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The Academy Award for Best Song is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole.
- Unless otherwise noted, names listed below served both as the composer and lyricist for the indicated song.
[edit] 1934 - 1940
| Year
| Song
| Film
| Music
| Lyrics
|
| 1934
| "The Continental"
| The Gay Divorcee
| Con Conrad
| Herb Magidson
|
| 1935
| "Lullaby of Broadway"
| Gold Diggers of 1935
| Harry Warren
| Al Dubin
|
| 1936
| "The Way You Look Tonight"
| Swing Time
| Jerome Kern
| Dorothy Fields
|
| 1937
| "Sweet Leilani"
| Waikiki Wedding
| Harry Owens
| Harry Owens
|
| 1938
| "Thanks for the Memory"
| The Big Broadcast of 1938
| Ralph Rainger
| Leo Robin
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| 1939
| "Over the Rainbow"
| The Wizard of Oz
| Harold Arlen
| Yip Harburg
|
| 1940
| "When You Wish Upon a Star"
| Pinocchio
| Leigh Harline
| Ned Washington
|
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[edit] 1941 - 1950
| Year
| Song
| Film
| Music
| Lyrics
|
| 1941
| "The Last Time That I Saw Paris"
| Lady Be Good
| Jerome Kern
| Oscar Hammerstein II
|
| 1942
| "White Christmas"
| Holiday Inn
| Irving Berlin
| Irving Berlin
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| 1943
| "You'll Never Know"
| Hello, Frisco, Hello
| Harry Warren
| Mack Gordon
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| 1944
| "Swinging on a Star"
| Going My Way
| James Van Heusen
| Johnny Burke
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| 1945
| "It Might As Well Be Spring"
| State Fair
| Richard Rodgers
| Oscar Hammerstein II
|
| 1946
| "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"
| The Harvey Girls
| Harry Warren
| Johnny Mercer
|
| 1947
| "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"
| Song of the South
| Allie Wrubel
| Ray Gilbert
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| 1948
| "Buttons and Bows"
| The Paleface
| Jay Livingston
| Ray Evans
|
| 1949
| "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
| Neptune's Daughter
| Frank Loesser
| Frank Loesser
|
| 1950
| "Mona Lisa"
| Captain Carey, U. S. A.
| Jay Livingston
| Ray Evans
|
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[edit] 1951 - 1960
| Year
| Song
| Film
| Music
| Lyrics
|
| 1951
| "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"
| Here Comes the Groom
| Hoagy Carmichael
| Johnny Mercer
|
| 1952
| "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')"
| High Noon
| Dimitri Tiomkin
| Ned Washington
|
| 1953
| "Secret Love"
| Calamity Jane
| Sammy Fain
| Paul Francis Webster
|
| 1954
| "Three Coins in the Fountain"
| Three Coins in the Fountain
| Jule Styne
| Sammy Cahn
|
| 1955
| "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"
| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
| Sammy Fain
| Paul Francis Webster
|
| 1956
| "Whatever Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)"
| The Man Who Knew Too Much
| Jay Livingston
| Ray Evans
|
| 1957
| "All the Way"
| The Joker Is Wild
| James Van Heusen
| Sammy Cahn
|
| 1958
| "Gigi"
| Gigi
| Frederick Loewe
| Alan Jay Lerner
|
| 1959
| "High Hopes"
| A Hole in the Head
| James Van Heusen
| Sammy Cahn
|
| 1960
| "Never on Sunday"
| Pote tin Kyriaki
| Manos Hadjidakis
| Manos Hadjidakis
|
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[edit] 1961 - 1970
| Year
| Song
| Film
| Music
| Lyrics
|
| 1961
| "Moon River"
| Breakfast at Tiffany's
| Henry Mancini
| Johnny Mercer
|
| 1962
| "Days of Wine and Roses"
| Days of Wine and Roses
| Henry Mancini
| Johnny Mercer
|
| 1963
| "Call Me Irresponsible"
| Papa's Delicate Condition
| James Van Heusen
| Sammy Cahn
|
| 1964
| "Chim Chim Cher-ee"
| Mary Poppins
| Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
| Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
|
| 1965
| "The Shadow of Your Smile"
| The Sandpiper
| Johnny Mandel
| Paul Francis Webster
|
| 1966
| "Born Free"
| Born Free
| John Barry
| Don Black
|
| 1967
| "Talk to the Animals"
| Doctor Dolittle
| Leslie Bricusse
| Leslie Bricusse
|
| 1968
| "Windmills of Your Mind"
| The Thomas Crown Affair
| Michel Legrand
| Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman
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| 1969
| "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
| Burt Bacharach
| Hal David
|
| 1970
| "For All We Know"
| Lovers and Other Strangers
| Fred Karlin
| Robb Wilson, Arthur James
|
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[edit] 1971 - 1980
| Year
| Song
| Film
| Music
| Lyrics
|
| 1971
| " Theme from Shaft"
| Shaft
| Isaac Hayes
| Isaac Hayes
|
| 1972
| "The Morning After"
| The Poseidon Adventure
| Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn
| Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn
|
| 1973
| "The Way We Were"
| The Way We Were
| Marvin Hamlisch
| Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman
|
| 1974
| "We May Never Love Like This Again"
| The Towering Inferno
| Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn
| Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn
|
| 1975
| "I'm Easy"
| Nashville
| Keith Carradine
| Keith Carradine
|
| 1976
| "Evergreen"
| A Star Is Born
| Barbra Streisand
| Paul Williams
|
| 1977
| "You Light Up My Life"
| You Light Up My Life
| Joseph Brooks
| Joseph Brooks
|
| 1978
| "Last Dance"
| Thank God It's Friday
| Paul Jabara
| Paul Jabara
|
| 1979
| "It Goes Like It Goes"
| Norma Rae
| David Shire
| Norman Gimbel
|
| 1980
| "Fame"
| Fame
| Michael Gore
| Dean Pitchford
|
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[edit] 1981 - 1990
| Year
| Song
| Film
| Music
| Lyrics
|
| 1981
| "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"
| Arthur
| Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross, Peter Allen
| Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross, Peter Allen
|
| 1982
| "Up Where We Belong"
| An Officer and a Gentleman
| Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie
| Will Jennings
|
| 1983
| "Flashdance... What a Feeling"
| Flashdance
| Giorgio Moroder
| Keith Forsey, Irene Cara
|
| 1984
| "I Just Called to Say I Love You
| The Woman in Red
| Stevie Wonder
| Stevie Wonder
|
| 1985
| "Say You, Say Me"
| White Nights
| Lionel Richie
| Lionel Richie
|
| 1986
| "Take My Breath Away"
| Top Gun"
| Giorgio Moroder
| Tom Whitlock
|
| 1987
| "(I've Had) The Time of My Life"
| Dirty Dancing
| Franke Previte, John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz
| Franke Previte
|
| 1988
| "Let the River Run"
| Working Girl
| Carly Simon
| Carly Simon
|
| 1989
| "Under the Sea"
| The Little Mermaid
| Alan Menken
| Howard Ashman
|
| 1990
| "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)"
| Dick Tracy
| Stephen Sondheim
| Stephen Sondheim
|
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[edit] 1991 - 2000
| Year
| Song
| Film
| Music
| Lyrics
|
| 1991
| "Beauty and the Beast"
| Beauty and the Beast
| Alan Menken
| Howard Ashman
|
| 1992
| "A Whole New World"
| Aladdin
| Alan Menken
| Tim Rice
|
| 1993
| "Streets of Philadelphia"
| Philadelphia
| Bruce Springsteen
| Bruce Springsteen
|
| 1994
| "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"
| The Lion King
| Elton John
| Tim Rice
|
| 1995
| "Colors of the Wind"
| Pocahontas
| Alan Menken
| Stephen Schwartz
|
| 1996
| "You Must Love Me"
| Evita
| Andrew Lloyd Webber
| Tim Rice
|
| 1997
| "My Heart Will Go On"
| Titanic
| James Horner
| Will Jennings
|
| 1998
| "When You Believe"
| The Prince of Egypt
| Stephen Schwartz
| Stephen Schwartz
|
| 1999
| "You'll Be in My Heart"
| Tarzan
| Phil Collins
| Phil Collins
|
| 2000
| "Things Have Changed"
| Wonder Boys
| Bob Dylan
| Bob Dylan
|
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[edit] 2001 -
| Year
| Song
| Film
| Music
| Lyrics
|
| 2001
| "If I Didn't Have You"
| Monsters, Inc.
| Randy Newman
| Randy Newman
|
| 2002
| "Lose Yourself"
| 8 Mile
| Eminem, Jeff Bass, Luis Resto
| Eminem
|
| 2003
| "Into the West"
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
| Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, Annie Lennox
| Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, Annie Lennox
|
| 2004
| "Al Otro Lado del Río"
| The Motorcycle Diaries
| Jorge Drexler
| Jorge Drexler
|
| 2005
| "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp"
| Hustle & Flow
| Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, Paul Beauregard
| Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, Paul Beauregard
|
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[edit] Most awards won
- Number of times nominated in parentheses
[edit] Trivia
- Randy Newman was nominated sixteen times before finally winning the award for his 2001 song If I Didn't Have You from Monsters, Inc..
- Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto were the first to win the Best Song Oscar for a rap song, in 2002 for Lose Yourself from 8 Mile. The song was not performed at the 75th Academy Awards because Eminem declined to attend the ceremony.
- Manos Hadjidakis was the first to receive the honour for a song originally written in a language other than English, in 1960 for Ta Paidia toy Peiraia from the Greek film Pote tin Kyriaki.
- Jorge Drexler was the second foreign language songwriter to win the award, 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 Vois Sur Ton Chemin (Look To Your Path) from the French movie Les Choristes.
- Dorothy Fields was the first female songwriter to win the Best Song Oscar. She wrote the lyrics for the 1936 winner The Way You Look Tonight (music by Jerome Kern) sung by Fred Astaire in the film Swing Time. It was thirty-two years until there was a second woman so honoured, Marilyn Bergman, who co-wrote with husband Alan the lyrics for Windmills of Your Mind (music Michel Legrand) from The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968. Female winners remain scarce, Barbra Streisand was the first female tunesmith (Evergreen from A Star Is Born in 1976), the other winners are Carole Bayer Sager (Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) from Arthur in 1981), Buffy Sainte-Marie (Up Where We Belong from An Officer and a Gentleman in 1982), Irene Cara (Flashdance... What a Feeling from Flashdance in 1983), Carly Simon, the only woman to win on her own, with Let the River Run from Working Girl in 1988, and Annie Lennox (Into the West from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003).
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