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Academy Award for Best Song - Definition and Overview |
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Academy Award for Best Song
1930s
1940s
- 1940 Leigh Harline (music), Ned Washington (lyrics) - "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio
- 1941 Jerome Kern (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) - "The Last Time That I Saw Paris" from Lady Be Good
- 1942 Irving Berlin (music and lyrics) - "White Christmas" from Holiday Inn
- 1943 Harry Warren (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics) - "You'll Never Know" from Hello, Frisco, Hello
- 1944 James Van Heusen (music), Johnny Burke (lyrics) - "Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way
- 1945 Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) - "It Might As Well Be Spring" from State Fair
- 1946 Harry Warren (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics) - "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" from The Harvey Girls
- 1947 Allie Wrubel (music), Ray Gilbert (lyrics) - "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South
- 1948 Jay Livingston, Ray Evans (music and lyrics) - "Buttons and Bows" from The Paleface
- 1949 Frank Loesser (music and lyrics) - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter
1950s
- 1950 Ray Evans, Jay Livingston (music and lyrics) - "Mona Lisa" from Captain Carey, U. S. A.
- Mack David, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston (music and lyrics) - "Bibbidy-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella
- Fred Glickman, Hy Heath, Johnny Lange (music and lyrics) - "Mule Train" from Singing Guns
- Nicholas Brodszky (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - "Be My Love" from The Toast of New Orleans
- Josef Myrow (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics) - "Wilhelmina" from Wabash Avenue
- 1951 Hoagy Carmichael (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics) - "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" from Here Comes the Groom
- 1952 Dmitri Tiomkin (music), Ned Washington (lyrics) - "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" from High Noon
- 1953 Sammy Fain (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) - "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane
- Harry Warren (music), Jack Brooks (lyrics) - "That's Amore" from The Caddy
- Lester Lee (music), Ned Washington (lyrics) - "Sadie Thompson's Song (Blue Pacific Blues)" from Miss Sadie Thompson
- Herschel Burke Gilbert (music), Sylvia Fine (lyrics) - "The Moon Is Blue" from The Moon Is Blue
- Nicholas Brodszky (music), Leo Robin (lyrics) - "My Flaming Heart" from Small Town Girl
- 1954 Jule Styne (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - "Three Coins in the Fountain " from Three Coins in the Fountain
- 1955 Sammy Fain (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) - "Love is a Many Splendored Thing " from Love is a Many Splendored Thing
- 1956 Ray Evans, Jay Livingston (music and lyrics) - "Whatever Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" from The Man Who Knew Too Much
- 1957 James Van Heusen (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - "All the Way" from The Joker is Wild
- 1958 Frederick Loewe (music), Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) - "Gigi" from Gigi
- 1959 James Van Heusen (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - "High Hopes" from A Hole in the Head
- Alfred Newman (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - "The Best of Everything" from The Best of Everything
- Sylvia Fine (music and lyrics) - "The Five Pennies" from The Five Pennies
- Jerry Livingston (music), Mack David (lyrics) - "The Hanging Tree" from The Hanging Tree
- Dimitri Tiomkin (music), Ned Washington (lyrics) - "Strange Are the Ways of Love" from The Young Land
1960s
1970s
- 1970 Fred Karlin (music), James Griffin, Rob Royer (lyrics) - "For All We Know" from Lovers and Other Strangers
- 1971 Isaac Hayes (music and lyrics) - "Theme from Shaft" from Shaft
- 1972 Joel Hirschhorn, Al Kasha (music and lyrics) - "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure
- Walter Scharf (music), Don Black (lyrics) - "Ben" from Ben
- Maurice Jarre (music), Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) - "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" from The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
- Fred Karlin (music), Marsha Karlin (lyrics) - "Come Follow, Follow Me" from The Little Ark
- Sammy Fain (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) - "Strange Are the Ways of Love" from The Stepmother
- 1973 Marvin Hamlisch (music), Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman (lyrics) - "The Way We Were" from The Way We Were
- 1974 Joel Hirschhorn, Al Kasha (music and lyrics) - "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno
- 1975 Keith Carradine (music and lyrics) - "I'm Easy" from Nashville
- Fred Ebb, John Kander (music and lyrics) - "How Lucky Can You Get" from Funny Lady
- Michael Masser (music), Gerry Goffin (lyrics) - "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" from Mahogany
- Charles Fox (music), Norman Gimbel (lyrics) - "Richard's Window" from The Other Side of the Mountain
- George Barrie (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - "Now That We're In Love" from Whiffs
- 1976 Barbra Streisand (music), Paul Williams (lyrics) - "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" from A Star Is Born
- 1977 Joseph Brooks (music and lyrics) - "You Light Up My Life" from You Light Up My Life
- 1978 Paul Jabara (music and lyrics) - "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday
- 1979 David Shire (music), Norman Gimbel (lyrics) - "It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Rae
1980s
- 1980 Michael Gore (music), Dean Pitchford (lyrics) - "Fame" from Fame
- 1981 Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross, Carole Bayer Sager (music and lyrics) - "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" from Arthur
- 1982 Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie (music), Will Jennings (lyrics) - "Up Where We Belong" from An Officer and a Gentleman
- 1983 Giorgio Moroder (music), Irene Cara, Keith Forsey (lyrics) - "Flashdance... What a Feeling" from Flashdance
- 1984 Stevie Wonder (music and lyrics) - "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from The Woman in Red
- 1985 Lionel Richie (music and lyrics) - "Say You, Say Me" from White Nights
- 1986 Giorgio Moroder (music), Tom Whitlock (lyrics) - "Take My Breath Away" from Top Gun
- 1987 Frankie Previte, John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz (music), Frankie Previte (lyrics) - "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing
- 1988 Carly Simon (music and lyrics) - "Let the River Run" from Working Girl
- 1989 Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman (lyrics) - "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid
1990s
2000s
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