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 |
| 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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