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The '''[[Academy Award]] for Best Original Song''' is one of the awards given every year by the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS). It is given to the songwriters who write the best original song specifically for a movie. Only songs that are "original and written specifically for the motion picture" can win.<ref name="AMPASRule">{{cite web | url=http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/88aa_rules.pdf | title=88th Academy Awards of Merit; Rule Fifteen: Special Rules for the Music Awards | publisher= Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | access-date=2016-04-21}}</ref>
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{{short description|Motion picture award for music}}
{{Infobox award
| name      = Academy Award for Best Original Song
| presenter = [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS)
| country  = United States
| year      = [[7th Academy Awards|1934]]
| holder_label  = Most recent winner
| holder    = [[Finneas O'Connell]], [[Billie Eilish]]<br /> "[[No Time to Die (song)|No Time to Die]]" ([[94th Academy Awards|2021]])
| website  = {{url|oscars.org}}
}}


The award category was first given at the [[7th Academy Awards]]. That ceremony was for 1934 movies. Nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and [[composer]]s. All Academy members vote for the winner.
The '''Academy Award for Best Original Song''' is one of the awards given annually to people working in the [[film|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 typically performed during the ceremony and before this award is presented.


==List of winners and nominees==
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 [[songwriter]]s and [[composer]]s, and the winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Fifteen songs are [[shortlisted]] before nominations are announced.
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==Eligibility==
{{As of|2019}}, the Academy's rules stipulate that "an original song consists of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the motion picture. There must be a clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition (not necessarily visually presented) of both lyric and melody, used in the body of the motion picture or as the first music cue in the end credits."<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/92aa_rules.pdf|title = 92nd Academy Awards of Merit|website = [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]|page = 20|access-date = February 12, 2020}}</ref>
 
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 (1941 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. Kern was upset because he thought that "[[Blues in the Night]]" by [[Harold Arlen]] (Music) and [[Johnny Mercer]] (lyrics) should have won. Kern's 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.<ref>Susan Sacket, "1941: 'The Last Time I Saw Paris'", ''Hollywood Sings!'', Billboard Books, New York, 1995, pp. 42–43.</ref><ref name="AMPASRule">[http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/86/rule15.html Rule Fifteen: Special Rules for the Music Awards | Rules for the 86th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131025092751/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/86/rule15.html |date=October 25, 2013 }}</ref> Songs that rely on sampled or reworked material along with cover versions, remixes and parodies, such as "[[Gangsta's Paradise (song)|Gangsta's Paradise]]" (which samples "[[Pastime Paradise]]" by [[Stevie Wonder]]) in the 1995 film ''[[Dangerous Minds]]'', are also ineligible.
 
This rule means that when a film is [[Film adaptation|adapted]] from a previously produced stage [[Musical theatre|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 (1996 film)|Evita]]'' (won award), and "[[Listen (Beyoncé Knowles song)|Listen]]", "[[Love You I Do]]", "[[Patience (Dreamgirls song)|Patience]]" in the 2006 film ''[[Dreamgirls (film)|Dreamgirls]]'', and "Suddenly" in the 2012 film ''[[Les Misérables (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" had been released on two other albums – ''[[The Swell Season]]'', Hansard and Irglova's duo project, and ''[[The Cost (album)|The Cost]]'', by Hansard's band [[The Frames]]. ''[[The Swell Season]]'' was released in August 2006, and ''[[The Cost (album)|The Cost]]'' in February 2007, before the release of ''[[Once (film)|Once]]''. It was also used in the movie ''[[Beauty in Trouble]]'' and released on its soundtrack in September 2006. However, the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|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".<ref>{{cite news| url=http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/once-again-a-legit-nominee/ | work=The New York Times | title="Once" Again, a Legit Nominee | date=January 29, 2008}}</ref> The same issue arose two years earlier with "[[In the Deep]]" from ''[[Crash (2004 film)|Crash]]'', which appeared on [[Kathleen York|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.<ref name="AMPASRule" />
 
==Number of nominations and submissions==
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.{{Citation needed|date=February 2012}} 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.<ref>Sacket, "Preface", p. xvii.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=BBC2012Noms|title=Oscars 2012: Nominees in full|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16700124|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|access-date=January 24, 2012}}</ref>
 
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 number received by the Academy there would be five, three or no nominations each year.<ref name="billboard">{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/475331/oscar-best-song-category-gets-five-nominee-rule|title = Oscar Best Song Category Gets Five Nominee Rule|magazine = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date = August 31, 2012}}</ref> Since then, there have always been five nominees, except in 2013 when one was disqualified.
 
The first film to receive multiple nominations was ''[[Fame (1980 film)|Fame]]'' in 1980. Only four films have featured three nominated songs: ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'', ''[[The Lion King]]'', ''[[Dreamgirls (film)|Dreamgirls]]'', and ''[[Enchanted (2007 film)|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 (film)|Once]]'' defeated all three of ''Enchanted''{{'}}s 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.<ref>[http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2008/08.06.19.html Academy press release]</ref> While up to five songs from a single film can be submitted, studios sometimes submit only one, for fear that having two nominated might [[vote splitting|split the vote]].<ref name="bbc60290152">{{cite web |title=Oscars 2022: Why is Encanto's We Don't Talk About Bruno not nominated? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60290152 |website=BBC News |access-date=30 March 2022 |date=8 February 2022}}</ref> By the time "[[We Don't Talk About Bruno]]" became the breakout hit from [[Encanto (soundtrack)|''Encanto'']], the producers had for the [[94th Academy Awards|2021 Oscars]] submitted "[[Dos Oruguitas]]", which was nominated but did not win.<ref name="bbc60290152"/>
 
==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. (In the case of "[[The Look of Love (Dusty Springfield album)|The Look Of Love]]", sung by [[Dusty Springfield]] in ''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|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|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 (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 [[Never on Sunday (song)|title tune]] to ''[[Never on Sunday]]'', which was sung in Greek in the film by its star, [[Melina Mercouri]]). It was written by [[Uruguay]]an 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".
 
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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bronson |first1=Fred |title=The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgGqNrqfrsoC&pg=PT2 |access-date=February 20, 2009 |edition=5th |year=2003 |publisher=Billboard Books |location=New York |isbn=0-8230-7677-6 |page=586}}</ref>
 
At the [[80th Academy Awards]], "[[That's How You Know (musical number)|That's How You Know]]" from the film ''[[Enchanted (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.<ref>{{cite press release
|title=Oscar Show Participants Revealed
|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
|date=February 14, 2008
|url=http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2008/08.02.14.html
|access-date=February 15, 2008
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218035820/http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2008/08.02.14.html
|archive-date=February 18, 2008 |url-status=live
}}</ref>
 
In 2009, [[Peter Gabriel]], who was originally scheduled to perform his nominated song "[[Down to Earth (Peter Gabriel 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/02/14/Gabriel_cancels_Oscar_night_performance/UPI-55771234645453/ |title=Gabriel cancels Oscar night performance |publisher=United Press International Inc. |date=February 14, 2009 |access-date=February 22, 2009 |author=UPI.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215232133/http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/02/14/Gabriel_cancels_Oscar_night_performance/UPI-55771234645453/ |archive-date=February 15, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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 (film)|The Muppets]]'' or "Real in Rio" from ''[[Rio (2011 film)|Rio]]'').<ref>[http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/506284/bret-mckenzie-on-muppet-less-oscars-its-a-shame Oscar nominee Brett McKenzie in Billboard Magazine]</ref> 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 [[85th Academy Awards|2013 Oscars]], only three of the five nominees were performed, with the eventual winner, the theme from ''[[Skyfall (Adele song)|Skyfall]]'', being the only one performed separately on its own as opposed to being part of a musical montage sequence by [[Adele]]. 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.<ref>{{Cite web
| url = http://www.cbsnews.com/news/best-song-nominee-anohni-boycotts-oscars/
| title = Why Best Song nominee Anohni is sitting out the Oscars
| website = www.cbsnews.com
| access-date = March 1, 2016
}}</ref>
 
It was originally announced that the [[91st Academy Awards]] would only feature two live performances due to time constraints: "[[Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)|Shallow]]" from ''[[A Star Is Born (2018 film)|A Star is Born]]'' and "[[All the Stars]]" from ''[[Black Panther (2018 film)|Black Panther]]''.<ref>{{Cite web
| url = https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/oscars-2019-telecast-original-song-performances.html
| title = The Oscars Might Only Let Two Original Song Nominees Perform During the Telecast
| website = www.vulture.com
| date = January 24, 2019
| access-date = January 26, 2019
}}</ref> However, this decision was reversed days later.<ref>{{Cite web
| url = https://variety.com/2019/music/news/oscars-invite-all-five-best-song-nominees-1203125178/
| title = Oscars to Feature All Five Best Song Nominees on Telecast After All
| website = www.variety.com
| date = January 31, 2019
| access-date = January 31, 2019
}}</ref>
It was announced soon after that [[Kendrick Lamar]] and [[SZA (singer)|SZA]] would no longer perform due to "logistics and timing" issues, making "All the Stars" the only nominee of the four not to be performed live.<ref>{{Cite web
| url = https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/oscars-kendrick-lamar-and-sza-will-not-perform-black-panther-song-exclusive-1203144572/
| title = Oscars: Kendrick Lamar and SZA Will Not Perform 'Black Panther' Song
| website = www.variety.com
| date = February 21, 2019
| access-date = February 21, 2019
}}</ref> Rapper [[Eminem]]'s song "[[Lose Yourself]]", which won the award in [[75th Academy Awards|2003]], was the only nominated song not performed at the ceremony that year. Eminem later gave a surprise performance of the song at the Oscars in [[92nd Academy Awards|2020]]. He received a [[standing ovation]] following his performance.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eminem Reveals Why He Finally Performed at the Oscars, 17 Years Later |url=https://variety.com/2020/music/news/eminem-oscar-academy-awards-lose-yourself-exclusive-interview-1203500085/ |website=Variety.com|date=February 10, 2020 }}</ref>
 
In 2021, performances of the nominees for Best Original Song are shown during the ceremony's pre-show, Oscars: Into the Spotlight. The live performances returned for [[94th Academy Awards|the next year's ceremony]].
 
==Winners and nominees==


===1930s===
===1930s===
* '''[[7th Academy Awards|1934]]: "[[The Continental (song)|The Continental]]" – ''[[The Gay Divorcee]]'' • Music: [[Con Conrad]] • Lyrics: [[Herb Magidson]]'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
** "[[Carioca (song)|Carioca]]" – ''[[Flying Down to Rio]]'' • Music: [[Vincent Youmans]] • Lyrics: [[Edward Eliscu]] and [[Gus Kahn]]
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
** "[[Love in Bloom (song)|Love in Bloom]]" – ''[[She Loves Me Not (1934 movie)|She Loves Me Not]]'' • Music: [[Ralph Rainger]] • Lyrics: [[Leo Robin]]
! width="5%" | Year
* '''[[8th Academy Awards|1935]]: "[[Lullaby of Broadway (song)|Lullaby of Broadway]]" – ''[[Gold Diggers of 1935]]'' • Music: [[Harry Warren]] • Lyrics: [[Al Dubin]]'''
! width="25%" | Film
** "Lovely to Look at" – ''[[Roberta (1935 movie)|Roberta]]'' • Music: [[Jerome Kern]] • Lyrics: [[Dorothy Fields]] and [[Jimmy McHugh]]
! width="25%" | Song
** "[[Cheek to Cheek]]" – ''[[Top Hat]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Irving Berlin]]
! width="45%" | Nominees
* '''[[9th Academy Awards|1936]]: "[[The Way You Look Tonight]]" – ''[[Swing Time (1936 movie)|Swing Time]]'' • Music: [[Jerome Kern]] • Lyrics: [[Dorothy Fields]]'''
|-
** "[[I've Got You Under My Skin]]" – ''[[Born to Dance]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Cole Porter]]
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | '''1934'''<br />{{small|[[7th Academy Awards|(7th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1935 |title=The 7th Academy Awards - 1935 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
** "[[Pennies from Heaven (song)|Pennies from Heaven]]" – ''[[Pennies from Heaven (1936 movie)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' • Music: [[Arthur Johnston (composer)|Arthur Johnston]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
** "When Did You Leave Heaven" – ''[[Sing, Baby, Sing]]'' • Music: [[Richard A. Whiting]] • Lyrics: [[Walter Bullock]]
| '''''[[The Gay Divorcee]]'''''
** "Did I Remember" – ''[[Suzy (1936 movie)|Suzy]]'' • Music: [[Walter Donaldson]] • Lyrics: [[Harold Adamson]]
| '''"[[The Continental (song)|The Continental]]"'''
** "A Melody from the Sky" – ''[[The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 movie)|The Trail of the Lonesome Pine]]'' • Music: [[Louis Alter]] • Lyrics: [[Sidney D. Mitchell]]
| '''[[Con Conrad]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Herb Magidson]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
* '''[[10th Academy Awards|1937]]: "[[Sweet Leilani]]" – ''[[Waikiki Wedding]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Harry Owens]]'''
|-
** "Whispers in the Dark" – ''[[Artists and Models (1937 movie)|Artists and Models]]'' • Music: [[Friedrich Hollaender]] • Lyrics: [[Leo Robin]]
| ''[[Flying Down to Rio]]''
** "Remember Me" – ''[[Mr. Dodd Takes the Air]]'' • Music: [[Harry Warren]] • Lyrics: [[Al Dubin]]
| "[[Carioca (1933 song)|Carioca]]"
** "[[They Can't Take That Away from Me]]" – ''[[Shall We Dance (1937 movie)|Shall We Dance]]'' • Music: [[George Gershwin]] ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous nomination]]) • Lyrics: [[Ira Gershwin]]
| [[Vincent Youmans]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Edward Eliscu]] & [[Gus Kahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "[[That Old Feeling (song)|That Old Feeling]]" – ''[[Vogues of 1938]]'' • Music: [[Sammy Fain]] • Lyrics: [[Lew Brown]]
|-
* '''[[11th Academy Awards|1938]]: "[[Thanks for the Memory]]" – ''[[The Big Broadcast of 1938]]'' • Music: [[Ralph Rainger]] • Lyrics: [[Leo Robin]]'''
| ''[[She Loves Me Not (1934 film)|She Loves Me Not]]''
** "Always and Always" – ''[[Mannequin (1937 movie)|Mannequin]]'' • Music: [[Edward Ward (composer)|Edward Ward]] • Lyrics: [[George Forrest (author)|Chet Forrest]] and [[Robert Wright (writer)|Bob Wright]]
| "[[Love in Bloom (song)|Love in Bloom]]"
** "[[Change Partners]]" – ''[[Carefree (movie)|Carefree]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Irving Berlin]]
| [[Ralph Rainger]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leo Robin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "The Cowboy and the Lady" – ''[[The Cowboy and the Lady (1938 movie)|The Cowboy and the Lady]]'' • Music: [[Lionel Newman]] • Lyrics: Arthur Quenzer
|-
** "Dust" – ''[[Under Western Stars]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Johnny Marvin]]
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | '''1935'''<br />{{small|[[8th Academy Awards|(8th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1936 |title=The 8th Academy Awards - 1936 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
** "[[Jeepers Creepers (song)|Jeepers Creepers]]" – ''[[Going Places (1938 movie)|Going Places]]'' • Music: [[Harry Warren]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
** "Merrily We Live" – ''[[Merrily We Live]]'' • Music: Phil Craig • Lyrics: Arthur Quenzer
| '''''[[Gold Diggers of 1935]]'''''
** "A Mist over the Moon" – ''[[The Lady Objects]]'' • Music: [[Ben Oakland]] • Lyrics: [[Oscar Hammerstein II]]
| '''"[[Lullaby of Broadway (song)|Lullaby of Broadway]]"'''
** "My Own" – ''[[That Certain Age]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy McHugh]] • Lyrics: [[Harold Adamson]]
| '''[[Harry Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Al Dubin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
** "[[Now It Can Be Told]]" – ''[[Alexander's Ragtime Band (movie)|Alexander's Ragtime Band]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Irving Berlin]]
|-
* '''[[12th Academy Awards|1939]]: "[[Over the Rainbow]]" – ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 movie)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' • Music: [[Harold Arlen]] • Lyrics: [[Yip Harburg]]'''
| ''[[Roberta (1935 film)|Roberta]]''
** "Faithful Forever" – ''[[Gulliver's Travels (1939 movie)|Gulliver's Travels]]'' • Music: [[Ralph Rainger]] • Lyrics: [[Leo Robin]]
| "Lovely to Look At"
** "I Poured My Heart into a Song" – ''[[Second Fiddle (1939 movie)|Second Fiddle]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Irving Berlin]]
| [[Jerome Kern]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Dorothy Fields]] & [[Jimmy McHugh]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "[[Wishing (song)|Wishing]]" – ''[[Love Affair (1939 movie)|Love Affair]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Buddy DeSylva]]
|-
| ''[[Top Hat]]''
| "[[Cheek to Cheek]]"
| [[Irving Berlin]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center" | '''1936'''<br />{{small|[[9th Academy Awards|(9th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1937 |title=The 9th Academy Awards - 1937 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Swing Time (film)|Swing Time]]'''''
| '''"[[The Way You Look Tonight]]"'''
| '''[[Jerome Kern]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Dorothy Fields]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Born to Dance]]''
| "[[I've Got You Under My Skin]]"
| [[Cole Porter]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Pennies from Heaven (1936 film)|Pennies from Heaven]]''
| "[[Pennies from Heaven (song)|Pennies from Heaven]]"
| [[Arthur Johnston (composer)|Arthur Johnston]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Sing, Baby, Sing]]''
| "When Did You Leave Heaven"
| [[Richard A. Whiting]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Walter Bullock]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Suzy (film)|Suzy]]''
| "Did I Remember"
| [[Walter Donaldson]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Harold Adamson]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)|The Trail of the Lonesome Pine]]''
| "A Melody from the Sky"
| [[Louis Alter]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sidney D. Mitchell]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1937'''<br />{{small|[[10th Academy Awards|(10th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1938 |title=The 10th Academy Awards - 1938 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Waikiki Wedding]]'''''
| '''"[[Sweet Leilani]]"'''
| '''[[Harry Owens]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Artists and Models (1937 film)|Artists and Models]]''
| "Whispers in the Dark"
| [[Friedrich Hollaender]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leo Robin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Mr. Dodd Takes the Air]]''
| "Remember Me"
| [[Harry Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Al Dubin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Shall We Dance (1937 film)|Shall We Dance]]''
| "[[They Can't Take That Away from Me]]"
| [[George Gershwin]] <small>([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]]) (music)</small>; [[Ira Gershwin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938]]''
| "[[That Old Feeling (song)|That Old Feeling]]"
| [[Sammy Fain]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Lew Brown]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center" | '''1938'''<br />{{small|[[11th Academy Awards|(11th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1939 |title=The 11th Academy Awards - 1939 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Big Broadcast of 1938]]'''''
| '''"[[Thanks for the Memory]]"'''
| '''[[Ralph Rainger]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leo Robin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)|Alexander's Ragtime Band]]''
| "[[Now It Can Be Told]]"
| rowspan=2|[[Irving Berlin]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Carefree (film)|Carefree]]''
| "[[Change Partners]]"
|-
| ''[[The Cowboy and the Lady (1938 film)|The Cowboy and the Lady]]''
| "The Cowboy and the Lady"
| [[Lionel Newman]] <small>(music)</small>; Arthur Quenzer <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Going Places (1938 film)|Going Places]]''
| "[[Jeepers Creepers (song)|Jeepers Creepers]]"
| [[Harry Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Lady Objects]]''
| "A Mist Over the Moon"
| [[Ben Oakland]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Mannequin (1937 film)|Mannequin]]''
| "Always and Always"
| [[Edward Ward (composer)|Edward Ward]] <small>(music)</small>; [[George Forrest (author)|Chet Forrest]] & [[Robert Wright (writer)|Bob Wright]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Merrily We Live]]''
| "Merrily We Live"
| [[Phil Charig]] <small>(music)</small>; Quenzer <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[That Certain Age]]''
| "My Own"
| [[Jimmy McHugh]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Harold Adamson]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Under Western Stars]]''
| "Dust"
| [[Johnny Marvin]] <small>(music and lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | '''1939'''<br />{{small|[[12th Academy Awards|(12th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1940 |title=The 12th Academy Awards - 1940 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'''''
| '''"[[Over the Rainbow]]"'''
| '''[[Harold Arlen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Yip Harburg]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Gulliver's Travels (1939 film)|Gulliver's Travels]]''
| "Faithful Forever"
| [[Ralph Rainger]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leo Robin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Love Affair (1939 film)|Love Affair]]''
| "Wishing"
| [[Buddy DeSylva]] <small>(music and lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Second Fiddle (1939 film)|Second Fiddle]]''
| "I Poured My Heart into a Song"
| [[Irving Berlin]] <small>(music and lyrics)</small>
|-
|}


===1940s===
===1940s===
* '''[[13th Academy Awards|1940]]: "[[When You Wish Upon a Star]]" – ''[[Pinocchio (1940 movie)|Pinocchio]]'' • Music: [[Leigh Harline]] • Lyrics: [[Ned Washington]]'''
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
** "Down Argentine Way" – ''[[Down Argentine Way]]'' • Music: [[Harry Warren]] • Lyrics: [[Mack Gordon]]
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
** "I'd Know You Anywhere" – ''[[You'll Find Out]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy McHugh]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]
! width="5%" | Year
** "It's a Blue World" – ''[[Music in My Heart]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[George Forrest (author)|Chet Forrest]] and [[Robert Wright (writer)|Bob Wright]]
! width="25%" | Film
** "[[Second Chorus#Key songs/dance routines|Love of My Life]]" – ''[[Second Chorus]]'' • Music: [[Artie Shaw]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]
! width="25%" | Song
** "[[Only Forever (song)|Only Forever]]" – ''[[Rhythm on the River]]'' • Music: [[James V. Monaco]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]]
! width="45%" | Nominees
** "Our Love Affair" – ''[[Strike Up the Band (movie)|Strike Up the Band]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Roger Edens]] and [[Georgie Stoll]]
|-
** "Waltzing in the Clouds" – ''[[Spring Parade]]'' • Music: [[Robert Stolz]] • Lyrics: [[Gus Kahn]]
| rowspan=10 style="text-align:center" | '''1940'''<br />{{small|[[13th Academy Awards|(13th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1941 |title=The 13th Academy Awards - 1941 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
** "Who Am I?" – ''Hit Parade of 1941'' • Music: [[Jule Styne]] • Lyrics: [[Walter Bullock]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
* '''[[14th Academy Awards|1941]]: "[[The Last Time I Saw Paris (song)|The Last Time I Saw Paris]]" – ''[[Lady Be Good (1941 movie)|Lady Be Good]]'' • Music: [[Jerome Kern]] • Lyrics: [[Oscar Hammerstein II]]'''
| '''''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'''''
** "[[Baby Mine (song)|Baby Mine]]" – ''[[Dumbo]]'' • Music: [[Frank Churchill]] • Lyrics: [[Ned Washington]]
| '''"[[When You Wish Upon a Star]]"'''
** "Be Honest With Me" – ''[[Ridin' on a Rainbow]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Gene Autry]] and [[Fred Rose (songwriter)|Fred Rose]]
| '''[[Leigh Harline]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ned Washington]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
** "[[Blues in the Night]]" – ''[[Blues in the Night (movie)|Blues in the Night]]'' • Music: [[Harold Arlen]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]
|-
** "[[Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy|Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B]]" – ''[[Buck Privates]]'' • Music: Hugh Prince • Lyrics: [[Don Raye]]
| ''[[Down Argentine Way]]''
** "[[Chattanooga Choo Choo]]" – ''[[Sun Valley Serenade]]'' • Music: [[Harry Warren]] • Lyrics: [[Mack Gordon]]
| "Down Argentine Way"
** "Dolores" – ''Las Vegas Nights'' • Music: [[Louis Alter]] • Lyrics: [[Frank Loesser]]
| [[Harry Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack Gordon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "Out of the Silence" – ''[[All-American Co-Ed]]'' • Music and Lyrics: Lloyd B. Norlin
|-
** "Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye" – ''[[You'll Never Get Rich]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Cole Porter]]
| ''[[Hit Parade of 1941]]''
* '''[[15th Academy Awards|1942]]: "[[White Christmas (song)|White Christmas]]" – ''[[Holiday Inn (movie)|Holiday Inn]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Irving Berlin]]'''
| "Who Am I?"
** "[[Always in My Heart (1942 song)|Always in My Heart]]" – ''[[Always in My Heart (movie)|Always in My Heart]]'' • Music: [[Ernesto Lecuona]] • Lyrics: [[Kim Gannon]]
| [[Jule Styne]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Walter Bullock]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "[[Dearly Beloved (1942 song)|Dearly Beloved]]" – ''[[You Were Never Lovelier]]'' • Music: [[Jerome Kern]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]
|-
** "[[How About You?]]" – ''[[Babes on Broadway]]'' • Music: [[Burton Lane]] • Lyrics: [[Ralph Freed]]
| ''[[Music in My Heart]]''
** "[[I've Heard That Song Before]]" – ''[[Youth on Parade]]'' • Music: [[Jule Styne]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]
| "It's a Blue World"
** "[[(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo]]" – ''[[Orchestra Wives]]'' • Music: [[Harry Warren]] • Lyrics: [[Mack Gordon]]
| [[George Forrest (author)|Chet Forrest]] & [[Robert Wright (writer)|Bob Wright]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
** "[[Bambi#Soundtrack Listing|Love Is a Song]]" – ''[[Bambi]]'' • Music: [[Frank Churchill]] ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous nomination]]) • Lyrics: [[Larry Morey]]
|-
** "[[Pennies for Peppino]]" – ''[[Flying with Music]]'' • Music: [[Edward Ward (composer)|Edward Ward]] • Lyrics: [[George Forrest (author)|Chet Forrest]] and [[Robert Wright (writer)|Bob Wright]]
| ''[[Rhythm on the River]]''
** "[[Pig Foot Pete]]" – ''[[Hellzapoppin' (movie)|Hellzapoppin']]'' • Music: [[Gene de Paul]] • Lyrics: [[Don Raye]]
| "[[Only Forever (song)|Only Forever]]"
** "[[There's a Breeze on Lake Louise]]" – ''[[The Mayor of 44th Street]]'' • Music: [[Harry Revel]] • Lyrics: [[Mort Greene]]
| [[James V. Monaco]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|John Burke]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
* '''[[16th Academy Awards|1943]]: "[[You'll Never Know]]" – ''[[Hello, Frisco, Hello]]'' • Music: [[Harry Warren]] • Lyrics: [[Mack Gordon]]'''
|-
** "[[Change of Heart (1943 song)|Change of Heart]]" – ''[[Hit Parade of 1943]]'' • Music: [[Jule Styne]] • Lyrics: [[Harold Adamson]]
| ''[[Second Chorus]]''
** "[[Happiness is a Thing Called Joe]]" – ''[[Cabin in the Sky (movie)|Cabin in the Sky]]'' • Music: [[Harold Arlen]] • Lyrics: [[Yip Harburg]]
| "Love of My Life"
** "[[My Shining Hour]]" – ''[[The Sky's the Limit (1943 movie)|The Sky's the Limit]]'' • Music: [[Harold Arlen]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]
| [[Artie Shaw]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "[[Saludos Amigos (song)|Saludos Amigos]]" – ''[[Saludos Amigos]]'' • Music: [[Charles Wolcott]] • Lyrics: [[Ned Washington]]
|-
** "[[Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There]]" – ''[[Hers to Hold]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy McHugh]] • Lyrics: [[Herb Magidson]]
| ''[[Spring Parade]]''
** "[[That Old Black Magic]]" – ''[[Star Spangled Rhythm]]'' • Music: [[Harold Arlen]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]
| "Waltzing in the Clouds"
** "[[They're Either Too Young or Too Old]]" – ''[[Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943 movie)|Thank Your Lucky Stars]]'' • Music: [[Arthur Schwartz]] • Lyrics: [[Frank Loesser]]
| [[Robert Stolz]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Gus Kahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "[[We Mustn't Say Good Bye]]" – ''[[Stage Door Canteen (movie)|Stage Door Canteen]]'' • Music: [[James V. Monaco]] • Lyrics: [[Al Dubin]]
|-
** "[[You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To]]" – ''[[Something to Shout About (movie)|Something to Shout About]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Cole Porter]]
| ''[[Strike Up the Band (film)|Strike Up the Band]]''
* '''[[17th Academy Awards|1944]]: "[[Swinging on a Star]]" – ''[[Going My Way]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]]'''
| "Our Love Affair"
** "[[I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night]]" – ''[[Higher and Higher (movie)|Higher and Higher]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy McHugh]] • Lyrics: [[Harold Adamson]]
| [[Roger Edens]] & [[Arthur Freed]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
** "[[I'll Walk Alone]]" – ''[[Follow the Boys]]'' • Music: [[Jule Styne]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]
|-
** "[[I'm Making Believe]]" – ''[[Sweet and Low-Down]]'' • Music: [[James V. Monaco]] • Lyrics: [[Mack Gordon]]
| ''[[You'll Find Out]]''
** "[[Long Ago (and Far Away)]]" – ''[[Cover Girl (movie)|Cover Girl]]'' • Music: [[Jerome Kern]] • Lyrics: [[Ira Gershwin]]
| "I'd Know You Anywhere"
** "[[Now I Know]]" – ''[[Up in Arms]]'' • Music: [[Harold Arlen]] • Lyrics: [[Ted Koehler]]
| [[Jimmy McHugh]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "[[Remember Me to Carolina]]" – ''[[Minstrel Man (movie)|Minstrel Man]]'' • Music: [[Harry Revel]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster|Paul Webster]]
|-
** "[[Rio de Janeiro (song)|Rio de Janeiro]]" – ''[[Brazil (1944 movie)|Brazil]]'' • Music: [[Ary Barroso]] • Lyrics: [[Ned Washington]]
| rowspan=10 style="text-align:center" | '''1941'''<br />{{small|[[14th Academy Awards|(14th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1942 |title=The 14th Academy Awards - 1942 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
** "[[Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams]]" – ''[[Lady, Let's Dance]]'' • Music: [[Lew Pollack]] • Lyrics: [[Charles Newman (songwriter)|Charles Newman]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
** "[[Too Much in Love]]" – ''[[Song of the Open Road]]'' • Music: [[Walter Kent]] • Lyrics: [[Kim Gannon]]
| '''''[[Lady Be Good (1941 film)|Lady Be Good]]'''''
** "[[The Trolley Song]]" – ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Ralph Blane]] and [[Hugh Martin]]
| '''"[[The Last Time I Saw Paris (song)|The Last Time I Saw Paris]]"'''
* '''[[18th Academy Awards|1945]]: "[[It Might as Well Be Spring]]" – ''[[State Fair (1945 movie)|State Fair]]'' • Music: [[Richard Rodgers]] • Lyrics: [[Oscar Hammerstein II]]'''
| '''[[Jerome Kern]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
** "[[Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive]]" – ''[[Here Come the Waves]]'' • Music: [[Harold Arlen]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]
|-
** "[[Anywhere (1945 song)|Anywhere]]" – ''[[Tonight and Every Night]]'' • Music: [[Jule Styne]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]
| ''[[All-American Co-ed]]''
** "[[Aren't You Glad You're You?]]" – ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]'' • Music: [[James Van Heusen]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]]
| "Out of the Silence"
** "[[The Cat and the Canary (song)|The Cat and the Canary]]" – ''[[Why Girls Leave Home (1945 movie)|Why Girls Leave Home]]'' • Music: [[Jay Livingston]] • Lyrics: [[Ray Evans]]
| Lloyd B. Norlin <small>(music and lyrics)</small>
** "[[Endlessly (song)|Endlessly]]" – ''[[Earl Carroll Vanities]]'' • Music: [[Walter Kent]] • Lyrics: [[Kim Gannon]]
|-
** "[[I Fall in Love Too Easily]]" – ''[[Anchors Aweigh (movie)|Anchors Aweigh]]'' • Music:[[Jule Styne]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]
| ''[[Blues in the Night (film)|Blues in the Night]]''
** "[[I'll Buy That Dream]]" – ''[[Sing Your Way Home]]'' • Music: [[Allie Wrubel]] • Lyrics: [[Herb Magidson]]
| "[[Blues in the Night]]"
** "[[Linda (1945 song)|Linda]]" – ''[[The Story of G.I. Joe]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Ann Ronell]]
| [[Harold Arlen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "[[Love Letters (song)|Love Letters]]" – ''[[Love Letters (1945 movie)|Love Letters]]'' • Music: [[Victor Young]] • Lyrics: [[Edward Heyman]]
|-
** "[[More and More (1945 song)|More and More]]" – ''[[Can't Help Singing]]'' • Music: [[Jerome Kern]] ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous nomination]]) • Lyrics: [[Yip Harburg]]
| ''[[Buck Privates]]''
** "[[Sleighride in July]]" – ''[[Belle of the Yukon]]'' • Music: [[James Van Heusen]] • Lyrics:[[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]]
| "[[Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy]]"
** "[[So in Love (1945 song)|So in Love]]" – ''[[Wonder Man (movie)|Wonder Man]]'' • Music: [[David Rose (musician)|David Rose]] • Lyrics: [[Leo Robin]]
| [[Hughie Prince]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Don Raye]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "[[Some Sunday Morning]]" – ''[[San Antonio (movie)|San Antonio]]'' • Music: [[Ray Heindorf]] and [[M.K. Jerome]] • Lyrics: [[Ted Koehler]]
|-
* '''[[19th Academy Awards|1946]]: "[[On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe]]" – ''[[The Harvey Girls]]'' • Music: [[Harry Warren]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]'''
| ''[[Dumbo]]''
** "[[All Through the Day]]" – ''[[Centennial Summer]]'' • Music: [[Jerome Kern]] ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous nomination]]) • Lyrics: [[Oscar Hammerstein II]]
| "[[Baby Mine (song)|Baby Mine]]"
** "[[I Can't Begin to Tell You]]" – ''[[The Dolly Sisters]]'' • Music: [[James V. Monaco]] ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous nomination]]) • Lyrics: [[Mack Gordon]]
| [[Frank Churchill]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ned Washington]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "[[Ole Buttermilk Sky]]" – ''[[Canyon Passage]]'' • Music: [[Hoagy Carmichael]] • Lyrics: [[Jack Brooks (lyricist)|Jack Brooks]]
|-
** "[[You Keep Coming Back Like a Song]]" – ''[[Blue Skies (1946 movie)|Blue Skies]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Irving Berlin]]
| ''[[Las Vegas Nights]]''
* '''[[20th Academy Awards|1947]]: "[[Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah]]" – ''[[Song of the South]]'' • Music: [[Allie Wrubel]] • Lyrics: [[Ray Gilbert]]'''
| "Dolores"
** "[[A Gal in Calico]]" – ''[[The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946 movie)|The Time, the Place and the Girl]]'' • Music: [[Arthur Schwartz]] • Lyrics: [[Leo Robin]]
| [[Louis Alter]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Frank Loesser]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
** "[[I Wish I Didn't Love You So]]" – ''[[The Perils of Pauline (1947 movie)|The Perils of Pauline]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Frank Loesser]]
|-
** "[[Pass That Peace Pipe]]" – ''[[Good News (1947 movie)|Good News]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Ralph Blane]], [[Hugh Martin]] and [[Roger Edens]]
| ''[[Ridin' on a Rainbow]]''
** "[[You Do (1947 song)|You Do]]" – ''[[Mother Wore Tights]]'' • Music: [[Josef Myrow]] • Lyrics: [[Mack Gordon]]
| "Be Honest with Me"
* '''[[21st Academy Awards|1948]]: "[[Buttons and Bows]]" – ''[[The Paleface (1948 movie)|The Paleface]]'' • Music: [[Jay Livingston]] • Lyrics: [[Ray Evans]]'''
| [[Gene Autry]] & [[Fred Rose (songwriter)|Fred Rose]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
** "[[For Every Man There's a Woman]]" – ''[[Casbah (movie)|Casbah]]'' • Music: [[Harold Arlen]] • Lyrics: [[Leo Robin]]
|-
** "[[It's Magic]]" – ''[[Romance on the High Seas]]'' • Music: [[Jule Styne]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]
| ''[[Sun Valley Serenade]]''
** "[[This Is the Moment]]" – ''[[That Lady in Ermine]]'' • Music: [[Frederick Hollander]] • Lyrics: [[Leo Robin]]
| "[[Chattanooga Choo Choo]]"
** "[[Woody Woodpecker#"The Woody Woodpecker Song"|The Woody Woodpecker Song]]" – ''[[Wet Blanket Policy]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Ramey Idriess|Ramey Idriss]] and [[George Tibbles]]
| [[Harry Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack Gordon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
* '''[[22nd Academy Awards|1949]]: "[[Baby, It's Cold Outside]]" – ''[[Neptune's Daughter (1949 movie)|Neptune's Daughter]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Frank Loesser]]'''
|-
** "[[It's a Great Feeling (song)|It's a Great Feeling]]" – ''[[It's a Great Feeling]]'' • Music: [[Jule Styne]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]
| ''[[You'll Never Get Rich]]''
** "[[Lavender Blue]]" – ''[[So Dear to My Heart]]'' • Music: [[Eliot Daniel]] • Lyrics: [[Larry Morey]]
| "Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye"
** "[[My Foolish Heart (song)|My Foolish Heart]]" – ''[[My Foolish Heart (movie)|My Foolish Heart]]'' • Music: [[Victor Young]] • Lyrics: [[Ned Washington]]
| [[Cole Porter]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
** "[[Through a Long and Sleepless Night]]" – ''[[Come to the Stable]]'' • Music: [[Alfred Newman (composer)|Alfred Newman]] • Lyrics: [[Mack Gordon]]
|-
| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center" | '''1942'''<br />{{small|[[15th Academy Awards|(15th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1943 |title=The 15th Academy Awards - 1943 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Holiday Inn (film)|Holiday Inn]]'''''
| '''"[[White Christmas (song)|White Christmas]]"'''
| '''[[Irving Berlin]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Always in My Heart (film)|Always in My Heart]]''
| "Always in My Heart"
| [[Ernesto Lecuona]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Kim Gannon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Babes on Broadway]]''
| "[[How About You?]]"
| [[Burton Lane]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ralph Freed]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Bambi]]''
| "Love Is a Song"
| [[Frank Churchill]] <small>([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]]) (music)</small>; [[Larry Morey]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Flying with Music]]''
| "Pennies for Peppino"
| [[Edward Ward (composer)|Edward Ward]] <small>(music)</small>; [[George Forrest (author)|Chet Forrest]] & [[Robert Wright (musical writer)|Bob Wright]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Hellzapoppin' (film)|Hellzapoppin']]'' {{efn|The nominations list and awards dinner program from 1942 list "Pig Foot Pete" as a nomination for ''[[Hellzapoppin' (film)|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]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Don Raye]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Mayor of 44th Street]]''
| "There's a Breeze on Lake Louise"
| [[Harry Revel]] <small>(music)</small>; Mort Greene <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Orchestra Wives]]''
| "[[(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo]]"
| [[Harry Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack Gordon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[You Were Never Lovelier]]''
| "Dearly Beloved"
| [[Jerome Kern]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Youth on Parade]]''
| "[[I've Heard That Song Before]]"
| [[Jule Styne]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center" | '''1943'''<br />{{small|[[16th Academy Awards|(16th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944 |title=The 16th Academy Awards - 1944 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Hello, Frisco, Hello]]'''''
| '''"[[You'll Never Know]]"'''
| '''[[Harry Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack Gordon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Cabin in the Sky (film)|Cabin in the Sky]]''
| "[[Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe]]"
| [[Harold Arlen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Yip Harburg]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Hers to Hold]]''
| "Say a Pray'r for the Boys Over There"
| [[Jimmy McHugh]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Herb Magidson]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Hit Parade of 1943]]''
| "Change of Heart"
| [[Jule Styne]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Harold Adamson]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Saludos Amigos]]''
| "Saludos Amigos"
| [[Charles Wolcott]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ned Washington]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Sky's the Limit (1943 film)|The Sky's the Limit]]''
| "[[My Shining Hour]]"
| Arlen <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Something to Shout About (film)|Something to Shout About]]''
| "[[You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To]]"
| [[Cole Porter]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Stage Door Canteen (film)|Stage Door Canteen]]''
| "We Mustn't Say Goodbye"
| [[James V. Monaco]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Al Dubin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Star Spangled Rhythm]]''
| "[[That Old Black Magic]]" {{efn|In 1943, "[[That Old Black Magic]]" was nominated under the title "Black Magic" as it was submitted by [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount Pictures' Music Department]]. Academy records have since been revised to reflect the more common title.}}
| [[Harold Arlen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Thank Your Lucky Stars (film)|Thank Your Lucky Stars]]''
| "They're Either Too Young or Too Old"
| [[Arthur Schwartz]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Frank Loesser]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=13 style="text-align:center" | '''1944'''<br />{{small|[[17th Academy Awards|(17th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945 |title=The 17th Academy Awards - 1945 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Going My Way]]'''''
| '''"[[Swinging on a Star]]"'''
| '''[[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Brazil (1944 film)|Brazil]]''
| "Rio de Janeiro"
| [[Ary Barroso]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ned Washington]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Cover Girl (film)|Cover Girl]]''
| "[[Long Ago (and Far Away)]]"
| [[Jerome Kern]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ira Gershwin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Follow the Boys]]''
| "[[I'll Walk Alone]]"
| [[Jule Styne]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Higher and Higher (film)|Higher and Higher]]''
| "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night"
| [[Jimmy McHugh]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Harold Adamson]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Hollywood Canteen (film)|Hollywood Canteen]]''
| "Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart"
| M. K. Jerome <small>(music)</small>; [[Ted Koehler]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Lady, Let's Dance]]''
| "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams"
| [[Lew Pollack]] <small>(music)</small>; Charles Newman <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis]]''
| "[[The Trolley Song]]"
| [[Ralph Blane]] & [[Hugh Martin]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Minstrel Man (1944 film)|Minstrel Man]]''
| "Remember Me to Carolina"
| [[Harry Revel]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Song of the Open Road]]''
| "Too Much in Love"
| [[Walter Kent]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Kim Gannon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Sweet and Low-Down]]''
| "[[I'm Making Believe]]"
| [[James V. Monaco]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack Gordon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Up in Arms]]''
| "Now I Know"
| [[Harold Arlen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ted Koehler]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=15 style="text-align:center" | '''1945'''<br />{{small|[[18th Academy Awards|(18th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1946 |title=The 18th Academy Awards - 1946 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[State Fair (1945 film)|State Fair]]'''''
| '''"[[It Might as Well Be Spring]]"'''
| '''[[Richard Rodgers]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Anchors Aweigh (film)|Anchors Aweigh]]''
| "[[I Fall in Love Too Easily]]"
| [[Jule Styne]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Belle of the Yukon]]''
| "Sleighride in July"
| rowspan="2"| [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]''
| "[[Aren't You Glad You're You?]]"
|-
| ''[[Can't Help Singing]]''
| "More and More"
| [[Jerome Kern]] <small>([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]]) (music)</small>; [[Yip Harburg]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Earl Carroll Vanities]]''
| "Endlessly"
| [[Walter Kent]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Kim Gannon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Here Come the Waves]]''
| "[[Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive]]"
| [[Harold Arlen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Love Letters (1945 film)|Love Letters]]''
| "[[Love Letters (song)|Love Letters]]"
| [[Victor Young]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Edward Heyman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[San Antonio (film)|San Antonio]]''
| "[[Some Sunday Morning]]"
| [[Ray Heindorf]] & M. K. Jerome <small>(music)</small>; [[Ted Koehler]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Sing Your Way Home]]''
| "I'll Buy That Dream"
| [[Allie Wrubel]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Herb Magidson]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Story of G.I. Joe]]''
| "Linda"
| [[Ann Ronell]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Tonight and Every Night]]''
| "Anywhere"
| [[Jule Styne]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Why Girls Leave Home (1945 film)|Why Girls Leave Home]]''
| "The Cat and the Canary"
| [[Jay Livingston]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ray Evans]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Wonder Man (film)|Wonder Man]]''
| "So in Love"
| [[David Rose (songwriter)|David Rose]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leo Robin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1946'''<br />{{small|[[19th Academy Awards|(19th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1947 |title=The 19th Academy Awards - 1947 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=Oscars.org &#124; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Harvey Girls]]'''''
| '''"[[On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe]]"'''
| '''[[Harry Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Blue Skies (1946 film)|Blue Skies]]''
| "[[You Keep Coming Back Like a Song]]"
| [[Irving Berlin]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Canyon Passage]]''
| "[[Ole Buttermilk Sky]]"
| [[Hoagy Carmichael]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Jack Brooks (lyricist)|Jack Brooks]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Centennial Summer]]''
| "All Through the Day"
| [[Jerome Kern]] <small>([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]]) (music)</small>; [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Dolly Sisters (film)|The Dolly Sisters]]''
| "[[I Can't Begin to Tell You]]"
| [[James V. Monaco]] <small>([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]]) (music)</small>; [[Mack Gordon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1947'''<br />{{small|[[20th Academy Awards|(20th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1948 |title=The 20th Academy Awards - 1948 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Song of the South]]'''''
| '''"[[Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah]]"'''
| '''[[Allie Wrubel]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ray Gilbert]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Good News (1947 film)|Good News]]''
| "Pass That Peace Pipe"
| [[Ralph Blane]], [[Roger Edens]] & [[Hugh Martin]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Mother Wore Tights]]''
| "You Do"
| [[Josef Myrow]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack Gordon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Perils of Pauline (1947 film)|The Perils of Pauline]]''
| "I Wish I Didn't Love You So"
| [[Frank Loesser]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946 film)|The Time, the Place and the Girl]]''
| "[[A Gal in Calico]]"
| [[Arthur Schwartz]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leo Robin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1948'''<br />{{small|[[21st Academy Awards|(21st)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1949 |title=The 21st Academy Awards - 1949 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Paleface (1948 film)|The Paleface]]'''''
| '''"[[Buttons and Bows]]"'''
| '''[[Ray Evans]] & [[Jay Livingston]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Casbah (film)|Casbah]]''
| "For Every Man There's a Woman"
| [[Harold Arlen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leo Robin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Romance on the High Seas]]''
| "[[It's Magic]]"
| [[Jule Styne]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[That Lady in Ermine]]''
| "This Is the Moment"
| [[Friedrich Hollaender]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leo Robin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Wet Blanket Policy]]''
| "[[Woody Woodpecker#"The Woody Woodpecker Song"|The Woody Woodpecker Song]]"
| [[Ramey Idriss]] & [[George Tibbles]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1949'''<br />{{small|[[22nd Academy Awards|(22nd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1950 |title=The 22nd Academy Awards - 1950 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Neptune's Daughter (1949 film)|Neptune's Daughter]]'''''
| '''"[[Baby, It's Cold Outside]]"'''
| '''[[Frank Loesser]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Come to the Stable]]''
| "Through a Long and Sleepless Night"
| [[Alfred Newman (composer)|Alfred Newman]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack Gordon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[It's a Great Feeling]]''
| "[[It's a Great Feeling (song)|It's a Great Feeling]]"
| [[Jule Styne]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[My Foolish Heart (1949 film)|My Foolish Heart]]''
| "[[My Foolish Heart (song)|My Foolish Heart]]"
| [[Victor Young]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ned Washington]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[So Dear to My Heart]]''
| "Lavender Blue"
| [[Eliot Daniel]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Larry Morey]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
|}


===1950s===
===1950s===
{|class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="25%" | Song
! width="45%" | Nominees
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1950'''<br />{{small|[[23rd Academy Awards|(23rd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1951 |title=The 23rd Academy Awards - 1951 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 16, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Captain Carey, U.S.A.]]'''''
| '''"[[Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole song)|Mona Lisa]]"'''
| '''[[Ray Evans]] & [[Jay Livingston]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]]''
| "[[Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo]]"
| [[Mack David]], [[Al Hoffman]] & [[Jerry Livingston]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Singing Guns]]''
| "[[Mule Train]]"
| Fred Glickman, [[Hy Heath]] & [[Johnny Lange]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Toast of New Orleans]]''
| "[[Be My Love]]"
| [[Nicholas Brodszky|Slug Brodszky]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Wabash Avenue (film)|Wabash Avenue]]''
| "Wilhelmina"
| [[Josef Myrow]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack Gordon]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
!width="50"|Year
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1951'''<br />{{small|[[24th Academy Awards|(24th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1952 |title=The 24th Academy Awards - 1952 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=Oscars.org &#124; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 16, 2018 }}</ref>
! style="width:440px;"|Winning songwriter(s)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! style="width:550px;"|Nominees
| '''''[[Here Comes the Groom]]'''''
| '''"[[In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening]]"'''
| '''[[Hoagy Carmichael]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[23rd Academy Awards|1950]]
| ''[[Golden Girl (1951 film)|Golden Girl]]''
| '''"[[Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole song)|Mona Lisa]]" – ''[[Captain Carey, U.S.A.]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Ray Evans]] and [[Jay Livingston]]'''
| "Never"
|
| [[Lionel Newman]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Eliot Daniel]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Be My Love]]" – ''[[The Toast of New Orleans]]'' • Music: [[Nicholas Brodzsky]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
*<small> "[[Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo]]" – ''[[Cinderella (1950 movie)|Cinderella]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Mack David]], [[Al Hoffman]] and [[Jerry Livingston]]</small>
*<small> "[[Mule Train]]" – ''[[Singing Guns]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Fred Glickman]], [[Hy Heath]] and [[Johnny Lange]]</small>
*<small> "[[Wilhelmina (song)|Wilhelmina]]" – ''[[Wabash Avenue (movie)|Wabash Avenue]]'' • Music: [[Josef Myrow]] • Lyrics: [[Mack Gordon]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[24th Academy Awards|1951]]
| ''[[Rich, Young and Pretty]]''
| '''"[[In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening]]" – ''[[Here Comes the Groom]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Hoagy Carmichael]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Johnny Mercer]]'''
| "[[Wonder Why (song)|Wonder Why]]"
|
| [[Nicholas Brodszky|Slug Brodszky]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "Never"– ''[[Golden Girl (movie)|Golden Girl]]'' • Music: [[Lionel Newman]] • Lyrics: [[Eliot Daniel]]</small>
*<small> "[[Wonder Why (song)|Wonder Why]]" – ''[[Rich, Young and Pretty]]'' • Music: [[Nicholas Brodszky]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
*<small> "[[Too Late Now]]" – ''[[Royal Wedding]]'' • Music: [[Burton Lane]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Jay Lerner]]</small>
*<small> "[[A Kiss to Build a Dream On]]" – ''[[The Strip (1951 movie)|The Strip]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Burt Kalmar]] ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous nomination]]), [[Harry Ruby]], and [[Oscar Hammerstein II]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[25th Academy Awards|1952]]
| ''[[Royal Wedding]]''
| '''"[[High Noon (song)|High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')]]" – ''[[High Noon]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Dimitri Tiomkin]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Ned Washington]]'''
| "Too Late Now"
|
| [[Burton Lane]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan Jay Lerner]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Am I in Love]]" – ''[[Son of Paleface]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Jack Brooks (lyricist)|Jack Brooks]]</small>
*<small> "[[Because You're Mine (song)|Because You're Mine]]" – ''[[Because You're Mine]]'' • Music: [[Nicholas Brodzsky|Nicholas Brodszky]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
*<small> "[[Thumbelina (song)|Thumbelina]]" – ''[[Hans Christian Andersen (movie)|Hans Christian Andersen]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Frank Loesser]]</small>
*<small> "[[Zing a Little Zong]]" – ''[[Just for You (movie)|Just for You]]'' • Music: [[Harry Warren]] • Lyrics: [[Leo Robin]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[26th Academy Awards|1953]]
| ''[[The Strip (1951 film)|The Strip]]''
| '''"[[Secret Love (1953 song)|Secret Love]]" – ''[[Calamity Jane (1953 movie)|Calamity Jane]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Sammy Fain]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Paul Francis Webster]]'''
| "[[A Kiss to Build a Dream On]]"
|
| [[Bert Kalmar]] <small>([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]])</small>, [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] & [[Harry Ruby]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[The Moon Is Blue (song)|The Moon Is Blue]]" – ''[[The Moon Is Blue]]'' • Music: [[Herschel Burke Gilbert]] • Lyrics: [[Sylvia Fine]]</small>
*<small> "[[My Flaming Heart]]" – ''[[Small Town Girl (1953 movie)|Small Town Girl]]'' • Music: [[Nicholas Brodzsky|Nicholas Brodszky]] • Lyrics: [[Leo Robin]]</small>
*<small> "[[Sadie Thompson's Song (Blue Pacific Blues)]]" – ''[[Miss Sadie Thompson]]'' • Music: [[Lester Lee]] • Lyrics: [[Ned Washington]]</small>
*<small> "[[That's Amore]]" – ''[[The Caddy]]'' • Music: [[Harry Warren]] • Lyrics: [[Jack Brooks (lyricist)|Jack Brooks]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[27th Academy Awards|1954]]
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1952'''<br />{{small|[[25th Academy Awards|(25th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1953 |title=The 25th Academy Awards - 1953 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 16, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[Three Coins in the Fountain (song)|Three Coins in the Fountain]]" – ''[[Three Coins in the Fountain (movie)|Three Coins in the Fountain]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Jule Styne]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Sammy Cahn]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[High Noon]]'''''
*<small> "[[Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep]]" – ''[[White Christmas (movie)|White Christmas]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Irving Berlin]]</small>
| '''"[[The Ballad of High Noon]]"'''
*<small> "[[The High and the Mighty (1954 song)|The High and the Mighty]]" – ''[[The High and the Mighty (movie)|The High and the Mighty]]'' • Music: [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] • Lyrics: [[Ned Washington]]</small>
| '''[[Dimitri Tiomkin]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ned Washington]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
*<small> "[[Hold My Hand (1953 song)|Hold My Hand]]" – ''[[Susan Slept Here]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Jack Lawrence]] and [[Richard Myers (songwriter)|Richard Myers]]</small>
*<small> "[[The Man that Got Away]]" – ''[[A Star Is Born (1954 movie)|A Star Is Born]]'' • Music: [[Harold Arlen]] • Lyrics: [[Ira Gershwin]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[28th Academy Awards|1955]]
| ''[[Because You're Mine]]''
| '''"[[Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (song)|Love Is a Many Splendored Thing]]" – ''[[Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (movie)|Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing]]'''''<br />– Music: ''''[[Sammy Fain]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Paul Francis Webster]]'''
| "[[Because You're Mine (song)|Because You're Mine]]"
|
| [[Nicholas Brodszky|Slug Brodszky]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[I'll Never Stop Loving You (1955 song)|I'll Never Stop Loving You]]" – ''[[Love Me or Leave Me (movie)|Love Me or Leave Me]]'' • Music: [[Nicholas Brodzsky|Nicholas Brodszky]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
*<small> "[[Something's Gotta Give (song)|Something's Gotta Give]]" – ''[[Daddy Long Legs (1955 movie)|Daddy Long Legs]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]</small>
*<small> "[[(Love Is) The Tender Trap]]" – ''[[The Tender Trap (movie)|The Tender Trap]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
*<small> "[[Unchained Melody]]" – ''[[Unchained (movie)|Unchained]]'' • Music: [[Alex North]] • Lyrics: [[Hy Zaret]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[29th Academy Awards|1956]]
| ''[[Hans Christian Andersen (film)|Hans Christian Andersen]]''
| '''"[[Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)|Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Qué Será, Será)]]" – ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 movie)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'''''<br />– Music and lyrics: '''[[Jay Livingston]] and [[Ray Evans]]'''
| "Thumbelina"
|
| [[Frank Loesser]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Friendly Persuasion (song)|Friendly Persuasion]]" – ''[[Friendly Persuasion (1956 movie)|Friendly Persuasion]]'' • Music: [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
*<small> "[[Julie (Doris Day song)|Julie]]" – ''[[Julie (1956 movie)|Julie]]'' • Music: [[Leith Stevens]] • Lyrics: [[Tom Adair]]</small>
*<small> "[[True Love (song)|True Love]]" – ''[[High Society (1956 movie)|High Society]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Cole Porter]]</small>
*<small> "[[Written on the Wind (song)|Written on the Wind]]" – ''[[Written on the Wind]]'' • Music: [[Victor Young]] ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous nomination]]) • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[30th Academy Awards|1957]]
| ''[[Just for You (1952 film)|Just for You]]''
| '''"[[All the Way (Frank Sinatra song)|All the Way]]" – ''[[The Joker Is Wild]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Jimmy Van Heusen]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Sammy Cahn]]'''
| "[[Zing a Little Zong]]"
|
| [[Harry Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leo Robin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)|An Affair to Remember]]" – ''[[An Affair to Remember]]'' • Music: [[Harry Warren]] • Lyrics: [[Harold Adamson]] and [[Leo McCarey]]</small>
*<small> "[[April Love (song)|April Love]]" – ''[[April Love (movie)|April Love]]'' • Music: [[Sammy Fain]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
*<small> "[[Tammy (song)|Tammy]]" – ''[[Tammy and the Bachelor]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Ray Evans]] and [[Jay Livingston]]</small>
*<small> "[[Wild Is the Wind (song)|Wild Is the Wind]]" – ''[[Wild Is the Wind]]'' • Music: [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] • Lyrics: [[Ned Washington]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[31st Academy Awards|1958]]
| ''[[Son of Paleface]]''
| '''"[[Gigi (song)|Gigi]]" – ''[[Gigi (1958 movie)|Gigi]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Frederick Loewe]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Alan Jay Lerner]]'''
| "Am I in Love"
|
| [[Jack Brooks (lyricist)|Jack Brooks]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)|Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from ''Houseboat'')]]" – ''[[Houseboat (movie)|Houseboat]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Jay Livingston]] and [[Ray Evans]]</small>
|-
*<small> "[[A Certain Smile (song)|A Certain Smile]]" – ''[[A Certain Smile (movie)|A Certain Smile]]'' • Music: [[Sammy Fain]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1953'''<br />{{small|[[26th Academy Awards|(26th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954 |title=The 26th Academy Awards - 1954 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 16, 2018 }}</ref>
*<small> "[[To Love and Be Loved]]" – ''[[Some Came Running]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
*<small> "[[A Very Precious Love]]" – ''[[Marjorie Morningstar (movie)|Marjorie Morningstar]]'' • Music: [[Sammy Fain]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
| '''''[[Calamity Jane (film)|Calamity Jane]]'''''
| '''"[[Secret Love (Doris Day song)|Secret Love]]"'''
| '''[[Sammy Fain]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[The Caddy]]''
| "[[That's Amore]]"
| [[Harry Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Jack Brooks (lyricist)|Jack Brooks]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Miss Sadie Thompson]]''
| "Blue Pacific Blues"
| [[Lester Lee]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ned Washington]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Moon Is Blue (film)|The Moon Is Blue]]''
| "The Moon Is Blue"
| [[Herschel Burke Gilbert]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sylvia Fine]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Small Town Girl (1953 film)|Small Town Girl]]''
| "My Flaming Heart"
| [[Nicholas Brodszky|Slug Brodszky]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leo Robin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1954'''<br />{{small|[[27th Academy Awards|(27th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1955 |title=The 27th Academy Awards - 1955 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=Oscars.org &#124; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 16, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Three Coins in the Fountain (film)|Three Coins in the Fountain]]'''''
| '''"[[Three Coins in the Fountain (song)|Three Coins in the Fountain]]"'''
| '''[[Jule Styne]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[The High and the Mighty (film)|The High and the Mighty]]''
| "[[The High and the Mighty (1954 song)|The High and the Mighty]]"
| [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ned Washington]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[A Star Is Born (1954 film)|A Star Is Born]]''
| "[[The Man That Got Away]]"
| [[Harold Arlen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ira Gershwin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Susan Slept Here]]''
| "[[Hold My Hand (1953 song)|Hold My Hand]]"
| [[Jack Lawrence]] & [[Richard Myers (songwriter)|Richard Myers]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[White Christmas (film)|White Christmas]]''
| "[[Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)|Count Your Blessings]]"
| [[Irving Berlin]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1955'''<br />{{small|[[28th Academy Awards|(28th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1956 |title=The 28th Academy Awards - 1956 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 16, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film)|Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing]]'''''
| '''"[[Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (song)|Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing]]"'''
| '''[[Sammy Fain]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Daddy Long Legs (1955 film)|Daddy Long Legs]]''
| "[[Something's Gotta Give (Johnny Mercer song)|Something's Gotta Give]]"
| [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Love Me or Leave Me (film)|Love Me or Leave Me]]''
| "[[I'll Never Stop Loving You (1955 song)|I'll Never Stop Loving You]]"
| [[Nicholas Brodszky|Slug Brodszky]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Tender Trap (film)|The Tender Trap]]''
| "[[(Love Is) The Tender Trap]]"
| [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music)</small>; Cahn <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Unchained (film)|Unchained]]''
| "[[Unchained Melody]]"
| [[Alex North]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Hy Zaret]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1956'''<br />{{small|[[29th Academy Awards|(29th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1957 |title=The 29th Academy Awards - 1957 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 16, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'''''
| '''"[[Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)|Que Sera, Sera]]"'''
| '''[[Ray Evans]] & [[Jay Livingston]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Friendly Persuasion (1956 film)|Friendly Persuasion]]''
| "[[Friendly Persuasion (song)|Friendly Persuasion]]"
| [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[High Society (1956 film)|High Society]]''
| "[[True Love (Cole Porter song)|True Love]]"
| [[Cole Porter]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Julie (1956 film)|Julie]]''
| "Julie"
| [[Leith Stevens]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Tom Adair]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Written on the Wind]]''
| "Written on the Wind"
| [[Victor Young]] <small>([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]]) (music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1957'''<br />{{small|[[30th Academy Awards|(30th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1958 |title=The 30th Academy Awards - 1958 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=Oscars.org &#124; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 16, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Joker Is Wild]]'''''
| '''"[[All the Way (Frank Sinatra song)|All the Way]]"'''
| '''[[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[An Affair to Remember]]''
| "[[An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)|An Affair to Remember]]"
| [[Harry Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Harold Adamson]] & [[Leo McCarey]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[April Love (film)|April Love]]''
| "[[April Love (song)|April Love]]"
| [[Sammy Fain]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Tammy and the Bachelor]]''
| "[[Tammy (song)|Tammy]]"
| [[Ray Evans]] & [[Jay Livingston]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Wild Is the Wind]]''
| "[[Wild Is the Wind (song)|Wild Is the Wind]]"
| [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ned Washington]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1958'''<br />{{small|[[31st Academy Awards|(31st)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1959 |title=The 31st Academy Awards - 1959 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 16, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'''''
| '''"[[Gigi (song)|Gigi]]"'''
| '''[[Frederick Loewe]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan Jay Lerner]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[A Certain Smile (film)|A Certain Smile]]''
| "[[A Certain Smile (song)|A Certain Smile]]"
| [[Sammy Fain]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Houseboat (film)|Houseboat]]''
| "Almost in Your Arms"
| [[Ray Evans]] & [[Jay Livingston]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Marjorie Morningstar (film)|Marjorie Morningstar]]''
| "[[A Very Precious Love]]"
| Fain <small>(music)</small>; Webster <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Some Came Running (film)|Some Came Running]]''
| "To Love and Be Loved"
| [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1959'''<br />{{small|[[32nd Academy Awards|(32nd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1960 |title=The 32nd Academy Awards - 1960 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 16, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[A Hole in the Head]]'''''
| '''"[[High Hopes (Frank Sinatra song)|High Hopes]]"'''
| '''[[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[The Best of Everything (film)|The Best of Everything]]''
| "The Best of Everything"
| [[Alfred Newman (composer)|Alfred Newman]] <small>(music)</small>; Cahn <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Five Pennies]]''
| "The Five Pennies"
| [[Sylvia Fine]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Hanging Tree (film)|The Hanging Tree]]''
| "[[The Hanging Tree (Marty Robbins song)|The Hanging Tree]]"
| [[Jerry Livingston]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack David]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Young Land]]''
| "Strange Are the Ways of Love"
| [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ned Washington]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[32nd Academy Awards|1959]]
| '''"[[High Hopes (Frank Sinatra song)|High Hopes]]" – ''[[A Hole in the Head]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Jimmy Van Heusen]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Sammy Cahn]]'''
|
*<small> "[[The Best of Everything (song)|The Best of Everything]]" – ''[[The Best of Everything (1959 movie)|The Best of Everything]]'' • Music: [[Alfred Newman (composer)|Alfred Newman]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
*<small> "[[The Five Pennies (song)|The Five Pennies]]" – ''[[The Five Pennies]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Sylvia Fine]]</small>
*<small> "[[The Hanging Tree (Marty Robbins song)|The Hanging Tree]]" – ''[[The Hanging Tree]]'' • Music: [[Jerry Livingston]] • Lyrics: [[Mack David]]</small>
*<small> "[[Strange Are the Ways of Love (1959 song)|Strange Are the Ways of Love]]" – ''[[The Young Land]]'' • Music: [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] • Lyrics: [[Ned Washington]]</small>
|}
|}


===1960s===
===1960s===
{|class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="25%" | Song
! width="45%" | Nominees
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1960'''<br />{{small|[[33rd Academy Awards|(33rd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 |title=The 33rd Academy Awards - 1961 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 15, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Never on Sunday]]'''''
| '''"[[Never on Sunday (song)|Never on Sunday]]"'''
| '''[[Manos Hatzidakis]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[The Alamo (1960 film)|The Alamo]]''
| "[[The Green Leaves of Summer]]"
| [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Facts of Life (film)|The Facts of Life]]''
| "The Facts of Life"
| [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[High Time (film)|High Time]]''
| "[[The Second Time Around (1960 song)|The Second Time Around]]"
| [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Pepe (film)|Pepe]]''
| "Faraway Part of Town"
| [[André Previn]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Dory Previn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1961'''<br />{{small|[[34th Academy Awards|(34th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1962 |title=The 34th Academy Awards - 1962 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 15, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'''''
| '''"[[Moon River]]"'''
| '''[[Henry Mancini]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Bachelor in Paradise (film)|Bachelor in Paradise]]''
| "Bachelor in Paradise"
| Mancini <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack David]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[El Cid (film)|El Cid]]''
| "The Falcon and the Dove"
| [[Miklós Rózsa]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Pocketful of Miracles]]''
| "Pocketful of Miracles"
| [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Town Without Pity]]''
| "[[Town Without Pity (song)|Town Without Pity]]"
| [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ned Washington]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1962'''<br />{{small|[[35th Academy Awards|(35th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1963 |title=The 35th Academy Awards - 1963 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=Oscars.org &#124; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 15, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Days of Wine and Roses (film)|Days of Wine and Roses]]'''''
| '''"[[Days of Wine and Roses (song)|Days of Wine and Roses]]"'''
| '''[[Henry Mancini]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]''
| "Follow Me"
| [[Bronisław Kaper]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Tender Is the Night (film)|Tender Is the Night]]''
| "Tender Is the Night"
| [[Sammy Fain]] <small>(music)</small>; Webster <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Two for the Seesaw]]''
| "Second Chance"
| [[André Previn]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Dory Previn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Walk on the Wild Side (film)|Walk on the Wild Side]]''
| "[[Walk on the Wild Side (David and Bernstein song)|Walk on the Wild Side]]"
| [[Elmer Bernstein]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack David]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1963'''<br />{{small|[[36th Academy Awards|(36th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1964 |title=The 36th Academy Awards - 1964 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 15, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Papa's Delicate Condition]]'''''
| '''"[[Call Me Irresponsible]]"'''
| '''[[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[55 Days at Peking]]''
| "So Little Time"
| [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Charade (1963 film)|Charade]]''
| "[[Charade (1963 song)|Charade]]"
| [[Henry Mancini]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]''
| "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
| [[Ernest Gold (composer)|Ernest Gold]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack David]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Mondo Cane]]''
| "[[More (Theme from Mondo Cane)|More]]"
| [[Nino Oliviero]] & [[Riz Ortolani]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Norman Newell]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1964'''<br />{{small|[[37th Academy Awards|(37th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1965 |title=The 37th Academy Awards - 1965 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 15, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]'''''
| '''"[[Chim Chim Cher-ee]]"'''
| '''[[Sherman Brothers]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
 
|-
| ''[[Dear Heart]]''
| "[[Dear Heart (song)|Dear Heart]]"
| [[Henry Mancini]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Ray Evans]] & [[Jay Livingston]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte]]''
| "[[Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (song)|Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte]]"
| [[Frank De Vol|De Vol]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack David]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Robin and the 7 Hoods]]''
| "[[My Kind of Town]]"
| rowspan=2|[[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Where Love Has Gone (film)|Where Love Has Gone]]''
| "Where Love Has Gone"
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1965'''<br />{{small|[[38th Academy Awards|(38th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1966 |title=The 38th Academy Awards - 1966 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=Oscars.org &#124; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 15, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Sandpiper]]'''''
| '''"[[The Shadow of Your Smile]]"'''
| '''[[Johnny Mandel]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Cat Ballou]]''
| "The Ballad of Cat Ballou"
| [[Jerry Livingston]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack David]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Great Race]]''
| "[[The Sweetheart Tree]]"
| [[Henry Mancini]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Umbrellas of Cherbourg]]''
| "[[I Will Wait for You]]"
| [[Michel Legrand]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Jacques Demy]] <small>(lyrics)</small>; [[Norman Gimbel]] <small>(English lyrics)</small> <!-- Demy and Gimbel were both nominees, but for different sets of lyrics. -->
|-
| ''[[What's New Pussycat?]]''
| "[[What's New Pussycat? (song)|What's New Pussycat?]]"
| [[Burt Bacharach]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Hal David]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1966'''<br />{{small|[[39th Academy Awards|(39th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1967 |title=The 39th Academy Awards - 1967 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 15, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Born Free]]'''''
| '''"[[Born Free (Matt Monro song)|Born Free]]"'''
| '''[[John Barry (composer)|John Barry]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Alfie (1966 film)|Alfie]]''
| "[[Alfie (Burt Bacharach song)|Alfie]]"
| [[Burt Bacharach]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Hal David]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[An American Dream (film)|An American Dream]]''
| "A Time for Love"
| [[Johnny Mandel]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Georgy Girl]]''
| "[[Georgy Girl (song)|Georgy Girl]]"
| [[Tom Springfield]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Jim Dale]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Hawaii (1966 film)|Hawaii]]''
| "My Wishing Doll"
| [[Elmer Bernstein]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mack David]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1967'''<br />{{small|[[40th Academy Awards|(40th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1968 |title=The 40th Academy Awards - 1968 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=Oscars.org &#124; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 15, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Doctor Dolittle (1967 film)|Doctor Dolittle]]'''''
| '''"Talk to the Animals"'''
| '''[[Leslie Bricusse]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Banning (film)|Banning]]''
| "The Eyes of Love"
| [[Quincy Jones]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Bob Russell (songwriter)|Bob Russell]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
!width="50"|Year
| ''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]''
! style="width:440px;"|Winning songwriter(s)
| "[[The Look of Love (1967 song)|The Look of Love]]"
! style="width:550px;"|Nominees
| [[Burt Bacharach]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Hal David]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[33rd Academy Awards|1960]]
| ''[[The Jungle Book (1967 film)|The Jungle Book]]''
| '''"[[Never on Sunday (song)|Never on Sunday]]" – ''[[Never on Sunday]]'''''<br />– Music and lyrics: '''[[Manos Hadjidakis]]'''
| "[[The Bare Necessities]]"
|
| [[Terry Gilkyson]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[The Facts of Life (1960 song)|The Facts of Life]]" – ''[[The Facts of Life (movie)|The Facts of Life]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]</small>
*<small> "[[Faraway Part of Town]]" – ''[[Pepe (movie)|Pepe]]'' • Music: [[André Previn]] • Lyrics: [[Dory Previn|Dory Langdon]]</small>
*<small> "[[The Green Leaves of Summer]]" – ''[[The Alamo (1960 movie)|The Alamo]]'' • Music: [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
*<small> "[[The Second Time Around]]" – ''[[High Time (movie)|High Time]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[34th Academy Awards|1961]]
| ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]''
| '''"[[Moon River]]" – ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (movie)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Henry Mancini]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Johnny Mercer]]'''
| "Thoroughly Modern Millie"
|
| [[Sammy Cahn]] & [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Bachelor in Paradise (song)|Bachelor in Paradise]]" – ''[[Bachelor in Paradise (movie)|Bachelor in Paradise]]'' • Music: Henry Mancini • Lyrics: [[Mack David]]</small>
*<small> "[[Love Theme From El Cid (The Falcon and The Dove)]]" – ''[[El Cid (movie)|El Cid]]'' • Music: [[Miklós Rózsa]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
*<small> "[[Pocketful of Miracles (song)|Pocketful of Miracles]]" – ''[[Pocketful of Miracles]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
*<small> "[[Town Without Pity (song)|Town Without Pity]]" – ''[[Town Without Pity]]'' • Music: [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] • Lyrics: [[Ned Washington]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[35th Academy Awards|1962]]
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1968'''<br />{{small|[[41st Academy Awards|(41st)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1969 |title=The 41st Academy Awards - 1969 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 15, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[Days of Wine and Roses (song)|Days of Wine and Roses]]" – ''[[Days of Wine and Roses (movie)|Days of Wine and Roses]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Henry Mancini]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Johnny Mercer]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)|The Thomas Crown Affair]]'''''
*<small> "[[Love Song From Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me)]]" – ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 movie)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]'' • Music: [[Bronisław Kaper|Bronislaw Kaper]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
| '''"[[The Windmills of Your Mind]]"'''
*<small> "[[Song From Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance)]]" – ''[[Two for the Seesaw]]'' • Music: [[André Previn]] • Lyrics: [[Dory Previn|Dory Langdon]]</small>
| '''[[Michel Legrand]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan & Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
<!-- Note: "Tender Is the Night (song)" in Wikipedia is an unrelated Jackson Browne hit. -->
*<small> "[[Tender Is the Night (1962 song)|Tender Is the Night]]" – ''[[Tender Is the Night (movie)|Tender Is the Night]]'' • Music: [[Sammy Fain]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
*<small> "[[Walk on the Wild Side (David and Bernstein song)|Walk on the Wild Side]]" – ''[[Walk on the Wild Side (movie)|Walk on the Wild Side]]'' • Music: [[Elmer Bernstein]] • Lyrics: [[Mack David]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[36th Academy Awards|1963]]
| ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]''
| '''"[[Call Me Irresponsible]]" – ''[[Papa's Delicate Condition]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Jimmy Van Heusen]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Sammy Cahn]]'''
| "[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (song)|Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]"
|
| [[Sherman Brothers]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Charade (1963 song)|Charade]]" – ''[[Charade (1963 movie)|Charade]]'' • Music: [[Henry Mancini]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]</small>
*<small> "[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (song)|It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]" – ''[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' • Music: [[Ernest Gold (composer)|Ernest Gold]] • Lyrics: [[Mack David]]</small>
*<small> "[[More (Theme from Mondo Cane)|More]]" – ''[[Mondo Cane]]'' • Music: [[Riz Ortolani]] and [[Nino Oliviero]] • Lyrics: [[Norman Newell]]</small>
*<small> "[[So Little Time (song)|So Little Time]]" – ''[[55 Days at Peking]]'' • Music: [[Dimitri Tiomkin]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[37th Academy Awards|1964]]
| ''[[For Love of Ivy]]''
| '''"[[Chim Chim Cher-ee]]" – ''[[Mary Poppins (movie)|Mary Poppins]]'''''<br />– Music and lyrics: '''[[Richard M. Sherman]] and [[Robert B. Sherman]]'''
| "For Love of Ivy"
|
| [[Quincy Jones]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Bob Russell (songwriter)|Bob Russell]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Dear Heart (song)|Dear Heart]]" – ''[[Dear Heart]]'' • Music: [[Henry Mancini]] • Lyrics: [[Jay Livingston]] and [[Ray Evans]]</small>
*<small> "[[Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (song)|Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte]]" – ''[[Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte]]'' • Music: [[Frank De Vol]] • Lyrics: [[Mack David]]</small>
*<small> "[[My Kind of Town]]" – ''[[Robin and the 7 Hoods]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
*<small> "[[Where Love Has Gone (song)|Where Love Has Gone]]" – ''[[Where Love Has Gone (movie)|Where Love Has Gone]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[38th Academy Awards|1965]]
| ''[[Funny Girl (film)|Funny Girl]]''
| '''"[[The Shadow of Your Smile]]" – ''[[The Sandpiper]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Johnny Mandel]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Paul Francis Webster]]'''
| "[[Funny Girl (Barbra Streisand song)|Funny Girl]]"
|
| [[Jule Styne]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Bob Merrill]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[The Ballad of Cat Ballou]]" – ''[[Cat Ballou]]'' • Music: [[Jerry Livingston]] • Lyrics: [[Mack David]]</small>
*<small> "[[I Will Wait for You]]" – ''[[The Umbrellas of Cherbourg]]'' • Music: [[Michel Legrand]] • Lyrics: [[Jacques Demy]] • English lyrics: [[Norman Gimbel]]</small>
*<small> "[[The Sweetheart Tree]]" – ''[[The Great Race]]'' • Music: [[Henry Mancini]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]</small>
*<small> "[[What's New Pussycat? (song)|What's New Pussycat?]]" – ''[[What's New Pussycat?]]'' • Music: [[Burt Bacharach]] • Lyrics: [[Hal David]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[39th Academy Awards|1966]]
| ''[[Star! (film)|Star!]]''
| '''"[[Born Free (song)|Born Free]]" – ''[[Born Free]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[John Barry (composer)|John Barry]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]]'''
| "Star!"
|
| [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Alfie (song)|Alfie]]" – ''[[Alfie (1966 movie)|Alfie]]'' • Music: [[Burt Bacharach]] • Lyrics: [[Hal David]]</small>
*<small> "[[Georgy Girl (song)|Georgy Girl]]" – ''[[Georgy Girl]]'' • Music: [[Tom Springfield]] • Lyrics: [[Jim Dale]]</small>
*<small> "[[My Wishing Doll]]" – ''[[Hawaii (1966 movie)|Hawaii]]'' • Music: [[Elmer Bernstein]] • Lyrics: [[Mack David]]</small>
*<small> "[[A Time for Love (song)|A Time for Love]]" – ''[[An American Dream (movie)|An American Dream]]'' • Music: [[Johnny Mandel]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[40th Academy Awards|1967]]
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1969'''<br />{{small|[[42nd Academy Awards|(42nd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1970 |title=The 42nd Academy Awards - 1970 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 15, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[Talk to the Animals]]" – ''[[Doctor Dolittle (movie)|Doctor Dolittle]]'''''<br />– Music and lyrics: '''[[Leslie Bricusse]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]'''''
*<small> "[[The Bare Necessities]]" – ''[[The Jungle Book (1967 movie)|The Jungle Book]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Terry Gilkyson]]</small>
| '''"[[Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head]]"'''
*<small> "[[The Eyes of Love (song)|The Eyes of Love]]" – ''[[Banning (movie)|Banning]]'' • Music: [[Quincy Jones]] • Lyrics: [[Bob Russell (songwriter)|Bob Russell]]</small>
| '''[[Burt Bacharach]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Hal David]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
*<small> "[[The Look of Love (1967 song)|The Look of Love]]" – ''[[Casino Royale (1967 movie)|Casino Royale]]'' • Music: [[Burt Bacharach]] • Lyrics: [[Hal David]]</small>
*<small> "[[Thoroughly Modern Millie (song)|Thoroughly Modern Millie]]" – ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] and [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[41st Academy Awards|1968]]
| ''[[The Happy Ending]]''
| '''"[[The Windmills of Your Mind]]" – ''[[The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 movie)|The Thomas Crown Affair]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Michel Legrand]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]'''
| "[[What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?]]"
|
| [[Michel Legrand]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan & Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (song)|Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]" – ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (movie)|Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Richard M. Sherman]] and [[Robert B. Sherman]]</small>
|-
*<small> "[[For Love of Ivy (song)|For Love of Ivy]]" – ''[[For Love of Ivy]]'' • Music: [[Quincy Jones]] • Lyrics: [[Bob Russell (songwriter)|Bob Russell]]</small>
| ''[[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film)|The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]''
*<small> "[[Funny Girl (song)|Funny Girl]]" – ''[[Funny Girl (movie)|Funny Girl]]'' • Music: [[Jule Styne]] • Lyrics: [[Bob Merrill]]</small>
| "[[Jean (song)|Jean]]"
<!-- Note:  Out of all the nominations (and wins) Jimmy Van Heusen received over the years, this is the ONLY time the Academy called him "Jimmy"; all his previous nominations were as "James Van Heusen". That is why it's "Jimmy" here and "James" previously. -->
| [[Rod McKuen]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Star! (song)|Star!]]" – ''[[Star! (movie)|Star!]]'' • Music: [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
|-
| ''[[The Sterile Cuckoo]]''
| "[[Come Saturday Morning (song)|Come Saturday Morning]]"
| [[Fred Karlin]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Dory Previn]] <small>(lyrics)</small> <!-- This was the only time the Academy called Dory Previn by her best-known surname; she was "Dory Langdon" in her two previous nominations. -->
|-
| ''[[True Grit (1969 film)|True Grit]]''
| "[[True Grit (song)|True Grit]]"
| [[Elmer Bernstein]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[42nd Academy Awards|1969]]
| '''"[[Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head]]" – ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Burt Bacharach]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Hal David]]'''
<!-- Likewise, this was the only time the Academy called Dory Previn by her best-known surname; she was "Dory Langdon" in her two previous nominations. -->
|
*<small> "[[Come Saturday Morning (song)|Come Saturday Morning]]" – ''[[The Sterile Cuckoo]]'' • Music: [[Fred Karlin]] • Lyrics: [[Dory Previn]]</small>
*<small> "[[Jean (song)|Jean]]" – ''[[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (movie)|The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Rod McKuen]]</small>
*<small> "[[True Grit (song)|True Grit]]" – ''[[True Grit (1969 movie)|True Grit]]'' • Music: [[Elmer Bernstein]] • Lyrics: [[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]]</small>
*<small> "[[What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?]]" – ''[[The Happy Ending]]'' • Music: [[Michel Legrand]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
|}
|}


===1970s===
===1970s===
{|class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="25%" | Song
! width="45%" | Nominees
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1970'''<br />{{small|[[43rd Academy Awards|(43rd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1971 |title=The 43rd Academy Awards - 1971 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 13, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Lovers and Other Strangers]]'''''
| '''"[[For All We Know (1970 song)|For All We Know]]"'''
| '''[[Fred Karlin]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Jimmy Griffin]] & [[Robb Royer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Darling Lili]]''
| "Whistling Away the Dark"
| [[Henry Mancini]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Madron (film)|Madron]]''
| "Till Love Touches Your Life"
| [[Riz Ortolani]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Arthur Hamilton]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Pieces of Dreams (film)|Pieces of Dreams]]''
| "[[Pieces of Dreams (song)|Pieces of Dreams]]"
| [[Michel Legrand]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan]] & [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Scrooge (1970 film)|Scrooge]]''
| "Thank You Very Much"
| [[Leslie Bricusse]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1971'''<br />{{small|[[44th Academy Awards|(44th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1972 |title=The 44th Academy Awards - 1972 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 13, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Shaft (1971 film)|Shaft]]'''''
| '''"[[Theme from Shaft|Theme from ''Shaft'']]"'''
| '''[[Isaac Hayes]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]''
| "[[The Age of Not Believing]]"
| [[Sherman Brothers]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Bless the Beasts and Children (film)|Bless the Beasts & Children]]''
| "[[Bless the Beasts and Children (song)|Bless the Beasts & Children]]"
| [[Perry Botkin Jr.]] & [[Barry De Vorzon]] <small>(music and lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Kotch]]''
| "Life Is What You Make It"
| [[Marvin Hamlisch]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Johnny Mercer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Sometimes a Great Notion (film)|Sometimes a Great Notion]]''
| "[[All His Children]]"
| [[Henry Mancini]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan]] & [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1972'''<br />{{small|[[45th Academy Awards|(45th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1973 |title=The 45th Academy Awards - 1973 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=Oscars.org &#124; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 13, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]'''''
| '''"[[The Morning After (Maureen McGovern song)|The Morning After]]"'''
| '''[[Joel Hirschhorn]] & [[Al Kasha]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Ben (film)|Ben]]''
| "[[Ben (song)|Ben]]"
| [[Walter Scharf]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean]]''
| "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey"
| [[Maurice Jarre]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan]] & [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Little Ark]]''
| "Come Follow, Follow Me"
| [[Fred Karlin]] <small>(music)</small>; Marsha Karlin <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Stepmother (film)|The Stepmother]]''
| "Strange Are the Ways of Love"
| [[Sammy Fain]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1973'''<br />{{small|[[46th Academy Awards|(46th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1974 |title=The 46th Academy Awards - 1974 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 13, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Way We Were]]'''''
| '''"[[The Way We Were (song)|The Way We Were]]"'''
| '''[[Marvin Hamlisch]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan & Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Cinderella Liberty]]''
| "Nice to Be Around"
| [[John Williams]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]]''
| "[[Live and Let Die (song)|Live and Let Die]]"
| [[Linda McCartney|Linda]] & [[Paul McCartney]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Robin Hood (1973 film)|Robin Hood]]''
| "[[Love (Disney song)|Love]]"
| [[George Bruns]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Floyd Huddleston]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[A Touch of Class (film)|A Touch of Class]]''
| "All That Love Went to Waste"
| [[George Barrie]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1974'''<br />{{small|[[47th Academy Awards|(47th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1975 |title=The 47th Academy Awards - 1975 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 13, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Towering Inferno]]'''''
| '''"[[We May Never Love Like This Again]]"'''
| '''[[Joel Hirschhorn]] & [[Al Kasha]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Benji (1974 film)|Benji]]''
| "I Feel Love"
| [[Euel Box]] <small>(music)</small>; Betty Box <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''
| "Blazing Saddles"
| [[John Morris (composer)|John Morris]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Mel Brooks]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Gold (1974 film)|Gold]]''
| "Wherever Love Takes Me"
| [[Elmer Bernstein]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Little Prince (1974 film)|The Little Prince]]''
| "Little Prince"
| [[Frederick Loewe]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan Jay Lerner]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1975'''<br />{{small|[[48th Academy Awards|(48th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1976 |title=The 48th Academy Awards - 1976 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 13, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Nashville (film)|Nashville]]'''''
| '''"[[I'm Easy (Keith Carradine song)|I'm Easy]]"'''
| '''[[Keith Carradine]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Funny Lady]]''
| "[[How Lucky Can You Get]]"
| [[Fred Ebb]] & [[John Kander]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Mahogany (film)|Mahogany]]''
| "[[Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)|Do You Know Where You're Going To]]"
| [[Michael Masser]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Gerry Goffin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Other Side of the Mountain]]''
| "Richard's Window"
| [[Charles Fox (composer)|Charles Fox]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Norman Gimbel]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Whiffs]]''
| "Now That We're in Love"
| [[George Barrie]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sammy Cahn]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1976'''<br />{{small|[[49th Academy Awards|(49th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1977 |title=The 49th Academy Awards - 1977 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=Oscars.org &#124; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 13, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[A Star Is Born (1976 film)|A Star Is Born]]'''''
| '''"[[Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)|Evergreen]]"'''
| '''[[Barbra Streisand]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
|-
!width="50"|Year
| ''[[Half a House]]''
! style="width:400px;"|Winning songwriter(s)
| "A World That Never Was"
! style="width:550px;"|Nominees
| [[Sammy Fain]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Paul Francis Webster]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[43rd Academy Awards|1970]]
| ''[[The Omen]]''
| '''"[[For All We Know (1970 song)|For All We Know]]" – ''[[Lovers and Other Strangers]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Fred Karlin]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Robb Royer]] and [[Jimmy Griffin]]'''
| "[[Ave Satani]]"
|
| [[Jerry Goldsmith]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "Whistling Away the Dark" – ''[[Darling Lili]]'' • Music: [[Henry Mancini]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]</small>
*<small> "Till Love Touches Your Life" – ''[[Madron (movie)|Madron]]'' • Music: [[Riz Ortolani]] • Lyrics: [[Arthur Hamilton]]</small>
*<small> "Pieces of Dreams" – ''[[Pieces of Dreams (movie)|Pieces of Dreams]]'' • Music: [[Michel Legrand]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
*<small> "Thank You Very Much" – ''[[Scrooge (1970 movie)|Scrooge]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Leslie Bricusse]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[44th Academy Awards|1971]]
| ''[[The Pink Panther Strikes Again]]''
| '''"[[Theme from Shaft|Theme from ''Shaft'']]" – ''[[Shaft (1971 movie)|Shaft]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Isaac Hayes]]'''
| "Come to Me"
|
| [[Henry Mancini]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[The Age of Not Believing]]" – ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Richard M. Sherman]] and [[Robert B. Sherman]]</small>
*<small> "[[Bless the Beasts and Children (song)|Bless the Beasts and Children]]" – ''[[Bless the Beasts and Children (movie)|Bless the Beasts and Children]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Barry DeVorzon]] and [[Perry Botkin, Jr.]]</small>
*<small> "Life Is What You Make It" – ''[[Kotch]]'' • Music: [[Marvin Hamlisch]] • Lyrics: [[Johnny Mercer]]</small>
*<small> "[[All His Children]]" – ''[[Sometimes a Great Notion (movie)|Sometimes a Great Notion]]'' • Music: [[Henry Mancini]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[45th Academy Awards|1972]]
| ''[[Rocky]]''
| '''"[[The Morning After (Maureen McGovern song)|The Morning After]]" – ''[[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 movie)|The Poseidon Adventure]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Al Kasha]]''' and '''[[Joel Hirschhorn]]'''
| "[[Gonna Fly Now]]"
|
| [[Bill Conti]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Carol Connors (singer)|Carol Connors]] & [[Ayn Robbins]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Ben (song)|Ben]]" – ''[[Ben (song)|Ben]]'' • Music: [[Walter Scharf]] • Lyrics: [[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]]</small>
*<small> "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" – ''[[The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean]]'' • Music: [[Maurice Jarre]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
*<small> "Come Follow, Follow Me" – ''The Little Ark'' • Music: [[Fred Karlin]] • Lyrics: Marsha Karlin</small>
*<small> "Strange Are the Ways of Love" – ''The Stepmother'' • Music: [[Sammy Fain]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[46th Academy Awards|1973]]
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1977'''<br />{{small|[[50th Academy Awards|(50th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1978 |title=The 50th Academy Awards - 1978 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 13, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[The Way We Were (song)|The Way We Were]]" – ''[[The Way We Were]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Marvin Hamlisch]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Alan Bergman]]''' and '''[[Marilyn Bergman]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[You Light Up My Life (film)|You Light Up My Life]]'''''
*<small> "[[Nice to Be Around (Maureen McGovern song)|(You’re So) Nice to Be Around]]" – ''[[Cinderella Liberty]]'' • Music: [[John Williams]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams]]</small>
| '''"[[You Light Up My Life (song)|You Light Up My Life]]"'''
*<small> "[[Live and Let Die (song)|Live and Let Die]]" – ''[[Live and Let Die (movie)|Live and Let Die]]'' • Music: [[Paul McCartney]] • Lyrics: [[Paul McCartney]] and [[Linda McCartney]]</small>
| '''[[Joseph Brooks (songwriter)|Joseph Brooks]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
*<small> "[[Love (Disney song)|Love]]" – ''[[Robin Hood (1973 movie)|Robin Hood]]'' • Music: [[George Bruns]] • Lyrics: [[Floyd Huddleston]]</small>
*<small> "All That Love Went To Waste" – ''[[A Touch of Class (movie)|A Touch of Class]]'' • Music: [[George Barrie]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[47th Academy Awards|1974]]
| ''[[Pete's Dragon (1977 film)|Pete's Dragon]]''
| '''"[[We May Never Love Like This Again]]" – ''[[The Towering Inferno]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Al Kasha]]''' and '''[[Joel Hirschhorn]]'''
| "[[Candle on the Water]]"
|
| [[Joel Hirschhorn]] & [[Al Kasha]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "Benji’s Theme (I Feel Love)" – ''[[Benji (1974 movie)|Benji]]'' • Music: [[Euel Box]] • Lyrics: [[Betty Box]]</small>
*<small> "Blazing Saddles" – ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' • Music: [[John Morris (composer)|John Morris]] • Lyrics: [[Mel Brooks]]</small>
*<small> "Wherever Love Takes Me" – ''[[Gold (1974 movie)|Gold]]'' • Music: [[Elmer Bernstein]] • Lyrics: [[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]]</small>
*<small> "Little Prince" – ''[[The Little Prince (1974 movie)|The Little Prince]]'' • Music: Frederick Lowe • Lyrics: [[Alan Jay Lerner]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[48th Academy Awards|1975]]
| ''[[The Rescuers]]''
| '''"[[I'm Easy (Keith Carradine song)|I'm Easy]]" – ''[[Nashville (movie)|Nashville]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Keith Carradine]]'''
| "Someone's Waiting for You"
|
| [[Sammy Fain]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Carol Connors (singer)|Carol Connors]] & [[Ayn Robbins]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "How Lucky Can You Get" – ''[[Funny Lady]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Fred Ebb]] and [[John Kander]]</small>
*<small> "[[Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)|Theme from ''Mahogany'' (Do You Know Where You're Going To)]]" – ''[[Mahogany (movie)|Mahogany]]'' • Music: [[Michael Masser]] • Lyrics: [[Gerry Goffin]]</small>
*<small> "Richard’s Window" – ''[[The Other Side of the Mountain]]'' • Music: [[Charles Fox (composer)|Charles Fox]] • Lyrics: [[Norman Gimbel]]</small>
*<small> "Now That We’re in Love" – ''[[Whiffs]]'' • Music: [[George Barrie]] • Lyrics: [[Sammy Cahn]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[49th Academy Awards|1976]]
| ''[[The Slipper and the Rose]]''
| '''"[[Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)]]" – ''[[A Star Is Born (1976 movie)|A Star Is Born]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Barbra Streisand]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams]]'''
| "He/She Danced with Me"
|
| [[Sherman Brothers]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "A World That Never Was" – ''Half a House'' • Music: [[Sammy Fain]] • Lyrics: [[Paul Francis Webster]]</small>
*<small> "[[Ave Satani]]" – ''[[The Omen]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Jerry Goldsmith]]</small>
*<small> "Come to Me" – ''[[The Pink Panther Strikes Again]]'' • Music: [[Henry Mancini]] • Lyrics: [[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]]</small>
*<small> "[[Gonna Fly Now]]" – ''[[Rocky]]'' • Music: [[Bill Conti]] • Lyrics: [[Carol Connors (singer)|Carol Connors]] and [[Ayn Robbins]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[50th Academy Awards|1977]]
| ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]''
| '''"[[You Light Up My Life (song)|You Light Up My Life]]" – ''[[You Light Up My Life (movie)|You Light Up My Life]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Joseph Brooks (songwriter)|Joseph Brooks]]'''
| "[[Nobody Does It Better]]"
|
| [[Marvin Hamlisch]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Carole Bayer Sager]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Candle on the Water]]" – ''[[Pete’s Dragon]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Al Kasha]] and [[Joel Hirschhorn]]</small>
*<small> "Someone’s Waiting for You" – ''[[The Rescuers]]'' • Music: [[Sammy Fain]] • Lyrics: [[Carol Connors (singer)|Carol Connors]] and [[Ayn Robbins]]</small>
*<small> "[[He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me|The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced with Me/She Danced with Me)]]" – ''[[The Slipper and the Rose]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Richard M. Sherman]] and [[Robert B. Sherman]]</small>
*<small> "[[Nobody Does It Better]]" – ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (movie)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]'' • Music: [[Marvin Hamlisch]] • Lyrics: [[Carole Bayer Sager]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[51st Academy Awards|1978]]
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1978'''<br />{{small|[[51st Academy Awards|(51st)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1979 |title=The 51st Academy Awards - 1979 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=Oscars.org &#124; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 13, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[Last Dance (song)|Last Dance]]" – ''[[Thank God It's Friday (movie)|Thank God It’s Friday]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Paul Jabara]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[Thank God It's Friday (film)|Thank God It's Friday]]'''''
*<small> "Ready To Take a Chance Again" – ''[[Foul Play (1978 movie)|Foul Play]]'' • Music: [[Charles Fox (composer)|Charles Fox]] • Lyrics: [[Norman Gimbel]]</small>
| '''"[[Last Dance (Donna Summer song)|Last Dance]]"'''
*<small> "[[Hopelessly Devoted to You]]" – ''[[Grease (movie)|Grease]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[John Farrar]]</small>
| '''[[Paul Jabara]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
*<small> "When You’re Loved" – ''[[The Magic of Lassie]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Richard M. Sherman]] and [[Robert B. Sherman]]</small>
|-
*<small> "The Last Time I Felt Like This" – ''[[Same Time, Next Year (movie)|Same Time, Next Year]]'' • Music: [[Marvin Hamlisch]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
| ''[[Foul Play (1978 film)|Foul Play]]''
| "[[Ready to Take a Chance Again]]"
| [[Charles Fox (composer)|Charles Fox]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Norman Gimbel]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]''
| "[[Hopelessly Devoted to You]]"
| [[John Farrar]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Magic of Lassie]]''
| "When You're Loved"
| [[Sherman Brothers]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Same Time, Next Year (film)|Same Time, Next Year]]''
| "The Last Time I Felt Like This"
| [[Marvin Hamlisch]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan]] & [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1979'''<br />{{small|[[52nd Academy Awards|(52nd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1980 |title=The 52nd Academy Awards - 1980 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 13, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Norma Rae]]'''''
| '''"[[It Goes Like It Goes]]"'''
| '''[[David Shire]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Norman Gimbel]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[10 (film)|10]]''
| "It's Easy to Say"
| [[Henry Mancini]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Robert Wells (songwriter)|Robert Wells]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Ice Castles]]''
| "[[Through the Eyes of Love]]"
| [[Marvin Hamlisch]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Carole Bayer Sager]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Muppet Movie]]''
| "[[Rainbow Connection]]"
| [[Kenneth Ascher|Kenny Ascher]] & [[Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Promise (1979 film)|The Promise]]''
| "I'll Never Say Goodbye"
| David Shire <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan]] & [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[52nd Academy Awards|1979]]
| '''"[[It Goes Like It Goes]]" – ''[[Norma Rae]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[David Shire]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Norman Gimbel]]'''
|
*<small> "[[Through the Eyes of Love]]" – ''[[Ice Castles]]'' • Music: [[Marvin Hamlisch]] • Lyrics: [[Carole Bayer Sager]]</small>
*<small> "[[Rainbow Connection]]" – ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams]] and [[Kenneth Ascher]]</small>
*<small> "I’ll Never Say Goodbye" – ''[[The Promise (1979 movie)|The Promise]]'' • Music: David Shire • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
*<small> "It’s Easy To Say" – ''[[10 (movie)|10]]'' • Music: [[Henry Mancini]] • Lyrics: [[Robert Wells (musician)|Robert Wells]]</small>
|}
|}


===1980s===
===1980s===
{|class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="25%" | Song
! width="45%" | Nominees
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1980'''<br />{{small|[[53rd Academy Awards|(53rd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1981 |title=The 53rd Academy Awards - 1981 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Fame (1980 film)|Fame]]'''''
| '''"[[Fame (Irene Cara song)|Fame]]"'''
| '''[[Michael Gore]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Dean Pitchford]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[9 to 5 (film)|9 to 5]]''
| "[[9 to 5 (Dolly Parton song)|9 to 5]]"
| [[Dolly Parton]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Competition (1980 film)|The Competition]]''
| "People Alone"
| [[Lalo Schifrin]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Will Jennings]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''Fame''
| "[[Out Here on My Own]]"
| Michael Gore <small>(music)</small>; [[Lesley Gore]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Honeysuckle Rose (film)|Honeysuckle Rose]]''
| "[[On the Road Again (Willie Nelson song)|On the Road Again]]"
| [[Willie Nelson]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1981'''<br />{{small|[[54th Academy Awards|(54th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1982 |title=The 54th Academy Awards - 1982 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Arthur (1981 film)|Arthur]]'''''
| '''"[[Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)]]"'''
| '''[[Peter Allen (musician)|Peter Allen]], [[Burt Bacharach]], [[Christopher Cross]] & [[Carole Bayer Sager]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Endless Love (1981 film)|Endless Love]]''
| "[[Endless Love (song)|Endless Love]]"
| [[Lionel Richie]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]''
| "[[For Your Eyes Only (song)|For Your Eyes Only]]"
| [[Bill Conti]] <small>(music)</small>; Mick Leeson <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]''
| "[[The First Time It Happens]]"
| [[Joe Raposo]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Ragtime (film)|Ragtime]]''
| "One More Hour"
| [[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1982'''<br />{{small|[[55th Academy Awards|(55th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1983 |title=The 55th Academy Awards - 1983 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]'''''
| '''"[[Up Where We Belong]]"'''
| '''[[Jack Nitzsche]] & [[Buffy Sainte-Marie]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Will Jennings]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Best Friends (1982 film)|Best Friends]]''
| "[[How Do You Keep the Music Playing?]]"
| [[Michel Legrand]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan & Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Rocky III]]''
| "[[Eye of the Tiger]]"
| [[Jim Peterik]] & [[Frankie Sullivan]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Tootsie]]''
| "[[It Might Be You]]"
| [[Dave Grusin]] <small>(music)</small>; A. & M. Bergman <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Yes, Giorgio]]''
| "If We Were in Love"
| [[John Williams]] <small>(music)</small>; A. & M. Bergman <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1983'''<br />{{small|[[56th Academy Awards|(56th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1984 |title=The 56th Academy Awards - 1984 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Flashdance]]'''''
| '''"[[Flashdance... What a Feeling]]"'''
| '''[[Giorgio Moroder]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Irene Cara]] & [[Keith Forsey]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''Flashdance''
| "[[Maniac (Michael Sembello song)|Maniac]]"
| Dennis Matkosky & [[Michael Sembello]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Tender Mercies]]''
| "[[Over You (Tender Mercies song)|Over You]]"
| [[Boyce and Hart|Bobby Hart]] & [[Austin Roberts (singer)|Austin Roberts]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[Yentl (film)|Yentl]]''
| "[[Papa, Can You Hear Me?]]"
| rowspan=2|[[Michel Legrand]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan & Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| "[[The Way He Makes Me Feel]]"
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1984'''<br />{{small|[[57th Academy Awards|(57th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1985 |title=The 57th Academy Awards - 1985 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Woman in Red (1984 film)|The Woman in Red]]'''''
| '''"[[I Just Called to Say I Love You]]"'''
| '''[[Stevie Wonder]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Against All Odds (1984 film)|Against All Odds]]''
| "[[Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)|Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)]]"
| [[Phil Collins]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[Footloose (1984 film)|Footloose]]''
| "[[Footloose (song)|Footloose]]"
| [[Kenny Loggins]] & [[Dean Pitchford]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| "[[Let's Hear It for the Boy (song)|Let's Hear It for the Boy]]"
| Pitchford & [[Tom Snow]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Ghostbusters]]''
| "[[Ghostbusters (song)|Ghostbusters]]"
| [[Ray Parker Jr.]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1985'''<br />{{small|[[58th Academy Awards|(58th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1986 |title=The 58th Academy Awards - 1986 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[White Nights (1985 film)|White Nights]]'''''
| '''"[[Say You, Say Me]]"'''
| '''[[Lionel Richie]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Back to the Future]]''
| "[[The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News song)|The Power of Love]]"
| [[Johnny Colla]] & [[Huey Lewis and the News|Chris Hayes]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Huey Lewis]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[A Chorus Line (film)|A Chorus Line]]''
| "Surprise, Surprise"
| [[Marvin Hamlisch]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Edward Kleban|Ed Kleban]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Color Purple (1985 film)|The Color Purple]]''
| "[[Miss Celie's Blues|Sister]]"
| [[Quincy Jones]] & [[Rod Temperton]] <small>(music)</small>; Jones, Richie & Temperton <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''White Nights''
| "[[Separate Lives]]"
| [[Stephen Bishop (singer)|Stephen Bishop]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1986'''<br />{{small|[[59th Academy Awards|(59th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1987 |title=The 59th Academy Awards - 1987 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Top Gun]]'''''
| '''"[[Take My Breath Away]]"'''
| '''[[Giorgio Moroder]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Tom Whitlock]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[An American Tail]]''
| "[[Somewhere Out There (James Horner song)|Somewhere Out There]]"
| [[James Horner]] & [[Barry Mann]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Cynthia Weil]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Karate Kid Part II]]''
| "[[Glory of Love]]"
| [[Peter Cetera]] & [[David Foster]] <small>(music)</small>; Cetera & Diane Nini <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Little Shop of Horrors (film)|Little Shop of Horrors]]''
| "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space"
| [[Alan Menken]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Howard Ashman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[That's Life! (film)|That's Life!]]''
| "Life in a Looking Glass"
| [[Henry Mancini]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leslie Bricusse]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1987'''<br />{{small|[[60th Academy Awards|(60th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1988 |title=The 60th Academy Awards - 1988 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Dirty Dancing]]'''''
| '''"[[(I've Had) The Time of My Life]]"'''
| '''[[John DeNicola]], Donald Markowitz & [[Franke Previte]] <small>(music)</small>; Previte <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Beverly Hills Cop II]]''
| "[[Shakedown (Bob Seger song)|Shakedown]]"
| [[Harold Faltermeyer]] & [[Keith Forsey]] <small>(music)</small>; Faltermeyer, Forsey & [[Bob Seger]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Cry Freedom]]''
| "Cry Freedom"
| [[George Fenton]] & [[Jonas Gwangwa]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
!width="50"|Year
| ''[[Mannequin (1987 film)|Mannequin]]''
! style="width:400px;"|Winning songwriter(s)
| "[[Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now]]"
! style="width:550px;"|Nominees
| [[Albert Hammond]] & [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[53rd Academy Awards|1980]]
| ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''
| '''"[[Fame (Irene Cara song)|Fame]]" – ''[[Fame (1980 movie)|Fame]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Michael Gore]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Dean Pitchford]]'''
| "Storybook Love"
|
| [[Willy DeVille]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "People Alone" – ''[[The Competition (movie)|The Competition]]'' • Music: [[Lalo Schifrin]] • Lyrics: [[Will Jennings]]</small>
*<small> "[[Out Here on My Own]]" – ''[[Fame (1980 movie)|Fame]]'' • Music: [[Michael Gore]] • Lyrics: [[Lesley Gore]]</small>
*<small> "[[On the Road Again (Willie Nelson song)|On the Road Again]]" – ''[[Honeysuckle Rose (movie)|Honeysuckle Rose]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Willie Nelson]]</small>
*<small> "[[9 to 5 (Dolly Parton song)|9 to 5]]" – ''[[9 to 5 (movie)|9 to 5]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Dolly Parton]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[54th Academy Awards|1981]]
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | '''1988'''<br />{{small|[[61st Academy Awards|(61st)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989 |title=The 61st Academy Awards - 1989 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)]]" – ''[[Arthur (1981 movie)|Arthur]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Burt Bacharach]]''', '''[[Carole Bayer Sager]]''', '''[[Christopher Cross]]''' and '''[[Peter Allen (musician)|Peter Allen]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[Working Girl]]'''''
*<small> "[[Endless Love (song)|Endless Love]]" – ''[[Endless Love (1981 movie)|Endless Love]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Lionel Richie]]</small>
| '''"[[Let the River Run]]"'''
*<small> "[[For Your Eyes Only (1981 song)|For Your Eyes Only]]" – ''[[For Your Eyes Only (movie)|For Your Eyes Only]]'' • Music: [[Bill Conti]] • Lyrics: Mick Leeson</small>
| '''[[Carly Simon]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
*<small> "[[The First Time It Happens]]" – ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Joe Raposo]]</small>
*<small> "[[One More Hour (Randy Newman song)|One More Hour]]" – ''[[Ragtime (movie)|Ragtime]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Randy Newman]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[55th Academy Awards|1982]]
| ''[[Bagdad Cafe]]''
| '''"[[Up Where We Belong]]" – ''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Jack Nitzsche]]''' and '''[[Buffy Sainte-Marie]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Will Jennings]]'''
| "[[Calling You]]"
|
| [[Bob Telson]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[How Do You Keep the Music Playing?]]" – ''[[Best Friends (1982 movie)|Best Friends]]'' • Music: [[Michel Legrand]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
*<small> "[[Eye of the Tiger]]" – ''[[Rocky III]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Jim Peterik]] and [[Frankie Sullivan]]</small>
*<small> "[[It Might Be You]]" – ''[[Tootsie]]'' • Music: [[Dave Grusin]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
*<small> "[[If We Were In Love]]" – ''[[Yes, Giorgio]]'' • Music: [[John Williams]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[56th Academy Awards|1983]]
| ''[[Buster (film)|Buster]]''
| '''"[[Flashdance... What a Feeling]]" – ''[[Flashdance]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Giorgio Moroder]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Keith Forsey]]''' and '''[[Irene Cara]]'''
| "[[Two Hearts (Phil Collins song)|Two Hearts]]"
|
| [[Lamont Dozier]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Phil Collins]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Maniac (Michael Sembello song)|Maniac]]" – ''[[Flashdance]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Michael Sembello]] and [[Dennis Matkosky]]</small>
*<small> "[[Over You (1983 song)|Over You]]" – ''[[Tender Mercies]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Austin Roberts (singer)|Austin Roberts]] and [[Boyce and Hart|Bobby Hart]]</small>
*<small> "[[Papa, Can You Hear Me?]]" – ''[[Yentl (movie)|Yentl]]'' • Music: [[Michel Legrand]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
*<small> "[[The Way He Makes Me Feel]]" – ''[[Yentl (movie)|Yentl]]'' • Music: [[Michel Legrand]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[57th Academy Awards|1984]]
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1989'''<br />{{small|[[62nd Academy Awards|(62nd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1990 |title=The 62nd Academy Awards - 1990 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[I Just Called to Say I Love You]]" – ''[[The Woman in Red (1984 movie)|The Woman in Red]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Stevie Wonder]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 film)|The Little Mermaid]]'''''
*<small> "[[Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)]]" – ''[[Against All Odds (movie)|Against All Odds]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Phil Collins]]</small>
| '''"[[Under the Sea]]"'''
*<small> "[[Footloose (song)|Footloose]]" – ''[[Footloose (1984 movie)|Footloose]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Kenny Loggins]] and [[Dean Pitchford]]</small>
| '''[[Alan Menken]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Howard Ashman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
*<small> "[[Let's Hear It for the Boy (song)|Let's Hear It for the Boy]]" – ''[[Footloose (1984 movie)|Footloose]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Tom Snow]] and [[Dean Pitchford]]</small>
*<small> "[[Ghostbusters (song)|Ghostbusters]]" – ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Ray Parker Jr.]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[58th Academy Awards|1985]]
| ''[[Chances Are (film)|Chances Are]]''
| '''"[[Say You, Say Me]]" – ''[[White Nights (1985 movie)|White Nights]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Lionel Richie]]'''
| "[[After All (Cher and Peter Cetera song)|After All]]"
|
| [[Tom Snow]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Dean Pitchford]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News song)|The Power of Love]]" – ''[[Back to the Future]]'' • Music: Chris Hayes and [[Johnny Colla]] • Lyrics: [[Huey Lewis]]</small>
*<small> "[[Surprise Surprise (song)|Surprise Surprise]]" – ''[[A Chorus Line (movie)|A Chorus Line]]'' • Music: [[Marvin Hamlisch]] • Lyrics: [[Edward Kleban]]</small>
*<small> "[[Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)]]" – ''[[The Color Purple (1985 movie)|The Color Purple]]'' • Music: [[Quincy Jones]] and [[Rod Temperton]] • Lyrics: [[Quincy Jones]] and [[Lionel Richie]]</small>
*<small> "[[Separate Lives]]" – ''[[White Nights (1985 movie)|White Nights]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Stephen Bishop (musician)|Stephen Bishop]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[59th Academy Awards|1986]]
| ''The Little Mermaid''
| '''"[[Take My Breath Away]]" – ''[[Top Gun]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Giorgio Moroder]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Tom Whitlock]]'''
| "[[Kiss the Girl]]"
|
| Menken <small>(music)</small>; Ashman <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Somewhere Out There (James Horner song)|Somewhere Out There]]" – ''[[An American Tail]]'' • Music: [[James Horner]] and [[Barry Mann]] • Lyrics: [[Cynthia Weil]]</small>
*<small> "[[Glory of Love]]" – ''[[The Karate Kid, Part II]]'' • Music: [[Peter Cetera]] and [[David Foster]] • Lyrics: [[Peter Cetera]] and [[Diane Nini]]</small>
*<small> "[[Mean Green Mother From Outer Space]]" – ''[[Little Shop of Horrors (movie)|Little Shop of Horrors]]'' • Music: [[Alan Menken]] • Lyrics: [[Howard Ashman]]</small>
*<small> "[[Life in a Looking Glass]]" – ''[[That's Life! (movie)|That's Life!]]'' • Music: [[Henry Mancini]] • Lyrics: [[Leslie Bricusse]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[60th Academy Awards|1987]]
| ''[[Parenthood (film)|Parenthood]]''
| '''"[[(I've Had) The Time of My Life]]" – ''[[Dirty Dancing]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Franke Previte]]''', '''[[John DeNicola]]''' and '''[[Donald Markowitz]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Franke Previte]]'''
| "I Love to See You Smile"
|
| [[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Shakedown (Bob Seger song)|Shakedown]]" – ''[[Beverly Hills Cop II]]'' • Music: [[Harold Faltermeyer]] and [[Keith Forsey]] • Lyrics: [[Harold Faltermeyer]], [[Keith Forsey]] and [[Bob Seger]]</small>
*<small> "[[Cry Freedom (song)|Cry Freedom]]" – ''[[Cry Freedom]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[George Fenton]] and [[Jonas Gwangwa]]</small>
*<small> "[[Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now]]" – ''[[Mannequin (1987 movie)|Mannequin]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Albert Hammond]] and [[Diane Warren]]</small>
*<small> "[[Miracle (Willy DeVille album)|Storybook Love]]" – ''[[The Princess Bride (movie)|The Princess Bride]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Willy DeVille]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[61st Academy Awards|1988]]
| ''[[Shirley Valentine (film)|Shirley Valentine]]''
| '''"[[Let the River Run]]" – ''[[Working Girl]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Carly Simon]]'''
| "The Girl Who Used to Be Me"
|
| [[Marvin Hamlisch]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan Bergman]] & [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Calling You]]" – ''[[Bagdad Café]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Bob Telson]]</small>
*<small> "[[Two Hearts (Phil Collins song)|Two Hearts]]" – ''[[Buster (movie)|Buster]]'' • Music: [[Lamont Dozier]] • Lyrics: [[Phil Collins]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[62nd Academy Awards|1989]]
| '''"[[Under the Sea]]" – ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 movie)|The Little Mermaid]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Alan Menken]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Howard Ashman]]'''
|
*<small> "[[After All (Cher and Peter Cetera song)|After All]]" – ''[[Chances Are (movie)|Chances Are]]'' • Music: [[Tom Snow]] • Lyrics: [[Dean Pitchford]]</small>
*<small> "[[Kiss the Girl]]" – ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 movie)|The Little Mermaid]]'' • Music: [[Alan Menkin]] • Lyrics: [[Howard Ashman]]</small>
*<small> "[[I Love To See You Smile]]" – ''[[Parenthood (movie)|Parenthood]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Randy Newman]]</small>
*<small> "[[The Girl Who Used To Be Me]]" – ''[[Shirley Valentine (movie)|Shirley Valentine]]'' • Music: [[Marvin Hamlisch]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
|}
|}


===1990s===
===1990s===
{|class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="25%" | Song
! width="45%" | Nominees
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1990'''<br />{{small|[[63rd Academy Awards|(63rd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1991 |title=The 63rd Academy Awards - 1991 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Dick Tracy (1990 film)|Dick Tracy]]'''''
| '''"[[Sooner or Later (Madonna song)|Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)]]"'''
| '''[[Stephen Sondheim]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[The Godfather Part III]]''
| "[[Promise Me You'll Remember (Love Theme from The Godfather Part III)|Promise Me You'll Remember]]"
| [[Carmine Coppola]] <small>(music)</small>; [[John Bettis]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Home Alone]]''
| "Somewhere in My Memory"
| [[John Williams]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leslie Bricusse]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Postcards from the Edge (film)|Postcards from the Edge]]''
| "I'm Checkin' Out"
| [[Shel Silverstein]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Young Guns II]]''
| "[[Blaze of Glory (Jon Bon Jovi song)|Blaze of Glory]]"
| [[Jon Bon Jovi]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1991'''<br />{{small|[[64th Academy Awards|(64th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992 |title=The 64th Academy Awards - 1992 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'''''
| '''"[[Beauty and the Beast (Disney song)|Beauty and the Beast]]"'''
| '''[[Alan Menken]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Howard Ashman]] <small> ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.r.]]) (lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| rowspan="2"|''Beauty and the Beast''
| "[[Be Our Guest]]"
|  rowspan="2"|Menken <small>(music)</small>; Ashman <small> ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]]) (lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
!width="50"|Year
| "[[Belle (Disney song)|Belle]]"
! style="width:400px;"|Winning songwriter(s)
! style="width:550px;"|Nominees
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[63rd Academy Awards|1990]]
| ''[[Hook (film)|Hook]]''
| '''"[[Sooner or Later (Madonna song)|Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)]]" – ''[[Dick Tracy (1990 movie)|Dick Tracy]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Stephen Sondheim]]'''
| "When You're Alone"
|
| [[John Williams]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Leslie Bricusse]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Blaze of Glory (Jon Bon Jovi song)|Blaze of Glory]]" – ''[[Young Guns II]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Jon Bon Jovi]]</small>
*<small> "[[I'm Checkin' Out]]" – ''[[Postcards from the Edge (movie)|Postcards from the Edge]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Shel Silverstein]]</small>
*<small> "[[Promise Me You'll Remember (Love Theme from The Godfather Part III)|Promise Me You'll Remember]]" – ''[[The Godfather Part III]]'' • Music: [[Carmine Coppola]] • Lyrics: [[John Bettis]]</small>
*<small> "Somewhere in My Memory" – ''[[Home Alone]]'' • Music: [[John Williams]] • Lyrics: [[Leslie Bricusse]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[64th Academy Awards|1991]]
| ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]''
| '''"[[Beauty and the Beast (Disney song)|Beauty and the Beast]]" – ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 movie)|Beauty and the Beast]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Alan Menken]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Howard Ashman]]''' ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous recognition]])
| "[[(Everything I Do) I Do It for You]]"
|
| [[Michael Kamen]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Bryan Adams]] & [[Robert John "Mutt" Lange|Mutt Lange]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Be Our Guest]]" – ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 movie)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' • Music: [[Alan Menken]] • Lyrics: [[Howard Ashman]] ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous nomination]])</small>
*<small> "[[Belle (Disney song)|Belle]]" – ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 movie)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' • Music: [[Alan Menken]] • Lyrics: [[Howard Ashman]] ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous nomination]])</small>
*<small> "[[(Everything I Do) I Do It for You]]" – ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'' • Music: [[Michael Kamen]] • Lyrics: [[Bryan Adams]] and [[Robert John "Mutt" Lange|Robert John Lange]]</small>
*<small> "When You're Alone" – ''[[Hook (movie)|Hook]]'' • Music: [[John Williams]] • Lyrics: [[Leslie Bricusse]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[65th Academy Awards|1992]]
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1992'''<br />{{small|[[65th Academy Awards|(65th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1993 |title=The 65th Academy Awards - 1993 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[A Whole New World]]" – ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney movie)|Aladdin]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Alan Menken]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Tim Rice]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'''''
*<small> "[[Beautiful Maria of My Soul]]" – ''[[The Mambo Kings]]'' • Music: [[Robert Kraft (movie producer)|Robert Kraft]] • Lyrics: [[Arne Glimcher]]</small>
| '''"[[A Whole New World]]"'''
*<small> "[[Friend Like Me]]" – ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney movie)|Aladdin]]'' • Music: [[Alan Menken]] • Lyrics: [[Howard Ashman]] ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous nomination]])</small>
| '''[[Alan Menken]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Tim Rice]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
*<small> "[[I Have Nothing]]" – ''[[The Bodyguard (1992 movie)|The Bodyguard]]'' • Music: [[David Foster]] • Lyrics: [[Linda Thompson (actress)|Linda Thompson]]</small>
*<small> "[[Run to You (Whitney Houston song)|Run to You]]" – ''[[The Bodyguard (1992 movie)|The Bodyguard]]'' • Music: Jud J. Friedman • Lyrics: Allan Dennis Rich</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[66th Academy Awards|1993]]
| ''Aladdin''
| '''"[[Streets of Philadelphia]]" – ''[[Philadelphia (movie)|Philadelphia]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Bruce Springsteen]]'''
| "[[Friend Like Me]]"
|
| Menken <small>(music)</small>; [[Howard Ashman]] <small> ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]]) (lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Again (Janet Jackson song)|Again]]" – ''[[Poetic Justice (movie)|Poetic Justice]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Janet Jackson]], [[Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis|James Harris III, and Terry Lewis]]</small>
*<small> "The Day I Fall in Love" – ''[[Beethoven's 2nd]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Carole Bayer Sager]], [[James Ingram]], and [[Clif Magness]]</small>
*<small> "Philadelphia" – ''[[Philadelphia (movie)|Philadelphia]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Neil Young]]</small>
*<small> "A Wink and a Smile" – ''[[Sleepless in Seattle]]'' • Music: [[Marc Shaiman]] • Lyrics: Ramsey McLean</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[67th Academy Awards|1994]]
| rowspan=2|''[[The Bodyguard (1992 film)|The Bodyguard]]''
| '''"[[Can You Feel the Love Tonight]]" – ''[[The Lion King]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Elton John]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Tim Rice]]'''
| "[[I Have Nothing]]"
|
| [[David Foster]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Linda Thompson (actress)|Linda Thompson]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Circle of Life]]" – ''[[The Lion King]]'' • Music: [[Elton John]] • Lyrics: [[Tim Rice]]</small>
*<small> "[[Hakuna Matata (song)|Hakuna Matata]]" – ''[[The Lion King]]'' • Music: [[Elton John]] • Lyrics: [[Tim Rice]]</small>
*<small> "Look What Love Has Done" – ''[[Junior (1994 movie)|Junior]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Carole Bayer Sager]], [[James Newton Howard]], [[James Ingram]], and [[Patty Smyth]]</small>
*<small> "Make Up Your Mind" – ''[[The Paper (movie)|The Paper]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Randy Newman]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[68th Academy Awards|1995]]
| "[[Run to You (Whitney Houston song)|Run to You]]"
| '''"[[Colors of the Wind]]" – ''[[Pocahontas (1995 movie)|Pocahontas]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Alan Menken]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]]'''
| Jud J. Friedman <small>(music)</small>; Allan Dennis Rich <small>(lyrics)</small>
|
*<small> "Dead Man Walkin'" – ''[[Dead Man Walking (movie)|Dead Man Walking]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Bruce Springsteen]]</small>
*<small> "[[Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?]]" – ''[[Don Juan DeMarco]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Michael Kamen]], [[Bryan Adams]], and [[Robert John "Mutt" Lange|Robert John Lange]]</small>
*<small> "Moonlight" – ''[[Sabrina (1995 movie)|Sabrina]]'' • Music: [[John Williams]] • Lyrics: [[Alan Bergman]] and [[Marilyn Bergman]]</small>
*<small> "[[You've Got a Friend in Me]]" – ''[[Toy Story]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Randy Newman]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[69th Academy Awards|1996]]
| ''[[The Mambo Kings]]''
| '''"[[You Must Love Me]]" – ''[[Evita (1996 movie)|Evita]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Tim Rice]]'''
| "[[Beautiful Maria of My Soul]]"
<!-- Do NOT add Madonna here; she had no involvement in writing the song. -->
| [[Robert Kraft (composer)|Robert Kraft]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Arne Glimcher]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|
*<small> "[[Because You Loved Me]]" – ''[[Up Close & Personal]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Diane Warren]]</small>
*<small> "[[For the First Time (Kenny Loggins song)|For the First Time]]" – ''[[One Fine Day (movie)|One Fine Day]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[James Newton Howard]], Jud J. Friedman, and Allan Dennis Rich</small>
*<small> "[[I Finally Found Someone]]" – ''[[The Mirror Has Two Faces]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Barbra Streisand]], [[Marvin Hamlisch]], [[Bryan Adams]], and [[Robert John "Mutt" Lange|Robert John Lange]]</small>
*<small> "[[That Thing You Do (song)|That Thing You Do!]]" – ''[[That Thing You Do!]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Adam Schlesinger]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[70th Academy Awards|1997]]
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1993'''<br />{{small|[[66th Academy Awards|(66th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1994 |title=The 66th Academy Awards - 1994 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[My Heart Will Go On]]" – ''[[Titanic (1997 movie)|Titanic]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[James Horner]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Will Jennings]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[Philadelphia (film)|Philadelphia]]'''''
*<small> "[[Go the Distance]]" – ''[[Hercules (1997 movie)|Hercules]]'' • Music: [[Alan Menken]] • Lyrics: [[David Zippel]]</small>
| '''"[[Streets of Philadelphia]]"'''
*<small> "[[How Do I Live]]" – ''[[Con Air]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Diane Warren]]</small>
| '''[[Bruce Springsteen]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
*<small> "[[Journey to the Past]]" – ''[[Anastasia (1997 movie)|Anastasia]]'' • Music: [[Stephen Flaherty]] • Lyrics: [[Lynn Ahrens]]</small>
*<small> "[[Miss Misery (song)|Miss Misery]]" – ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Elliott Smith]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[71st Academy Awards|1998]]
| ''[[Beethoven's 2nd (film)|Beethoven's 2nd]]''
| '''"[[When You Believe]]" – ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]]'''
| "The Day I Fall in Love"
<!-- Do NOT add Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds here; though he wrote part of the Whitney-Mariah version of this song (heard at the movie's end), Schwartz submitted his original version (sung near the end of the movie by Michelle Pfeiffer & Sally Dworsky) which he wrote alone. -->
| [[James Ingram]], [[Clif Magness]] & [[Carole Bayer Sager]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|
|-
*<small> "[[I Don't Want to Miss a Thing]]" – ''[[Armageddon (1998 movie)|Armageddon]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Diane Warren]]</small>
| ''Philadelphia''
*<small> "[[The Prayer (Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli song)|The Prayer]]" – ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' • Music: [[Carole Bayer Sager]] and [[David Foster]] • Lyrics by [[Carole Bayer Sager]], [[David Foster]], [[Tony Renis]] (Italian translation), and [[Alberto Testa (lyricist)|Alberto Testa]] (Italian translation)</small>
| "Philadelphia"
*<small> "A Soft Place to Fall" – ''[[The Horse Whisperer (movie)|The Horse Whisperer]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Allison Moorer]] and [[Gwilym Emyr Owen III|Gwil Owen]]</small>
| [[Neil Young]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "That'll Do" – ''[[Babe: Pig in the City]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Randy Newman]]</small>
|-
| ''[[Poetic Justice (film)|Poetic Justice]]''
| "[[Again (Janet Jackson song)|Again]]"
| [[Janet Jackson]], [[Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis|Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Sleepless in Seattle]]''
| "A Wink and a Smile"
| [[Marc Shaiman]] <small>(music)</small>; Ramsey McLean <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1994'''<br />{{small|[[67th Academy Awards|(67th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1995 |title=The 67th Academy Awards - 1995 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Lion King]]'''''
| '''"[[Can You Feel the Love Tonight]]"'''
| '''[[Elton John]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Tim Rice]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Junior (1994 film)|Junior]]''
| "Look What Love Has Done"
| [[James Newton Howard]], [[James Ingram]], [[Carole Bayer Sager]] & [[Patty Smyth]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan="2"|''The Lion King''
| "[[Circle of Life]]"
| rowspan="2"|Elton John <small>(music)</small>; Tim Rice <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| "[[Hakuna Matata (song)|Hakuna Matata]]"
|-
| ''[[The Paper (film)|The Paper]]''
| "Make Up Your Mind"
| [[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1995'''<br />{{small|[[68th Academy Awards|(68th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1996 |title=The 68th Academy Awards - 1996 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Pocahontas (1995 film)|Pocahontas]]'''''
| '''"[[Colors of the Wind]]"'''
| '''[[Alan Menken]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Dead Man Walking (film)|Dead Man Walking]]''
| "Dead Man Walkin'"
| [[Bruce Springsteen]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Don Juan DeMarco]]''
| "[[Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?]]"
| [[Bryan Adams]], [[Michael Kamen]] & [[Robert John "Mutt" Lange|Mutt Lange]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Sabrina (1995 film)|Sabrina]]''
| "Moonlight"
| [[John Williams]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan]] & [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Marilyn Bergman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Toy Story]]''
| "[[You've Got a Friend in Me]]"
| [[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1996'''<br />{{small|[[69th Academy Awards|(69th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1997 |title=The 69th Academy Awards - 1997 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Evita (1996 film)|Evita]]'''''
| '''"[[You Must Love Me]]"'''
| '''[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Tim Rice]] <small>(lyrics)</small>''' <!-- Do NOT add Madonna here; she had no involvement in writing the song. -->
|-
| ''[[The Mirror Has Two Faces]]''
| "[[I Finally Found Someone]]"
| [[Bryan Adams]], [[Marvin Hamlisch]], [[Robert John "Mutt" Lange|Mutt Lange]] & [[Barbra Streisand]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[One Fine Day (film)|One Fine Day]]''
| "[[For the First Time (Kenny Loggins song)|For the First Time]]"
| Jud J. Friedman, [[James Newton Howard]] & Allan Dennis Rich <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[That Thing You Do!]]''
| "[[That Thing You Do (song)|That Thing You Do!]]"
| [[Adam Schlesinger]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Up Close and Personal (film)|Up Close and Personal]]''
| "[[Because You Loved Me]]"
| [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1997'''<br />{{small|[[70th Academy Awards|(70th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1998 |title=The 70th Academy Awards - 1998 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'''''
| '''"[[My Heart Will Go On]]"'''
| '''[[James Horner]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Will Jennings]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Anastasia (1997 film)|Anastasia]]''
| "[[Journey to the Past]]"
| [[Stephen Flaherty]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Lynn Ahrens]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Con Air]]''
| "[[How Do I Live]]"
| [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music and lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Good Will Hunting]]''
| "[[Miss Misery (song)|Miss Misery]]"
| [[Elliott Smith]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]''
| "[[Go the Distance]]"
| [[Alan Menken]] <small>(music)</small>; [[David Zippel]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1998'''<br />{{small|[[71st Academy Awards|(71st)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1999 |title=The 71st Academy Awards - 1999 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'''''
| '''"[[When You Believe]]"'''
| '''[[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>''' <!-- Do NOT add Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds here; though he wrote part of the Whitney-Mariah version of this song (heard at the film's end), Schwartz submitted his original version (sung near the end of the film by Michelle Pfeiffer & Sally Dworsky) which he wrote alone. -->
|-
| ''[[Armageddon (1998 film)|Armageddon]]''
| "[[I Don't Want to Miss a Thing]]"
| [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Babe: Pig in the City]]''
| "That'll Do"
| [[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Horse Whisperer (film)|The Horse Whisperer]]''
| "A Soft Place to Fall"
| [[Allison Moorer]] & [[Gwilym Emyr Owen III|Gwil Owen]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Quest for Camelot]]''
| "[[The Prayer (Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli song)|The Prayer]]"
| [[David Foster]] & [[Carole Bayer Sager]] <small>(music)</small>; Foster, [[Tony Renis]], Sager & [[Alberto Testa (lyricist)|Alberto Testa]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''1999'''<br />{{small|[[72nd Academy Awards|(72nd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2000 |title=The 72nd Academy Awards - 2000 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan]]'''''
| '''"[[You'll Be in My Heart]]"'''
| '''[[Phil Collins]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Magnolia (film)|Magnolia]]''
| "[[Save Me (Aimee Mann song)|Save Me]]"
| [[Aimee Mann]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Music of the Heart]]''
| "[[Music of My Heart]]"
| [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]''
| "[[Blame Canada]]"
| [[Trey Parker]] & [[Marc Shaiman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Toy Story 2]]''
| "[[When She Loved Me]]"
| [[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[72nd Academy Awards|1999]]
| '''"[[You'll Be in My Heart]]" – ''[[Tarzan (1999 movie)|Tarzan]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Phil Collins]]'''
|
*<small> "[[Save Me (Aimee Mann song)|Save Me]]" – ''[[Magnolia (movie)|Magnolia]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Aimee Mann]]</small>
*<small> "[[Music of My Heart]]" – ''[[Music of the Heart]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Diane Warren]]</small>
*<small> "[[Blame Canada]]" – ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Trey Parker]] and [[Marc Shaiman]]</small>
*<small> "[[When She Loved Me]]" – ''[[Toy Story 2]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Randy Newman]]</small>
|}
|}


===2000s===
===2000s===
{|class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="25%" | Song
! width="45%" | Nominees
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2000'''<br />{{small|[[73rd Academy Awards|(73rd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2001 |title=The 73rd Academy Awards - 2001 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Wonder Boys (film)|Wonder Boys]]'''''
| '''"[[Things Have Changed]]"'''
| '''[[Bob Dylan]] <small>(music and lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''
| "A Love Before Time"
| [[Jorge Calandrelli]] & [[Tan Dun]] <small>(music)</small>; [[James Schamus]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Dancer in the Dark]]''
| "[[I've Seen It All]]"
| [[Björk]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sjón]] & [[Lars von Trier]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]''
| "[[My Funny Friend and Me]]"
| [[David Hartley (musician)|David Hartley]] & [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] <small>(music)</small>; Sting <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Meet the Parents]]''
| "A Fool in Love"
| [[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2001'''<br />{{small|[[74th Academy Awards|(74th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2002 |title=The 74th Academy Awards - 2002 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'''''
| '''"[[If I Didn't Have You (Disney song)|If I Didn't Have You]]"'''
| '''[[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Kate & Leopold]]''
| "[[Until... (Sting song)|Until...]]"
| [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
| "[[May It Be]]"
| [[Enya]], [[Nicky Ryan|Nicky]] & [[Roma Ryan]] <small>(music and lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]''
| "[[There You'll Be]]"
| [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Vanilla Sky]]''
| "Vanilla Sky"
| [[Paul McCartney]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2002'''<br />{{small|[[75th Academy Awards|(75th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2003 |title=The 75th Academy Awards - 2003 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[8 Mile (film)|8 Mile]]'''''
| '''"[[Lose Yourself]]"'''
| '''[[Jeff Bass]], [[Eminem]] & [[Luis Resto (musician)|Luis Resto]] <small>(music)</small>; Eminem <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Chicago (2002 film)|Chicago]]''
| "I Move On"
| [[John Kander]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Fred Ebb]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Frida]]''
| "Burn It Blue"
| [[Elliot Goldenthal]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Julie Taymor]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Gangs of New York]]''
| "[[The Hands That Built America]]"
| [[U2]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Wild Thornberrys Movie]]''
| "[[Father and Daughter]]"
| [[Paul Simon]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2003'''<br />{{small|[[76th Academy Awards|(76th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2004 |title=The 76th Academy Awards - 2004 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'''''
| '''"[[Into the West (song)|Into the West]]"'''
| '''[[Annie Lennox]], [[Howard Shore]] & [[Fran Walsh]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[Cold Mountain (film)|Cold Mountain]]''
| "[[The Scarlet Tide|Scarlet Tide]]"
| [[T Bone Burnett]] & [[Elvis Costello]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| "[[You Will Be My Ain True Love]]"
| [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[A Mighty Wind]]''
| "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow"
| [[Michael McKean]] & [[Annette O'Toole]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Triplets of Belleville]]''
| "[[Belleville Rendez-vous (song)|Belleville Rendez-vous]]"
| [[Benoît Charest]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Sylvain Chomet]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2004'''<br />{{small|[[77th Academy Awards|(77th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2005 |title=The 77th Academy Awards - 2005 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Motorcycle Diaries (film)|The Motorcycle Diaries]]'''''
| '''"[[Al otro lado del río]]"'''
| '''[[Jorge Drexler]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
|-
!width="50"|Year
| ''[[The Chorus (2004 film)|The Chorus]]''
! style="width:400px;"|Winning songwriter(s)
| "[[Look to Your Path]]"
! style="width:550px;"|Nominees
| [[Bruno Coulais]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Christophe Barratier]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[73rd Academy Awards|2000]]
| ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film)|The Phantom of the Opera]]''
| '''"[[Things Have Changed]]" – ''[[Wonder Boys (movie)|Wonder Boys]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Bob Dylan]]'''
| "[[Learn to Be Lonely]]"
|
| [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Charles Hart (lyricist)|Charles Hart]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[A Fool in Love (Randy Newman song)|A Fool in Love]]" – ''[[Meet the Parents]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Randy Newman]]</small>
*<small> "[[I've Seen It All]]" – ''[[Dancer in the Dark]]'' • Music: [[Björk]] • Lyrics: [[Lars von Trier]] and [[Sjón]]</small>
*<small> "[[A Love Before Time]]" – ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' • Music: [[Jorge Calandrelli]] and [[Tan Dun]] • Lyrics: [[James Schamus]]</small>
*<small> "[[My Funny Friend and Me]]" – ''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]'' • Music: [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] and [[David Hartley (musician)|David Hartley]] • Lyrics: Sting</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[74th Academy Awards|2001]]
| ''[[The Polar Express (film)|The Polar Express]]''
| '''"[[If I Didn't Have You]]" – ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Randy Newman]]'''
| "[[Believe (Josh Groban song)|Believe]]"
|
| [[Glen Ballard]] & [[Alan Silvestri]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[May It Be]]" – ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Enya]], [[Nicky Ryan]], and [[Roma Ryan]]</small>
*<small> "[[There You'll Be]]" – ''[[Pearl Harbor (movie)|Pearl Harbor]]'' • Music and lyrics: [[Diane Warren]]</small>
*<small> "[[Until...]]" – ''[[Kate & Leopold]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]</small>
*<small> "[[Vanilla Sky (song)|Vanilla Sky]]" – ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Paul McCartney]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[75th Academy Awards|2002]]
| ''[[Shrek 2]]''
| '''"[[Lose Yourself]]" – ''[[8 Mile (movie)|8 Mile]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[Eminem]], [[Jeff Bass]], and [[Luis Resto (musician)|Luis Resto]]''' • Lyrics: '''Eminem'''
| "[[Accidentally in Love (song)|Accidentally in Love]]"
|
| [[Counting Crows]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Adam Duritz]] & [[Dan Vickrey]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "Burn It Blue" – ''[[Frida]]'' • Music: [[Elliot Goldenthal]] • Lyrics: [[Julie Taymor]]</small>
*<small> "[[Father and Daughter]]" – ''[[The Wild Thornberrys Movie]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Paul Simon]]</small>
*<small> "[[The Hands That Built America]]" – ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Bono]], [[The Edge]], [[Adam Clayton]] and [[Larry Mullen, Jr.]] ([[U2]])</small>
*<small> "[[I Move On]]" – ''[[Chicago (2002 movie)|Chicago]]'' • Music: [[John Kander]] • Lyrics: [[Fred Ebb]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[76th Academy Awards|2003]]
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | '''2005'''<br />{{small|[[78th Academy Awards|(78th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2006 |title=The 78th Academy Awards - 2006 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[Into the West (song)|Into the West]]" – ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Fran Walsh]], [[Howard Shore]], and [[Annie Lennox]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[Hustle & Flow]]'''''
*<small> "[[Belleville Rendez-vous (song)|Belleville Rendez-Vous]]" – ''[[Les Triplettes de Belleville|The Triplets of Belleville]]'' • Music: [[Benoît Charest]] • Lyrics: [[Sylvain Chomet]]</small>
| '''"[[It's Hard out Here for a Pimp]]"'''
*<small> "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" – ''[[A Mighty Wind]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Michael McKean]] and [[Annette O'Toole]]</small>
| '''[[Frayser Boy]], [[Juicy J]] & [[DJ Paul]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
*<small> "[[The Scarlet Tide|Scarlet Tide]]" – ''[[Cold Mountain (movie)|Cold Mountain]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[T-Bone Burnett]] and [[Elvis Costello]]</small>
*<small> "[[You Will Be My Ain True Love]]" – ''[[Cold Mountain (movie)|Cold Mountain]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[77th Academy Awards|2004]]
| ''[[Crash (2004 film)|Crash]]''
| '''"[[Al otro lado del río]]" – ''[[The Motorcycle Diaries (movie)|The Motorcycle Diaries]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Jorge Drexler]]'''
| "[[In the Deep]]"
|
| Michael Becker & [[Kathleen York|Bird York]] <small>(music)</small>; York <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Accidentally in Love]]" – ''[[Shrek 2]]'' • Music: [[Adam Duritz]], [[Charlie Gillingham]], [[Jim Bogios]], [[David Immerglück]], [[Matt Malley|Matthew Malley]] and [[David Bryson]] • Lyrics: [[Adam Duritz]] and [[Dan Vickrey|Daniel Vickrey]] (all of [[Counting Crows]])</small>
*<small> "[[Believe (The Polar Express song)|Believe]]" – ''[[The Polar Express (movie)|The Polar Express]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Glen Ballard]] and [[Alan Silvestri]]</small>
*<small> "[[Learn to Be Lonely]]" – ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (2004 movie)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'' • Music: [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] • Lyrics: [[Charles Hart (lyricist)|Charles Hart]]</small>
*<small> "[[Look to Your Path|Vois sur ton chemin (Look to Your Path)]]" – ''[[The Chorus (2004 movie)|The Chorus]]'' • Music: [[Bruno Coulais]] • Lyrics: [[Christophe Barratier]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[78th Academy Awards|2005]]
| ''[[Transamerica (film)|Transamerica]]''
| '''"[[It's Hard out Here for a Pimp]]" – ''[[Hustle & Flow]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Juicy J]], [[Frayser Boy]] and [[DJ Paul]]'''
| "Travelin' Thru"
|
| [[Dolly Parton]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[In the Deep]]" – ''[[Crash (2004 movie)|Crash]]'' • Music: [[Kathleen York]] and Michael Becker • Lyrics: [[Kathleen York]]</small>
*<small> "[[Travelin' Thru]]" – ''[[Transamerica (movie)|Transamerica]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Dolly Parton]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[79th Academy Awards|2006]]
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2006'''<br />{{small|[[79th Academy Awards|(79th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2007 |title=The 79th Academy Awards - 2007 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[I Need to Wake Up]]" – ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Melissa Etheridge]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'''''
*<small> "[[Listen (Beyoncé Knowles song)|Listen]]" – ''[[Dreamgirls (movie)|Dreamgirls]]'' • Music: [[Henry Krieger]] and [[Scott Cutler]] • Lyrics: [[Anne Preven]]</small>
| '''"[[I Need to Wake Up]]"'''
<!-- Do NOT add Beyoncé Knowles here.  She was credited as a co-writer of the song, but was left off the nomination under the Academy's "three-writer" rule. -->
| '''[[Melissa Etheridge]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
*<small> "[[Love You I Do]]" – ''[[Dreamgirls (movie)|Dreamgirls]]'' • Music: [[Henry Krieger]] • Lyrics: [[Siedah Garrett]]</small>
*<small> "[[Our Town (Randy Newman song)|Our Town]]" – ''[[Cars (2006 movie)|Cars]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Randy Newman]]</small>
*<small> "[[Patience (Dreamgirls song)|Patience]]" – ''[[Dreamgirls (movie)|Dreamgirls]]'' • Music: [[Henry Krieger]] • Lyrics: [[Willie Reale]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[80th Academy Awards|2007]]
| ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]''
| '''"[[Falling Slowly]]" – ''[[Once (movie)|Once]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Glen Hansard]] and [[Markéta Irglová]]'''
| "[[Our Town (James Taylor song)|Our Town]]"
|
| [[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Happy Working Song]]" – ''[[Enchanted (2007 movie)|Enchanted]]'' • Music: [[Alan Menken]] • Lyrics: [[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]]</small>
*<small> "[[Raise It Up (August Rush song)|Raise It Up]]" – ''[[August Rush]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Jamal Joseph (writer)|Jamal Joseph]], Charles Mack, and [[Tevin Thomas]]</small>
*<small> "[[So Close (Jon McLaughlin song)|So Close]]" – ''[[Enchanted (2007 movie)|Enchanted]]'' • Music: [[Alan Menken]] • Lyrics: [[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]]</small>
*<small> "[[That's How You Know (musical number)|That's How You Know]]" – ''[[Enchanted (2007 movie)|Enchanted]]'' • Music: [[Alan Menken]] • Lyrics: [[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[81st Academy Awards|2008]]
| rowspan=3|''[[Dreamgirls (film)|Dreamgirls]]''
| '''"[[Jai Ho (song)|Jai Ho]]" – ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'''''<br />– Music: '''[[A. R. Rahman]]''' • Lyrics: '''[[Gulzar]]'''
| "[[Listen (Beyoncé Knowles song)|Listen]]"
|
| [[Scott Cutler]] & [[Henry Krieger]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Anne Preven]] <small>(lyrics)</small> <!-- Do NOT add Beyoncé Knowles here. She was credited as a co-writer of the song, but was left off the nomination under the Academy's "three-writer" rule. -->
*<small> "[[Down to Earth (Peter Gabriel song)|Down to Earth]]" – ''[[WALL-E]]'' • Music: [[Peter Gabriel]] and [[Thomas Newman]] • Lyrics: [[Peter Gabriel]]</small>
|-
*<small> "[[O…Saya]]" – ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'' • Music and Lyrics: A. R. Rahman and [[M.I.A. (artist)|M.I.A.]]</small>
| "[[Love You I Do]]"
| Krieger <small>(music)</small>; [[Siedah Garrett]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| "[[Patience (Dreamgirls song)|Patience]]"
| Krieger <small>(music)</small>; [[Willie Reale]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2007'''<br />{{small|[[80th Academy Awards|(80th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2008 |title=The 80th Academy Awards - 2008 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Once (film)|Once]]'''''
| '''"[[Falling Slowly]]"'''
| '''[[Glen Hansard]] & [[Markéta Irglová]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[August Rush]]''
| "[[Raise It Up (August Rush song)|Raise It Up]]"
| [[Jamal Joseph]], Charles Mack & [[Tevin Thomas]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=3|''[[Enchanted (film)|Enchanted]]''
| "[[Happy Working Song]]"
| rowspan=3|[[Alan Menken]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| "[[So Close (Jon McLaughlin song)|So Close]]"
|-
| "[[That's How You Know (Disney song)|That's How You Know]]"
|-
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | '''2008'''<br />{{small|[[81st Academy Awards|(81st)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2009 |title=The 81st Academy Awards - 2009 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'''''
| '''"[[Jai Ho (song)|Jai Ho]]"'''
| '''[[A. R. Rahman]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Gulzar]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]''
| "[[O... Saya]]"
| Rahman & [[M.I.A. (rapper)|M.I.A.]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[WALL-E]]''
| "[[Down to Earth (Peter Gabriel song)|Down to Earth]]"
| [[Peter Gabriel]] & [[Thomas Newman]] <small>(music)</small>; Gabriel <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2009'''<br />{{small|[[82nd Academy Awards|(82nd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2010 |title=The 82nd Academy Awards - 2010 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Crazy Heart]]'''''
| '''"[[The Weary Kind]]"'''
| '''[[Ryan Bingham]] & [[T Bone Burnett]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Nine (2009 live-action film)|Nine]]''
| "[[Take It All (Nine song)|Take It All]]"
| [[Maury Yeston]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Paris 36]]''
| "Loin de Paname"
| Reinhardt Wagner <small>(music)</small>; Frank Thomas <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''
| "[[Almost There (The Princess and the Frog song)|Almost There]]"
| rowspan=2|[[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| "[[Down in New Orleans (song)|Down in New Orleans]]"
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[82nd Academy Awards|2009]]
| '''"[[The Weary Kind]]" – ''[[Crazy Heart]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Ryan Bingham]] and [[T-Bone Burnett]]'''
|
*<small> "[[Almost There (The Princess and the Frog song)|Almost There]]" – ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Randy Newman]]</small>
*<small> "[[Down in New Orleans (song)|Down in New Orleans]]" – ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Randy Newman]]</small>
*<small> "Loin de Paname" – ''[[Paris 36]]'' • Music: Reinhardt Wagner • Lyrics: Frank Thomas</small>
*<small> "Take It All" – ''[[Nine (2009 live-action movie)|Nine]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Maury Yeston]]</small>
|}
|}


===2010s===
===2010s===
{|class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="25%" | Song
! width="45%" | Nominees
|-
|-
!width="50"|Year
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | '''2010'''<br />{{small|[[83rd Academy Awards|(83rd)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2011 |title=The 83rd Academy Awards - 2011|publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
! style="width:450px;"|Winning songwriter(s)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! style="width:550px;"|Nominees
| '''''[[Toy Story 3]]'''''
| '''"[[We Belong Together (Randy Newman song)|We Belong Together]]"'''
| '''[[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[83rd Academy Awards|2010]]
| ''[[127 Hours]]''
| '''"[[We Belong Together (Randy Newman song)|We Belong Together]]" – ''[[Toy Story 3]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Randy Newman]]'''
| "[[If I Rise]]"
|
| [[A. R. Rahman]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Rollo Armstrong]] & [[Dido (singer)|Dido]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "Coming Home" – ''[[Country Strong]]'' • Music and Lyrics: Tom Douglas, [[Hillary Lindsey]], and [[Troy Verges]]</small>
<!-- Do NOT add Bob DiPiero here. He was credited as a co-writer of the song, but was left off the nomination under the Academy's "three-writer" rule. -->
*<small> "[[I See the Light]]" – ''[[Tangled]]'' • Music: [[Alan Menken]] • Lyrics: [[Glenn Slater]]</small>
*<small> "[[If I Rise]]" – ''[[127 Hours]]'' • Music: [[A. R. Rahman]] • Lyrics: [[Dido (singer)|Dido]] and [[Rollo Armstrong]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[84th Academy Awards|2011]]
| ''[[Country Strong]]''
| '''"[[Man or Muppet]]" – ''[[The Muppets (movie)|The Muppets]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Bret McKenzie]]'''
| "Coming Home"
|
| Tom Douglas, [[Hillary Lindsey]] & [[Troy Verges]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small> <!-- Do NOT add Bob DiPiero here. He was credited as a co-writer of the song, but was left off the nomination under the Academy's "three-writer" rule. -->
*<small> "[[Real in Rio]]" – ''[[Rio (2011 movie)|Rio]]'' • Music: [[Sérgio Mendes]] and [[Carlinhos Brown]] • Lyrics: [[Siedah Garrett]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[85th Academy Awards|2012]]
| ''[[Tangled]]''
| '''"[[Skyfall (song)|Skyfall]]" – ''[[Skyfall]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Adele]] and [[Paul Epworth]]'''
| "[[I See the Light]]"
|
| [[Alan Menken]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Glenn Slater]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "Before My Time" – ''[[Chasing Ice]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[J. Ralph]]</small>
*<small> "[[Everybody Needs a Best Friend]]" – ''[[Ted (movie)|Ted]]'' • Music: [[Walter Murphy]] • Lyrics: [[Seth MacFarlane]]</small>
*<small> "[[Pi's Lullaby]]" – ''[[Life of Pi (movie)|Life of Pi]]'' • Music: [[Mychael Danna]] • Lyrics: [[Bombay Jayashri]]</small>
*<small> "[[Suddenly (Les Misérables)|Suddenly]]" – ''[[Les Misérables (2012 movie)|Les Misérables]]'' • Music: [[Claude-Michel Schönberg]] • Lyrics: [[Herbert Kretzmer]] and [[Alain Boublil]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[86th Academy Awards|2013]]
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center" | '''2011'''<br />{{small|[[84th Academy Awards|(84th)]]}} <br/>
| '''"[[Let It Go (Disney song)|Let It Go]]" – ''[[Frozen (2013 movie)|Frozen]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Kristen Anderson-Lopez]] and [[Robert Lopez]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]]'''''
*<small> "[[Happy (Pharrell Williams song)|Happy]]" – ''[[Despicable Me 2]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Pharrell Williams]]</small>
| '''"[[Man or Muppet]]"'''
*<small> "[[The Moon Song]]" – ''[[Her (movie)|Her]]'' • Music: [[Karen O]] • Lyrics: [[Karen O]] and [[Spike Jonze]]</small>
| '''[[Bret McKenzie]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
*<small> "[[Ordinary Love (U2 song)|Ordinary Love]]" – ''[[Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom]]'' • Music: [[Bono]], [[The Edge]], [[Larry Mullen]], and [[Adam Clayton]] ([[U2]]) • Lyrics: [[Bono]]</small>
'''Note:''' A nomination for "[[Alone Yet Not Alone (song)|Alone Yet Not Alone]]" from the [[Alone Yet Not Alone|movie of the same name]], written by [[Bruce Broughton]] and [[Dennis Spiegel]], was revoked prior to voting when the Academy concluded that Broughton's request "For Your Consideration" was inconsistent with promotional regulations.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/academy-disqualifies-oscar-nominated-song-675480 |title=Academy Disqualifies Oscar-Nominated Song 'Alone Yet Not Alone' |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=January 29, 2014 |first=Scott |last=Feinberg}}</ref>
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|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[87th Academy Awards|2014]]
| ''[[Rio (2011 film)|Rio]]''
| '''"[[Glory (Common and John Legend song)|Glory]]" – ''[[Selma (movie)|Selma]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[John Legend]] and [[Common (rapper)|Common]]'''
| "Real in Rio"
|
| [[Carlinhos Brown]] & [[Sérgio Mendes]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Siedah Garrett]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
*<small> "[[Everything Is Awesome]]" – ''[[The Lego Movie]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Shawn Patterson (composer)|Shawn Patterson]] </small>
*<small> "[[Grateful (song)|Grateful]]" – ''[[Beyond the Lights]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Diane Warren]] </small>
*<small> "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" – ''[[Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Glen Campbell]] and Julian Raymond</small>
*<small> "[[Lost Stars]]" – ''[[Begin Again (movie)|Begin Again]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Gregg Alexander]] and [[Danielle Brisebois]]</small>
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[88th Academy Awards|2015]]
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2012'''<br />{{small|[[85th Academy Awards|(85th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2013 |title=The 85th Academy Awards - 2013 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
| '''"[[Writing's on the Wall (Sam Smith song)|Writing's on the Wall]]" – ''[[Spectre (2015 movie)|Spectre]]'''''<br />– Music and Lyrics: '''[[Jimmy Napes]] and [[Sam Smith (singer)|Sam Smith]]'''
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|
| '''''[[Skyfall]]'''''
*<small>"[[Earned It]]" from – ''[[Fifty Shades of Grey (movie)|Fifty Shades of Grey]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Belly (rapper)|Belly]], [[Stephan Moccio]], [[DaHeala]], and [[The Weeknd]]</small>
| '''"[[Skyfall (song)|Skyfall]]"'''
*<small>"[[Manta Ray (song)|Manta Ray]]" – ''[[Racing Extinction]]'' • Music: [[J. Ralph]] • Lyrics: [[Anohni]]</small>
| '''[[Adele]] & [[Paul Epworth]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
*<small>"[[Simple Song Number 3|Simple Song #3]]" – ''[[Youth (2015 movie)|Youth]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[David Lang (composer)|David Lang]]</small>
|-
*<small>"[[Til It Happens to You]]" – ''[[The Hunting Ground]]'' • Music and Lyrics: [[Lady Gaga]] and [[Diane Warren]]</small>
| ''[[Chasing Ice]]''
| "Before My Time"
| [[J. Ralph]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Les Misérables (2012 film)|Les Misérables]]''
| "[[Suddenly (Les Misérables)|Suddenly]]"
| [[Claude-Michel Schönberg]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Alain Boublil]] & [[Herbert Kretzmer]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Life of Pi (film)|Life of Pi]]''
| "[[Pi's Lullaby]]"
| [[Mychael Danna]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Bombay Jayashri]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Ted (film)|Ted]]''
| "[[Everybody Needs a Best Friend]]"
| [[Walter Murphy]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Seth MacFarlane]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | '''2013'''<br />{{small|[[86th Academy Awards|(86th)]]}} <br/>{{efn|On January 29, 2014, a nomination for "Alone yet Not Alone" from the [[Alone yet Not Alone|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.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/academy-disqualifies-oscar-nominated-song-675480/ |title=Academy Disqualifies Oscar-Nominated Song 'Alone Yet Not Alone' |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=January 29, 2014 |first=Scott |last=Feinberg}}</ref>}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2014 |title=The 86th Academy Awards - 2014 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Frozen (2013 film)|Frozen]]'''''
| '''"[[Let It Go (Disney song)|Let It Go]]"'''
| '''[[Kristen Anderson-Lopez]] & [[Robert Lopez]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Despicable Me 2]]''
| "[[Happy (Pharrell Williams song)|Happy]]"
| [[Pharrell Williams]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Her (film)|Her]]''
| "[[The Moon Song]]"
| [[Karen O]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Spike Jonze]] & O <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom]]''
| "[[Ordinary Love (U2 song)|Ordinary Love]]"
| [[U2]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Bono]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2014'''<br />{{small|[[87th Academy Awards|(87th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Selma (film)|Selma]]'''''
| '''"[[Glory (Common and John Legend song)|Glory]]"'''
| '''[[Common (rapper)|Common]] & [[John Legend]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Begin Again (film)|Begin Again]]''
| "[[Lost Stars]]"
| [[Gregg Alexander]] & [[Danielle Brisebois]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Beyond the Lights]]''
| "[[Grateful (Rita Ora song)|Grateful]]"
| [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me]]''
| "[[I'm Not Gonna Miss You]]"
| [[Glen Campbell]] & [[Julian Raymond]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Lego Movie]]''
| "[[Everything Is Awesome]]"
| [[Shawn Patterson (composer)|Shawn Patterson]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2015'''<br />{{small|[[88th Academy Awards|(88th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2016 |title=The 88th Academy Awards - 2016 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Spectre (2015 film)|Spectre]]'''''
| '''"[[Writing's on the Wall (Sam Smith song)|Writing's on the Wall]]"'''
| '''[[Jimmy Napes]] & [[Sam Smith]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Fifty Shades of Grey (film)|Fifty Shades of Grey]]''
| "[[Earned It]]"
| [[Belly (rapper)|Belly]], [[Jason Quenneville|DeHeala]], [[Stephan Moccio]] & [[The Weeknd]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Hunting Ground]]''
| "[[Til It Happens to You]]"
| [[Lady Gaga]] & [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Racing Extinction]]''
| "[[Manta Ray (song)|Manta Ray]]"
| [[J. Ralph]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Anohni]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Youth (2015 film)|Youth]]''
| "[[Simple Song Number 3|Simple Song #3]]"
| [[David Lang (composer)|David Lang]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2016'''<br />{{small|[[89th Academy Awards|(89th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2017 |title=The 89th Academy Awards - 2017 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[La La Land]]'''''
| '''"[[City of Stars]]"'''
| '''[[Justin Hurwitz]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Pasek and Paul|Benj Pasek & Justin Paul]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Jim: The James Foley Story]]''
| "[[The Empty Chair (song)|The Empty Chair]]"
| [[J. Ralph]] & [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''La La Land''
| "[[Audition (The Fools Who Dream)]]"
|  Hurwitz <small>(music)</small>; Pasek & Paul <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Moana (2016 film)|Moana]]''
| "[[How Far I'll Go]]"
| [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Trolls (film)|Trolls]]''
| "[[Can't Stop the Feeling!]]"
| [[Max Martin]], [[Shellback (record producer)|Shellback]] & [[Justin Timberlake]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2017'''<br />{{small|[[90th Academy Awards|(90th)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://oscar.go.com/nominees |title=The 90th Academy Awards - 2018 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 22, 2018 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Coco (2017 film)|Coco]]'''''
| '''"[[Remember Me (Coco song)|Remember Me]]"'''
| '''[[Kristen Anderson-Lopez]] & [[Robert Lopez]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]''
| "[[Mystery of Love]]"
| [[Sufjan Stevens]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Greatest Showman]]''
| "[[This Is Me (Keala Settle song)|This Is Me]]"
| [[Pasek and Paul|Benj Pasek & Justin Paul]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Marshall (film)|Marshall]]''
| "[[Stand Up for Something]]"
| [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Common (rapper)|Common]] & Warren <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Mudbound (film)|Mudbound]]''
| "[[Mighty River (song)|Mighty River]]"
| [[Mary J. Blige]], [[Raphael Saadiq]] & [[Taura Stinson]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2018'''<br />{{small|[[91st Academy Awards|(91st)]]}} <br/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://oscar.go.com/nominees |title=The 91st Academy Awards - 2019 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 22, 2019 }}</ref>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[A Star Is Born (2018 film)|A Star Is Born]]'''''
| '''"[[Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)|Shallow]]"'''
| '''[[Lady Gaga]], [[Mark Ronson]], [[Anthony Rossomando]] & [[Andrew Wyatt]] ''' <small>'''(music & lyrics)'''</small>
|-
| ''[[The Ballad of Buster Scruggs]]''
| "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings"
| [[David Rawlings]] & [[Gillian Welch]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Black Panther (film)|Black Panther]]''
| "[[All the Stars]]"
| [[Kendrick Lamar]], [[Sounwave]] & Anthony Tiffith <small>(music)</small>; Lamar, [[SZA (singer)|SZA]] & Tiffith <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Mary Poppins Returns]]''
| "[[The Place Where Lost Things Go]]"
| [[Marc Shaiman]] <small>(music)</small>; Shaiman & [[Scott Wittman]] <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[RBG (film)|RBG]]''
| "I'll Fight"
| [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''2019'''<br />{{small|[[92nd Academy Awards|(92nd)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Rocketman (film)|Rocketman]]'''''
| '''"[[(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again]]"'''
| '''[[Elton John]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Bernie Taupin]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Breakthrough (2019 film)|Breakthrough]]''
| "I'm Standing with You"
| [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Frozen II]]''
| "[[Into the Unknown (song)|Into the Unknown]]"
| [[Kristen Anderson-Lopez]] & [[Robert Lopez]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Harriet (film)|Harriet]]''
| "[[Stand Up (Cynthia Erivo song)|Stand Up]]"
| Joshuah Brian Campbell & [[Cynthia Erivo]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Toy Story 4]]''
| "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away"
| [[Randy Newman]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|}
 
===2020s===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="25%" | Song
! width="45%" | Nominees
|-
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | '''[[2020 in film|2020/21]]'''<br />{{small|[[93rd Academy Awards|(93rd)]]}} <br/>
| style="background:#FAEB86" | '''''[[Judas and the Black Messiah]]'''''
| style="background:#FAEB86" | '''"[[Fight for You (H.E.R. song)|Fight for You]]"'''
| style="background:#FAEB86" | '''[[D'Mile]] & [[H.E.R.]] <small>(music)</small>; H.E.R. & [[Tiara Thomas]] <small>(lyrics)</small>'''
|-
| ''[[Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga]]''
| "[[Husavik (song)|Husavik]]"
| [[Rickard Göransson]], Fat Max Gsus & [[Savan Kotecha]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Life Ahead]]''
| "[[Io sì (Seen)]]"
| [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Laura Pausini]] & Warren <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[One Night in Miami...]]''
| "Speak Now"
| [[Sam Ashworth (songwriter)|Sam Ashworth]] & [[Leslie Odom Jr.]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[The Trial of the Chicago 7]]''
| "Hear My Voice"
| [[Daniel Pemberton]] <small>(music)</small>; [[Celeste (singer)|Celeste]] & Pemberton <small>(lyrics)</small>
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[2021 in film|2021]]'''<br />{{small|[[94th Academy Awards|(94th)]]}} <br/>
| style="background:#FAEB86" | '''''[[No Time to Die]]'''''
| style="background:#FAEB86" | '''"[[No Time to Die (song)|No Time to Die]]"'''
| style="background:#FAEB86" | '''[[Billie Eilish]] & [[Finneas O'Connell]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small> '''
|-
| ''[[Belfast (film)|Belfast]]''
| "Down to Joy"
| [[Van Morrison]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Encanto]]''
| "[[Dos Oruguitas]]"
| [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[Four Good Days]]''
| "Somehow You Do"
| [[Diane Warren]] <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|-
| ''[[King Richard (film)|King Richard]]''
| "[[Be Alive]]"
| [[Beyoncé]] & Dixson <small>(music & lyrics)</small>
|}
|}
==Notes==
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==Records==
===Winners of multiple awards===
: ''Number of nominations in parentheses''
*4: [[Sammy Cahn]] (25) (lyricist)
*4: [[Johnny Mercer]] (18) (16 as lyricist, 2 as composer and lyricist)
*4: [[Alan Menken]] (14) (composer)
*4: [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] (14) (composer)
*3: [[Paul Francis Webster]] (16) (lyricist)
*3: [[Harry Warren]] (11) (composer)
*3: [[Ray Evans]] (7) (composer and lyricist)
*3: [[Jay Livingston]] (7) (composer and lyricist)
*3: [[Tim Rice]] (5) (lyricist)
*2: [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman]] (15) (lyricist)
*2: [[Randy Newman]] (13) (composer and lyricist)
*2: [[Henry Mancini]] (11) (composer)
*2: [[Ned Washington]] (11) (lyricist)
*2: [[Sammy Fain]] (10) (composer)
*2: [[Howard Ashman]] (7) (lyricist)
*2: [[Jerome Kern]] (7) (composer)
*2: [[Burt Bacharach]] (5) (composer)
*2: [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] (5) (lyricist)
*2: [[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]] (5) (1 as lyricist, 1 as composer and lyricist)
*2: [[Elton John]] (4) (composer)
*2: [[Joel Hirschhorn]] (3) (composer and lyricist)
*2: [[Will Jennings]] (3) (lyricist)
*2: [[Al Kasha]] (3) (composer and lyricist)
*2: [[Kristen Anderson-Lopez]] (3) (composer and lyricist)
*2: [[Robert Lopez]] (3) (composer and lyricist)
*2: [[Giorgio Moroder]] (2) (composer)
===Most nominations without a win===
* 13: [[Diane Warren]] (composer and lyricist)
* 8: [[Mack David]] (lyricist)
* 5: [[Harold Adamson]] (lyricist)
* 5: [[Nicholas Brodszky]] (composer)
* 4: [[Elmer Bernstein]] (composer)
* 4: [[James V. Monaco]] (composer)
* 4: [[Cole Porter]] (composer and lyricist)
* 4: [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] (composer and lyricist)
* 4: [[John Williams]] (composer)
* 3: [[Bryan Adams]] (composer and lyricist)
* 3: [[George Forrest (author)|George Forrest]] (lyricist)
* 3: [[David Foster]] (composer)
* 3: [[Kim Gannon]] (lyricist)
* 3: [[Ira Gershwin]] (lyricist)
* 3: [[Quincy Jones]] (composer)
* 3: [[Henry Krieger]] (composer)
* 3: [[Robert John "Mutt" Lange]] (composer and lyricist)
* 3: [[Jerry Livingston]] (composer)
* 3: [[Dory Previn]] (lyricist)
* 3: [[J. Ralph]] (composer)
* 3: [[Marc Shaiman]] (composer and lyricist)
* 3: [[Victor Young]] (composer)
* 2: [[Frank Churchill]] (composer)
* 2: [[Bill Conti]] (composer)
* 2: [[Fred Ebb]] (lyricist)
* 2: [[James Ingram]] (composer and lyricist)
* 2: [[John Kander]] (composer)
* 2: [[Alfred Newman (composer)|Alfred Newman]] (composer)
* 2: [[Lionel Newman]] (composer)
* 2: [[James Newton Howard]] (composer)
* 2: [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]] (composer and lyricist)
* 2: [[Dolly Parton]] (composer and lyricist)
===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 [[33rd Academy Awards|1960]] for "[[Never on Sunday (song)|Never on Sunday]]" (Greek title "Ta Paidia toy Peiraia") from the [[Greece|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 (film)|The Motorcycle Diaries]]'' in [[77th Academy Awards nominees and winners|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 (2004 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 (song)|Jai Ho]]" from ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'', at the [[81st Academy Awards]] in 2008. That same year, "[[O... Saya]]", another partly Hindi song from the same film by Rahman and [[M.I.A. (artist)|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==
==References==
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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 typically performed during the ceremony and before this award is presented.

Academy Award for Best Original Song
CountryUnited States
Presented byAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awarded1934
Most recent winnerFinneas O'Connell, Billie Eilish
"No Time to Die" (2021)
Websiteoscars.org

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. Fifteen songs are shortlisted before nominations are announced.

EligibilityEdit

As of 2019, the Academy's rules stipulate that "an original song consists of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the motion picture. There must be a clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition (not necessarily visually presented) of both lyric and melody, used in the body of the motion picture or as the first music cue in the end credits."[1]

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. Kern was upset because he thought that "Blues in the Night" by Harold Arlen (Music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) should have won. Kern's 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.[2][3] Songs that rely on sampled or reworked material along with cover versions, remixes and parodies, such as "Gangsta's Paradise" (which samples "Pastime Paradise" by Stevie Wonder) 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" had 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. It was also used in the movie Beauty in Trouble and released on its soundtrack in September 2006. 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".[4] 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.[3]

Number of nominations and submissionsEdit

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.[citation needed] 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.[5][6]

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 number received by the Academy there would be five, three or no nominations each year.[7] 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 Enchanted's 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.[8] While up to five songs from a single film can be submitted, studios sometimes submit only one, for fear that having two nominated might split the vote.[9] By the time "We Don't Talk About Bruno" became the breakout hit from Encanto, the producers had for the 2021 Oscars submitted "Dos Oruguitas", which was nominated but did not win.[9]

Performances at the awards ceremonyEdit

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. (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".

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.[10]

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.[11]

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.[12] 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).[13] 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 by Adele. 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.[14]

It was originally announced that the 91st Academy Awards would only feature two live performances due to time constraints: "Shallow" from A Star is Born and "All the Stars" from Black Panther.[15] However, this decision was reversed days later.[16] It was announced soon after that Kendrick Lamar and SZA would no longer perform due to "logistics and timing" issues, making "All the Stars" the only nominee of the four not to be performed live.[17] Rapper Eminem's song "Lose Yourself", which won the award in 2003, was the only nominated song not performed at the ceremony that year. Eminem later gave a surprise performance of the song at the Oscars in 2020. He received a standing ovation following his performance.[18]

In 2021, performances of the nominees for Best Original Song are shown during the ceremony's pre-show, Oscars: Into the Spotlight. The live performances returned for the next year's ceremony.

Winners and nomineesEdit

1930sEdit

Year Film Song Nominees
1934
(7th)
[19]
The Gay Divorcee "The Continental" Con Conrad (music); Herb Magidson (lyrics)
Flying Down to Rio "Carioca" Vincent Youmans (music); Edward Eliscu & Gus Kahn (lyrics)
She Loves Me Not "Love in Bloom" Ralph Rainger (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1935
(8th)
[20]
Gold Diggers of 1935 "Lullaby of Broadway" Harry Warren (music); Al Dubin (lyrics)
Roberta "Lovely to Look At" Jerome Kern (music); Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh (lyrics)
Top Hat "Cheek to Cheek" Irving Berlin (music & lyrics)
1936
(9th)
[21]
Swing Time "The Way You Look Tonight" Jerome Kern (music); Dorothy Fields (lyrics)
Born to Dance "I've Got You Under My Skin" Cole Porter (music & lyrics)
Pennies from Heaven "Pennies from Heaven" Arthur Johnston (music); Johnny Burke (lyrics)
Sing, Baby, Sing "When Did You Leave Heaven" Richard A. Whiting (music); Walter Bullock (lyrics)
Suzy "Did I Remember" Walter Donaldson (music); Harold Adamson (lyrics)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine "A Melody from the Sky" Louis Alter (music); Sidney D. Mitchell (lyrics)
1937
(10th)
[22]
Waikiki Wedding "Sweet Leilani" Harry Owens (music & lyrics)
Artists and Models "Whispers in the Dark" Friedrich Hollaender (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air "Remember Me" Harry Warren (music); Al Dubin (lyrics)
Shall We Dance "They Can't Take That Away from Me" George Gershwin (p.n.) (music); Ira Gershwin (lyrics)
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 "That Old Feeling" Sammy Fain (music); Lew Brown (lyrics)
1938
(11th)
[23]
The Big Broadcast of 1938 "Thanks for the Memory" Ralph Rainger (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
Alexander's Ragtime Band "Now It Can Be Told" Irving Berlin (music & lyrics)
Carefree "Change Partners"
The Cowboy and the Lady "The Cowboy and the Lady" Lionel Newman (music); Arthur Quenzer (lyrics)
Going Places "Jeepers Creepers" Harry Warren (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
The Lady Objects "A Mist Over the Moon" Ben Oakland (music); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
Mannequin "Always and Always" Edward Ward (music); Chet Forrest & Bob Wright (lyrics)
Merrily We Live "Merrily We Live" Phil Charig (music); Quenzer (lyrics)
That Certain Age "My Own" Jimmy McHugh (music); Harold Adamson (lyrics)
Under Western Stars "Dust" Johnny Marvin (music and lyrics)
1939
(12th)
[24]
The Wizard of Oz "Over the Rainbow" Harold Arlen (music); Yip Harburg (lyrics)
Gulliver's Travels "Faithful Forever" Ralph Rainger (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
Love Affair "Wishing" Buddy DeSylva (music and lyrics)
Second Fiddle "I Poured My Heart into a Song" Irving Berlin (music and lyrics)

1940sEdit

Year Film Song Nominees
1940
(13th)
[25]
Pinocchio "When You Wish Upon a Star" Leigh Harline (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
Down Argentine Way "Down Argentine Way" Harry Warren (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
Hit Parade of 1941 "Who Am I?" Jule Styne (music); Walter Bullock (lyrics)
Music in My Heart "It's a Blue World" Chet Forrest & Bob Wright (music & lyrics)
Rhythm on the River "Only Forever" James V. Monaco (music); John Burke (lyrics)
Second Chorus "Love of My Life" Artie Shaw (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Spring Parade "Waltzing in the Clouds" Robert Stolz (music); Gus Kahn (lyrics)
Strike Up the Band "Our Love Affair" Roger Edens & Arthur Freed (music & lyrics)
You'll Find Out "I'd Know You Anywhere" Jimmy McHugh (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
1941
(14th)
[26]
Lady Be Good "The Last Time I Saw Paris" Jerome Kern (music); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
All-American Co-ed "Out of the Silence" Lloyd B. Norlin (music and lyrics)
Blues in the Night "Blues in the Night" Harold Arlen (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Buck Privates "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" Hughie Prince (music); Don Raye (lyrics)
Dumbo "Baby Mine" Frank Churchill (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
Las Vegas Nights "Dolores" Louis Alter (music); Frank Loesser (lyrics)
Ridin' on a Rainbow "Be Honest with Me" Gene Autry & Fred Rose (music & lyrics)
Sun Valley Serenade "Chattanooga Choo Choo" Harry Warren (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
You'll Never Get Rich "Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye" Cole Porter (music & lyrics)
1942
(15th)
[27]
Holiday Inn "White Christmas" Irving Berlin (music & lyrics)
Always in My Heart "Always in My Heart" Ernesto Lecuona (music); Kim Gannon (lyrics)
Babes on Broadway "How About You?" Burton Lane (music); Ralph Freed (lyrics)
Bambi "Love Is a Song" Frank Churchill (p.n.) (music); Larry Morey (lyrics)
Flying with Music "Pennies for Peppino" Edward Ward (music); Chet Forrest & Bob Wright (lyrics)
Hellzapoppin' [lower-alpha 1] "Pig Foot Pete" Gene de Paul (music); Don Raye (lyrics)
The Mayor of 44th Street "There's a Breeze on Lake Louise" Harry Revel (music); Mort Greene (lyrics)
Orchestra Wives "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo" Harry Warren (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
You Were Never Lovelier "Dearly Beloved" Jerome Kern (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Youth on Parade "I've Heard That Song Before" Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1943
(16th)
[28]
Hello, Frisco, Hello "You'll Never Know" Harry Warren (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
Cabin in the Sky "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" Harold Arlen (music); Yip Harburg (lyrics)
Hers to Hold "Say a Pray'r for the Boys Over There" Jimmy McHugh (music); Herb Magidson (lyrics)
Hit Parade of 1943 "Change of Heart" Jule Styne (music); Harold Adamson (lyrics)
Saludos Amigos "Saludos Amigos" Charles Wolcott (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
The Sky's the Limit "My Shining Hour" Arlen (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Something to Shout About "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" Cole Porter (music & lyrics)
Stage Door Canteen "We Mustn't Say Goodbye" James V. Monaco (music); Al Dubin (lyrics)
Star Spangled Rhythm "That Old Black Magic" [lower-alpha 2] Harold Arlen (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Thank Your Lucky Stars "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" Arthur Schwartz (music); Frank Loesser (lyrics)
1944
(17th)
[29]
Going My Way "Swinging on a Star" Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Johnny Burke (lyrics)
Brazil "Rio de Janeiro" Ary Barroso (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
Cover Girl "Long Ago (and Far Away)" Jerome Kern (music); Ira Gershwin (lyrics)
Follow the Boys "I'll Walk Alone" Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
Higher and Higher "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" Jimmy McHugh (music); Harold Adamson (lyrics)
Hollywood Canteen "Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart" M. K. Jerome (music); Ted Koehler (lyrics)
Lady, Let's Dance "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams" Lew Pollack (music); Charles Newman (lyrics)
Meet Me in St. Louis "The Trolley Song" Ralph Blane & Hugh Martin (music & lyrics)
Minstrel Man "Remember Me to Carolina" Harry Revel (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
Song of the Open Road "Too Much in Love" Walter Kent (music); Kim Gannon (lyrics)
Sweet and Low-Down "I'm Making Believe" James V. Monaco (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
Up in Arms "Now I Know" Harold Arlen (music); Ted Koehler (lyrics)
1945
(18th)
[30]
State Fair "It Might as Well Be Spring" Richard Rodgers (music); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
Anchors Aweigh "I Fall in Love Too Easily" Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
Belle of the Yukon "Sleighride in July" Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Johnny Burke (lyrics)
The Bells of St. Mary's "Aren't You Glad You're You?"
Can't Help Singing "More and More" Jerome Kern (p.n.) (music); Yip Harburg (lyrics)
Earl Carroll Vanities "Endlessly" Walter Kent (music); Kim Gannon (lyrics)
Here Come the Waves "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" Harold Arlen (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Love Letters "Love Letters" Victor Young (music); Edward Heyman (lyrics)
San Antonio "Some Sunday Morning" Ray Heindorf & M. K. Jerome (music); Ted Koehler (lyrics)
Sing Your Way Home "I'll Buy That Dream" Allie Wrubel (music); Herb Magidson (lyrics)
The Story of G.I. Joe "Linda" Ann Ronell (music & lyrics)
Tonight and Every Night "Anywhere" Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
Why Girls Leave Home "The Cat and the Canary" Jay Livingston (music); Ray Evans (lyrics)
Wonder Man "So in Love" David Rose (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1946
(19th)
[31]
The Harvey Girls "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" Harry Warren (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Blue Skies "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" Irving Berlin (music & lyrics)
Canyon Passage "Ole Buttermilk Sky" Hoagy Carmichael (music); Jack Brooks (lyrics)
Centennial Summer "All Through the Day" Jerome Kern (p.n.) (music); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
The Dolly Sisters "I Can't Begin to Tell You" James V. Monaco (p.n.) (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
1947
(20th)
[32]
Song of the South "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" Allie Wrubel (music); Ray Gilbert (lyrics)
Good News "Pass That Peace Pipe" Ralph Blane, Roger Edens & Hugh Martin (music & lyrics)
Mother Wore Tights "You Do" Josef Myrow (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
The Perils of Pauline "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" Frank Loesser (music & lyrics)
The Time, the Place and the Girl "A Gal in Calico" Arthur Schwartz (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1948
(21st)
[33]
The Paleface "Buttons and Bows" Ray Evans & Jay Livingston (music & lyrics)
Casbah "For Every Man There's a Woman" Harold Arlen (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
Romance on the High Seas "It's Magic" Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
That Lady in Ermine "This Is the Moment" Friedrich Hollaender (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
Wet Blanket Policy "The Woody Woodpecker Song" Ramey Idriss & George Tibbles (music & lyrics)
1949
(22nd)
[34]
Neptune's Daughter "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Frank Loesser (music & lyrics)
Come to the Stable "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" Alfred Newman (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
It's a Great Feeling "It's a Great Feeling" Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
My Foolish Heart "My Foolish Heart" Victor Young (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
So Dear to My Heart "Lavender Blue" Eliot Daniel (music); Larry Morey (lyrics)

1950sEdit

Year Film Song Nominees
1950
(23rd)
[35]
Captain Carey, U.S.A. "Mona Lisa" Ray Evans & Jay Livingston (music & lyrics)
Cinderella "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" Mack David, Al Hoffman & Jerry Livingston (music & lyrics)
Singing Guns "Mule Train" Fred Glickman, Hy Heath & Johnny Lange (music & lyrics)
The Toast of New Orleans "Be My Love" Slug Brodszky (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
Wabash Avenue "Wilhelmina" Josef Myrow (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics)
1951
(24th)
[36]
Here Comes the Groom "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" Hoagy Carmichael (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Golden Girl "Never" Lionel Newman (music); Eliot Daniel (lyrics)
Rich, Young and Pretty "Wonder Why" Slug Brodszky (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
Royal Wedding "Too Late Now" Burton Lane (music); Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)
The Strip "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" Bert Kalmar (p.n.), Oscar Hammerstein II & Harry Ruby (music & lyrics)
1952
(25th)
[37]
High Noon "The Ballad of High Noon" Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
Because You're Mine "Because You're Mine" Slug Brodszky (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
Hans Christian Andersen "Thumbelina" Frank Loesser (music & lyrics)
Just for You "Zing a Little Zong" Harry Warren (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
Son of Paleface "Am I in Love" Jack Brooks (music & lyrics)
1953
(26th)
[38]
Calamity Jane "Secret Love" Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
The Caddy "That's Amore" Harry Warren (music); Jack Brooks (lyrics)
Miss Sadie Thompson "Blue Pacific Blues" Lester Lee (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
The Moon Is Blue "The Moon Is Blue" Herschel Burke Gilbert (music); Sylvia Fine (lyrics)
Small Town Girl "My Flaming Heart" Slug Brodszky (music); Leo Robin (lyrics)
1954
(27th)
[39]
Three Coins in the Fountain "Three Coins in the Fountain" Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
The High and the Mighty "The High and the Mighty" Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
A Star Is Born "The Man That Got Away" Harold Arlen (music); Ira Gershwin (lyrics)
Susan Slept Here "Hold My Hand" Jack Lawrence & Richard Myers (music & lyrics)
White Christmas "Count Your Blessings" Irving Berlin (music & lyrics)
1955
(28th)
[40]
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
Daddy Long Legs "Something's Gotta Give" Johnny Mercer (music & lyrics)
Love Me or Leave Me "I'll Never Stop Loving You" Slug Brodszky (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
The Tender Trap "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Cahn (lyrics)
Unchained "Unchained Melody" Alex North (music); Hy Zaret (lyrics)
1956
(29th)
[41]
The Man Who Knew Too Much "Que Sera, Sera" Ray Evans & Jay Livingston (music & lyrics)
Friendly Persuasion "Friendly Persuasion" Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
High Society "True Love" Cole Porter (music & lyrics)
Julie "Julie" Leith Stevens (music); Tom Adair (lyrics)
Written on the Wind "Written on the Wind" Victor Young (p.n.) (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1957
(30th)
[42]
The Joker Is Wild "All the Way" Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
An Affair to Remember "An Affair to Remember" Harry Warren (music); Harold Adamson & Leo McCarey (lyrics)
April Love "April Love" Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
Tammy and the Bachelor "Tammy" Ray Evans & Jay Livingston (music & lyrics)
Wild Is the Wind "Wild Is the Wind" Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1958
(31st)
[43]
Gigi "Gigi" Frederick Loewe (music); Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)
A Certain Smile "A Certain Smile" Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
Houseboat "Almost in Your Arms" Ray Evans & Jay Livingston (music & lyrics)
Marjorie Morningstar "A Very Precious Love" Fain (music); Webster (lyrics)
Some Came Running "To Love and Be Loved" Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1959
(32nd)
[44]
A Hole in the Head "High Hopes" Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
The Best of Everything "The Best of Everything" Alfred Newman (music); Cahn (lyrics)
The Five Pennies "The Five Pennies" Sylvia Fine (music & lyrics)
The Hanging Tree "The Hanging Tree" Jerry Livingston (music); Mack David (lyrics)
The Young Land "Strange Are the Ways of Love" Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)

1960sEdit

Year Film Song Nominees
1960
(33rd)
[45]
Never on Sunday "Never on Sunday" Manos Hatzidakis (music & lyrics)
The Alamo "The Green Leaves of Summer" Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
The Facts of Life "The Facts of Life" Johnny Mercer (music & lyrics)
High Time "The Second Time Around" Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
Pepe "Faraway Part of Town" André Previn (music); Dory Previn (lyrics)
1961
(34th)
[46]
Breakfast at Tiffany's "Moon River" Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Bachelor in Paradise "Bachelor in Paradise" Mancini (music); Mack David (lyrics)
El Cid "The Falcon and the Dove" Miklós Rózsa (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
Pocketful of Miracles "Pocketful of Miracles" Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
Town Without Pity "Town Without Pity" Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Ned Washington (lyrics)
1962
(35th)
[47]
Days of Wine and Roses "Days of Wine and Roses" Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Mutiny on the Bounty "Follow Me" Bronisław Kaper (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
Tender Is the Night "Tender Is the Night" Sammy Fain (music); Webster (lyrics)
Two for the Seesaw "Second Chance" André Previn (music); Dory Previn (lyrics)
Walk on the Wild Side "Walk on the Wild Side" Elmer Bernstein (music); Mack David (lyrics)
1963
(36th)
[48]
Papa's Delicate Condition "Call Me Irresponsible" Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
55 Days at Peking "So Little Time" Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
Charade "Charade" Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" Ernest Gold (music); Mack David (lyrics)
Mondo Cane "More" Nino Oliviero & Riz Ortolani (music); Norman Newell (lyrics)
1964
(37th)
[49]
Mary Poppins "Chim Chim Cher-ee" Sherman Brothers (music & lyrics)
Dear Heart "Dear Heart" Henry Mancini (music); Ray Evans & Jay Livingston (lyrics)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" De Vol (music); Mack David (lyrics)
Robin and the 7 Hoods "My Kind of Town" Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
Where Love Has Gone "Where Love Has Gone"
1965
(38th)
[50]
The Sandpiper "The Shadow of Your Smile" Johnny Mandel (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
Cat Ballou "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" Jerry Livingston (music); Mack David (lyrics)
The Great Race "The Sweetheart Tree" Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg "I Will Wait for You" Michel Legrand (music); Jacques Demy (lyrics); Norman Gimbel (English lyrics)
What's New Pussycat? "What's New Pussycat?" Burt Bacharach (music); Hal David (lyrics)
1966
(39th)
[51]
Born Free "Born Free" John Barry (music); Don Black (lyrics)
Alfie "Alfie" Burt Bacharach (music); Hal David (lyrics)
An American Dream "A Time for Love" Johnny Mandel (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
Georgy Girl "Georgy Girl" Tom Springfield (music); Jim Dale (lyrics)
Hawaii "My Wishing Doll" Elmer Bernstein (music); Mack David (lyrics)
1967
(40th)
[52]
Doctor Dolittle "Talk to the Animals" Leslie Bricusse (music & lyrics)
Banning "The Eyes of Love" Quincy Jones (music); Bob Russell (lyrics)
Casino Royale "The Look of Love" Burt Bacharach (music); Hal David (lyrics)
The Jungle Book "The Bare Necessities" Terry Gilkyson (music & lyrics)
Thoroughly Modern Millie "Thoroughly Modern Millie" Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen (music & lyrics)
1968
(41st)
[53]
The Thomas Crown Affair "The Windmills of Your Mind" Michel Legrand (music); Alan & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Sherman Brothers (music & lyrics)
For Love of Ivy "For Love of Ivy" Quincy Jones (music); Bob Russell (lyrics)
Funny Girl "Funny Girl" Jule Styne (music); Bob Merrill (lyrics)
Star! "Star!" Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1969
(42nd)
[54]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" Burt Bacharach (music); Hal David (lyrics)
The Happy Ending "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" Michel Legrand (music); Alan & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie "Jean" Rod McKuen (music & lyrics)
The Sterile Cuckoo "Come Saturday Morning" Fred Karlin (music); Dory Previn (lyrics)
True Grit "True Grit" Elmer Bernstein (music); Don Black (lyrics)

1970sEdit

Year Film Song Nominees
1970
(43rd)
[55]
Lovers and Other Strangers "For All We Know" Fred Karlin (music); Jimmy Griffin & Robb Royer (lyrics)
Darling Lili "Whistling Away the Dark" Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Madron "Till Love Touches Your Life" Riz Ortolani (music); Arthur Hamilton (lyrics)
Pieces of Dreams "Pieces of Dreams" Michel Legrand (music); Alan & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
Scrooge "Thank You Very Much" Leslie Bricusse (music & lyrics)
1971
(44th)
[56]
Shaft "Theme from Shaft" Isaac Hayes (music & lyrics)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks "The Age of Not Believing" Sherman Brothers (music & lyrics)
Bless the Beasts & Children "Bless the Beasts & Children" Perry Botkin Jr. & Barry De Vorzon (music and lyrics)
Kotch "Life Is What You Make It" Marvin Hamlisch (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Sometimes a Great Notion "All His Children" Henry Mancini (music); Alan & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1972
(45th)
[57]
The Poseidon Adventure "The Morning After" Joel Hirschhorn & Al Kasha (music & lyrics)
Ben "Ben" Walter Scharf (music); Don Black (lyrics)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" Maurice Jarre (music); Alan & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
The Little Ark "Come Follow, Follow Me" Fred Karlin (music); Marsha Karlin (lyrics)
The Stepmother "Strange Are the Ways of Love" Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
1973
(46th)
[58]
The Way We Were "The Way We Were" Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
Cinderella Liberty "Nice to Be Around" John Williams (music); Paul Williams (lyrics)
Live and Let Die "Live and Let Die" Linda & Paul McCartney (music & lyrics)
Robin Hood "Love" George Bruns (music); Floyd Huddleston (lyrics)
A Touch of Class "All That Love Went to Waste" George Barrie (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1974
(47th)
[59]
The Towering Inferno "We May Never Love Like This Again" Joel Hirschhorn & Al Kasha (music & lyrics)
Benji "I Feel Love" Euel Box (music); Betty Box (lyrics)
Blazing Saddles "Blazing Saddles" John Morris (music); Mel Brooks (lyrics)
Gold "Wherever Love Takes Me" Elmer Bernstein (music); Don Black (lyrics)
The Little Prince "Little Prince" Frederick Loewe (music); Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)
1975
(48th)
[60]
Nashville "I'm Easy" Keith Carradine (music & lyrics)
Funny Lady "How Lucky Can You Get" Fred Ebb & John Kander (music & lyrics)
Mahogany "Do You Know Where You're Going To" Michael Masser (music); Gerry Goffin (lyrics)
The Other Side of the Mountain "Richard's Window" Charles Fox (music); Norman Gimbel (lyrics)
Whiffs "Now That We're in Love" George Barrie (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
1976
(49th)
[61]
A Star Is Born "Evergreen" Barbra Streisand (music); Paul Williams (lyrics)
Half a House "A World That Never Was" Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
The Omen "Ave Satani" Jerry Goldsmith (music & lyrics)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again "Come to Me" Henry Mancini (music); Don Black (lyrics)
Rocky "Gonna Fly Now" Bill Conti (music); Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins (lyrics)
1977
(50th)
[62]
You Light Up My Life "You Light Up My Life" Joseph Brooks (music & lyrics)
Pete's Dragon "Candle on the Water" Joel Hirschhorn & Al Kasha (music & lyrics)
The Rescuers "Someone's Waiting for You" Sammy Fain (music); Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins (lyrics)
The Slipper and the Rose "He/She Danced with Me" Sherman Brothers (music & lyrics)
The Spy Who Loved Me "Nobody Does It Better" Marvin Hamlisch (music); Carole Bayer Sager (lyrics)
1978
(51st)
[63]
Thank God It's Friday "Last Dance" Paul Jabara (music & lyrics)
Foul Play "Ready to Take a Chance Again" Charles Fox (music); Norman Gimbel (lyrics)
Grease "Hopelessly Devoted to You" John Farrar (music & lyrics)
The Magic of Lassie "When You're Loved" Sherman Brothers (music & lyrics)
Same Time, Next Year "The Last Time I Felt Like This" Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
1979
(52nd)
[64]
Norma Rae "It Goes Like It Goes" David Shire (music); Norman Gimbel (lyrics)
10 "It's Easy to Say" Henry Mancini (music); Robert Wells (lyrics)
Ice Castles "Through the Eyes of Love" Marvin Hamlisch (music); Carole Bayer Sager (lyrics)
The Muppet Movie "Rainbow Connection" Kenny Ascher & Paul Williams (music & lyrics)
The Promise "I'll Never Say Goodbye" David Shire (music); Alan & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)

1980sEdit

Year Film Song Nominees
1980
(53rd)
[65]
Fame "Fame" Michael Gore (music); Dean Pitchford (lyrics)
9 to 5 "9 to 5" Dolly Parton (music & lyrics)
The Competition "People Alone" Lalo Schifrin (music); Will Jennings (lyrics)
Fame "Out Here on My Own" Michael Gore (music); Lesley Gore (lyrics)
Honeysuckle Rose "On the Road Again" Willie Nelson (music & lyrics)
1981
(54th)
[66]
Arthur "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross & Carole Bayer Sager (music & lyrics)
Endless Love "Endless Love" Lionel Richie (music & lyrics)
For Your Eyes Only "For Your Eyes Only" Bill Conti (music); Mick Leeson (lyrics)
The Great Muppet Caper "The First Time It Happens" Joe Raposo (music & lyrics)
Ragtime "One More Hour" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)
1982
(55th)
[67]
An Officer and a Gentleman "Up Where We Belong" Jack Nitzsche & Buffy Sainte-Marie (music); Will Jennings (lyrics)
Best Friends "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" Michel Legrand (music); Alan & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
Rocky III "Eye of the Tiger" Jim Peterik & Frankie Sullivan (music & lyrics)
Tootsie "It Might Be You" Dave Grusin (music); A. & M. Bergman (lyrics)
Yes, Giorgio "If We Were in Love" John Williams (music); A. & M. Bergman (lyrics)
1983
(56th)
[68]
Flashdance "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Giorgio Moroder (music); Irene Cara & Keith Forsey (lyrics)
Flashdance "Maniac" Dennis Matkosky & Michael Sembello (music & lyrics)
Tender Mercies "Over You" Bobby Hart & Austin Roberts (music & lyrics)
Yentl "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" Michel Legrand (music); Alan & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
"The Way He Makes Me Feel"
1984
(57th)
[69]
The Woman in Red "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder (music & lyrics)
Against All Odds "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" Phil Collins (music & lyrics)
Footloose "Footloose" Kenny Loggins & Dean Pitchford (music & lyrics)
"Let's Hear It for the Boy" Pitchford & Tom Snow (music & lyrics)
Ghostbusters "Ghostbusters" Ray Parker Jr. (music & lyrics)
1985
(58th)
[70]
White Nights "Say You, Say Me" Lionel Richie (music & lyrics)
Back to the Future "The Power of Love" Johnny Colla & Chris Hayes (music); Huey Lewis (lyrics)
A Chorus Line "Surprise, Surprise" Marvin Hamlisch (music); Ed Kleban (lyrics)
The Color Purple "Sister" Quincy Jones & Rod Temperton (music); Jones, Richie & Temperton (lyrics)
White Nights "Separate Lives" Stephen Bishop (music & lyrics)
1986
(59th)
[71]
Top Gun "Take My Breath Away" Giorgio Moroder (music); Tom Whitlock (lyrics)
An American Tail "Somewhere Out There" James Horner & Barry Mann (music); Cynthia Weil (lyrics)
The Karate Kid Part II "Glory of Love" Peter Cetera & David Foster (music); Cetera & Diane Nini (lyrics)
Little Shop of Horrors "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" Alan Menken (music); Howard Ashman (lyrics)
That's Life! "Life in a Looking Glass" Henry Mancini (music); Leslie Bricusse (lyrics)
1987
(60th)
[72]
Dirty Dancing "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz & Franke Previte (music); Previte (lyrics)
Beverly Hills Cop II "Shakedown" Harold Faltermeyer & Keith Forsey (music); Faltermeyer, Forsey & Bob Seger (lyrics)
Cry Freedom "Cry Freedom" George Fenton & Jonas Gwangwa (music & lyrics)
Mannequin "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" Albert Hammond & Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
The Princess Bride "Storybook Love" Willy DeVille (music & lyrics)
1988
(61st)
[73]
Working Girl "Let the River Run" Carly Simon (music & lyrics)
Bagdad Cafe "Calling You" Bob Telson (music & lyrics)
Buster "Two Hearts" Lamont Dozier (music); Phil Collins (lyrics)
1989
(62nd)
[74]
The Little Mermaid "Under the Sea" Alan Menken (music); Howard Ashman (lyrics)
Chances Are "After All" Tom Snow (music); Dean Pitchford (lyrics)
The Little Mermaid "Kiss the Girl" Menken (music); Ashman (lyrics)
Parenthood "I Love to See You Smile" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)
Shirley Valentine "The Girl Who Used to Be Me" Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)

1990sEdit

Year Film Song Nominees
1990
(63rd)
[75]
Dick Tracy "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics)
The Godfather Part III "Promise Me You'll Remember" Carmine Coppola (music); John Bettis (lyrics)
Home Alone "Somewhere in My Memory" John Williams (music); Leslie Bricusse (lyrics)
Postcards from the Edge "I'm Checkin' Out" Shel Silverstein (music & lyrics)
Young Guns II "Blaze of Glory" Jon Bon Jovi (music & lyrics)
1991
(64th)
[76]
Beauty and the Beast "Beauty and the Beast" Alan Menken (music); Howard Ashman (p.r.) (lyrics)
Beauty and the Beast "Be Our Guest" Menken (music); Ashman (p.n.) (lyrics)
"Belle"
Hook "When You're Alone" John Williams (music); Leslie Bricusse (lyrics)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" Michael Kamen (music); Bryan Adams & Mutt Lange (lyrics)
1992
(65th)
[77]
Aladdin "A Whole New World" Alan Menken (music); Tim Rice (lyrics)
Aladdin "Friend Like Me" Menken (music); Howard Ashman (p.n.) (lyrics)
The Bodyguard "I Have Nothing" David Foster (music); Linda Thompson (lyrics)
"Run to You" Jud J. Friedman (music); Allan Dennis Rich (lyrics)
The Mambo Kings "Beautiful Maria of My Soul" Robert Kraft (music); Arne Glimcher (lyrics)
1993
(66th)
[78]
Philadelphia "Streets of Philadelphia" Bruce Springsteen (music & lyrics)
Beethoven's 2nd "The Day I Fall in Love" James Ingram, Clif Magness & Carole Bayer Sager (music & lyrics)
Philadelphia "Philadelphia" Neil Young (music & lyrics)
Poetic Justice "Again" Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (music & lyrics)
Sleepless in Seattle "A Wink and a Smile" Marc Shaiman (music); Ramsey McLean (lyrics)
1994
(67th)
[79]
The Lion King "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" Elton John (music); Tim Rice (lyrics)
Junior "Look What Love Has Done" James Newton Howard, James Ingram, Carole Bayer Sager & Patty Smyth (music & lyrics)
The Lion King "Circle of Life" Elton John (music); Tim Rice (lyrics)
"Hakuna Matata"
The Paper "Make Up Your Mind" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)
1995
(68th)
[80]
Pocahontas "Colors of the Wind" Alan Menken (music); Stephen Schwartz (lyrics)
Dead Man Walking "Dead Man Walkin'" Bruce Springsteen (music & lyrics)
Don Juan DeMarco "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen & Mutt Lange (music & lyrics)
Sabrina "Moonlight" John Williams (music); Alan & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
Toy Story "You've Got a Friend in Me" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)
1996
(69th)
[81]
Evita "You Must Love Me" Andrew Lloyd Webber (music); Tim Rice (lyrics)
The Mirror Has Two Faces "I Finally Found Someone" Bryan Adams, Marvin Hamlisch, Mutt Lange & Barbra Streisand (music & lyrics)
One Fine Day "For the First Time" Jud J. Friedman, James Newton Howard & Allan Dennis Rich (music & lyrics)
That Thing You Do! "That Thing You Do!" Adam Schlesinger (music & lyrics)
Up Close and Personal "Because You Loved Me" Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
1997
(70th)
[82]
Titanic "My Heart Will Go On" James Horner (music); Will Jennings (lyrics)
Anastasia "Journey to the Past" Stephen Flaherty (music); Lynn Ahrens (lyrics)
Con Air "How Do I Live" Diane Warren (music and lyrics)
Good Will Hunting "Miss Misery" Elliott Smith (music & lyrics)
Hercules "Go the Distance" Alan Menken (music); David Zippel (lyrics)
1998
(71st)
[83]
The Prince of Egypt "When You Believe" Stephen Schwartz (music & lyrics)
Armageddon "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
Babe: Pig in the City "That'll Do" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)
The Horse Whisperer "A Soft Place to Fall" Allison Moorer & Gwil Owen (music & lyrics)
Quest for Camelot "The Prayer" David Foster & Carole Bayer Sager (music); Foster, Tony Renis, Sager & Alberto Testa (lyrics)
1999
(72nd)
[84]
Tarzan "You'll Be in My Heart" Phil Collins (music & lyrics)
Magnolia "Save Me" Aimee Mann (music & lyrics)
Music of the Heart "Music of My Heart" Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut "Blame Canada" Trey Parker & Marc Shaiman (music & lyrics)
Toy Story 2 "When She Loved Me" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)

2000sEdit

Year Film Song Nominees
2000
(73rd)
[85]
Wonder Boys "Things Have Changed" Bob Dylan (music and lyrics)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon "A Love Before Time" Jorge Calandrelli & Tan Dun (music); James Schamus (lyrics)
Dancer in the Dark "I've Seen It All" Björk (music); Sjón & Lars von Trier (lyrics)
The Emperor's New Groove "My Funny Friend and Me" David Hartley & Sting (music); Sting (lyrics)
Meet the Parents "A Fool in Love" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)
2001
(74th)
[86]
Monsters, Inc. "If I Didn't Have You" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)
Kate & Leopold "Until..." Sting (music & lyrics)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring "May It Be" Enya, Nicky & Roma Ryan (music and lyrics)
Pearl Harbor "There You'll Be" Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
Vanilla Sky "Vanilla Sky" Paul McCartney (music & lyrics)
2002
(75th)
[87]
8 Mile "Lose Yourself" Jeff Bass, Eminem & Luis Resto (music); Eminem (lyrics)
Chicago "I Move On" John Kander (music); Fred Ebb (lyrics)
Frida "Burn It Blue" Elliot Goldenthal (music); Julie Taymor (lyrics)
Gangs of New York "The Hands That Built America" U2 (music & lyrics)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie "Father and Daughter" Paul Simon (music & lyrics)
2003
(76th)
[88]
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King "Into the West" Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh (music & lyrics)
Cold Mountain "Scarlet Tide" T Bone Burnett & Elvis Costello (music & lyrics)
"You Will Be My Ain True Love" Sting (music & lyrics)
A Mighty Wind "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" Michael McKean & Annette O'Toole (music & lyrics)
The Triplets of Belleville "Belleville Rendez-vous" Benoît Charest (music); Sylvain Chomet (lyrics)
2004
(77th)
[89]
The Motorcycle Diaries "Al otro lado del río" Jorge Drexler (music & lyrics)
The Chorus "Look to Your Path" Bruno Coulais (music); Christophe Barratier (lyrics)
The Phantom of the Opera "Learn to Be Lonely" Andrew Lloyd Webber (music); Charles Hart (lyrics)
The Polar Express "Believe" Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri (music & lyrics)
Shrek 2 "Accidentally in Love" Counting Crows (music); Adam Duritz & Dan Vickrey (lyrics)
2005
(78th)
[90]
Hustle & Flow "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" Frayser Boy, Juicy J & DJ Paul (music & lyrics)
Crash "In the Deep" Michael Becker & Bird York (music); York (lyrics)
Transamerica "Travelin' Thru" Dolly Parton (music & lyrics)
2006
(79th)
[91]
An Inconvenient Truth "I Need to Wake Up" Melissa Etheridge (music & lyrics)
Cars "Our Town" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)
Dreamgirls "Listen" Scott Cutler & Henry Krieger (music); Anne Preven (lyrics)
"Love You I Do" Krieger (music); Siedah Garrett (lyrics)
"Patience" Krieger (music); Willie Reale (lyrics)
2007
(80th)
[92]
Once "Falling Slowly" Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová (music & lyrics)
August Rush "Raise It Up" Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack & Tevin Thomas (music & lyrics)
Enchanted "Happy Working Song" Alan Menken (music); Stephen Schwartz (lyrics)
"So Close"
"That's How You Know"
2008
(81st)
[93]
Slumdog Millionaire "Jai Ho" A. R. Rahman (music); Gulzar (lyrics)
Slumdog Millionaire "O... Saya" Rahman & M.I.A. (music & lyrics)
WALL-E "Down to Earth" Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman (music); Gabriel (lyrics)
2009
(82nd)
[94]
Crazy Heart "The Weary Kind" Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett (music & lyrics)
Nine "Take It All" Maury Yeston (music & lyrics)
Paris 36 "Loin de Paname" Reinhardt Wagner (music); Frank Thomas (lyrics)
The Princess and the Frog "Almost There" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)
"Down in New Orleans"

2010sEdit

Year Film Song Nominees
2010
(83rd)
[95]
Toy Story 3 "We Belong Together" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)
127 Hours "If I Rise" A. R. Rahman (music); Rollo Armstrong & Dido (lyrics)
Country Strong "Coming Home" Tom Douglas, Hillary Lindsey & Troy Verges (music & lyrics)
Tangled "I See the Light" Alan Menken (music); Glenn Slater (lyrics)
2011
(84th)
The Muppets "Man or Muppet" Bret McKenzie (music & lyrics)
Rio "Real in Rio" Carlinhos Brown & Sérgio Mendes (music); Siedah Garrett (lyrics)
2012
(85th)
[96]
Skyfall "Skyfall" Adele & Paul Epworth (music & lyrics)
Chasing Ice "Before My Time" J. Ralph (music & lyrics)
Les Misérables "Suddenly" Claude-Michel Schönberg (music); Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer (lyrics)
Life of Pi "Pi's Lullaby" Mychael Danna (music); Bombay Jayashri (lyrics)
Ted "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" Walter Murphy (music); Seth MacFarlane (lyrics)
2013
(86th)
[lower-alpha 3][98]
Frozen "Let It Go" Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (music & lyrics)
Despicable Me 2 "Happy" Pharrell Williams (music & lyrics)
Her "The Moon Song" Karen O (music); Spike Jonze & O (lyrics)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom "Ordinary Love" U2 (music); Bono (lyrics)
2014
(87th)
Selma "Glory" Common & John Legend (music & lyrics)
Begin Again "Lost Stars" Gregg Alexander & Danielle Brisebois (music & lyrics)
Beyond the Lights "Grateful" Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" Glen Campbell & Julian Raymond (music & lyrics)
The Lego Movie "Everything Is Awesome" Shawn Patterson (music & lyrics)
2015
(88th)
[99]
Spectre "Writing's on the Wall" Jimmy Napes & Sam Smith (music & lyrics)
Fifty Shades of Grey "Earned It" Belly, DeHeala, Stephan Moccio & The Weeknd (music & lyrics)
The Hunting Ground "Til It Happens to You" Lady Gaga & Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
Racing Extinction "Manta Ray" J. Ralph (music); Anohni (lyrics)
Youth "Simple Song #3" David Lang (music & lyrics)
2016
(89th)
[100]
La La Land "City of Stars" Justin Hurwitz (music); Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (lyrics)
Jim: The James Foley Story "The Empty Chair" J. Ralph & Sting (music & lyrics)
La La Land "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" Hurwitz (music); Pasek & Paul (lyrics)
Moana "How Far I'll Go" Lin-Manuel Miranda (music & lyrics)
Trolls "Can't Stop the Feeling!" Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake (music & lyrics)
2017
(90th)
[101]
Coco "Remember Me" Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (music & lyrics)
Call Me by Your Name "Mystery of Love" Sufjan Stevens (music & lyrics)
The Greatest Showman "This Is Me" Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (music & lyrics)
Marshall "Stand Up for Something" Diane Warren (music); Common & Warren (lyrics)
Mudbound "Mighty River" Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq & Taura Stinson (music & lyrics)
2018
(91st)
[102]
A Star Is Born "Shallow" Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (music & lyrics)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" David Rawlings & Gillian Welch (music & lyrics)
Black Panther "All the Stars" Kendrick Lamar, Sounwave & Anthony Tiffith (music); Lamar, SZA & Tiffith (lyrics)
Mary Poppins Returns "The Place Where Lost Things Go" Marc Shaiman (music); Shaiman & Scott Wittman (lyrics)
RBG "I'll Fight" Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
2019
(92nd)
Rocketman "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" Elton John (music); Bernie Taupin (lyrics)
Breakthrough "I'm Standing with You" Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
Frozen II "Into the Unknown" Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (music & lyrics)
Harriet "Stand Up" Joshuah Brian Campbell & Cynthia Erivo (music & lyrics)
Toy Story 4 "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" Randy Newman (music & lyrics)

2020sEdit

Year Film Song Nominees
2020/21
(93rd)
Judas and the Black Messiah "Fight for You" D'Mile & H.E.R. (music); H.E.R. & Tiara Thomas (lyrics)
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga "Husavik" Rickard Göransson, Fat Max Gsus & Savan Kotecha (music & lyrics)
The Life Ahead "Io sì (Seen)" Diane Warren (music); Laura Pausini & Warren (lyrics)
One Night in Miami... "Speak Now" Sam Ashworth & Leslie Odom Jr. (music & lyrics)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 "Hear My Voice" Daniel Pemberton (music); Celeste & Pemberton (lyrics)
2021
(94th)
No Time to Die "No Time to Die" Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell (music & lyrics)
Belfast "Down to Joy" Van Morrison (music & lyrics)
Encanto "Dos Oruguitas" Lin-Manuel Miranda (music & lyrics)
Four Good Days "Somehow You Do" Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
King Richard "Be Alive" Beyoncé & Dixson (music & lyrics)

NotesEdit

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ On January 29, 2014, 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.[97]

RecordsEdit

Winners of multiple awardsEdit

Number of nominations in parentheses

Most nominations without a winEdit

Foreign-language song winnersEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ "92nd Academy Awards of Merit" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. p. 20. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ Susan Sacket, "1941: 'The Last Time I Saw Paris'", Hollywood Sings!, Billboard Books, New York, 1995, pp. 42–43.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rule Fifteen: Special Rules for the Music Awards | Rules for the 86th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Archived October 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ ""Once" Again, a Legit Nominee". The New York Times. January 29, 2008.
  5. ↑ Sacket, "Preface", p. xvii.
  6. ↑ BBC2012Noms. "Oscars 2012: Nominees in full". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Oscar Best Song Category Gets Five Nominee Rule". Billboard. August 31, 2012.
  8. ↑ Academy press release
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Oscars 2022: Why is Encanto's We Don't Talk About Bruno not nominated?". BBC News. February 8, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
  10. ↑ Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits (5th ed.). New York: Billboard Books. p. 586. ISBN 0-8230-7677-6. Retrieved February 20, 2009.
  11. ↑ "Oscar Show Participants Revealed" (Press release). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. February 14, 2008. Archived from the original on February 18, 2008. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  12. ↑ UPI.com (February 14, 2009). "Gabriel cancels Oscar night performance". United Press International Inc. Archived from the original on February 15, 2009. Retrieved February 22, 2009.
  13. ↑ Oscar nominee Brett McKenzie in Billboard Magazine
  14. ↑ "Why Best Song nominee Anohni is sitting out the Oscars". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  15. ↑ "The Oscars Might Only Let Two Original Song Nominees Perform During the Telecast". www.vulture.com. January 24, 2019. Retrieved January 26, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Oscars to Feature All Five Best Song Nominees on Telecast After All". www.variety.com. January 31, 2019. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Oscars: Kendrick Lamar and SZA Will Not Perform 'Black Panther' Song". www.variety.com. February 21, 2019. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  18. ↑ "Eminem Reveals Why He Finally Performed at the Oscars, 17 Years Later". Variety.com. February 10, 2020.
  19. ↑ "The 7th Academy Awards - 1935". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  20. ↑ "The 8th Academy Awards - 1936". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  21. ↑ "The 9th Academy Awards - 1937". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  22. ↑ "The 10th Academy Awards - 1938". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  23. ↑ "The 11th Academy Awards - 1939". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  24. ↑ "The 12th Academy Awards - 1940". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  25. ↑ "The 13th Academy Awards - 1941". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  26. ↑ "The 14th Academy Awards - 1942". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  27. ↑ "The 15th Academy Awards - 1943". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  28. ↑ "The 16th Academy Awards - 1944". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  29. ↑ "The 17th Academy Awards - 1945". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  30. ↑ "The 18th Academy Awards - 1946". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  31. ↑ "The 19th Academy Awards - 1947". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  32. ↑ "The 20th Academy Awards - 1948". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
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