Academy Award for Best Song

Table of contents
1 1930s
2 1940s
3 1950s
4 1960s
5 1970s
6 1980s
7 1990s
8 2000s

1930s

  • 1934 Con Conrad (music), Herb Magidson (lyrics) - "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcée
    • Vincent Youmans (music), Edward Eliscu, Gus Kahn (lyrics) - "Carioca" from Flying Down to Rio
    • Ralph Rainger (music), Leo Robin (lyrics) - "Love in Bloom" from She Loves Me Not
  • 1935 Harry Warren (music), Al Dubin (lyrics) ? "Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935
    • Irving Berlin (music and lyrics) ? "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat
    • Jerome Kern (music), Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh (lyrics) ? "Lovely to Look At" from Roberta
  • 1936 Jerome Kern (music), Dorothy Fields (lyrics) ? "The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time
    • Louis Alter (music), Sidney Mitchell (lyrics) ? "A Melody from the Sky" from Trail of the Lonesome Pine
    • Walter Donaldson (music), Harold Adamson (lyrics) ? "Did I Remember" from Suzy
    • Arthur Johnston (music), Johnny Burke (lyrics) ? "Pennies from Heaven" from Pennies from Heaven
    • Cole Porter (music and lyrics) ? "I've Got You Under My Skin" from Born to Dance
    • Richard Whiting (music), Walter Bullock (lyrics) ? "When Did You Leave Heaven" from Sing, Baby, Sing

  • 1937 Harry Owens (music and lyrics) ? "Sweet Leilani" from Waikiki Wedding
  • 1938 Ralph Rainger (music), Leo Robin (lyrics) - "Thanks for the Memory" from The Big Broadcast of 1938
  • 1939 Harold Arlen (music), E. Y. Harburg (lyrics) - "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz

1940s

  • 1940 Leigh Harline (music), Ned Washington (lyrics) - "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio

1950s

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
  • 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
  • 1976 Barbra Streisand (music), Paul Williams (lyrics) ? "Evergreen" 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

1990s

2000s

See also : Academy Awards