FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SONG

It’s Barbie vs Ken.

“I’m Just Ken” and “What Was I Made For” have been battling it out all season, on the Billboard charts, with guilds and critics groups and even the Grammys earlier this month. While Ryan Gosling’s 80s style “Ken” crooning gathered the most wins from critics groups that gave out song awards, as well as Critics Choice itself, it’s Billie Eilish’s thematic centerpiece that’s earned wins from the Golden Globes, key guilds (Hollywood Music in Media and the Society of Composers and Lyricists) plus the Grammy Award for Song Written for Visual Media (where it competed directly against “Ken”) and even bigger, Song of the Year. While Billboard chart success isn’t a clincher here, it also beat out “Ken” by a considerable margin, peaking at #14 vs #87.

At 22 years old, if Eiilish wins she’ll become the youngest two-time Oscar winner of all time. It will also be her second time beating 15-time nominee and Honorary Oscar winner Diane Warren. Eilish previously bested Warren’s 2021 effort “Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days with her titular Bond song from No Time to Die.

I think there is definitely room for an ironic “I’m Just Ken” surprise, and maybe it wouldn’t be a surprise at all coming from an Academy that bypassed Barbie herself over Ken as well as the director behind it all.

Here are my ranked final 2024 Oscar winner predictions for Original Song.