British singer, Sam Smith follows Adele to become the second musician to win the academy awards musical prize for a James Bond theme.
Sam Smith and Jimmy Nape’s song, The Writing’s on the Wall, is the second Bond theme to win the Oscar after Adele’s Skyfall took the prize in 2013. Like Adele, Smith had already won the Golden Globe for best song ahead of the Oscars.
The singer who is also the first gay to win an Oscar award, thanks the LGBT community for their support.
The Writing’s on the Wall became the first Bond theme to reach No 1 in the UK pop charts in October last year. Co-produced with dance act Disclosure, it achieved 700,000 combined sales of physical copies and streams in its first week, more than Skyfall, which made it to No 2.
It may have been The Writing on the Wall’s year, but it was far from certain that Smith’s song would win the prize. Among his fellow nominees was Lady Gaga, whose song, Til It Happens to You was written for The Hunting Ground, a documentary that examines the issue of campus rape in US colleges. The Weeknd’s ballad Earned It, from Fifty Shades of Grey, was also expected to offer a strong challenge for the prize.
