Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film. The performers of a song are not credited with the Academy Award unless they contributed either to music, lyrics or both in their own right. The songs that are nominated for this award are performed during the ceremony and before this award is presented.
The award category was introduced at the 7th Academy Awards, the ceremony honoring the best in film for 1934. Nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers, and the winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole.
==Eligibility==
"There must be a clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition (not necessarily visually presented) of both lyrics and melody, used in the body of the motion picture or as the first music cue in the end credits."2011 Academy Awards rules (PDF) 
The original requirement was only that the nominated song appear in a motion picture during the previous year. This rule was changed after the 1941 Academy Awards, when "The Last Time I Saw Paris", from the film Lady Be Good, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, won. Kern was upset that his song won because it had been published and recorded before it was used in the film. The song was actually written in 1940, after the Germans occupied Paris at the start of World War II. It was recorded by Kate Smith and peaked at No. 8 on the best seller list before it was used in the film.
Kern got the Academy to change the rule so that only songs that are "original and written specifically for the motion picture" are eligible to win.Susan Sacket, "1941: 'The Last Time I Saw Paris'", Hollywood Sings!, Billboard Books, New York, 1995, pp. 42–43.Rule Fifteen: Special Rules for the Music Awards | Rules for the 86th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Songs that rely on sampled or reworked material along with cover versions, remixes and parodies, such as "Gangsta's Paradise" in the 1995 film Dangerous Minds, are also ineligible.
This rule means that when a film is adapted from a previously-produced stage musical, none of the existing songs from the musical are eligible. As a result, many recent film adaptations of musicals have included original songs which could be nominated, such as "You Must Love Me" in the 1996 film Evita (won award), and "Listen", "Love You I Do", "Patience" in the 2006 film Dreamgirls and "Suddenly" in the 2012 film Les Misérables.
There was a debate as to whether or not Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who were awarded the Oscar in 2008 for "Falling Slowly", were in fact eligible. "Falling Slowly" has been released on two other albums – The Swell Season, Hansard and Irglova's duo project and The Cost, by Hansard's band The Frames. The Swell Season was released in August 2006, and The Cost in February 2007, before the release of Once. However, the AMPAS music committee determined that, in the course of the film's protracted production, the composers had "played the song in some venues that were deemed inconsequential enough to not change the song's eligibility". The same issue arose two years earlier with "In the Deep" from Crash, which appeared on Bird York's 2003 album The Velvet Hour after being written for Crash, but before the film was released. The current Academy rule says an eligible song "must be recorded for use in the motion picture prior to any other usage", so recordings released prior to the film will not disqualify a song as long as the film version was "recorded" before then.
==Number of nominations==
Until the Academy Awards for 1945 (awarded in 1946) any number of songs could be nominated for the award. For the 1945 awards, 14 songs were nominated.
From 1946 to 2011, each member of the Music Branch of the Academy was asked to vote using a points system of 10, 9.5, 9, 8.5, 8, 7.5, 7, 6.5 or 6 points. Only those songs that received an average score of 8.25 or more were eligible for nomination. If no song qualified, there would be no nominees. And if only one song achieved that score, it and the song receiving the next highest score would be the two nominees. This system usually resulted in five nominations each year, except for 2010 when four were nominated, 1988, 2005, and 2008, when only three were nominated; and 2011 when only two were nominated.Sacket, "Preface", p. xvii.
Following the two song competition in 2011, the rules were changed once more. The number of nominations is now contingent upon the number of submissions. Depending on the amount received by the Academy there would be five, three or no nominations each year. Since then, there have always been five nominees, except in 2013 when one was disqualified.
The first film to receive multiple nominations was Fame in 1980. Only four films have featured three nominated songs: Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Dreamgirls, and Enchanted. Dreamgirls and Enchanted lost on every nomination: An Inconvenient Truth original song "I Need to Wake Up" defeated all three of the nominated songs from Dreamgirls, while "Falling Slowly" from Once defeated all three of Enchanteds nominations. After these two consecutive defeats, a new rule was instated in June 2008 that a film could have no more than two songs nominated.Academy press release
==Performances at the awards ceremony==
Nominated songs are usually performed live at the televised Academy Awards ceremonies. Although pre-televised ceremonies were broadcast on the radio, the tradition of performing the nominated songs did not begin until the 18th Academy Awards in 1946, in which performers included Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Dinah Shore, and Dick Haymes.
In the early years, the songs were usually not performed by the original artists as in the film. For example, in 1965, Robert Goulet performed all the nominated songs at the ceremony. (Ironically, in the case of "The Look Of Love", sung by Dusty Springfield in Casino Royale, the positive reaction to the performance by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 on the 1968 telecast led to their version being released as a single and eventually becoming the bigger hit.) In 1970, this was reversed and only the people who had performed the piece in the film were permitted to perform the song on the live telecast, even if a hit version was performed by another act.
However, since Oscar nominees for 1970, 1971 and 1972 had all been major hit records by other artists, in 1973 the rule was amended again and it became standard to first offer either the original artist or artists who performed the song in the film a chance to perform it at the ceremony, followed by the artist or artists who had the hit record with it.
When neither of those is able to do so (or in rare cases where the telecast producers decide to go with someone else), the Academy chooses more well-known entertainers to perform the song at the ceremony. For example, Robin Williams performed "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut at the 72nd Academy Awards instead of the film's voice actors, Trey Parker and Mary Kay Bergman (Bergman died a few months before the show). Beyoncé Knowles sang three nominated songs (one of which was a duet with Josh Groban) during the 77th Academy Awards even though she had not performed those songs in any of the respective films.
That same year, the song "Al otro lado del río" (On The Other Side Of The River), which was featured in the film The Motorcycle Diaries, won the award, becoming the first song in Spanish and the second in a foreign language to receive such an honor (the first winner was the title tune to Never on Sunday, which was sung in Greek in the film by its star, Melina Mercouri). It was written by Uruguayan composer Jorge Drexler, but the producers would not let Drexler perform the song during the show for fear of losing ratings. Instead, the song was performed by Carlos Santana and Antonio Banderas. Drexler's acceptance speech for the award consisted of him singing a few lines a cappella and closed by simply saying "thank you".
At the 80th Academy Awards, "That's How You Know" from the film Enchanted was performed by Kristin Chenoweth, rather than the film's star, Amy Adams. However, Adams performed "Happy Working Song", which was nominated from the same film.
In 1985, Phil Collins was passed over to perform his nominated composition "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)". According to representatives of both Collins' record company and Columbia Pictures, this was because the producers of the telecast were not familiar with his work. Ann Reinking performed the song instead, with Collins sitting in the audience. In 2009, Peter Gabriel, who was originally scheduled to perform his nominated song "Down to Earth" during the live broadcast, declined to perform after learning that he would be allowed to sing only 65 seconds of the song during the ceremony's Best Original Song nominee performance medley. Gabriel still attended the ceremony, with John Legend performing the song in his place, backed by the Soweto Gospel Choir.
The 84th Academy Awards did not feature performances from either nominated song ("Man or Muppet" from The Muppets or "Real in Rio" from Rio).Oscar nominee Brett McKenzie in Billboard Magazine No reason for this was given by Oscar producers. This was only the third time that Best Original Song nominees were not performed (the others were in 1989 and 2010). At the 2013 Oscars, only three of the five nominees were performed, with the eventual winner, the theme from Skyfall, being the only one performed separately on its own as opposed to being part of a musical montage sequence. The 88th Academy Awards also had three of the five nominees performed. Anohni, performer and writer of "Manta Ray", one of the two nominated songs cut from the ceremony, boycotted the ceremony for this reason.
==Winners and nominees==
===1930s===
Year	Film 	Song 	Nominees
1934	 	 	
1934	The Gay Divorcee 	"The Continental" 	Con Conrad (music); Herb Magidson (lyrics)
1934	Flying Down to Rio 	"Carioca" 	Vincent Youmans (music); Edward Eliscu & Gus Kahn (lyrics)
1934	She Loves Me Not 	"Love in Bloom" 	Ralph Rainger (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1935	 	 	
1935	Gold Diggers of 1935 	"Lullaby of Broadway" 	Harry Warren (music); Al Dubin (lyrics)
1935	Roberta 	"Lovely to Look At" 	Jerome Kern (music); Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh (lyrics)
1935	Top Hat 	"Cheek to Cheek" 	Irving Berlin (music and lyrics)
1936	 	 	
1936	Swing Time 	"The Way You Look Tonight" 	Jerome Kern (music); Dorothy Fields (lyrics)
1936	Born to Dance 	"I've Got You Under My Skin" 	Cole Porter (music and lyrics)
1936	Pennies from Heaven 	"Pennies from Heaven" 	Arthur Johnston (music); Johnny Burke (lyrics)
1936	Sing, Baby, Sing 	"When Did You Leave Heaven" 	Richard A. Whiting (music); Walter Bullock (lyrics)
1936	Suzy 	"Did I Remember" 	Walter Donaldson (music); Harold Adamson (lyrics)
1936	Trail of the Lonesome Pine	"A Melody from the Sky" 	Louis Alter (music); Sidney Mitchell (lyrics)
1937	 	 	
1937	Waikiki Wedding 	"Sweet Leilani" 	Harry Owens (music and lyrics)
1937	Artists and Models 	"Whispers in the Dark" 	Frederick Hollander (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1937	Mr. Dodd Takes the Air 	"Remember Me" 	Harry Warren (music); Al Dubin (lyrics)
1937	Shall We Dance 	"They Can't Take That Away from Me"	George Gershwin (posthumously) (music); Ira Gershwin (lyrics)
1937	Vogues of 1938 	"That Old Feeling" 	Sammy Fain (music); Lew Brown (lyrics)
1938	 	 	
1938	The Big Broadcast of 1938 	"Thanks for the Memory" 	Ralph Rainger (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1938	Alexander's Ragtime Band 	"Now It Can Be Told" 	Irving Berlin (music and lyrics)
1938	Carefree 	"Change Partners" 	Irving Berlin (music and lyrics)
1938	The Cowboy and the Lady 	"The Cowboy and the Lady" 	Lionel Newman (music); Arthur Quenzer (lyrics)
1938	Going Places 	"Jeepers Creepers" 	Harry Warren (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1938	The Lady Objects 	"A Mist Over the Moon" 	Ben Oakland (music); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
1938	Mannequin 	"Always and Always" 	Edward Ward (music); Chet Forrest & Bob Wright (lyrics)
1938	Merrily We Live 	"Merrily We Live" 	Phil Charig (music); Quenzer (lyrics)
1938	That Certain Age 	"My Own" 	Jimmy McHugh (music); Harold Adamson (lyrics)
1938	Under Western Stars 	"Dust" 	Johnny Marvin (music and lyrics)
1939	 	 	
1939	The Wizard of Oz 	"Over the Rainbow" 	Harold Arlen (music); Yip Harburg (lyrics)
1939	Gulliver's Travels 	"Faithful Forever" 	Ralph Rainger (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1939	Love Affair 	"Wishing" 	Buddy DeSylva (music and lyrics)
1939	Second Fiddle 	"I Poured My Heart into a Song" 	Irving Berlin (music and lyrics)
===1940s===
Year	Film 	Song 	Nominees
1940	 	 	
1940	Pinocchio 	"When You Wish Upon a Star" 	Leigh Harline (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1940	Down Argentine Way 	"Down Argentine Way" 	Harry Warren (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
1940	Hit Parade of 1941 	"Who Am I?" 	Jule Styne (music); Walter Bullock (lyrics)
1940	Music in My Heart 	"It's a Blue World" 	Chet Forrest & Bob Wright (music and lyrics)
1940	Rhythm on the River 	"Only Forever" 	James Monaco (music); John Burke (lyrics)
1940	Second Chorus 	"Love of My Life" 	Artie Shaw (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1940	Spring Parade 	"Waltzing in the Clouds" 	Robert Stolz (music); Gus Kahn (lyrics)
1940	Strike Up the Band 	"Our Love Affair" 	Roger Edens & Arthur Freed (music and lyrics)
1940	You'll Find Out 	"I'd Know You Anywhere" 	Jimmy McHugh (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1941	 	 	
1941	Lady Be Good 	"The Last Time I Saw Paris" 	Jerome Kern (music); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
1941	All-American Co-Ed 	"Out of the Silence" 	Lloyd B. Norlin (music and lyrics)
1941	Blues in the Night 	"Blues in the Night" 	Harold Arlen (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1941	Buck Privates 	"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" 	Hugh Prince (music); Don Raye (lyrics)
1941	Dumbo 	"Baby Mine" 	Frank Churchill (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1941	Las Vegas Nights 	"Dolores" 	Louis Alter (music); Frank Loesser (lyrics)
1941	Ridin' on a Rainbow 	"Be Honest with Me" 	Gene Autry & Fred Rose (music and lyrics)
1941	Sun Valley Serenade 	"Chattanooga Choo Choo" 	Harry Warren (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
1941	You'll Never Get Rich 	"Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye" 	Cole Porter (music and lyrics)
1942	 	 	
1942	Holiday Inn 	"White Christmas" 	Irving Berlin (music and lyrics)
1942	Always in My Heart 	"Always in My Heart" 	Ernesto Lecuona (music); Kim Gannon (lyrics)
1942	Babes on Broadway 	"How About You?" 	Burton Lane (music); Ralph Freed (lyrics)
1942	Bambi 	"Love Is a Song" 	Frank Churchill (posthumously) (music); Larry Morey (lyrics)
1942	Flying with Music 	"Pennies for Peppino" 	Edward Ward (music); Chet Forrest & Bob Wright (lyrics)
1942	Hellzapoppin' The nominations list and awards dinner program from 1942 list "Pig Foot Pete" as a nomination for Hellzapoppin', released in Los Angeles in 1942. The song does not appear in the film, but rather in Keep 'Em Flying, a 1941 release from the same production company and studio. The song would have been ineligible for nomination.	"Pig Foot Pete" 	Gene de Paul (music); Don Raye (lyrics)
1942	The Mayor of 44th Street 	"There's a Breeze on Lake Louise" 	Harry Revel (music); Mort Greene (lyrics)
1942	Orchestra Wives 	"(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo" 	Harry Warren (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
1942	You Were Never Lovelier 	"Dearly Beloved" 	Jerome Kern (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1942	Youth on Parade 	"It Seems I've Heard That Song Before" 	Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1943	 	 	
1943	Hello, Frisco, Hello 	"You'll Never Know" 	Harry Warren (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
1943	Cabin in the Sky 	"Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" 	Harold Arlen (music); Yip Harburg (lyrics)
1943	Hers to Hold 	"Say a Pray'r For The Boys Over There" 	Jimmy McHugh (music); Herb Magidson (lyrics)
1943	Hit Parade of 1943 	"Change of Heart" 	Jule Styne (music); Harold Adamson (lyrics)
1943	Saludos Amigos 	"Saludos Amigos" 	Charles Wolcott (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1943	The Sky's the Limit 	"My Shining Hour" 	Arlen (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1943	Something to Shout About 	"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" 	Cole Porter (music and lyrics)
1943	Stage Door Canteen 	"We Mustn't Say Goodbye" 	James Monaco (music); Al Dubin (lyrics)
1943	Star Spangled Rhythm 	"That Old Black Magic" In 1943, "That Old Black Magic" was nominated under the title "Black Magic" as it was submitted by Paramount Pictures' Music Department. Academy records have since been revised to reflect the more common title.	Harold Arlen (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1943	Thank Your Lucky Stars 	"They're Either Too Young or Too Old" 	Arthur Schwartz (music); Frank Loesser (lyrics)
1944	 	 	
1944	Going My Way 	"Swinging on a Star" 	James Van Heusen (music); Johnny Burke (lyrics)
1944	Brazil 	"Rio de Janeiro" 	Ary Barroso (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1944	Cover Girl 	"Long Ago (and Far Away)" 	Jerome Kern (music); Ira Gershwin (lyrics)
1944	Follow the Boys 	"I'll Walk Alone" 	Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1944	Higher and Higher 	"I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" 	Jimmy McHugh (music); Harold Adamson (lyrics)
1944	Hollywood Canteen 	"Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart" 	M. K. Jerome (music); Ted Koehler (lyrics)
1944	Lady, Let's Dance 	"Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams" 	Lew Pollack (music); Charles Newman (lyrics)
1944	Meet Me in St. Louis 	"The Trolley Song" 	Ralph Blane & Hugh Martin (music and lyrics)
1944	Minstrel Man 	"Remember Me to Carolina" 	Harry Revel (music); Paul Webster (lyrics)
1944	Song of the Open Road 	"Too Much in Love" 	Walter Kent (music); Kim Gannon (lyrics)
1944	Sweet and Low-Down 	"I'm Making Believe" 	James V. Monaco (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
1944	Up in Arms 	"Now I Know" 	Harold Arlen (music); Ted Koehler (lyrics)
1945	 	 	
1945	State Fair 	"It Might as Well Be Spring" 	Richard Rodgers (music); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
1945	Anchors Aweigh 	"I Fall in Love Too Easily" 	Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1945	Belle of the Yukon 	"Sleighride in July" 	James Van Heusen (music); Johnny Burke (lyrics)
1945	The Bells of St. Mary's 	"Aren't You Glad You're You?" 	James Van Heusen (music); Johnny Burke (lyrics)
1945	Can't Help Singing 	"More and More" 	Jerome Kern (posthumously) (music); Yip Harburg (lyrics)
1945	Earl Carroll Vanities 	"Endlessly" 	Walter Kent (music); Kim Gannon (lyrics)
1945	G. I. Joe 	"Linda" 	Ann Ronell (music and lyrics)
1945	Here Come the Waves 	"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" 	Harold Arlen (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1945	Love Letters 	"Love Letters" 	Victor Young (music); Edward Heyman (lyrics)
1945	San Antonio 	"Some Sunday Morning" 	Ray Heindorf & M. K. Jerome (music); Ted Koehler (lyrics)
1945	Sing Your Way Home 	"I'll Buy That Dream" 	Allie Wrubel (music); Herb Magidson (lyrics)
1945	Tonight and Every Night 	"Anywhere" 	Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1945	Why Girls Leave Home 	"The Cat and the Canary" 	Jay Livingston (music); Ray Evans (lyrics)
1945	Wonder Man 	"So in Love" 	David Rose (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1946	 	 	
1946	The Harvey Girls 	"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" 	Harry Warren (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1946	Blue Skies 	"You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" 	Irving Berlin (music and lyrics)
1946	Canyon Passage 	"Ole Buttermilk Sky" 	Hoagy Carmichael (music); Jack Brooks (lyrics)
1946	Centennial Summer 	"All Through the Day" 	Jerome Kern (posthumously) (music); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
1946	The Dolly Sisters 	"I Can't Begin to Tell You" 	James Monaco (posthumously) (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
1947	 	 	
1947	Song of the South 	"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" 	Allie Wrubel (music); Ray Gilbert (lyrics)
1947	Good News 	"Pass That Peace Pipe" 	Ralph Blane, Roger Edens & Hugh Martin (music and lyrics)
1947	Mother Wore Tights 	"You Do" 	Josef Myrow (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
1947	The Perils of Pauline 	"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" 	Frank Loesser (music and lyrics)
1947	The Time, the Place and the Girl 	"A Gal in Calico" 	Arthur Schwartz (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1948	 	 	
1948	The Paleface 	"Buttons and Bows" 	Jay Livingston & Ray Evans (music and lyrics)
1948	Casbah 	"For Every Man There's a Woman" 	Harold Arlen (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1948	Romance on the High Seas 	"It's Magic" 	Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1948	That Lady in Ermine 	"This Is the Moment" 	Frederick Hollander (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1948	Wet Blanket Policy 	"The Woody Woodpecker Song" 	Ramey Idriss & George Tibbles (music and lyrics)
1949	 	 	
1949	Neptune's Daughter 	"Baby, It's Cold Outside" 	Frank Loesser (music and lyrics)
1949	Come to the Stable 	"Through a Long and Sleepless Night" 	Alfred Newman (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
1949	It's a Great Feeling 	"It's a Great Feeling" 	Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1949	My Foolish Heart 	"My Foolish Heart" 	Victor Young (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1949	So Dear to My Heart 	"Lavender Blue" 	Eliot Daniel (music); Larry Morey (lyrics)
===1950s===
Year	Film 	Song 	Nominees
1950	 	 	
1950	Captain Carey, U.S.A. 	"Mona Lisa" 	Ray Evans & Jay Livingston (music and lyrics)
1950	Cinderella 	"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" 	Mack David, Al Hoffman & Jerry Livingston (music and lyrics)
1950	Singing Guns 	"Mule Train" 	Fred Glickman, Hy Heath & Johnny Lange (music and lyrics)
1950	The Toast of New Orleans 	"Be My Love" 	Nicholas Brodzsky (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1950	Wabash Avenue 	"Wilhelmina" 	Josef Myrow (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
1951	 	 	
1951	Here Comes the Groom 	"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" 	Hoagy Carmichael (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1951	Golden Girl 	"Never" 	Lionel Newman (music); Eliot Daniel (lyrics)
1951	Rich, Young and Pretty 	"Wonder Why" 	Nicholas Brodzsky (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1951	Royal Wedding 	"Too Late Now" 	Burton Lane (music); Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)
1951	The Strip 	"A Kiss to Build a Dream On" 	Bert Kalmar (posthumously), Harry Ruby & Oscar Hammerstein II (music and lyrics)
1952	 	 	
1952	High Noon 	"High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" 	Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1952	Because You're Mine 	"Because You're Mine" 	Nicholas Brodzsky (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1952	Hans Christian Andersen 	"Thumbelina" 	Frank Loesser (music and lyrics)
1952	Just for You 	"Zing a Little Zong" 	Harry Warren (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1952	Son of Paleface 	"Am I in Love" 	Jack Brooks (music and lyrics)
1953	 	 	
1953	Calamity Jane 	"Secret Love" 	Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1953	The Caddy 	"That's Amore" 	Harry Warren (music); Jack Brooks (lyrics)
1953	Miss Sadie Thompson 	"Sadie Thompson's Song (Blue Pacific Blues)" 	Lester Lee (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1953	The Moon Is Blue 	"The Moon Is Blue" 	Herschel Burke Gilbert (music); Sylvia Fine (lyrics)
1953	Small Town Girl 	"My Flaming Heart" 	Nicholas Brodzsky (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1954	 	 	
1954	Three Coins in the Fountain 	"Three Coins in the Fountain" 	Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1954	The High and the Mighty 	"The High and the Mighty" 	Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1954	A Star Is Born 	"The Man That Got Away" 	Harold Arlen (music); Ira Gershwin (lyrics)
1954	Susan Slept Here 	"Hold My Hand" 	Jack Lawrence & Richard Myers (music and lyrics)
1954	White Christmas 	"Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep" 	Irving Berlin (music and lyrics)
1955	 	 	
1955	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing	"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" 	Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1955	Daddy Long Legs 	"Something's Gotta Give" 	Johnny Mercer (music and lyrics)
1955	Love Me or Leave Me 	"I'll Never Stop Loving You" 	Nicholas Brodszky (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1955	The Tender Trap 	"(Love Is) The Tender Trap" 	James Van Heusen (music); Cahn (lyrics)
1955	Unchained 	"Unchained Melody" 	Alex North (music); Hy Zaret (lyrics)
1956	 	 	
1956	The Man Who Knew Too Much 	"Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" 	Jay Livingston & Ray Evans (music and lyrics)
1956	Friendly Persuasion 	"Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)" 	Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1956	High Society 	"True Love" 	Cole Porter (music and lyrics)
1956	Julie 	"Julie" 	Leith Stevens (music); Tom Adair (lyrics)
1956	Written on the Wind 	"Written on the Wind" 	Victor Young (posthumously) (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1957	 	 	
1957	The Joker Is Wild 	"All the Way" 	James Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1957	An Affair to Remember 	"An Affair to Remember" 	Harry Warren (music); Harold Adamson & Leo McCarey (lyrics)
1957	April Love 	"April Love" 	Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1957	Tammy and the Bachelor 	"Tammy" 	Ray Evans & Jay Livingston (music and lyrics)
1957	Wild Is the Wind 	"Wild Is the Wind" 	Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1958	 	 	
1958	Gigi 	"Gigi" 	Frederick Loewe (music); Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)
1958	A Certain Smile 	"A Certain Smile" 	Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1958	Houseboat 	"Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)"	Jay Livingston & Ray Evans (music and lyrics)
1958	Marjorie Morningstar 	"A Very Precious Love" 	Fain (music); Webster (lyrics)
1958	Some Came Running 	"To Love and Be Loved" 	James Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1959	 	 	
1959	A Hole in the Head 	"High Hopes" 	James Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1959	The Best of Everything 	"The Best of Everything" 	Alfred Newman (music); Cahn (lyrics)
1959	The Five Pennies 	"The Five Pennies" 	Sylvia Fine (music and lyrics)
1959	The Hanging Tree 	"The Hanging Tree" 	Jerry Livingston (music); Mack David (lyrics)
1959	The Young Land 	"Strange Are the Ways of Love" 	Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
===1960s===
Year	Film 	Song 	Nominees
1960	 	 	
1960	Never on Sunday 	"Never on Sunday" 	Manos Hadjidakis (music and lyrics)
1960	The Alamo 	"The Green Leaves of Summer" 	Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1960	The Facts of Life 	"The Facts of Life" 	Johnny Mercer (music and lyrics)
1960	High Time 	"The Second Time Around" 	James Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1960	Pepe 	"Faraway Part of Town" 	André Previn (music); Dory Langdon (lyrics)
1961	 	 	
1961	Breakfast at Tiffany's 	"Moon River" 	Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1961	Bachelor in Paradise 	"Bachelor in Paradise" 	Mancini (music); Mack David (lyrics)
1961	El Cid 	"Love Theme from El Cid (The Falcon and the Dove)"	Miklós Rózsa (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1961	Pocketful of Miracles 	"Pocketful of Miracles" 	James Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1961	Town Without Pity 	"Town Without Pity" 	Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1962	 	 	
1962	Days of Wine and Roses 	"Days of Wine and Roses" 	Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1962	Mutiny on the Bounty 	"Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me)" 	Bronislaw Kaper (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1962	Tender Is the Night 	"Tender Is the Night" 	Sammy Fain (music); Webster (lyrics)
1962	Two for the Seesaw 	"Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance)" 	André Previn (music); Dory Langdon (lyrics)
1962	Walk on the Wild Side 	"Walk on the Wild Side" 	Elmer Bernstein (music); Mack David (lyrics)
1963	 	 	
1963	Papa's Delicate Condition 	"Call Me Irresponsible" 	James Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1963	Charade 	"Charade" 	Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1963	55 Days at Peking 	"So Little Time" 	Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1963	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 	"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" 	Ernest Gold (music); Mack David (lyrics)
1963	Mondo Cane 	"More" 	Riz Ortolani & Nino Oliviero (music); Norman Newell (lyrics)
1964	 	 	
1964	Mary Poppins 	"Chim Chim Cher-ee" 	Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (music and lyrics)
1964	Dear Heart 	"Dear Heart" 	Henry Mancini (music); Jay Livingston & Ray Evans (lyrics)
1964	Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte 	"Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" 	Frank De Vol (music); Mack David (lyrics)
1964	Robin and the 7 Hoods 	"My Kind of Town" 	James Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1964	Where Love Has Gone 	"Where Love Has Gone" 	James Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1965	 	 	
1965	The Sandpiper 	"The Shadow of Your Smile" 	Johnny Mandel (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1965	Cat Ballou 	"The Ballad of Cat Ballou" 	Jerry Livingston (music); Mack David (lyrics)
1965	The Great Race 	"The Sweetheart Tree" 	Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1965	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 	"I Will Wait for You" 	Michel Legrand (music); Jacques Demy (lyrics); Norman Gimbel (English lyrics)
1965	What's New Pussycat? 	"What's New Pussycat?" 	Burt Bacharach (music); Hal David (lyrics)
1966	 	 	
1966	Born Free 	"Born Free" 	John Barry (music); Don Black (lyrics)
1966	Alfie 	"Alfie" 	Burt Bacharach (music); Hal David (lyrics)
1966	An American Dream 	"A Time for Love" 	Johnny Mandel (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1966	Georgy Girl 	"Georgy Girl" 	Tom Springfield (music); Jim Dale (lyrics)
1966	Hawaii 	"My Wishing Doll" 	Elmer Bernstein (music); Mack David (lyrics)
1967	 	 	
1967	Doctor Dolittle 	"Talk to the Animals" 	Leslie Bricusse (music and lyrics)
1967	Banning 	"The Eyes of Love" 	Quincy Jones (music); Bob Russell (lyrics)
1967	Casino Royale 	"The Look of Love" 	Burt Bacharach (music); Hal David (lyrics)
1967	The Jungle Book 	"The Bare Necessities" 	Terry Gilkyson (music and lyrics)
1967	Thoroughly Modern Millie 	"Thoroughly Modern Millie" 	James Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn (music and lyrics)
1968	 	 	
1968	The Thomas Crown Affair 	"The Windmills of Your Mind" 	Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1968	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 	"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" 	Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman (music and lyrics)
1968	For Love of Ivy 	"For Love of Ivy" 	Quincy Jones (music); Bob Russell (lyrics)
1968	Funny Girl 	"Funny Girl" 	Jule Styne (music); Bob Merrill (lyrics)
1968	Star! 	"Star!" 	Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1969	 	 	
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" 	Burt Bacharach (music); Hal David (lyrics)
1969	The Happy Ending 	"What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" 	Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1969	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 	"Jean" 	Rod McKuen (music and lyrics)
1969	The Sterile Cuckoo 	"Come Saturday Morning" 	Fred Karlin (music); Dory Previn (lyrics)
1969	True Grit 	"True Grit" 	Elmer Bernstein (music); Don Black (lyrics)
===1970s===
Year	Film 	Song 	Nominees
1970	 	 	
1970	Lovers and Other Strangers 	"For All We Know" 	Fred Karlin (music); Robb Royer & James Griffin (music)
1970	Darling Lili 	"Whistling Away the Dark" 	Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1970	Madron 	"Till Love Touches Your Life" 	Riz Ortolani (music); Arthur Hamilton (lyrics)
1970	Pieces of Dreams 	"Pieces of Dreams" 	Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1970	Scrooge 	"Thank You Very Much" 	Leslie Bricusse (music and lyrics)
1971	 	 	
1971	Shaft 	"Theme from Shaft" 	Isaac Hayes (music and lyrics)
1971	Bedknobs and Broomsticks 	"The Age of Not Believing" 	Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (music and lyrics)
1971	Bless the Beasts & Children 	"Bless the Beasts & Children" 	Barry De Vorzon & Perry Botkin Jr. (music and lyrics)
1971	Kotch 	"Life Is What You Make It" 	Marvin Hamlisch (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1971	Sometimes a Great Notion 	"All His Children" 	Henry Mancini (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1972	 	 	
1972	The Poseidon Adventure 	"The Morning After" 	Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn (music and lyrics)
1972	Ben 	"Ben" 	Walter Scharf (music); Don Black (lyrics)
1972	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean 	"Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" 	Maurice Jarre (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1972	The Little Ark 	"Come Follow, Follow Me" 	Fred Karlin (music); Marsha Karlin (lyrics)
1972	The Stepmother 	"Strange Are the Ways of Love" 	Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1973	 	 	
1973	The Way We Were 	"The Way We Were" 	Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1973	Cinderella Liberty 	"Nice to Be Around" 	John Williams (music); Paul Williams (lyrics)
1973	Charlotte's Web 	"Weve got lots in commin" 	Henry Gibson (music and lyrics)
1973	Robin Hood 	"Love" 	George Bruns (music); Floyd Huddleston (lyrics)
1973	A Touch of Class 	"All That Love Went to Waste" 	George Barrie (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1974	 	 	
1974	The Towering Inferno 	"We May Never Love Like This Again" 	Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn (music and lyrics)
1974	Benji 	"I Feel Love" 	Euel Box (music); Betty Box (lyrics)
1974	Blazing Saddles 	"Blazing Saddles" 	John Morris (music); Mel Brooks (lyrics)
1974	Gold 	"Wherever Love Takes Me" 	Elmer Bernstein (music); Don Black (lyrics)
1974	The Little Prince 	"Little Prince" 	Frederick Lowe (music); Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)
1975	 	 	
1975	Nashville 	"I'm Easy" 	Keith Carradine (music and lyrics)
1975	Funny Lady 	"How Lucky Can You Get" 	Fred Ebb & John Kander (music and lyrics)
1975	Mahogany 	"Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" 	Michael Masser (music); Gerry Goffin (lyrics)
1975	The Other Side of the Mountain 	"Richard's Window" 	Charles Fox (music); Norman Gimbel (lyrics)
1975	Whiffs 	"Now That We're in Love" 	George Barrie (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1976	 	 	
1976	A Star Is Born 	"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" 	Barbra Streisand (music); Paul Williams (lyrics)
1976	Half a House 	"A World That Never Was" 	Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1976	The Omen 	"Ave Satani" 	Jerry Goldsmith (music and lyrics)
1976	The Pink Panther Strikes Again 	"Come to Me" 	Henry Mancini (music); Don Black (lyrics)
1976	Rocky 	"Gonna Fly Now" 	Bill Conti (music); Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins (lyrics)
1977	 	 	
1977	You Light Up My Life 	"You Light Up My Life" 	Joseph Brooks (music and lyrics)
1977	Pete's Dragon 	"Candle on the Water" 	Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn (music and lyrics)
1977	The Rescuers 	"Someone's Waiting for You" 	Sammy Fain (music); Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins (lyrics)
1977	The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella	"The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced with Me/She Danced with Me)"	Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman (music and lyrics)
1977	The Spy Who Loved Me 	"Nobody Does It Better" 	Marvin Hamlisch (music); Carole Bayer Sager (lyrics)
1978	 	 	
1978	Thank God It's Friday 	"Last Dance" 	Paul Jabara (music and lyrics)
1978	Foul Play 	"Ready to Take a Chance Again" 	Charles Fox (music); Norman Gimbel (lyrics)
1978	Grease 	"Hopelessly Devoted to You" 	John Farrar (music and lyrics)
1978	The Magic of Lassie 	"When You're Loved" 	Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman (music and lyrics)
1978	Same Time, Next Year 	"The Last Time I Felt Like This" 	Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1979	 	 	
1979	Norma Rae 	"It Goes Like It Goes" 	David Shire (music); Norman Gimbel (lyrics)
1979	Ice Castles 	"Through the Eyes of Love" 	Marvin Hamlisch (music); Carole Bayer Sager (lyrics)
1979	The Muppet Movie 	"The Rainbow Connection" 	Paul Williams & Kenny Ascher (music and lyrics)
1979	The Promise 	"I'll Never Say 'Goodbye'" 	David Shire (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1979	10 	"It's Easy to Say" 	Henry Mancini (music); Robert Wells (lyrics)
===1980s===
Year	Film 	Song 	Nominees
1980	 	 	
1980	Fame 	"Fame" 	Michael Gore (music); Dean Pitchford (lyrics)
1980	The Competition 	"People Alone" 	Lalo Schifrin (music); Will Jennings (lyrics)
1980	Fame 	"Out Here on My Own" 	M. Gore (music); Lesley Gore (lyrics)
1980	Honeysuckle Rose 	"On the Road Again" 	Willie Nelson (music and lyrics)
1980	Nine to Five 	"Nine to Five" 	Dolly Parton (music and lyrics)
1981	 	 	
1981	Arthur 	"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" 	Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross & Peter Allen (music and lyrics)
1981	Endless Love 	"Endless Love" 	Lionel Richie (music and lyrics)
1981	For Your Eyes Only 	"For Your Eyes Only" 	Bill Conti (music); Mick Leeson (lyrics)
1981	The Great Muppet Caper	"The First Time It Happens" 	Joe Raposo (music and lyrics)
1981	Ragtime 	"One More Hour" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
1982	 	 	
1982	The Last Unicorn 	"The Last Unicorn" 	America (music and lyrics)
1982	Best Friends 	"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" 	Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1982	Rocky III 	"Eye of the Tiger" 	Jim Peterik & Frankie Sullivan III (music and lyrics)
1982	Tootsie 	"It Might Be You" 	Dave Grusin (music); A. Bergman & M. Bergman (lyrics)
1982	Yes, Giorgio 	"If We Were in Love" 	John Williams (music); A. Bergman & M. Bergman (lyrics)
1983	 	 	
1983	Flashdance 	"Flashdance... What a Feeling" 	Giorgio Moroder (music); Keith Forsey & Irene Cara (lyrics)
1983	Flashdance 	"Maniac" 	Michael Sembello & Dennis Matkosky (music and lyrics)
1983	Tender Mercies 	"Over You" 	Austin Roberts & Bobby Hart (music and lyrics)
1983	Yentl 	"Papa, Can You Hear Me?" 	Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1983	Yentl 	"The Way He Makes Me Feel" 	Michel Legrand (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1984	 	 	
1984	The Woman in Red 	"I Just Called to Say I Love You" 	Stevie Wonder (music and lyrics)
1984	Against All Odds 	"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"	Phil Collins (music and lyrics)
1984	Footloose 	"Footloose" 	Kenny Loggins & Dean Pitchford (music and lyrics)
1984	Footloose 	"Let's Hear It for the Boy" 	Tom Snow & Pitchford (music and lyrics)
1984	Ghostbusters 	"Ghostbusters" 	Ray Parker Jr. (music and lyrics)
1985	 	 	
1985	The Care Bears Movie 	"Care-a-lot" 	Carol King (music and lyrics)
1985	Back to the Future 	"The Power of Love" 	Chris Hayes & Johnny Colla (music); Huey Lewis (lyrics)
1985	A Chorus Line 	"Surprise, Surprise" 	Marvin Hamlisch (music); Edward Kleban (lyrics)
1985	The Color Purple 	"Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)" 	Quincy Jones & Rod Temperton (music); Jones, Temperton & Richie (lyrics)
1985	White Nights 	"Separate Lives" 	Stephen Bishop (music and lyrics)
1986	 	 	
1986	Top Gun 	"Take My Breath Away" 	Giorgio Moroder (music); Tom Whitlock (lyrics)
1986	An American Tail 	"Somewhere Out There" 	James Horner & Barry Mann (music); Cynthia Weil (lyrics)
1986	The Karate Kid Part II	"Glory of Love" 	Peter Cetera & David Foster (music); Cetera & Diane Nini (lyrics)
1986	Little Shop of Horrors	"Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" 	Alan Menken (music); Howard Ashman (lyrics)
1986	That's Life! 	"Life in a Looking Glass" 	Henry Mancini (music); Leslie Bricusse (lyrics)
1987	 	 	
1987	Dirty Dancing 	"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" 	Franke Previte, John DeNicola & Donald Markowitz (music); Previte (lyrics)
1987	Beverly Hills Cop II 	"Shakedown" 	Harold Faltermeyer & Keith Forsey (music); Faltermeyer, Forsey & Bob Seger (lyrics)
1987	Cry Freedom 	"Cry Freedom" 	George Fenton & Jonas Gwangwa (music and lyrics)
1987	Mannequin 	"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" 	Albert Hammond & Diane Warren (music and lyrics)
1987	The Princess Bride 	"Storybook Love" 	Willy DeVille (music and lyrics)
1988	 	 	
1988	Working Girl 	"Let the River Run" 	Carly Simon (music and lyrics)
1988	Bagdad Café 	"Calling You" 	Bob Telson (music and lyrics)
1988	Buster 	"Two Hearts" 	Lamont Dozier (music); Phil Collins (lyrics)
1989	 	 	
1989	The Little Mermaid 	"Under the Sea" 	Alan Menken (music); Howard Ashman (lyrics)
1989	Chances Are 	"After All" 	Tom Snow (music); Dean Pitchford (lyrics)
1989	The Little Mermaid 	"Kiss the Girl" 	Menken (music); Ashman (lyrics)
1989	Parenthood 	"I Love to See You Smile" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
1989	Shirley Valentine 	"The Girl Who Used to Be Me" 	Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
===1990s===
Year	Film 	Song 	Nominees
1990	 	 	
1990	Dick Tracy 	"Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)"	Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics)
1990	The Godfather Part III 	"Promise Me You'll Remember" 	Carmine Coppola (music); John Bettis (lyrics)
1990	Home Alone 	"Somewhere in My Memory" 	John Williams (music); Leslie Bricusse (lyrics)
1990	Postcards from the Edge 	"I'm Checkin' Out" 	Shel Silverstein (music and lyrics)
1990	Young Guns II 	"Blaze of Glory" 	Jon Bon Jovi (music and lyrics)
1991	 	 	
1991	Beauty and the Beast 	"Beauty and the Beast" 	Alan Menken (music); Howard Ashman (posthumously) (lyrics)
1991	Beauty and the Beast 	"Be Our Guest" 	Menken (music); Ashman (posthumously) (lyrics)
1991	Beauty and the Beast 	"Belle" 	Menken (music); Ashman (posthumously) (lyrics)
1991	Hook 	"When You're Alone" 	John Williams (music); Leslie Bricusse (lyrics)
1991	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 	"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" 	Michael Kamen (music); Bryan Adams & Robert John Lange (lyrics)
1992	 	 	
1992	Aladdin 	"A Whole New World" 	Alan Menken (music); Tim Rice (lyrics)
1992	Aladdin 	"Friend Like Me" 	Menken (music); Howard Ashman (posthumously) (lyrics)
1992	The Bodyguard 	"I Have Nothing" 	David Foster (music); Linda Thompson (lyrics)
1992	The Bodyguard 	"Run to You" 	Jud Friedman (music); Allan Rich (lyrics)
1992	The Mambo Kings 	"Beautiful Maria of My Soul" 	Robert Kraft (music); Arne Glimcher (lyrics)
1993	 	 	
1993	Philadelphia 	"Streets of Philadelphia" 	Bruce Springsteen (music and lyrics)
1993	Beethoven's 2nd 	"The Day I Fall in Love" 	Carole Bayer Sager, James Ingram & Clif Magness (music and lyrics)
1993	Philadelphia 	"Philadelphia" 	Neil Young (music and lyrics)
1993	Poetic Justice 	"Again" 	Janet Jackson, James Harris III & Terry Lewis (music and lyrics)
1993	Sleepless in Seattle 	"A Wink and a Smile" 	Marc Shaiman (music); Ramsey McLean (lyrics)
1994	 	 	
1994	The Lion King 	"Can You Feel the Love Tonight" 	Elton John (music); Tim Rice (lyrics)
1994	Junior 	"Look What Love Has Done" 	Carole Bayer Sager, James Newton Howard, James Ingram & Patty Smyth (music and lyrics)
1994	The Lion King 	"Circle of Life" 	John (music); Rice (lyrics)
1994	The Lion King 	"Hakuna Matata" 	John (music); Rice (lyrics)
1994	The Paper 	"Make Up Your Mind" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
1995	 	 	
1995	Pocahontas 	"Colors of the Wind" 	Alan Menken (music); Stephen Schwartz (lyrics)
1995	Dead Man Walking 	"Dead Man Walkin'" 	Bruce Springsteen (music and lyrics)
1995	Don Juan DeMarco 	"Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" 	Michael Kamen, Bryan Adams & Robert John Lange (music and lyrics)
1995	Sabrina 	"Moonlight" 	John Williams (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1995	Toy Story 	"You've Got a Friend in Me" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
1996	 	 	
1996	Evita 	"You Must Love Me" 	Andrew Lloyd Webber (music); Tim Rice (lyrics)
1996	The Mirror Has Two Faces 	"I Finally Found Someone" 	Barbra Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch, Bryan Adams & Robert "Mutt" Lange (music and lyrics)
1996	One Fine Day 	"For the First Time" 	James Newton Howard, Jud J. Friedman & Allan Dennis Rich (music and lyrics)
1996	That Thing You Do! 	"That Thing You Do!" 	Adam Schlesinger (music and lyrics)
1996	Up Close and Personal 	"Because You Loved Me" 	Diane Warren (music and lyrics)
1997	 	 	
1997	Titanic 	"My Heart Will Go On" 	James Horner (music); Will Jennings (lyrics)
1997	Anastasia 	"Journey to the Past" 	Stephen Flaherty (music); Lynn Ahrens (lyrics)
1997	Con Air 	"How Do I Live" 	Diane Warren (music and lyrics)
1997	The County Blue 	"Barbie Girl" 	Aqua
1997	Good Will Hunting 	"Miss Misery" 	Elliott Smith (music and lyrics)
1997	Hercules 	"Go the Distance" 	Alan Menken (music); David Zippel (lyrics)
1998	 	 	
1998	The Prince of Egypt 	"When You Believe" 	Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics)
1998	Armageddon 	"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" 	Diane Warren (music and lyrics)
1998	Babe: Pig in the City 	"That'll Do" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
1998	The Horse Whisperer 	"A Soft Place to Fall" 	Allison Moorer & Gwil Owen (music and lyrics)
1998	Quest for Camelot 	"The Prayer" 	Carole Bayer Sager & David Foster (music); Sager, Foster, Tony Renis & Alberto Testa (lyrics)
1999	 	 	
1999	Tarzan 	"You'll Be in My Heart" 	Phil Collins (music and lyrics)
1999	Magnolia 	"Save Me" 	Aimee Mann (music and lyrics)
1999	Music of the Heart 	"Music of My Heart" 	Diane Warren (music and lyrics)
1999	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	"Blame Canada" 	Trey Parker & Marc Shaiman (music and lyrics)
1999	Toy Story 2 	"When She Loved Me" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
===2000s===
Year	Film 	Song 	Nominees
2000	 	 	
2000	Wonder Boys 	"Things Have Changed" 	Bob Dylan (music and lyrics)
2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 	"A Love Before Time" 	Jorge Calandrelli & Tan Dun (music); James Schamus (lyrics)
2000	Dancer in the Dark 	"I've Seen It All" 	Björk (music); Lars von Trier & Sjon Sigurdsson (lyrics)
2000	The Emperor's New Groove 	"My Funny Friend and Me" 	Sting & David Hartley (music); Sting (lyrics)
2000	Meet the Parents 	"A Fool in Love" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
2001	 	 	
2001	Monsters, Inc. 	"If I Didn't Have You" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
2001	Kate & Leopold 	"Until" 	Sting (music and lyrics)
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	"May It Be" 	Enya, Nicky Ryan & Roma Ryan (music and lyrics)
2001	Pearl Harbor 	"There You'll Be" 	Diane Warren (music and lyrics)
2001	Vanilla Sky 	"Vanilla Sky" 	Paul McCartney (music and lyrics)
2002	 	 	
2002	8 Mile 	"Lose Yourself" 	Eminem, Jeff Bass & Luis Resto (music); Eminem (lyrics)
2002	Chicago 	"I Move On" 	John Kander (music); Fred Ebb (lyrics)
2002	Frida 	"Burn It Blue" 	Elliot Goldenthal (music); Julie Taymor (lyrics)
2002	Gangs of New York 	"The Hands That Built America" 	Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen (music and lyrics)
2002	The Wild Thornberrys Movie 	"Father and Daughter" 	Paul Simon (music and lyrics)
2003	 	 	
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 	"Into the West" 	Fran Walsh, Howard Shore & Annie Lennox (music and lyrics)
2003	Cold Mountain 	"Scarlet Tide" 	T Bone Burnett & Elvis Costello (music and lyrics)
2003	Cold Mountain 	"You Will Be My Ain True Love" 	Sting (music and lyrics)
2003	A Mighty Wind 	"A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow"	Michael McKean & Annette O'Toole (music and lyrics)
2003	The Triplets of Belleville 	"Belleville Rendez-vous" 	Benoît Charest (music); Sylvain Chomet (lyrics)
2004	 	 	
2004	The Motorcycle Diaries 	"Al otro lado del río" 	Jorge Drexler (music and lyrics)
2004	The Chorus 	"Look to Your Path" 	Bruno Coulais (music); Christophe Barratier (lyrics)
2004	The Phantom of the Opera 	"Learn to Be Lonely" 	Andrew Lloyd Webber (music); Charles Hart (lyrics)
2004	The Polar Express 	"Believe" 	Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri (music and lyrics)
2004	Shrek 2 	"Accidentally in Love" 	Adam Duritz, Charles Gillingham, Jim Bogios, David Immerglück, Matthew Malley & David Bryson (music); Duritz & Daniel Vickrey (lyrics)
2005	 	 	
2005	Hustle & Flow 	"It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" 	Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman & Paul Beauregard (music and lyrics)
2005	Crash 	"In the Deep" 	Kathleen "Bird" York & Michael Becker (music); York (lyrics)
2005	Transamerica 	"Travelin' Thru" 	Dolly Parton (music and lyrics)
2006	 	 	
2006	An Inconvenient Truth 	"I Need to Wake Up" 	Melissa Etheridge (music and lyrics)
2006	Cars 	"Our Town" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
2006	Dreamgirls 	"Listen" 	Scott Cutler & Henry Krieger (music); Anne Preven (lyrics)
2006	Dreamgirls 	"Love You I Do" 	Krieger (music); Siedah Garrett (lyrics)
2006	Dreamgirls 	"Patience" 	Krieger (music); Willie Reale (lyrics)
2007	 	 	
2007	Once 	"Falling Slowly" 	Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová (music and lyrics)
2007	August Rush 	"Raise It Up" 	Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack & Tevin Thomas (music and lyrics)
2007	Enchanted 	"Happy Working Song" 	Alan Menken (music); Stephen Schwartz (lyrics)
2007	Enchanted 	"So Close" 	Alan Menken (music); Stephen Schwartz (lyrics)
2007	Enchanted 	"That's How You Know" 	Alan Menken (music); Stephen Schwartz (lyrics)
2008	 	 	
2008	Slumdog Millionaire 	"Jai Ho" 	A. R. Rahman (music); Gulzar (lyrics)
2008	Slumdog Millionaire 	"O... Saya" 	Rahman & Maya Arulpragasam (music and lyrics)
2008	WALL-E 	"Down to Earth" 	Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman (music); Gabriel (lyrics)
2009	 	 	
2009	Crazy Heart 	"The Weary Kind" 	Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett (music and lyrics)
2009	Nine 	"Take It All" 	Maury Yeston (music and lyrics)
2009	Paris 36 	"Loin De Paname" 	Reinhardt Wagner (music); Frank Thomas (lyrics)
2009	The Princess and the Frog 	"Almost There" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
2009	The Princess and the Frog 	"Down in New Orleans" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
===2010s===
Year 	Film 	Song 	Nominees
2010 	 	 	
2010 	Toy Story 3 	"We Belong Together" 	Randy Newman (music and lyrics)
2010 	Country Strong 	"Coming Home" 	Tom Douglas, Troy Verges & Hillary Lindsey (music and lyrics)
2010 	127 Hours 	"If I Rise" 	A. R. Rahman (music); Dido & Rollo Armstrong (lyrics)
2010 	Tangled 	"I See the Light" 	Alan Menken (music); Glenn Slater (lyrics)
2011 	 	 	
2011 	The Muppets 	"Man or Muppet" 	Bret McKenzie (music and lyrics)
2011 	Rio 	"Real in Rio" 	Sérgio Mendes & Carlinhos Brown (music); Siedah Garrett (lyrics)
2012 	 	 	
2012 	Skyfall 	"Skyfall" 	Adele & Paul Epworth (music and lyrics)
2012 	Chasing Ice 	"Before My Time" 	J. Ralph (music and lyrics)
2012 	Les Misérables 	"Suddenly" 	Claude-Michel Schönberg (music); Herbert Kretzmer & Alain Boublil (lyrics)
2012 	Life of Pi 	"Pi's Lullaby" 	Mychael Danna (music); Bombay Jayashri (lyrics)
2012 	Ted 	"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" 	Walter Murphy (music); Seth MacFarlane (lyrics)
2013 In 2013, a nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone" from the film of the same name, with music by Bruce Broughton and lyrics by Dennis Spiegel, was revoked prior to voting. The Academy concluded that Broughton's campaigning via personal communication with music branch members was inconsistent with promotional regulations.	 	 	
2013 In 2013, a nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone" from the film of the same name, with music by Bruce Broughton and lyrics by Dennis Spiegel, was revoked prior to voting. The Academy concluded that Broughton's campaigning via personal communication with music branch members was inconsistent with promotional regulations.	Frozen 	"Let It Go" 	Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (music and lyrics)
2013 In 2013, a nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone" from the film of the same name, with music by Bruce Broughton and lyrics by Dennis Spiegel, was revoked prior to voting. The Academy concluded that Broughton's campaigning via personal communication with music branch members was inconsistent with promotional regulations.	Despicable Me 2 	"Happy" 	Pharrell Williams (music and lyrics)
2013 In 2013, a nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone" from the film of the same name, with music by Bruce Broughton and lyrics by Dennis Spiegel, was revoked prior to voting. The Academy concluded that Broughton's campaigning via personal communication with music branch members was inconsistent with promotional regulations.	Her 	"The Moon Song" 	Karen O (music); O & Spike Jonze (lyrics)
2013 In 2013, a nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone" from the film of the same name, with music by Bruce Broughton and lyrics by Dennis Spiegel, was revoked prior to voting. The Academy concluded that Broughton's campaigning via personal communication with music branch members was inconsistent with promotional regulations.	Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom	"Ordinary Love" 	Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen (music); Hewson (lyrics)
2014 	 	 	
2014 	Selma 	"Glory" 	John Stephens & Lonnie Lynn (music and lyrics)
2014 	Begin Again 	"Lost Stars" 	Gregg Alexander & Danielle Brisebois (music and lyrics)
2014 	Beyond the Lights 	"Grateful" 	Diane Warren (music and lyrics)
2014 	Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me 	"I'm Not Gonna Miss You" 	Glen Campbell & Julian Raymond (music and lyrics)
2014 	The Lego Movie 	"Everything Is Awesome" 	Shawn Patterson (music and lyrics)
2015 	 	 	
2015 	Spectre 	"Writing's on the Wall" 	Jimmy Napes & Sam Smith (music and lyrics)
2015 	Fifty Shades of Grey 	"Earned It" 	The Weeknd, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Quenneville & Stephan Moccio (music and lyrics)
2015 	The Hunting Ground 	"Til It Happens to You" 	Diane Warren & Lady Gaga (music and lyrics)
2015 	Racing Extinction 	"Manta Ray" 	J. Ralph (music); Anohni (lyrics)
2015 	Youth 	"Simple Song #3" 	David Lang (music and lyrics)
2016 	 	 	
2016 	La La Land 	"City of Stars" 	Justin Hurwitz (music); Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (lyrics)
2016 	Jim: The James Foley Story 	"The Empty Chair" 	J. Ralph & Sting (music and lyrics)
2016 	La La Land 	"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)"	Hurwitz (music); Pasek & Paul (lyrics)
2016 	Moana 	"How Far I'll Go" 	Lin-Manuel Miranda (music and lyrics)
2016 	Trolls 	"Can't Stop the Feeling!" 	Justin Timberlake, Max Martin & Karl Johan Schuster (music and lyrics)
2017 	 	 	
2017 	Call Me by Your Name 	"Mystery of Love" 	Sufjan Stevens (music and lyrics)
2017 	Coco 	"Remember Me" 	Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (music and lyrics)
2017 	The Greatest Showman 	"This Is Me" 	Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (music and lyrics)
2017 	Marshall 	"Stand Up for Something" 	Diane Warren (music); Lonnie Lynn & Warren (lyrics)
2017 	Mudbound 	"Mighty River" 	Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq & Taura Stinson (music and lyrics)
===Winners of multiple awards===
: Number of nominations in parentheses
*4: Sammy Cahn (26) (twenty-five as lyricist, one as composer and lyricist)
*4: Alan Menken (14) (composer)
*4: Johnny Mercer (18) (sixteen as lyricist, two as composer and lyricist)
*4: Jimmy Van Heusen (14) (composer)
*3: Ray Evans (7) (composer and lyricist)
*3: Jay Livingston (7) (composer and lyricist)
*3: Tim Rice (5) (lyricist)
*3: Harry Warren (11) (composer)
*3: Paul Francis Webster (16) (lyricist)
*2: Howard Ashman (7) (lyricist)
*2: Burt Bacharach (5) (composer)
*2: Alan and Marilyn Bergman (15) (lyricist)
*2: Sammy Fain (10) (composer)
*2: Oscar Hammerstein II (5) (lyricist)
*2: Joel Hirschhorn (3) (composer and lyricist)
*2: Will Jennings (3) (lyricist)
*2: Al Kasha (3) (composer and lyricist)
*2: Jerome Kern (7) (composer)
*2: Henry Mancini (11) (composer)
*2: Giorgio Moroder (2) (composer)
*2: Randy Newman (12) (composer and lyricist)
*2: Stephen Schwartz (5) (four as lyricist, one as composer and lyricist)
*2: Ned Washington (11) (lyricist)
===Most number of songs nominated by studio===
* Paramount Pictures
* Twentieth Century Fox
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
* Disney (13 songs)
===Foreign-language song winners===
* Manos Hatzidakis was the first to receive this award for a song originally written in a language other than English, in 1960 for "Never on Sunday" (Greek title "Ta Paidia toy Peiraia") from the Greek film Never on Sunday (Greek title Pote tin Kyriaki).
* Jorge Drexler was the second foreign language songwriter to win the Best Original Song Oscar, for "Al otro lado del río" from The Motorcycle Diaries in 2004. That year another foreign language writing pair were nominated, composer Bruno Coulais and lyricist Christophe Barratier for "Look to Your Path" from the French film The Chorus.
* A. R. Rahman and Gulzar are the third and fourth foreign language composer and songwriter respectively to win in the Best Original Song category, which they shared for the Hindi song "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire, at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. That same year, "O... Saya", another partly Hindi song from the same film by Rahman and M.I.A., was also nominated, making it the first time two foreign language songs from the same film were nominated in the category.
==See also==
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song
* Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
* Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
==References==
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