List of Academy Awards for Songs
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List of Academy Awards for Songs
The first awards were given in 1927, the same year as the first sound film, The Jazz Singer. No musical awards for songs were included until 1934.
| Date | Song | Film | Composers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | The Continental | The Gay Divorcee | Herb Magidson & Con Conrad |
| 1935 | Lullaby of Broadway | Gold Diggers of 1935 | Al Dubin & Harry Warren |
| 1936 | The Way You Look Tonight | Swing Time | Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern |
| 1937 | Sweet Lellani | Waikiki Wedding | Harry Owens |
| 1938 | Thanks for the Memory | The Big Broadcast of 1938 | Leo Robin & Ralph Ranger |
| 1939 | Over the Rainbow | The Wizard of Oz | E.Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen |
| 1940 | When You Wish Upon A Star | Pinocchio | Ned Washington & Leigh Harline |
| 1941 | The Last Time I Saw Paris | Lady Be Good | Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern |
| 1942 | White Christmas | Holiday Inn | Irving Berlin |
| 1943 | You’ll Never Know | Hello, Frisco, Hello | Mack Gordon & Harry Warren |
| 1944 | Swingin’ On A Star | Going My Way | Johnny Burke & Jimmy van Heusen |
| 1945 | It Might As Well Be Spring | State Fair | Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers |
| 1946 | On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe | The Harvey Girls | Johnny Mercer & Harry Warren |
| 1947 | Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah | Song of the South | Ray Gilbert & Allie Wrubel |
| 1948 | Buttons and Bows | Paleface | Ray Evans & Jay Livingston |
| 1949 | Baby It’s Cold Outside | Neptune’s Daughter | Frank Loesser |
| 1950 | Mona Lisa | Captain Carey, U.S.A. | Ray Evans & Jay Livingston |
| 1951 | In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening | Here Comes the Groom | Johnny Mercer & Hoagy Carmichael |
| 1952 | High Noon | High Noon | Ned Washington & Dimitri Tiomkin |
| 1953 | Secret Love | Calamity Jane | Paul Francis Webster & Sammy Fain |
| 1954 | Three Coins In a Fountain | Three Coins in a Fountain | Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne |
| 1955 | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | Paul Francis Webster & Sammy Fain |
| 1956 | Que Sera, Sera | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Ray Evans & Jay Livingston |
| 1957 | All The Way | The Joker is Wild | Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen |
| 1958 | Gigi | Gigi | Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe |
| 1959 | High Hopes | A Hole in the Head | Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen |
| 1960 | Never on Sunday | Never on Sunday | Manos Hadjidakis |
| 1961 | Moon River | Breakfast at Tiffany’s | Johnny Mercer & Henry Mancini |
| 1962 | Days of Wine and Roses | Days of Wine and Roses | Johnny Mercer & Henry Mancini |
| 1963 | Call Me Irresponsible | Papa’s Delicate Condition | Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen |
| 1964 | Chim Chim Cheree | Mary Poppins | Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman |
| 1965 | The Shadow of Your Smile | The Sandpiper | Paul Francis Webster & Johnny Mandel |
| 1966 | Born Free | Born Free | Don Black & John Barry |
| 1967 | Talk to the Animals | Doctor Doolittle | Leslie Bricusse |
| 1968 | The Windmills of Your Mind | The Thomas Crown Affair | Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman & Michel LeGrand |
| 1969 | Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Hal David & Burt Bacharach |
| 1970 | For All We Know | Lovers and Other Strangers | Fred Karlin (music); Jimmy Griffin & Robb Royer (music) |
| 1971 | The Theme From Shaft | Shaft | Isaac Hayes |
| 1972 | The Morning After | The Poseidon Adventure | Al Kasha & Joel Hirschorn |
| 1973 | The Way We Were | The Way We Were | Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlish |
| 1974 | We May Never Love Like This Again | The Towering Inferno | Al Kasha & Joel Hirschorn |
| 1975 | I’m Easy | Nashville | Keith Carradine |
| 1976 | Evergreen | A Star Is Born | Paul Williams & Barbra Streisand |
| 1977 | You Light Up My Life | You Light Up My Life | Joseph Brooks |
| 1978 | Last Dance | Thank God It’s Friday | Paul Jabara |
| 1979 | It Goes Like It Goes | Norma Rae | Normal Gimbel |
| 1980 | Fame | Fame | Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford |
| 1981 | Best That You Can Do | Arthur | Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross & Carole Bayer Sager (music and lyrics) |
| 1982 | Up Where We Belong | An Officer and A Gentleman | Jack Nitzsche, Will Jennings & Buffy Sainte Marie |
| 1983 | What A Feeling | Flashdance | Keith Forsey, Irene Cara & Giorgio Moroder |
| 1984 | I Just Called to Say I Love You | The Lady In Red | Stevie Wonder |
| 1985 | Say You, Say Me | White Nights | Lionel Richie |
| 1986 | Take My Breath Away | Top Gun | Giorgio Moroder & Tom Whitlock |
| 1987 | (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life | Dirty Dancing | Franke Previte, John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz & Franke Previte |
| 1988 | Let the River Run | Working Girl | Carly Simon |
| 1989 | Under the Sea | The Little Mermaid | Alan Menken & Howard Ashman |
| 1990 | Sooner Or Later | Dick Tracy | Stephen Sondheim |
| 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | Beauty and the Beast | Alan Menken & Howard Ashman |
| 1992 | A Whole New World | Aladdin | Alan Menken & Tim Rice |
| 1993 | Streets of Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Bruce Springsteen |
| 1994 | Can You Feel the Love Tonight | The Lion King | Elton John & Tim Rice |
| 1995 | Colors of the Wind | Pocahontas | Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz |
| 1996 | You Must Love Me | Evita | Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice |
| 1997 | My Heart Will Go On | Titanic | James Horner & Will Jennings |
| 1998 | When You Believe | The Prince of Egypt | Stephen Schwartz |
| 1999 | You’ll Be in My heart | Tarzan | Phil Collins |
| 2000 | Things Have Changed | Wonder Boys | Bob Dylan |
| 2001 | If I Didn’t Have You | Monsters, Inc. | Randy Newman |
| 2002 | Lose Yourself | 8 Mile | Eminem, Jeff Bass & Luis Resto |
| 2003 | Into the West | The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King | Fran Walsh, Howard Shore & Annie Lennox |
| 2004 | Al Otro Lado Del Rio | The Motorcycle Diaries | Jorge Drexler |
| 2005 | It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp | Hustle & Flow | Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman & Paul Beauregard |
| 2006 | I Need to Wake Up | An Inconvenient Truth | Melissa Etheridge |
| 2007 | Falling Slowly | Once | Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová |
| 2008 | Jai Ho | Slumdog Millionaire | m: A.R.Rahman, l: Gulzar |
| 2009 | The Weary Kind | Crazy Heart | Ryan Bingham & T-Bone Burnett |
| 2010 | We Belong Together | Toy Story 3 | Randy Newman |
| 2011 | Man or Muppet | The Muppets | Bret McKenzie |
| 2012 | Skyfall | Skyfall | Adel Adkins & Paul Epworth |
| 2013 | Let It Go | Frozen | Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez |
| 2014 | Glory | Selma | John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn |
| 2015 | Writing’s On The Wall | Spectre | Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith |
| 2016 | City of Stars | La La Land | Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul |
| 2017 | Remember Me | Coco | Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez |
| 2018 | Shallow | A Star is Born | Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt |
| 2019 | (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again | Rocketman | Elton John, Bernie Taupin |
| 2020 | Fight For You | Judas and the Black Messiah | H.E.R., D’Mile, Tiara Thomas |
| 2021 | No Time To Die | No Time To Die | Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell |
| MOST NOMINATIONS | NAME ([#] indicates number of awards) |
|---|---|
| 26 | Sammy Cahn [4] |
| 18 | Johnny Mercer [4] |
| 16 | Paul Francis Webster [3] |
| 15 | Alan Bergman [2] |
| 15 | Marilyn Bergman [2] |
| 14 | James Van Heusen [4] |
| 13 | Alan Menken [4] |
| 11 | Henry Mancini [2] |
| 11 | Harry Warren [3] |
| 11 | Ned Washington [2] |
| 10 | Sammy Fain [2] |
| 10 | Leo Robin [1] |
| 10 | Jule Styne [1] |
| MOST AWARDS | NAME ([#] indicates number of nominations) |
|---|---|
| 4 | Sammy Cahn [26] |
| 4 | Alan Menken [13] |
| 4 | Johnny Mercer [18] |
| 4 | James Van Heusen [14] |
| 3 | Ray Evans [7] |
| 3 | Jay Livingston [7] |
| 3 | Tim Rice [5] |
| 3 | Harry Warren [11] |
| 3 | Paul Francis Webster [16] |
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