Meryl Streep praised Billie Eilish and Finneas as she took to the rostrum on the Palm Springs Movie Awards final night time, the place she introduced Carey Mulligan with the Worldwide Star Award, Actress, for Maestro.
She began off by paying tribute to the songwriting duo who had simply acquired an award for his or her music “What Was I Made For?” from the Barbie soundtrack. They grew to become the primary songwriters to ever obtain the Chairman’s Award at Palm Springs.
In a second that introduced again recollections of Steven Spielberg’s remarks to Tom Cruise final 12 months when he thanked him for saving the film enterprise with High Gun: Maverick, Streep informed Billie and Finneas that they “have delivered the ‘Barbie’ love bomb, You saved the films final summer season and all of our jobs. You’ve delivered pleasure to numerous generations and genders of individuals, and you must surf that wave, youngsters, till you’re outdated and should be jaded like me.”
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie was the best grossing film of 2023 with $1.4 billion in ticket gross sales, and is the highest-grossing Warner Bros. movie in historical past.
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