The Academy Award for Best Song is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole.

Most awards won - (nominations)

• 4 : Sammy Cahn (26)
• 4 : Alan Menken (10)
• 4 : Johnny Mercer (18)
• 4 : James Van Heusen (14)
• 3 : Ray Evans (7)
• 3 : Jay Livingston (7)
• 3 : Tim Rice (5)
• 3 : Harry Warren (11)
• 3 : Paul Francis Webster (16)
• 2 : Howard Ashman (7)
• 2 : Burt Bacharach (5)
• 2 : Alan Bergman (15)
• 2 : Marilyn Bergman (15)
• 2 : Sammy Fain (10)
• 2 : Oscar Hammerstein II (5)
• 2 : Joel Hirschhorn (3)
• 2 : Will Jennings (3)
• 2 : Al Kasha (3)
• 2 : Jerome Kern (7)
• 2 : Henry Mancini (11)
• 2 : Giorgio Moroder (2)
• 2 : Stephen Schwartz (2)
• 2 : Ned Washington (11)

1930s

• 1934 - "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee
• 1935 - "Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935
• 1936 - "The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time
• 1937 - "Sweet Leilani" from Waikiki Wedding
• 1938 - "Thanks for the Memory" from The Big Broadcast of 1938
• 1939 - "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz

1940s

• 1940 - "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio
• 1941 - "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from Lady Be Good
• 1942 - "White Christmas from Holiday Inn''
• 1943 - "You'll Never Know" from Hello, Frisco, Hello
• 1944 - "Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way
• 1945 - "It Might As Well Be Spring" from State Fair
• 1946 - "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" from The Harvey Girls
• 1947 - "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South
• 1948 - "Buttons and Bows" from The Paleface
• 1949 - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter

1950s

• 1950 - "Mona Lisa" from Captain Carey, U. S. A.
• 1951 - "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" from Here Comes the Groom
• 1952 - "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" from High Noon
• 1953 - "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane
• 1954 - "Three Coins in the Fountain" from Three Coins in the Fountain
• 1955 - "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• 1956 - "Whatever Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" from The Man Who Knew Too Much
• 1957 - "All the Way" from The Joker is Wild
• 1958 - "Gigi" from Gigi
• 1959 - "High Hopes" from A Hole in the Head

1960s

• 1960 - "Never on Sunday" from Pote tin Kyriaki
• 1961 - "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's
• 1962 - "Days of Wine and Roses" from Days of Wine and Roses
• 1963 - "Call Me Irresponsible" from Papa's Delicate Condition
• 1964 - "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins
• 1965 - "The Shadow of Your Smile" from The Sandpiper
• 1966 - "Born Free" from Born Free
• 1967 - "Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle
• 1968 - "Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair
• 1969 - "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1970s

• 1970 - "For All We Know" from Lovers and Other Strangers
• 1971 - "Theme from Shaft" from Shaft
• 1972 - "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure
• 1973 - "The Way We Were" from The Way We Were
• 1974 - "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno
• 1975 - "I'm Easy" from Nashville
• 1976 - "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" from A Star Is Born
• 1977 - "You Light Up My Life" from You Light Up My Life
• 1978 - "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday
• 1979 - "It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Rae

1980s

• 1980 - "Fame" from Fame
• 1981 - "Best That You Can Do" from Arthur
• 1982 - "Up Where We Belong" from An Officer and a Gentleman
• 1983 - "Flashdance... What a Feeling" from Flashdance
• 1984 - "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from The Woman in Red
• 1985 - "Say You, Say Me" from White Nights
• 1986 - "Take My Breath Away" from Top Gun
• 1987 - "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing composed by Franke Previte
• 1988 - "Let the River Run" from Working Girl
• 1989 - "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid

1990s

• 1990 - "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" from Dick Tracy
• 1991 - "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast
• 1992 - "A Whole New World" from Aladdin
• 1993 - "Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia
• 1994 - "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King
• 1995 - "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas
• 1996 - "You Must Love Me" from Evita
• 1997 - "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic
• 1998 - "When You Believe" from The Prince of Egypt
• 1999 - "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan

2000s

• 2000 - "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys

• 2001 - "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. (first Oscar for Randy Newman after 16 nominations)

• 2002 - "Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile (unusually, wasn't performed at the telecast - Eminem didn't attend the ceremony)

• 2003 - "Into the West" from The Return of the King (film)

• 2004 - "Al Otro Lado del Río" from The Motorcycle Diaries (the first ever foreign language song to win, in a year where two such songs had nods: the other was Vois Sur Ton Chemin (Look To Your Path) from the French movie Les Choristes)

• 2005 - "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow

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