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Academy Award for Best
Song
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)
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
1940 - "When You Wish upon a Star" from
Pinocchio
1941 - "The Last Time That 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
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
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
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" from Thank God It's Friday
1979 - "It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Rae
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
1990 - "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My
Man)" from Dick Tracy
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
1991 - "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast
Music by Alan Menken and Lyrics by Howard Ashman
1992 - "A Whole New World" from Aladdin
Music by Alan Menken and Lyrics by Tim Rice
1993 - "Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia
Music and Lyrics by Bruce Springsteen
1994 - "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King
Music by Elton John and Lyrics by Tim Rice
1995 - "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas
Music by Alan Menken and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
1996 - "You Must Love Me" from Evita
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyrics by Tim Rice
1997 - "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic
Music by James Horner and Lyrics by Will Jennings
1998 - "When You Believe" from The Prince of Egypt
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
1999 - "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan
Music and Lyrics by Phil Collins
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, wasn't performed at the telecast
- Eminem didn't 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 a song from the French movie Les Choristes)
2005 - "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow