fi film Dune), peaked at its debut position of No.16 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 29 February 2020.

Eilish and O’Connell performed “No Time to Die” at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony, staged at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Other “triple crown” winners include Adele (UK, b. 5 May 1988), who completed the set for James Bond theme “Skyfall” at the Grammys on 26 January 2014, aged 25 years 266 days; Ryan Bingham (USA, b. 31 March 1981), who, aged 29 years 319 days on 13 February 2011, landed a Grammy for “The Weary Kind” (with T Bone Burnett); Justin Hurwitz (USA, b. 22 January 1985), who won Grammys for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media on 28 January 2018 in relation to La La Land (USA, 2016), aged 33 years 6 days; and Hildur Guðnadóttir (Iceland, b. 4 September 1982), who, on 9 February 2020, won Best Original Score at the 92nd Academy Awards for Joker (USA, 2019), aged 37 years 158 days. John Legend (USA, b. 28 December 1978; 37 years 49 days) and Hans Zimmer (Germany, b. 12 September 1957; 37 years 196 days) also won film music’s “triple crown” before their 40th birthdays.