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Billie Eilish just gave the performance of a lifetime at the 2022 Oscars. As first-time Academy Award nominees this year, the 20-year-old singer and her music partner, brother Finneas, performed their James Bond theme song, “No Time to Die,” during the awards show on Sunday.

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Billie Eilish just gave the performance of a lifetime at the 2022 Oscars. As first-time Academy Award nominees this year, the 20-year-old singer and her music partner, brother Finneas, performed their James Bond theme song, «No Time to Die,» during the awards show on Sunday.The haunting track, which was first released in February 2020 and later served as the signature tune for the film of the same name, filled the star-studded Dolby Theatre as Billie sang and Finneas played the piano.Accompanied by musicians behind them, the siblings both wore black looks as they delivered their incredible performance.Following the epic performance, Billie and Finneas won their first-ever Oscar, taking home the award for Best Original Song.«This is so unbelievable, I could scream,» Billie said, thanking the creative team as she and her brother took the stage to accept their award.«We want to thank our parents, who have always ben our greatest inspirations,» Finneas added. «We love you as our parents and we love you as real people too.

Kenneth Branagh has just turned one of his eight career Oscar nominations into a win, stepping up to receive the award for Original Screenplay for Belfast.

Japan has won the award, and the first time since 2008.It beat out Italy’s “The Hand of God,” Norway’s “The Worst Person in the World,” Denmark’s “Flee” and Bhutan’s “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom.”———For more of AP’s Oscar coverage visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards

Hans Zimmer won his second career Oscar tonight, Original Score for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. This was Zimmer’s 12th nomination for Original Score, and second win since The Lion King in 1995. He was previously nominated for Rain Man (1989), The Preacher’s Wife (1997), As Good as It Gets (1998), The Prince of Egypt (1999), The Thin Red Line (1999), Gladiator (2001), Sherlock Holmes (2010), Inception (2011), Interstellar (2015), and Dunkirk (2018).

Van Morrison is a nominee, but don’t expect to see him at the 2022 Academy Awards!

Encanto will bring its magic to the 94th Academy Awards. The enchanting story about the Madrigals shows a side of Colombia that stays away from stereotypical shows and movies people are used to seeing.

Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Finneas, Reba McEntire and Sebastián Yatra will perform their Best Original Song nominations at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, taking place on Sunday (March 27) at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre.Beyoncé will perform ‘Be Alive’ (co-written with Dixson) from King Richard, which is up for five other awards including Best Picture and Best Actor. The announcement comes after, earlier this week, rumours emerged that the singer was planning a surprise live performance for this year’s awards ceremony.Eilish and Finneas will perform their theme song from latest Bond film No Time to Die, which is also up for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.

Jon Burlingame Film composers are always looking for novel ways to express ideas and convey character in music. Two of this year’s original-score nominees were especially innovative in finding musical solutions for storytelling challenges.“Dune” demanded a sonic landscape unlike anything composer Hans Zimmer had ever tackled (including such sci-fi projects as “Inception” and “Interstellar,” which brought him two of his previous 11 Oscar nominations).

Gregg Goldstein This year’s Academy Award nominations are dominated by films from deep-pocketed studios, specialty divisions and streamers. Yet as most 2021 indies were sidelined to the Spirit Awards, a few such as “Drive My Car,” “Flee,” “The Worst Person in the World” and “Writing With Fire” managed to score noms in David vs.

Tim Gray Senior Vice President“Audible,” an Oscar nominee for documentary short, features a winning combination: great filmmaking and a great subject matter.Director Matt Ogens had been waiting for 12 years to tell the story about the Maryland School for the Deaf and their championship football team. However, he doesn’t consider it a sports documentary: “It’s a coming-of-age story and some of it is unique, some of it is universal.”However, he had trouble getting funding: “We had a lot of doors shut in our faces by people thinking there wasn’t an audience for this.”During that time, Ogens would check in regularly with people at the school when he visited his family in the Maryland-D.C.