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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.
- United States
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- 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.”
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It is generally awarded to the production sound mixers, re-recording mixers, and supervising sound editors of the winning film. In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.
Mar 22, 2021 · In each of the past two years, the Oscars telecast has opened with a medley of songs, none of which were eligible for awards. Two years ago, we got to watch celebrities awkwardly dancing in place...
* Best Picture - James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers * Sound - Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano * Sound Effects Editing - Tom Bellfort, Christopher Boyes
“Titanic” won 11 Academy Awards, which tied the record for wins set by “Ben-Hur” in 1959. For only the third time in Academy history, the year’s Oscar-winning song (“My Heart Will Go On”) was from the movie that won Best Picture.
Feb 20, 2015 · ’N Sync crashed the pop music scene in mid-1998, and their rise was meteoric enough that by ’99, they were ready to cheese it up with Miami Sound Machinist-turned-adult contemporary...
