History could be made at the 2022 Oscars if No Time To Die wins one of the many awards it is nominated for. The 25th film in the James Bond series was released on October 8, 2021 to largely positive reviews. Marking the end of the Daniel Craig Dond era, No Time to Die was immediately labelled a contender for this year's most prestigious film awards. With the full list of nominees now announced, it looks as if the predictions were correct, as No Time to Die was nominated for Best Sound, Best Visual Effects and Best Original Song.

The 2022 Academy Awards are looking to be a tight race, and No Time to Die is not the only nominee competing in multiple categories. The Power of the Dog, the latest from director Jane Campion, is up for 12 categories including Best Picture and Director, followed closely by Denis Villneuve's Dune, which is up for 10 awards. Both Belfast and Spielberg's remake of West Side Story have been nominated for seven categories, and Adam Mckay's divisive climate change drama Don't Look Up is in the running for four. Whilst No Time to Die isn't up for any of the big four awards (Best Picture, Director, Actress or Actor), it is seeing recognition for its technical aspects and its musical theme. Written and performed by sibling collaborators Billie Eilish and Finneas, "No Time to Die" is the seventh theme in the history of the Bond franchise to be nominated for Best Original Song.

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According to ComicBook.com, if No Time to Die's theme wins Best Original Song at the 2022 Oscars, it will be the third Bond theme to win in a row for the franchise. With the two previous instalments, Skyfall and Spectre, having both taken home the prize, a win for No Time to Die will be etched into the history books as not only the first time that three successive James Bond films have won Oscars, but also the first time that they have won in the same category.

James Bond and Madeleine in No Time to Die

The win could legitimize the James Bond franchise as not only a popular series, but also one that is worthy of awards contention, having previously been underrepresented at the Oscars. The only previous time that successive Bond films won was back in the Sean Connery era, when Goldfinger and Thunderball won back-to-back awards (Sound Effects in '65 for Goldfinger and Special Visual Effects in '66 for Thunderball). Those were in fact the first and last Academy Awards won by the franchise until Adele's Skyfall theme took home Best Original Song in 2013. The win would also see Eilish become the youngest person to ever win the award at the age of 20, after having already taken home the Grammy for Best Original Song Written for Visual Media.

A win for No Time to Die would bring the total number of awards won by the franchise up to six. While this is a remarkable feat, it is still a far cry from the likes of its contemporaries. This is despite the number of James Bond films far outnumbering the number of film's in other franchises such as Star Wars, which has won seven times, despite only taking home Oscars for its first two instalments. A third successive Best Original Song win for No Time to Die could therefore mark the era of Academy Awards recognition for everyone's favorite secret agent.

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Source: ComicBook.com