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Oscar for Best Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film. The...
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| 2008 | A. R. Rahman |
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Allah Rakkha Rahman (Tamil: ஏ.ஆர்.ரஹ்மான்) (born January 6, 1966 as A. S. Dileep Kumar in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is a Golden Globe nominated film composer, record producer and musician. His work has garnered considerable acclaim and a large...
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Jai Ho | Slumdog Millionaire | |
| 2007 | Glen Hansard |
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Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is the principal songwriter and vocalist/guitarist for Irish rock group The Frames. He is also known for starring in the film Once and co-writing its Academy-Award-winning song, "Falling Slowly."...
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Falling Slowly | ||
| Markéta Irglová |
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Markéta Irglová (born February 28, 1988, in Valašské Meziříčí, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech songwriter, musician, actress and singer. As of 2009, she resides in Ireland.
Irglová began playing music at age seven, and began playing piano at the age of 8...
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| 2006 | Melissa Etheridge |
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Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.
Etheridge was born in Leavenworth, Kansas. She attended Berklee College of Music in Boston for three semesters in 1979 and 1980 and was friends with fellow...
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I Need to Wake Up | ||
| 2005 | Jordan Houston | It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp | ||||
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| 2004 | Jorge Drexler |
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Jorge Drexler (born Jorge Abner Drexler Prada on September 21, 1964) is an Uruguayan musician.
In 2004 Drexler won wide acclaim after becoming the first Uruguayan ever to win an Academy Award. He won for composing the song "Al Otro Lado del Río"...
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Al otro lado del río | ||
| 2003 | Fran Walsh |
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Frances "Fran" Walsh, MNZM, (born January 10, 1959) is a screenwriter, film producer and musician. She is the wife of filmmaker Peter Jackson. They have two children, Billy Jackson and Katie Jackson. Walsh has contributed to all of Jackson's films...
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Into the West | ||
| Annie Lennox |
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Annie Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish musician and recording artist. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Lennox showed aptitude in music when she was a child and later studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She began...
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| Howard Shore |
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Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 40 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He...
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| 2002 | Eminem |
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Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP, which won a...
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Lose Yourself | ||
| 2001 | Randy Newman |
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Randall Stuart “Randy” Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores.
Newman is noted for his practice of...
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If I Didn't Have You | ||
| 2000 | Bob Dylan |
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Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, is an American singer-songwriter, author, poet, and painter, who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal...
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Things Have Changed | ||
| 1999 | Phil Collins |
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Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
Collins sang the...
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You'll Be in My Heart | ||
| 1998 | Stephen Schwartz |
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Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career already spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972) and Wicked (2003). He has...
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When You Believe | ||
| 1997 | James Horner |
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James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an award winning American composer, orchestrator and conductor of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for frequent...
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My Heart Will Go On | ||
| Will Jennings |
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Wilbur "Will" Jennings (born 1944 in Kilgore, Texas) is an American songwriter. He attended school just outside Tyler, TX, in the nearby Chapel Hill Independent School District. He also attended the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.
Grammy and...
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| 1996 | Andrew Lloyd Webber |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer of musical theatre, the elder son of the composer William Lloyd Webber and brother of the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber started composing at the age of...
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You Must Love Me | ||
| Tim Rice |
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Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, author, radio personality and television gameshow panellist.
He is best known for his...
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| 1995 | Alan Menken |
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Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with lyricists including Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. For his work he has won eight Academy Awards as well as ten...
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Colors of the Wind | ||
| Stephen Schwartz |
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Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career already spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972) and Wicked (2003). He has...
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| 1994 | Elton John |
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Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.
In his four-decade career, John has sold more than 200 million records, making him one of the most successful artists...
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Can You Feel the Love Tonight | ||
| Tim Rice |
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Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, author, radio personality and television gameshow panellist.
He is best known for his...
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| 1993 | Bruce Springsteen |
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American songwriter, singer and guitarist. He had recorded and toured with the E Street Band. Springsteen was widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks,...
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Streets of Philadelphia | ||
| 1992 | Alan Menken |
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Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with lyricists including Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. For his work he has won eight Academy Awards as well as ten...
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A Whole New World | ||
| Tim Rice |
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Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, author, radio personality and television gameshow panellist.
He is best known for his...
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| 1991 | Alan Menken |
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Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with lyricists including Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. For his work he has won eight Academy Awards as well as ten...
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Beauty and the Beast | ||
| Howard Ashman |
Howard Elliot Ashman (May 17, 1950 – March 14, 1991) was an American playwright and movie music lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University's Summer Theater) and then went on to achieve...
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| 1990 | Stephen Sondheim |
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (nine, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime...
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Sooner or Later | ||
| 1989 | Alan Menken |
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Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with lyricists including Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. For his work he has won eight Academy Awards as well as ten...
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Under the Sea | ||
| Howard Ashman |
Howard Elliot Ashman (May 17, 1950 – March 14, 1991) was an American playwright and movie music lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University's Summer Theater) and then went on to achieve...
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| 1988 | Carly Simon |
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Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a...
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Let the River Run | ||
| 1986 | Giorgio Moroder |
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Giorgio (Hansjoerg) Moroder (on record sleeves often only Giorgio) (born on April 26, 1940 in Urtijëi (Ortisei), Italy) is a three-time Oscar-winning and three-time Grammy Award-winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work...
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Take My Breath Away | ||
| Tom Whitlock |
Thomas Ross Whitlock is a songwriter and lyricist best known for his Academy Award and Golden Globe winning song "Take My Breath Away" from the movie Top Gun, which he co-wrote with Giorgio Moroder. The duo produced four other Top Gun songs ...
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| 1985 | Lionel Richie |
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Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer who has sold more than 100 million records.
Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute. His grandfather's house...
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Say You, Say Me | ||
| 1984 | Stevie Wonder |
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Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950; name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Blind from birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records at the...
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I Just Called to Say I Love You | ||
| 1983 | Giorgio Moroder |
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Giorgio (Hansjoerg) Moroder (on record sleeves often only Giorgio) (born on April 26, 1940 in Urtijëi (Ortisei), Italy) is a three-time Oscar-winning and three-time Grammy Award-winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work...
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Flashdance... What a Feeling | ||
| Keith Forsey |
Keith Forsey (born on 2 January 1948 in London, England) is an British soundtrack composer, drummer, songwriter and record producer.
As drummer and long-time associate of producer Giorgio Moroder, Forsey can be heard on several Donna Summer albums...
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| Irene Cara |
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Irene Cara (born March 18, 1959) is an American singer and actress. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling". She is also known for her recording of the song "Fame", and...
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| 1982 | Jack Nitzsche |
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Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche (22 April 1937 – 25 August 2000) was an arranger, producer, songwriter and film score composer.
Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised on a farm in Newaygo, Michigan, Nitzsche moved to Los Angeles, California in 1955...
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Up Where We Belong | ||
| Will Jennings |
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Wilbur "Will" Jennings (born 1944 in Kilgore, Texas) is an American songwriter. He attended school just outside Tyler, TX, in the nearby Chapel Hill Independent School District. He also attended the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.
Grammy and...
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| 1981 | Burt Bacharach |
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Burt F. Bacharach (pronounced /ˈbækəræk/, BAK-ə-rak; born 12 May 1928) is an American pianist and composer. He is known for his pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and...
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Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) | ||
| Peter Allen |
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Peter Allen (10 February 1944 – 18 June 1992) was an Australian songwriter and entertainer. His songs were made popular by many recording artists, including Melissa Manchester and Olivia Newton-John, Elkie Brooks, and one, Arthur's Theme, won the...
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| Christopher Cross |
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Christopher Cross (born Christopher Charles Geppert on May 3, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas. His debut album earned him all of the "Big Four" Grammy Awards in one year, a feat that is yet to be equalled. He also...
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| Carole Bayer Sager |
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Carole Bayer Sager (born March 8, 1944, Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American lyricist, songwriter and singer.
Born in New York City, Sager graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and speech. She...
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| 1980 | Michael Gore |
Michael Gore (born March 5, 1951) is an American composer. He, along with lyricist Dean Pitchford, won the Oscar in 1980 for best original song for "Fame" from the film of the same title. He also won the award that year for best original score. Gore...
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Fame | |||
| Dean Pitchford |
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Dean Pitchford (born July 29, 1951 in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is a songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three additional Oscars, two more...
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| 1979 | David Shire |
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David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals and film and television scores.
Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg) and Buffalo society band leader and piano...
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It Goes Like It Goes | ||
| Norman Gimbel |
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Norman Gimbel (b. November 16, 1927) is an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes whose writing career includes such titles as "Sway", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Meditation" and "I Will Wait...
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| 1978 | Paul Jabara |
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Paul Jabara (January 31, 1948 – September 29, 1992) was an American actor, singer, and songwriter of Arab ancestry. He wrote Donna Summer's "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday (1978) and Barbra Streisand's song "The Main Event/Fight" from The...
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Last Dance | ||
| 1977 | Joseph Brooks |
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Joseph Brooks (born March 11, 1938) is an Academy Award winning American screenwriter, director, producer and composer. He composed the mega-hit song You Light Up My Life for the film of the same name that he also wrote, directed and produced.
In...
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You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs | ||
| 1976 | Barbra Streisand |
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Barbra Joan Streisand (pronounced /ˈstraɪsænd/ STRY-sand; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, film maker and actress. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony...
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Evergreen | ||
| Paul Williams |
Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams (1915 – 2002) was an American blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist and composer. In his Honkers and Shouters, Arnold Shaw credits Williams as one of the first to employ the honking tenor sax solo that became the hallmark...
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| 1975 | Keith Carradine |
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Keith Ian Carradine (born August 8, 1949) is an American songwriter and actor born into the Carradine family.
Carradine was born in San Mateo, California, the son of actress and artist Sonia Sorel (née Henius) and actor John Carradine. His paternal...
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I'm Easy | ||
| 1974 | Al Kasha |
Al Kasha (born 22 January 1937) is a Brooklyn–born composer, songwriter and arranger, as well as businessman. He is most noted for his years of collaboration with songwriter Joel Hirschhorn.
The songwriting duo won two Oscars for Best Song, "The...
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We May Never Love Like This Again (Film) | |||
| Joel Hirschhorn |
Joel Hirschhorn, (December 18, 1937 – September 17, 2005), was an American songwriter. During a successful career, he won the Academy Award for Best Song on two occasions. He also wrote songs for a number of prominent musicians, including Elvis...
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| 1973 | Marvin Hamlisch |
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Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only two people to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers). Hamlisch has also won a Golden Globe....
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The Way We Were | ||
| Alan Bergman |
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Alan Bergman (born September 11, 1925) is an American lyricist and songwriter.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as...
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| Marilyn Bergman |
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Marilyn Bergman (born November 10, 1929) is a composer, songwriter and author.
She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English at New York University. She and her husband Alan Bergman, whom she married in 1958,...
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| 1972 | Al Kasha |
Al Kasha (born 22 January 1937) is a Brooklyn–born composer, songwriter and arranger, as well as businessman. He is most noted for his years of collaboration with songwriter Joel Hirschhorn.
The songwriting duo won two Oscars for Best Song, "The...
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The Morning After | |||
| Joel Hirschhorn |
Joel Hirschhorn, (December 18, 1937 – September 17, 2005), was an American songwriter. During a successful career, he won the Academy Award for Best Song on two occasions. He also wrote songs for a number of prominent musicians, including Elvis...
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| 1971 | Isaac Hayes |
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Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter...
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Theme from Shaft | ||
| 1970 | Fred Karlin |
Fred Karlin (June 16, 1936 - March 26, 2004) was an Oscar-winning American composer of more than one hundred scores for feature films and television movies. He also was an accomplished trumpeter adept at playing jazz, blues, classical, rock, and...
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For All We Know | |||
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| 1969 | Burt Bacharach |
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Burt F. Bacharach (pronounced /ˈbækəræk/, BAK-ə-rak; born 12 May 1928) is an American pianist and composer. He is known for his pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and...
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Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head | ||
| Hal David |
Hal David (born May 25, 1921 in New York City, New York) is an American lyricist and songwriter. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer Burt Bacharach....
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| 1968 | Michel Legrand |
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Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932 in Paris) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of French and Armenian descent.
Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores and several musicals and has made...
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The Windmills of Your Mind | ||
| Alan Bergman |
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Alan Bergman (born September 11, 1925) is an American lyricist and songwriter.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as...
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| Marilyn Bergman |
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Marilyn Bergman (born November 10, 1929) is a composer, songwriter and author.
She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English at New York University. She and her husband Alan Bergman, whom she married in 1958,...
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| 1967 | Leslie Bricusse |
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Leslie Bricusse (29 January 1931) is a British lyricist and composer.
Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers. Whilst at Cambridge University, he was Secretary of Footlights between...
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Talk to the Animals | ||
| 1966 | John Barry |
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John Barry, OBE (born John Barry Prendergast on 3 November 1933 in York, England) is an English film score composer. He is best known for composing 11 James Bond soundtracks and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style.
Barry was...
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Born Free | ||
| Don Black |
Don Black, OBE (born 21 June 1938) is an English lyricist. His works have included numerous musicals, movie themes and hit songs. He has provided lyrics for John Barry, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Quincy Jones, Jule Styne, Henry Mancini, Michael Jackson,...
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| 1965 | Johnny Mel | The Shadow of Your Smile | ||||
| Paul Francis Webster |
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Paul Francis Webster (December 20, 1907 – March 18, 1984) was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
He was born in New York City, the son of Myron Lawrence Webster and Blanche...
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| 1964 | Richard M. Sherman |
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Richard Morton Sherman (born June 12, 1928; see also: "Sherman Brothers") is an American songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert Bernard Sherman.
Some of the Sherman Brothers' best-known writing includes the songs from...
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Chim Chim Cher-ee | ||
| Robert B. Sherman |
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Robert Bernard Sherman (born December 19, 1925; see also: "Sherman Brothers") is an American songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary...
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| 1963 | James Van Heusen |
Jimmy Van Heusen (January 26, 1913 - February 7, 1990), was an American composer. He wrote songs for films and television and won four Academy Awards for Best Original Song, and an Emmy.
Born Edward Chester Babcock in Syracuse, New York, he began...
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Call Me Irresponsible | |||
| Sammy Cahn |
Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Film and to a lesser extent Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in...
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| 1962 | Henry Mancini |
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Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. Mancini also won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy...
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Days of Wine and Roses | ||
| Johnny Mercer |
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John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as...
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| 1961 | Henry Mancini |
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Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. Mancini also won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy...
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Moon River | ||
| Johnny Mercer |
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John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as...
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| 1960 | Manos Hadjidakis |
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Manos Hadjidakis (Greek: Μάνος Χατζιδάκις) (October 23, 1925 – June 15, 1994) was an Academy Award-winning Greek composer. He was born in Xanthi, Greece. In 1960 he received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for his Song Never on Sunday from...
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Never on Sunday | ||
| 1959 | James Van Heusen |
Jimmy Van Heusen (January 26, 1913 - February 7, 1990), was an American composer. He wrote songs for films and television and won four Academy Awards for Best Original Song, and an Emmy.
Born Edward Chester Babcock in Syracuse, New York, he began...
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High Hopes | |||
| Sammy Cahn |
Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Film and to a lesser extent Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in...
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| 1958 | Frederic Loewe |
Frederick Loewe (born German: Friedrich Löwe, June 10, 1901, Vienna – February 14, 1988, Palm Springs) was a Tony Award-winning Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the long running Broadway musicals My Fair...
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Gigi | |||
| Alan Jay Lerner |
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Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He...
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| 1957 | James Van Heusen |
Jimmy Van Heusen (January 26, 1913 - February 7, 1990), was an American composer. He wrote songs for films and television and won four Academy Awards for Best Original Song, and an Emmy.
Born Edward Chester Babcock in Syracuse, New York, he began...
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All the Way | |||
| Sammy Cahn |
Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Film and to a lesser extent Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in...
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| 1956 | Jay Livingston |
Jay Livingston (March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was a partner with Ray Evans in a composing and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics.
Livingston was born Jacob Harold Levison in...
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Whatever Will Be, Will Be | |||
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| 1955 | Sammy Fain |
Sammy Fain (Samuel E. Feinberg, June 17, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American composer of popular music.
Sammy Fain was born in New York City. In 1923, Fain appeared with Artie Dunn in a short film directed by Lee De Forest filmed in DeForest's...
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Love Is a Many-Spendored Thing | |||
| Paul Francis Webster |
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Paul Francis Webster (December 20, 1907 – March 18, 1984) was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
He was born in New York City, the son of Myron Lawrence Webster and Blanche...
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| 1954 | Sammy Fain |
Sammy Fain (Samuel E. Feinberg, June 17, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American composer of popular music.
Sammy Fain was born in New York City. In 1923, Fain appeared with Artie Dunn in a short film directed by Lee De Forest filmed in DeForest's...
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Three Coins in the Fountain | |||
| Jule Styne |
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Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.
Styne was born in London, England as...
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| 1953 | Sammy Fain |
Sammy Fain (Samuel E. Feinberg, June 17, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American composer of popular music.
Sammy Fain was born in New York City. In 1923, Fain appeared with Artie Dunn in a short film directed by Lee De Forest filmed in DeForest's...
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Secret Love | |||
| Paul Francis Webster |
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Paul Francis Webster (December 20, 1907 – March 18, 1984) was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
He was born in New York City, the son of Myron Lawrence Webster and Blanche...
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| 1952 | Dimitri Tiomkin |
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (Ukrainian: Дмитро Зиновійович Тьомкін, Dmytro Zynoviyovych Tiomkin, Russian: Дмитрий Зиновьевич Тёмкин, Dmitrij Zinov'evič Tëmkin, sometimes transliterated as Dmitri Tiomkin) (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a film...
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High Noon | |||
| Ned Washington |
Ned Washington (August 15, 1901 – December 20, 1976) was an American lyricist.
Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962. He won the Best Original Music award twice: in 1940 for "When You Wish upon a Star" in Pinocchio and...
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| 1951 | Hoagy Carmichael |
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Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust" (1927), "Georgia On My Mind," and "Heart and Soul", three of the...
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In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening | ||
| Johnny Mercer |
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John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as...
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| 1950 | Ray Evans |
Raymond Bernard Evans (February 4, 1915 – February 15, 2007) was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films. Evans wrote the lyrics and Livingston the...
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Mona Lisa | |||
| Jay Livingston |
Jay Livingston (March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was a partner with Ray Evans in a composing and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics.
Livingston was born Jacob Harold Levison in...
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| 1949 | Frank Loesser |
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Frank Henry Loesser (June 29, 1910 – July 26, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside | ||
| 1948 | Jay Livingston |
Jay Livingston (March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was a partner with Ray Evans in a composing and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics.
Livingston was born Jacob Harold Levison in...
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Buttons and Bows | |||
| Ray Evans |
Raymond Bernard Evans (February 4, 1915 – February 15, 2007) was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films. Evans wrote the lyrics and Livingston the...
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