When 28-year-old Luise Rainer won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Good Earth, just a year after winning the same award for 1936's The Great Ziegfeld, she became the youngest person to ever win two Oscars. The Oscars had only been around for a few years at that point, so it’s not unbelievably impressive, but what is impressive is that the record stood for almost 90 years—right up until tonight, when it was broken by both Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas.
Eilish and Finneas just won their second Oscars for Best Original Song thanks to “What Was I Made For?” off the Barbie soundtrack, with their first wins being for the title song from No Time To Die a couple of years ago. Eilish is only 22 and her brother is only 26, making them the youngest and second-youngest to ever win two Oscars.
The youngest to ever win an Oscar is still Tatum O’Neal, who won when she was 10 years old for her role in Paper Moon, and the youngest to ever win the Best Original Song Oscar is still Once’s Markéta Irglová (who was just 19). It’s tough for an Oscar winner to get younger, so Eilish and Finneas don’t stand much of a chance at beating those, but at the same time, it’ll be tough for anyone to beat their records now. Again, the old one did stand for almost 90 years.