Also Nominated From ’74: Western balladeer Frankie Laine’s straight-faced rendition of Mel Brooks’ title theme to Blazing Saddles. Snubbed: R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly,” a ballad whose gospel was powerful enough to reduce the Notorious B.I.G. Written By: Jay Livingston & Ray Evans 73. Written By: Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams A.U. 76. Waltz! “Something He Can Feel,” a crossover hit for Aretha Franklin (and later En Vogue) off the Sparkle soundtrack was also ignored. Shared with: James Carmichael (producer) For "Can't Slow Down". Takes a while to get going, and while it builds competently — with one voice becoming two, then dozens alongside increasing instrumentation — it’s not that impressive outside of the context of the movie, especially for a song that combines the talents of two of the greatest pop stars of the 20th century. Written By: Johnny Mandel & Paul Francis Webster Performed By: Phil Collins. “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing”. 2001: Kicking off the millennium with a martial arts epic, the music from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a great mesh of western symphonic and traditional eastern sounds. 1986: Another John Barry triumph, and another British soundtrack Oscar (despite the movie's reliance on Mozart's Clarinet Concerto). The list of great songs about the indomitable spirit of large, open-range felines is not a long one, though Matt Monro’s hilariously melodramatic title song for Born Free certainly does its damnedest to get on there. Well, neither did the Academy. Also Nominated From ’77: The Carly Simon-sung, Marvin Hamlisch and Carol Bayer Sager-penned “Nobody Does It Better,” from The Spy Who Loved Me — a No. 2014: Composer Steven Price accepts the Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score award for Gravity on stage during the Oscars. “You Light Up My Life” (You Light Up My Life, 1977) J.G. 2020: Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir became the first woman to win an Academy Award for a film score since 1997. Snubbed: “You Are My Lucky Star,” from the confusingly titled Broadway Melody of 1936. Far more memorable for its ahead-of-its-time cinematic introduction — performed in a two-minute one-shot zoom-in on performer Wini Shaw that looks like something from Eraserhead, courtesy of famed choreographer Busby Berkeley — than for anything related to the song itself. Jazz-based scores had been nominated before (Bernard Herrmann's Taxi Driver, for instance), but this was a notable non-symphonic win for Herbie Hancock. Also a Grammy winner for Song of the Year (as performed by Tony Bennett), beating out the most covered song of the 20th century. Only one composer has won Oscars three years in a row: Roger Edens won for Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). We’ve trudged through the gems and the duds, the songs that have become part of cinema history and the songs whose writers have even forgotten about, to rank the winners from worst to first — also taking a moment to point out the notable nominees beaten each year, and those snubbed from being nominated in the first place, whether due to arcane Academy rules or sheer neglect. By late 1961, American military advisors were directing the South Vietnamese Army to forcibly relocate 8.5 million rural peasants to fortified camps called “strategic hamlets”; the project was soon judged a colossal failure. The first winner at 1934′s 7th Academy Awards was “The Continental” from … It ushered in a hey-day of Disney animations and, notably, fantastic songs and scores. Also Nominated From ’46: “I Can’t Begin to Tell You,” sung by John Payne in The Dolly Sisters, and an eventual No. 2009: An Oscars first: a Bollywood-influenced score taking the gong for Best Original Music. A somewhat frivolous song contingent on understanding plot points from the film of the same name (or the Roman tradition it’s based on), though it improbably became something of a go-to and trademark number for Ol’ Blue Eyes just the same. Written By: Hoagy Carmichael & Johnny Mercer Also Nominated From ’66: A couple of memorable British themes: Cilla Black’s Burt Bacharach / Hal David-penned title track to the Michael Caine vehicle Alfie, and the Seekers’ vivacious hit ode to the protagonist of Georgy Girl. Also Nominated from ’15: Lady Gaga’s fire-throated Diane Warren power ballad “Till It Happens to You” (from the documentary about campus rape The Hunting Ground), and the Weeknd’s career-reviving black-lace waltz, “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey).” 5. Academy Awards Winning Songs List (Oscar) My Wedding Songs is a reader-supported website. Performed By: Frank Sinatra. Also Nominated From ’96: Amazingly, the Beatlesque theme to the ’90s cable favorite That Thing You Do! 7pm - 8pm, O Be Joyful The Academy has a tendency to reward easy listening. 61. Just as iconic as the visuals and the story was Howard Shore's soaring score, which beat a double nomination for John Williams. 66. “I Need to Wake Up” (An Inconvenient Truth, 2006) Performed By: Madonna. Performed By: Bing Crosby. A legendarily insipid ballad, which somehow topped the Hot 100 for a then-record ten straight weeks and won the Oscar in one of the all-time great years for original film songs. It came out over 75 years ago, but time has only seemed to enhance the massive cultural legacy of The Wizard of Oz. When the Oscar nominations were announced on Feb. 17, 1983, Alan and Marilyn Bergman accomplished an unprecedented feat: They had three of the five nominees for best song. “High Hopes” (A Hole in the Head, 1959) Performed By: Maureen McGovern. John Williams was nominated again, but couldn't quite manage another - which means Barry was, for a time, even with Williams. He managed to beat John Williams (The Accidental Tourist), George Fenton (Dangerous Liaisons), Maurice Jarre (Gorillas In The Mist) and Hans Zimmer (Rain Man). Written By: Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn A list of films that won the Academy Awards "Oscar" for "Best Motion Picture of the Year". Performed By: Common & John Legend, Nobody could argue with the intentions or the timeliness behind “Glory,” the gospel-tinged rap ballad that provides the end-credits song to the Civil Rights historical drama Selma. The earned grandiosity of The Lion King’s “Circle of Life” three decades later effectively made this song totally useless. Snubbed: All of Cher and Christina Aguilera’s Burlesque songs, including the Golden Globe-winning “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me,” as well as Pharrell’s work for the first Despicable Me soundtrack and Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith’s Karate Kid theme, “Never Say Never.” Slim pickings for sure, but more relevant than most of the songs that made the cut, at least. Also nominated were John Williams (surely his time will come again soon? Directing - Elia Kazan. But no one could make that ram scram. Snubbed: The only other power ballad that might have been as ubiquitous in 1998 as Aerosmith’s, the Goo Goo Dolls’ City of Angels contribution “Iris.” Also, don’t forget that Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?,” one of Baby Girl’s signature hits and on the shortlist for Best R&B songs of the decade, was first heard on the Dr. Doolittle 2 soundtrack that year. In its Johnny Mandel and choir incarnation, “Shadow” was hardly the most striking of movie themes, but short and sweet and maybe even the slightest bit sinister. See where your favorites ranked below — unless your favorite is Phil Collins’ Tarzan song, in which case maybe don’t — and check back next week to see where this year’s winner ends up falling. 1977: Horror classic The Omen has its share of iconic scenes (pane of glass decapitation, anyone?) 1973: This posthumous Oscar was awarded to this Chaplin film from 1952, but subsequently fell out of circulation because of Charlie Chaplin being refused re-entry to the US when the film was originally touring. 72. 1996: Disney's four-year reign had to end, and Luis Bacalov's Il Postino was the soundtrack to end it with an Oscar for Dramatic Score (the Musical or Comedy Score was won by Alan Menken again, for Pocahontas - so it wasn't all bad news for Disney). Written By: Joe Brooks A song about using all-American determination and pluck to f–k s–t up for no good reason. “Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte” from “Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte”. Middling, self-congratulatory theatrical fare. Snubbed: Nothing terribly notable — Frank Sinatra’s title theme to “Young At Heart” was released before the movie, and nothing from Carmen Jones (originally a stage musical from a decade earlier) was even close to eligible. Menken and Tim Rice won an Oscar for this sprightly song in 1992 and GRAMMYs for both Song Of The Year and Best Song Written Specifically For A Motion Picture Or For Television the following year. God must have been piiiiiisssssed at this being done in his name. Performed By: Stevie Wonder. “Mona Lisa” deservedly became a standard in the capable hands of Nat King Cole. Snubbed: Cobra Starship’s “Snakes on a Plane (Bring It! Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) … Snubbed: Oh nothing much, just every song eligible from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which spawned four undying No. A.U. This year, either because ABC really wanted to streeeetch out its viewership numbers by an extra two hours or because the actual event will be so … Since then, the winners have expanded from big-band dance number centerpieces to include stirring pop epics from animated movies, non-diagetic love ballads from blockbuster romances, and character themes from all sorts of genres — rock, folk, country, funk and, in the 21st century, even hip-hop. It was 1935 when Con Conrad and and Herb Magidson took home the first-ever Oscar for Best Original Song: “The Continental,” from the Fred Astraire and Ginger Rogers musical The Gay Divorcee. Hamlisch also bagged the Oscar for Original Song Score and Adaptation, thanks to his work on The Sting in the same year. Also Nominated From ’37: Another Fred Astaire classic in the George and Ira Gershwin-scribed “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” from Shall We Dance. 2016: The incredible 90-year-old composer picked up his first Academy Award for Best Original Score just three years ago with The Hateful Eight – proof it's literally never too late to bag yourself an Oscar. A.U. 81. The Award was actually introduced at the 7th Academy Awards ceremony. It’s also a little preachy, although that’s kind of a given. Snubbed: The Burton Lane / Alan Jay Lerner composition “You’re All the World to Me” might not have been a classic, but it definitely at least soundtracked a classic movie scene — Fred Astaire’s famous spinning-room dance sequence from Royal Wedding, later referenced in countless music videos. Simply one of the most iconic soundtracks ever written, it became a blueprint for all the heroic film scores that followed. 2015: The score for The Grand Budapest Hotel was Desplat's first Oscar win, despite being nominated nearly every year since 2007, when he was nominated for The Queen. 1999: The Italian movie Life Is Beautiful was a surprise success story at the Oscars in 1999, but Nicola Piovani's score also managed to fend off competition from John Williams (again... this is getting silly now...) and Hans Zimmer. The chorus is probably Lionel’s dumbest, the verses are even worse (“I had a dream / I had an awesome dream”), and the song is tissue-flimsy enough to make Phil Collins sound like Phil Lynott by comparison. “Born Free” (Born Free, 1966) The Way We Were (Marvin Hamlisch, Alan and Marilyn Bergman) – * Music (Song--Original for the Picture) - The Windmills Of Your Mind in "The Thomas Crown Affair" Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman W 2 Nominations, 1 Win (No, not that hanging tree.) Also Nominated From ’59: Marty Robbins’ western ballad “The Hanging Tree,” from the movie of the same name. 1990: Disney are back! The “wake up” metaphor is a cliché, and the country twang is pretty uninspired, making the mostly toothless call-to-action seem preachy and hokey. After failing to win at the ’95 and ’99 awards for his first two Toy Story numbers, Randy Newman finally won in 2010 for easily the worst of the bunch: “We Belong Together,” another trite and predictable ode to lifelong companionship that only serves as slightly less self-parodic than “Left Foot, Right Foot.” A.U. II film version of A Star Is Born. 2008: Marianelli's music for the film version of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement won plaudits from all quarters in a rare John Williams-free year. 2007: Gustavo Santaolalla strikes again, making it two years in a row winning the Oscar for Best Original Music - this time for the multi-layered Brad Pitt drama Babel. 2003: Salma Hayek (pictured) starred as artist Frida Kahlo in this 2002 biopic, but it was composer Eliot Goldenthal who brought home the Oscar for his soundtrack. Snubbed: Speaking of Jones, he pulled double film duty in ’65, also singing the title song to Thunderball, a supremely underrated Bond movie and theme. Snubbed: Sadly, the hypnotic “Once Upon a Dream” from Sleeping Beauty — covered last year by Lana Del Rey for Maleficent — was ineligible, due to being largely derived from Tchaikovsky’s ballet of the same name. “Say You Say Me” (White Nights, 1985) A.U. Climate change is real, but this isn’t the most motivating of protest songs. 1997: The English Patient rejuvenated interest in the British film industry, and Gabriel Yared's score managed to bag the Oscar for Dramatic Score - Rachel Portman's score for Emma won in the Musical or Comedy category. 67. Written By: Sam Smith & Jimmy Napes 2010: Disney returned to the Oscar soundtracks category in 2010 with Giacchino's charming score to the animated classic Up, which beat Hans Zimmer, James Horner and Alexandre Desplat to the prize. 2018: Desplat's second Oscar win in three years, 'The Shape of Water' beat soundtracks by John Williams, Jonny Greenwood, Carter Burwell and Hans Zimmer to the title of Best Original Score. And though it certainly wasn’t technically eligible, it was stark how superior Radiohead’s rejected Spectre theme was to Sam Smith’s statue-winning take. 1 hits and sold 15 million copies in this country alone. Romance! Also Nominated From ’84: The 1984 category was jam-packed with iconic ’80s themes: Ray Parker’s “Ghostbusters,” Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds” and Kenny Loggins’ “Footloose.” And yet… 2021 Oscars Best Original Song predictions include "Judas and the Black Messiah," "The Life Ahead,""One Night in Miami" and "Minari." Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) 73. Download 'O Be Joyful' on iTunes. It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film. 2021: Three musical greats picked up the Best Score award for Disney and Pixar’s animation about a jazz musician who winds up trapped in an alternate world, and must connect to his true purpose on Earth to find his way out. Snubbed: Whether you liked it or not, it was pretty inarguable that the biggest song from a movie in 2015 was Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s 12-week chart-topper “See You Again,” from Furious 7. But the airy synths are pretty irresistible, and when those huge ’80s drums kick in, the hands go up in the air reflexively. J.G. Timeless classic films like The Wizard of Oz, High Noon, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s are represented… as are A Hole in the Head, Waikiki Wedding, Thank God It’s Friday, and some movie called Frozen. That’s on full display with the over-the-top and schmaltzy “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” winning the Best Original Song Oscar in 1955. “Glory” (Selma, 2014) "Husavik," Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, performed by Molly Sandén, Rachel … 1992: Alan Menken grabbed a second Oscar with his score to Beauty and the Beast, at the time one of the films that reignited interest in Disney animations. Not exactly “Rock With You” or “Billie Jean” that got beat here — songs about rats generally have a certain ceiling — but just about anything would have been preferable to “The Morning After.” Put this playlist on shuffle and you’ll be hospitalized for whiplash within six songs. Calm it down guys. Written By: Harry Warren & Al Dubin Grammy. “We Belong Together” (Toy Story 3, 2010) In that movie, the song was by cast member Frances Langford and others, but it’s probably best-remembered today as being sung by a terrified Sigourney Weaver in the final fight scene at the end of Alien. The winners of the 93rd Oscars have been revealed - with Nomadland the big winner, but a few surprises, too. 1976: Finally, after several nominations, John Williams got his first Oscar for the classic Spielberg thriller Jaws. Also Nominated From ’35: The considerably fonder-remembered Irving Berlin composition “Cheek to Cheek,” introduced by Fred Astaire in Top Hat. Snubbed: Rita Hayworth acolytes in the ’40s were no doubt smarting at the exclusion of “Put the Blame on Mame,” dubbed by Anita Kert Ellis for Hayworth’s title character in the iconic noir Gilda. 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). 1998: James Horner got his first ever Oscar with the multi-award-winning epic that was Titanic, which won a massive 11 awards. See also Best Picture Nominees More Awards: Academy Awards (1929-present) Emmy Awards (1949-present) Golden Globes (1944-present) People's Choice Awards (1975-present) Cannes Film Festival (1939-present) Sundance Film Festival (1985-present) A.U. “Evergreen (Love Theme From ‘A Star Is Born’)” (A Star Is Born, 1976) Points for the super-cold Philly-Soul strings and drums, for its association with the Ben Hur of ’70s disaster pics, and for simply not being “The Morning After.” Otherwise… eh. Also Nominated From ’85: Huey Lewis & the News’ universally beloved Back to the Future theme, “The Power of Love,” a song that would get you reported as a communist collaborator for hating on back in ’85. Be warned that we ranked the songs according to the versions used in their Oscar-winning parent movies, which aren’t necessarily the most famous version of the song — so it’s Terence Howard and Taraji P. Henson doing “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp,” not Three 6 Mafia, and Angela Lansbury singing “Beauty and the Beast,” not Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson. Thank the Lord that they remembered that timeless chestnut “The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me)” from The Slipper and the Rose, though! Written By: Phil Collins Those high notes are pretty chill, though. Those moments will be captured live here on Oscar.com as we update this full list of Oscars 2021 winners as they were revealed both here and on the Oscars Winners page.If you're looking for more about the 93rd … Performed By: Sam Smith. 82. 1 hit for Bing Crosby. Written By: Andrew Lloyd Weber & Tim Rice Performed By: Bing Crosby & Jane Wyman, “In the Cool, Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” exploits the electric chemistry of film legends Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman as much as it can, but it’s one of those old Hollywood numbers that’s everything at the same time: Vaudeville!
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