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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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The Continental
"The Continental" is a song written by Con Conrad with lyrics by Herb Magidson and was introduced by Ginger Rogers in the 1934 film The Gay Divorcee. "The Continental" won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song to be awarded. Major record...
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Lullaby of Broadway
"Lullaby of Broadway" is a popular song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin, published in 1935.
The song was introduced by Wini Shaw in the musical film Gold Diggers of 1935 and, in an unusual move, it was used as background music in a...
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The Way You Look Tonight
"The Way You Look Tonight" is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. The song was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Fields later...
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Sweet Leilani
Sweet Leilani is a song from the 1937 film, Waikiki Wedding. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and was popularized by Bing Crosby who recorded it in 1935.
Harry Owens wrote the song on October 20, 1934 for his daughter Leilani who was...
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Thanks for the Memory
"Thanks for the Memory" (1938) is a popular song, with music composed by Ralph Rainger and lyrics by Leo Robin. It was introduced in the 1938 film The Big Broadcast of 1938 by Shep Fields and His Orchestra with vocals by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross....
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Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" (often referred to as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow") is a classic ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by Judy Garland in that movie. Over...
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When You Wish upon a Star
"When You Wish upon a Star" is a popular song written by Ned Washington and Leigh Harline and introduced in the 1940 Walt Disney movie Pinocchio, where it is sung by Cliff Edwards in the character of Jiminy Cricket, over the opening credits and...
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 romantic drama made by MGM, loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald 's short story Babylon Revisited. It was directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Jack Cummings. The screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G...
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White Christmas
"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is assumed to be the best selling single of all time.
The morning after Berlin wrote the song in 1940 at the poolside —...
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You'll Never Know
"You'll Never Know" is a popular song. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Mack Gordon, based on a poem written by a young Oklahoma war bride named Dorothy Fern Norris. The lyrics can be found at .
The song was introduced in the...
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Swinging on a Star
"Swinging on a Star" is a popular song.
Swinging on a Star was recorded in Los Angeles February 7, 1944 by singer Bing Crosby and released by Decca Records. Legendary crooner Andy Williams and his brothers in The William Brothers Quartet backed up...
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It Might as Well Be Spring
"It Might as Well Be Spring" is a song from the 1945 film State Fair. With music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year. State Fair was the only original film score by Rodgers...
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On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" is a popular song which refers to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It was written for the 1946 movie, The Harvey Girls, where it was sung by Judy Garland. It won the Academy Award for Best...
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Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" is a song from the Disney 1946 live action and animated movie Song of the South, sung by James Baskett. The music was written by Allie Wrubel, the lyrics by Ray Gilbert and was published in 1946. It won the Academy Award for Best...
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Buttons and Bows
"Buttons and Bows" is a popular song.
The music was written by Jay Livingston, the lyrics by Ray Evans. The song was published in 1947. The song appeared in the Bob Hope and Jane Russell movie The Paleface, and won the Academy Award for Best...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a pop standard with words and music by Frank Loesser. It is considered by many as an all-time Christmas favorite.
Loesser wrote the duet in 1944 and premiered the song with his wife at their Navarro Hotel housewarming...
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Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa is a 1986 British film about a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. The movie was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland, and directed by Jordan. It was produced by George Harrison's...
In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening
"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" is a popular song written by Hoagy Carmichael, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the 1951 movie Here Comes the Groom. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
The recording by Bing Crosby and Jane...
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High Noon
"The Ballad of High Noon" (or "Do Not Forsake Me") is a popular song published in 1952 with music by Dimitri Tiomkin and lyrics by Ned Washington. It was introduced in the movie High Noon, where it was sung by Tex Ritter. It was awarded the 1952...
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Secret Love
"Secret Love" is a song by the Bee Gees. It was the lead single of their album "High Civilisation", released March 1991. It is an up-tempo ballad with a clear Supremes style similar to their 1986 Diana Ross hit "Chain Reaction" . The single reached...
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Three Coins in the Fountain
Three Coins in the Fountain is the 1954 film that introduced the song of the same name, which became an enduring standard. It tells the story of three American girls looking for romance in Rome while employed at the American Embassy. It stars...
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Love Is a Many-Spendored Thing
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Whatever Will Be, Will Be
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" first published in 1956, is a popular song which was written by the Jay Livingston and Ray Evans songwriting team.
The song was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much, with...
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All the Way
"All the Way" is a 1950s pop song which has since been covered by many artists.
Frank Sinatra's version was published in 1957 by Maraville Music Corporation. The music was written by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. It was introduced in...
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Gigi
Gigi is a 1958 American musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella of the same name by Colette. The film features songs with lyrics by Lerner; music by Frederick Loewe, arranged and...
High Hopes
High Hopes is a 1988 film directed by Mike Leigh, focussing on an extended working-class family living in King's Cross, London and elsewhere.
The film primarily examines Cyril (Philip Davis) and Shirley (Ruth Sheen), a motor-cycle courier and his...
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Never on Sunday
Never on Sunday (Greek: Ποτέ Την Κυριακή, translit. Pote Tin Kyriaki) is a 1960 Greek black-and-white film which tells the story of Ilya, a prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in Greece, and Homer, an American tourist — a classical scholar...
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Moon River
"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was originally sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, although it...
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Days of Wine and Roses
"Days of Wine and Roses" is a popular song, from the 1962 movie of the same name.
The music was written by Henry Mancini, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. They received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for their work. he song is composed of only...
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Call Me Irresponsible
"Call Me Irresponsible" is a 1962 song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
According to the Mel Tormé book The Other Side of the Rainbow with Judy Garland on the Dawn Patrol, Van Heusen originally wrote the song for Garland to...
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Chim Chim Cher-ee
"Chim Chim Cher-ee" is the Oscar winning song from Mary Poppins, the 1964 musical motion picture. It was originally sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. "Chim Chim Cher-ee" is also featured prominently in the award winning Cameron Mackintosh...
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The Shadow of Your Smile
"The Shadow of Your Smile", also known as "Love Theme from The Sandpiper", is a popular song. The music was written by Johnny Mandel, the lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. The song was introduced in the 1965 movie The Sandpiper with a trumpet solo by...
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Born Free
Born Free (1966) is an Open Road Films Ltd./Columbia Pictures feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised Elsa the Lioness an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into...
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Talk to the Animals
Talk to the Animals is an Australian television series produced by WTFN Entertainment which airs Saturdays at 4:30pm on the Nine Network across Australia. The program also screens internationally on Animal Planet.
It originally premiered in 1993 on...
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The Windmills of Your Mind
"The Windmills of Your Mind" (Les moulins de mon cœur) is a song with music by Michel Legrand, as well as Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, and lyrics by the Bergmans, from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. Noel Harrison performed the song for...
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Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Further, David and Bacharach won Best Original Score. The...
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For All We Know
"For All We Know" is a popular song originally written for the 1970 film Lovers and Other Strangers by Fred Karlin, Robb Wilson (Robb Royer) and Arthur James (Jimmy Griffin). It was originally performed by Larry Meredith.
It gained popularity when...
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Theme from Shaft
"Theme from Shaft", written and recorded by Isaac Hayes in 1971, is the soul- and funk-styled theme song to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Shaft. The theme was released as a single (shortened and edited from the longer album version) two months after...
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The Morning After
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The Way We Were
The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by Arthur Laurents was based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
A box...
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I'm Easy
"I'm Easy" was a popular music hit in 1976 in the United States. The song was featured in the movie Nashville, written and performed by Keith Carradine.
The song is a tender ballad about a lover who is utterly guileless and in awe of the object of...
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Evergreen
"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" is the well known theme song from the 1976 film A Star Is Born. It was composed and performed by Barbra Streisand with lyrics by Paul Williams. The song was released on the soundtrack to A Star Is Born....
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You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs
You Light up My Life: Inspirational Songs is the third album by American country singer LeAnn Rimes, released in the United States on September 9, 1997 (see 1997 in music) by Curb Records. Released in 1997, the album was hugely successful but many...
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Last Dance
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It Goes Like It Goes
"It Goes Like It Goes" is a song written by David Shire and Norman Gimbel. It was sung by Jennifer Warnes for the Norma Rae soundtrack in 1979. "It Goes Like It Goes" won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1979, defeating such fellow...
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Fame
"Fame" is a song recorded by David Bowie, initially released in 1975 and in remixed versions, in 1990.
With the Young Americans sessions mostly concluded in late 1974, the material was delayed while Bowie extricated himself from his contract with...
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Up Where We Belong
"Up Where We Belong" is a song from the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. Written by Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie, with lyrics by Will Jennings, it was performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.
The single, released by Island Records...
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Flashdance... What a Feeling
"Flashdance... What a Feeling" is an Academy Award winning song from the 1983 film Flashdance which was performed by Irene Cara.
In addition to topping the Billboard Hot 100 and earning a platinum record in 1983, "Flashdance... What a Feeling" won...
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I Just Called to Say I Love You
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" is a song written, produced, and performed by Stevie Wonder. The midtempo song expresses how simply telephoning someone to tell them you love them can make even a very unremarkable day rewarding. It is one of Wonder...
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Say You, Say Me
"Say You, Say Me" is a Golden Globe and Academy Award winning song written and recorded by Lionel Richie for the film White Nights starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines. The single hit number one on the soul singles chart and on the...
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Take My Breath Away
"Take My Breath Away" is a song by English pop singer-songwriter Emma Bunton from her debut solo album, A Girl Like Me (2001). Written by Bunton, Steve Mac, and Wayne Hector and released in the United Kingdom as the album's second single on 27...
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Let the River Run
"Let the River Run" is a song first featured in the film Working Girl, with music and lyrics by Carly Simon. This song won the Academy Award for Best Song at the 61st Academy Awards in 1988. The song also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original...
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Under the Sea
"Under the Sea" is an Academy Award-winning song from Disney's 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid, composed by Alan Menken with lyrics by Howard Ashman and is heavily influenced by the Calypso style of the Caribbean. The song was performed in the...
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Sooner or Later
"Sooner or Later" is a song recorded by American pop singer Madonna and written by American composer Stephen Sondheim for the 1990 film Dick Tracy. Released that same year on Madonna's album I'm Breathless, the song won Sondheim an Academy Award for...
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Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation which premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on November 13, 1991. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film...
A Whole New World
"A Whole New World" is the featured pop single from the soundtrack to the 1992 Disney film Aladdin. It was composed by Alan Menken with lyrics by Tim Rice. The song is a ballad between the primary characters Aladdin and Jasmine about the new world...
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Can You Feel the Love Tonight
"Can You Feel the Love Tonight" is an Academy Award-winning song from Disney's 1994 animated film The Lion King, composed by Elton John with lyrics by Tim Rice. It was described by Don Hahn (the film's producer), Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff (the...
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Colors of the Wind
"Colors of the Wind" by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz was the 1995 Oscar-winner for Best Original Song from the Disney animated feature film Pocahontas. It also won the Golden Globe in the same category as well as the Grammy...
