Billie Eilish Is Now the Youngest 2-Time Oscar Winner Ever

The musician made history when she and her brother Finneas won Best Original Song for “What Was I Made For?”

Billie Eilish & Finneas at the 96th Academy Awards (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Just two years after winning Best Original Song for the Bond tune “No Time to Die,” Billie Eilish triumphed in the category again on Sunday and became the youngest two-time Oscar winner of all time, at 22. Her brother, Finneas O’Connell, became the second-youngest two-time winner, at 26.

The siblings’ latest victory, for their emotional “Barbie” ballad, pushes them both ahead of the former record holder, Luise Rainer, who won Best Actress in 1937 for “The Great Ziegfeld” and again in 1938 for “The Good Earth,” when she was 28. (She was the first performer to win back-to-back in the lead acting category.)

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