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\n\tAt the 2024 Oscars on Sunday (March 10), Billie Eilish<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Finneas<\/a>\u00a0won their second Oscar for best original song in three years.<\/p>\n \n\tThe siblings won in that category in 2022 for \u201cNo Time to Die,\u201d from the James Bond film of the same name. They won again this year with \u201cWhat Was I Made For?\u201d from\u00a0Barbie<\/em>, becoming the first songwriter or songwriting team to win twice in the space of three years since\u00a0Tim Rice<\/a>\u00a0won in 1993, 1995 and 1997. Rice co-wrote those songs with three different collaborators.<\/p>\n \n\tEilish and Finneas are the first songwriting team<\/em> to win twice in the space of three years since\u00a0Alan Menken<\/a>\u00a0& Howard Ashman, who won in 1990 for \u201cUnder the Sea\u201d from\u00a0The Little Mermaid<\/em>\u00a0and in 1992 with the title song from\u00a0Beauty and the Beast<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWhat Was I Made For?\u201d prevailed over another song from\u00a0Barbie<\/em>, \u201cI\u2019m Just Ken (co-written by\u00a0Mark Ronson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Andrew Wyatt<\/a>). This year\u2019s other nominees for best original song were \u201cThe Fire Inside\u201d\u00a0from\u00a0Flamin\u2019 Hot<\/em>\u00a0(Diane Warren<\/a>), \u201cIt Never Went Away\u201d\u00a0from\u00a0American Symphony<\/em>\u00a0(Jon Batiste<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dan Wilson<\/a>) and \u201cWahzhazhe (A Song for My People)\u201d\u00a0from\u00a0Killers of the Flower Moon<\/em>\u00a0(Scott George<\/a>).<\/p>\n \n\tHere are all of the songwriting teams, or individual songwriters, who have won two Oscars for best original song in the space of three years. As you\u2019ll see, one songwriting team and one individual songwriter won back-to-back awards in this category. (Bonus points if you can name them without scrolling ahead.) The years shown are the years of the Oscar ceremonies.<\/p>\n