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Billie Eilish wins best song Oscar for What Was I Made For? from Barbie


Song co-written by Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell comes out on top over I’m Just Ken, another song from the Barbie movie soundtrack

Billie Eilish, along with her brother Finneas O’Connell, has won the Oscar for best song with What Was I Made For?, which the pair co-wrote for the Barbie movie soundtrack. Eilish and O’Connell had to defeat a lineup that contained another song from Barbie: I’m Just Ken, written by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt and performed by Ryan Gosling. Other contenders included Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) from Killers of the Flower Moon, and It Never Went Away from the documentary American Symphony.

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