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 Dolly Parton 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 & 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

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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