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- Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga may not have won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in A Star Is Born (2018), but she did walk away with Best Original Song in 2019 for the film's big number, "Shallow."
- Adele. Adele scooped up her first Oscar for Best Original Song in 2013 for "Skyfall," the song from the 2012 James Bond movie of the same name. It was the first theme song from the Bond franchise to win an Oscar.
- Barbra Streisand. In 1969, Streisand tied — an extremely rare occurrence at the Oscars — with the late Katharine Hepburn for Best Actress for her role in Funny Girl (1968).
- Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan won Best Original Song in 2001 for "Things Have Changed" from the dramedy Wonder Boys (2000). The singer, who was touring Australia during the broadcast, performed the song (and later accepted the award) via satellite.
Mar 11, 2024 · Finneas O’Connell and Billie Eilish accept the Oscar for original song at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday.
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- “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?”
Mar 28, 2022 · Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won the original-song Oscar for “No Time to Die,” the title tune for the latest James Bond film, at Sunday’s 94th annual Academy Awards.
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Mar 27, 2022 · Get complete coverage of all the Oscars 2022 winners on the Oscars Winners page and the full list of 94th Academy Awards winners here on Oscar.com. Five artists competed to take home the most prestigious award in film, the Oscar. The nominees for Music (Original Song) were: "Be Alive" from KING RICHARD, "Dos Oruguitas" from ENCANTO, "Down To ...
Mar 28, 2022 · The 20-year-old pop star and her brother, Finneas, won Best Original Song at the 94th Academy Awards, for the James Bond theme "No Time to Die," from the film of the same name.
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Mar 11, 2024 · Heading into the 2024 Academy Awards, a pair of Barbie tracks were favorites to win Best Original Song: Billie Eilish’s ballad “What Was I Made For?” — which took home the same award at ...
