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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.
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- "Take My Breath Away" By Giorgio Moroder (Music); Tom Whitlock (Lyrics) Top Gun (1986) at the 59th Academy Awards. Top Gun. Drama. Action. Release Date. May 16, 1986.
- "Flashdance... What a Feeling" By Giorgio Moroder (Music); Irene Cara & Keith Forsey (Lyrics) Flashdance (1983) at the 56th Academy Awards. Flashdance.
- "Glory" By Common & John Legend (Music & Lyrics) Selma (2014) at the 87th Academy Awards. Selma. History. Drama. Biography. Release Date. December 25, 2014. Cast.
- "When You Believe" By Stephen Schwartz (Music & Lyrics) The Prince of Egypt (1998) at the 71st Academy Awards. DreamWorks' animated film The Prince of Egypt tells the biblical story of Moses and the plagues of Egypt, and it doesn't hold back from any of the violence or terror, despite ostensibly being a children's movie.
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow. 1,015 votes. The Wizard of Oz 1939.
- Beauty and the Beast. 732 votes. Beauty and the Beast 1991.
- When You Wish Upon a Star. 709 votes. Pinocchio 1940.
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight. 793 votes. The Lion King 1994.
- “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz (1940) One of the most hopeful songs ever written almost didn’t make the movie that put it over the top. The producers of The Wizard of Oz asked the dream team of Harold Arlen (music) and Yip Harburg (lyrics) to write a song to appear towards the start of film that would express the deep yearning their lead character, Dorothy Gale, felt for a land beyond her family’s bleak Kansas farm.
- “White Christmas” from Holiday Inn (1943) Savvy songwriters know, if you want your piece to last forever, hitch it to a holiday. Probably no song in history has made more of that maxim than Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas.”
- “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany's (1962) “Moon River” has a melody anybody can sing—for a reason. Composer Henry Mancini designed it to suit the charming, but modest, vocal range of the actress who introduced it to the world: Audrey Hepburn.
- “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970) Before the powerhouse songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David nabbed their Oscar for the insouciant “Raindrops” theme, they suffered three losses—for “What’s New Pussycat?”
- “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.”
Mar 10, 2023 · With musical heavy-hitters like Rihanna, David Byrne, Mitski and previous Oscar-winner Lady Gaga all in the running for best original song in 2023, whoever wins will be in awfully good...
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Feb 9, 2020 · From your favorite Disney hits to tracks by Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, and more, these are the best Academy Award-winning songs from the past four decades.
