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The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 26, 2000. Sam Mendes was the sixth person to win Best Director for his directorial debut. Best Actor winner Kevin Spacey became the tenth performer to win acting Oscars in both lead and supporting categories.
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Volker Bertelmann. 2023: German composer Volker Bertelmann took home the accolade for his score to anti-war epic ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’.
- Dune – Hans Zimmer. 2022: Zimmer’s 27-year wait for his second Oscar – his first being in 1994 for The Lion King – set a new composer record, one previously held by Breakfast at Tiffany’s composer Henry Mancini.
- Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. 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.
- Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir. 2020: Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir became the first woman to win an Academy Award for a film score since 1997. In her speech, she urged women and girls to “please speak up; we need to hear your voices.”
- 2019: "Shallow" 'A Star is Born' (2018) After A Star is Born's release in 2018, its hit song "Shallow" took the world by storm and was the clear winner of Best Original Song.
- 2014: "Let It Go" 'Frozen' (2013) There were only four nominees in 2013, but it is no surprise that "Let It Go" would come out on top. Written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and sung by Broadway legend Idina Menzel, "Let It Go" became a cultural phenomenon that has continued to dominate a decade later.
- 2023: "Naatu Naatu" 'RRR' (2022) Beating out heavy hitters like Lady Gaga and Rihanna, the international hit song from RRR, "Naatu Naatu" took home the Oscar during the 95th Academy Awards.
- 2015: "Glory" 'Selma' (2014) In 2014, Selma's theme song "Glory" easily won the top spot. It also won a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Award, and a Grammy while charting in the top 50 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- “White Christmas” from “Holiday Inn” (1942), by Irving Berlin. It always feels strange watching the “Holiday Inn” scene where Bing Crosby, playing a songwriter, teaches this song to Marjorie Reynolds as something that had recently come off the top of his head, because implicit in the scene is the idea that “White Christmas” was written by a human, not God.
- “Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz” (1939), by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg. When you think about it, both of these two top-tier Oscar songs are ditties about the weather.
- “When You Wish Upon a Star” from “Pinocchio” (1940), by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington. The great triumvirate of movie “wish” songs is completed by Jiminy Cricket’s opening and closing anthem about wishing to be real… something we could all aspire to.
- “Theme From ‘Shaft’” from “Shaft” (1971), by Isaac Hayes. And now, a different kind of wish fulfillment: that you could be a “private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks.”
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The 72nd Academy Awards | 2000. Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center. Sunday, March 26, 2000. Honoring movies released in 1999.
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