Billie Eilish on getting Oscar 2024 nomination for Best Original Song

After getting the nomination for the 96th annual Academy Awards which was announced on Tuesday Billie Eilish and her collaborator and brother Finneas OConnell expressed how delighted they were to have gotten a Best Original Song nomination for their Barbie song What Was I Made For according to PeopleBillie Eilish on getting Oscar 2024 nomination for Best Original SongThe Grammy winner posted a sweet photo of her cuddling the films starproducer Margot Robbie on Instagram as well as a shot of the moment in which the emotional ballad appears On the latter the siblings issued a joint statementThank you so much to the members of theacademy for nominating What Was I Made For we are endlessly grateful for this honor and to have been a part of barbiethemovie Billie wrote on Instagram The singersongwriters then thanked the films production team which included Robbie 33 Barbie director Greta Gerwig and her screenwriting partner and husband Noah BaumbachBillie Eilish on getting Oscar 2024 nomination for Best Original Song take a lookView this post on InstagramA post shared by BILLIE EILISH billieeilishAccording to People The Bad Guy singer and OConnell also thanked the coproducers on What Was I Made For Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt who helmed the Barbie soundtrack and received a Best Original Song nomination for Im Just Ken themselves They continued Thank you to Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt for weaving our song into the fabric and heart of this film so wellThe musicians sweetly concluded by again bringing attention to Robbie who notably did not receive a Best Actress nomination And a special shout out to Margot Robbie for her incredible foresight as a producer and brilliant performance that resonated with us so profoundly when writing this song the two added We are truly honored Thank youThe Happier Than Ever artist and her brothers nomination comes two years after they won their firstever Oscar in 2022 for writing No Time to Die for the James Bond film of the same nameMeanwhile America Ferrera who shone with her performance as the human Gloria in Barbie won her first Academy Awards nomination in the Best Supporting actor category Reacting to the female force behind the film getting snubbed at the Oscars she told Variety I was incredibly disappointed that they werenrsquot nominatedShe further explained ldquoGreta has done just about everything that a director could do to deserve it Creating this world and taking something that didnrsquot have inherent value to most people and making it a global phenomenon It feels disappointing to not see her on that listrdquoldquoWhat Margot achieved as an actress is truly unbelievablerdquo Ferrera further said talking about her costar who played the famous doll ldquoOne of the things about Margot as an actress is how easy she makes everything look And perhaps people got fooled into thinking that the work seems easy but Margot is a magician as an actress in front of the screen and it was one of the honors of my career to get to witness her pull off the amazing performance she did She brings so much heart and humor and depth and joy and fun to the character In my book shersquos a masterrdquoWith Inputs from ANI