Academy Award for Best Song

The Academy Award for Best Song is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole.

Most awards won - (nominations)
*4 : Sammy Cahn (26)
*4 : Alan Menken (10)
*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)
*2 : Howard Ashman (7)
*2 : Burt Bacharach (5)
*2 : Alan Bergman (15)
*2 : Marilyn Bergman (15)
*2 : Sammy Fain (10)
*2 : Oscar Hammerstein II (5)
*2 : Joel Hirschhorn (3)
*2 : Will Jennings (3)
*2 : Al Kasha (3)
*2 : Jerome Kern (7)
*2 : Henry Mancini (11)
*2 : Giorgio Moroder (2)
*2 : Stephen Schwartz (2)
*2 : Ned Washington (11)

1930s

* 1934 - "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee
* 1935 - "Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935
* 1936 - "The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time
* 1937 - "Sweet Leilani" from Waikiki Wedding
* 1938 - "Thanks for the Memory" from The Big Broadcast of 1938
* 1939 - "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz

1940s

* 1940 - "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio
* 1941 - "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from Lady Be Good
* 1942 - "White Christmas from Holiday Inn
* 1943 - "You'll Never Know" from Hello, Frisco, Hello
* 1944 - "Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way
* 1945 - "It Might As Well Be Spring" from State Fair
* 1946 - "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" from The Harvey Girls
* 1947 - "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South
* 1948 - "Buttons and Bows" from The Paleface
* 1949 - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter''

1950s

* 1950 - "Mona Lisa" from Captain Carey, U. S. A.
* 1951 - "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" from Here Comes the Groom
* 1952 - "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" from High Noon
* 1953 - "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane
* 1954 - "Three Coins in the Fountain" from Three Coins in the Fountain
* 1955 - "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
* 1956 - "Whatever Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" from The Man Who Knew Too Much
* 1957 - "All the Way" from The Joker is Wild
* 1958 - "Gigi" from Gigi
* 1959 - "High Hopes" from A Hole in the Head

1960s

* 1960 - "Never on Sunday" from Pote tin Kyriaki
* 1961 - "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's
* 1962 - "Days of Wine and Roses" from Days of Wine and Roses
* 1963 - "Call Me Irresponsible" from Papa's Delicate Condition
* 1964 - "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins
* 1965 - "The Shadow of Your Smile" from The Sandpiper
* 1966 - "Born Free" from Born Free
* 1967 - "Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle
* 1968 - "Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair
* 1969 - "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1970s

* 1970 - "For All We Know" from Lovers and Other Strangers
* 1971 - "Theme from Shaft" from Shaft
* 1972 - "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure
* 1973 - "The Way We Were" from The Way We Were
* 1974 - "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno
* 1975 - "I'm Easy" from Nashville
* 1976 - "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" from A Star Is Born
* 1977 - "You Light Up My Life" from You Light Up My Life
* 1978 - "Last Dance (song)" from Thank God It's Friday
* 1979 - "It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Rae

1980s

* 1980 - "Fame" from Fame
* 1981 - "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" from Arthur
* 1982 - "Up Where We Belong" from An Officer and a Gentleman
* 1983 - "Flashdance... What a Feeling" from Flashdance
* 1984 - "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from The Woman in Red
* 1985 - "Say You, Say Me" from White Nights
* 1986 - "Take My Breath Away" from Top Gun
* 1987 - "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing composed by Franke Previte
* 1988 - "Let the River Run" from Working Girl
* 1989 - "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid

1990s

* 1990 - "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" from Dick Tracy
* 1991 - "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast
* 1992 - "A Whole New World" from Aladdin
* 1993 - "Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia
* 1994 - "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King
* 1995 - "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas
* 1996 - "You Must Love Me" from Evita
* 1997 - "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic
* 1998 - "When You Believe" from The Prince of Egypt
* 1999 - "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan

2000s

* 2000 - "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys
* 2001 - "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. (first Oscar for Randy Newman after 16 nominations)
* 2002 - "Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile (unusually, was not performed at the telecast — Eminem did not attend the ceremony)
* 2003 - "Into the West" from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
* 2004 - "Al Otro Lado del Río" from The Motorcycle Diaries (the first ever foreign language song to win, in a year where two such songs had nods: the other was "Vois Sur Ton Chemin" (Look To Your Path) from the French movie Les Choristes)
*2005 - "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow

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