Last Updated on 3 March 2025
1934-present: Wikipedia
| Year | Song | Movie | Music | Lyrics |
| 2024 | El Mal | Emilia Pérez | Camille & Clément Ducol | Jacques Audiard, Camille & Clément Ducol |
| 2023 | What Was I Made For? | Barbie | Billie Eilish / Finneas O’Connell | |
| 2022 | Naatu Naatu | RRR | M. M. Keeravani | Chandrabose |
| 2021 | No Time to Die | No Time to Die | Billie Eilish / Finneas O’Connell | |
| 2020 | Fight for You | Judas and the Black Messiah | D’Mile / H.E.R. | H.E.R. / Tiara Thomas |
| 2019 | (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again | Rocketman | Elton John | Bernie Taupin |
| 2018 | Shallow | A Star Is Born | Lady Gaga / Mark Ronson / Anthony Rossomando / Andrew Wyatt | |
| 2017 | Remember Me | Coco | Kristen Anderson-Lopez / Robert Lopez | |
| 2016 | City of Stars | La La Land | Justin Hurwitz | Benj Pasek / Justin Paul |
| 2015 | Writing’s on the Wall | Spectre | Jimmy Napes / Sam Smith | |
| 2014 | Glory | Selma | John Legend / Common | |
| 2013 | Let It Go | Frozen | Kristen Anderson-Lopez / Robert Lopez | |
| 2012 | Skyfall | Skyfall | Adele Adkins / Paul Epworth | |
| 2011 | Man or Muppet | The Muppets | Bret McKenzie | Bret McKenzie |
| 2010 | We Belong Together | Toy Story 3 | Randy Newman | Randy Newman |
| 2009 | The Weary Kind | Crazy Heart | Ryan Bingham / T-Bone Burnett | |
| 2008 | Jai Ho | Slumdog Millionaire | A.R. Rahman | Gulzar |
| 2007 | Falling Slowly | Once | Glen Hansard / Markéta Irglová | |
| 2006 | I Need to Wake Up | An Inconvenient Truth | Melissa Etheridge | Melissa Etheridge |
| 2005 | It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp | Hustle & Flow | Jordan Houston / Cedric Coleman / Paul Beauregard | |
| 2004 | Al otro lado del rio | The Motorcycle Diaries | Jorge Drexler | Jorge Drexler |
| 2003 | Into the West | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Fran Walsh / Howard Shore / Annie Lennox | |
| 2002 | Lose Yourself | 8 Mile | Eminem / Jeff Bass / Luis Resto | Eminem |
| 2001 | If I Didn’t Have You | Monsters, Inc. | Randy Newman | Randy Newman |
| 2000 | Things Have Changed | Wonder Boys | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan |
| 1999 | You’ll Be in My Heart | Tarzan | Phil Collins | Phil Collins |
| 1998 | When You Believe | The Prince of Egypt | Stephen Schwartz | Stephen Schwartz |
| 1997 | My Heart Will Go On | Titanic | James Horner | Will Jennings |
| 1996 | You Must Love Me | Evita | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Tim Rice |
| 1995 | Colors of the Wind | Pocahontas | Alan Menken | Stephen Schwartz |
| 1994 | Can You Feel the Love Tonight | The Lion King | Elton John | Tim Rice |
| 1993 | Streets of Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen |
| 1992 | A Whole New World | Aladdin | Alan Menken | Tim Rice |
| 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | Beauty and the Beast | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman |
| 1990 | Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man) | Dick Tracy | Stephen Sondheim | Stephen Sondheim |
| 1989 | Under the Sea | The Little Mermaid | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman |
| 1988 | Let the River Run | Working Girl | Carly Simon | Carly Simon |
| 1987 | (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life | Dirty Dancing | Franke Previte / John DeNicola / Donald Markowitz | Franke Previte |
| 1986 | Take My Breath Away | Top Gun | Giorgio Moroder | Tom Whitlock |
| 1985 | Say You, Say Me | White Nights | Lionel Richie | Lionel Richie |
| 1984 | I Just Called to Say I Love You | The Woman in Red | Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder |
| 1983 | Flashdance… What a Feeling | Flashdance | Giorgio Moroder | Keith Forsey / Irene Cara |
| 1982 | Up Where We Belong | An Officer and a Gentleman | Jack Nitzsche / Buffy Sainte-Marie | Will Jennings |
| 1981 | Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) | Arthur | Burt Bacharach / Carole Bayer Sager / Christopher Cross / Peter Allen | |
| 1980 | Fame | Fame | Michael Gore | Dean Pitchford |
| 1979 | It Goes Like it Goes | Norma Rae | David Shire | Norman Gimbel |
| 1978 | Last Dance | Thank God It’s Friday | Paul Jabara | Paul Jabara |
| 1977 | You Light Up My Life | You Light Up My Life | Joseph Brooks | Joseph Brooks |
| 1976 | Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born) | A Star Is Born | Barbra Streisand | Paul Williams |
| 1975 | I’m Easy | Nashville | Keith Carradine | Keith Carradine |
| 1974 | We May Never Love Like This Again | The Towering Inferno | Al Kasha / Joel Hirschhorn | |
| 1973 | The Way We Were | The Way We Were | Marvin Hamlisch | Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman |
| 1972 | The Morning After | The Poseidon Adventure | Al Kasha / Joel Hirschhorn | |
| 1971 | Theme from Shaft | Shaft | Isaac Hayes | Isaac Hayes |
| 1970 | For All We Know | Lovers and Other Strangers | Fred Karlin | Robb Royer / Jimmy Griffin |
| 1969 | Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Burt Bacharach | Hal David |
| 1968 | The Windmills of Your Mind | The Thomas Crown Affair | Michel Legrand | Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman |
| 1967 | Talk to the Animals | Doctor Dolittle | Leslie Bricusse | Leslie Bricusse |
| 1966 | Born Free | Born Free | John Barry | Don Black |
| 1965 | The Shadow of Your Smile | The Sandpiper | Johnny Mandel | Paul Francis Webster |
| 1964 | Chim Chim Cher-ee | Mary Poppins | Richard M. Sherman / Robert B. Sherman | |
| 1963 | Call Me Irresponsible | Papa’s Delicate Condition | James Van Heusen | Sammy Cahn |
| 1962 | Days of Wine and Roses | Days of Wine and Roses | Henry Mancini | Johnny Mercer |
| 1961 | Moon River | Breakfast at Tiffany’s | Henry Mancini | Johnny Mercer |
| 1960 | Never on Sunday | Never on Sunday | Manos Hadjidakis | Manos Hadjidakis |
| 1959 | High Hopes | A Hole in the Head | James Van Heusen | Sammy Cahn |
| 1958 | Gigi | Gigi | Frederick Loewe | Alan Jay Lerner |
| 1957 | All the Way | The Joker Is Wild | James Van Heusen | Sammy Cahn |
| 1956 | Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Qué Será, Será) | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Jay Livingston / Ray Evans | |
| 1955 | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Love Is a Many-Spendored Thing | Sammy Fain | Paul Francis Webster |
| 1954 | Three Coins in the Fountain | Three Coins in the Fountain | Jule Styne | Sammy Cahn |
| 1953 | Secret Love | Calamity Jane | Sammy Fain | Paul Francis Webster |
| 1952 | High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’) | High Noon | Dimitri Tiomkin | Ned Washington |
| 1951 | In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening | Here Comes the Groom | Hoagy Carmichael | Johnny Mercer |
| 1950 | Mona Lisa | Captain Carey, U.S.A. | Ray Evans / Jay Livingston | |
| 1949 | Baby, It’s Cold Outside | Neptune’s Daughter | Frank Loesser | Frank Loesser |
| 1948 | Buttons and Bows | The Paleface | Jay Livingston | Ray Evans |
| 1947 | Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah | Song of the South | Allie Wrubel | Ray Gilbert |
| 1946 | On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe | The Harvey Girls | Harry Warren | Johnny Mercer |
| 1945 | It Might as Well Be Spring | State Fair | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II |
| 1944 | Swinging on a Star | Going My Way | James Van Heusen | Johnny Burke |
| 1943 | You’ll Never Know | Hello, Frisco, Hello | Harry Warren | Mack Gordon |
| 1942 | White Christmas | Holiday Inn | Irving Berlin | Irving Berlin |
| 1941 | The Last Time I Saw Paris | Lady Be Good | Jerome Kern | Oscar Hammerstein II |
| 1940 | When You Wish upon a Star | Pinocchio | Leigh Harline | Ned Washington |
| 1939 | Over the Rainbow | The Wizard of Oz | Harold Arlen | Yip Harburg |
| 1938 | Thanks for the Memory | The Big Broadcast of 1938 | Ralph Rainger | Leo Robin |
| 1937 | Sweet Leilani | Waikiki Wedding | Harry Owens | Harry Owens |
| 1936 | The Way You Look Tonight | Swing Time | Jerome Kern | Dorothy Fields |
| 1935 | Lullaby of Broadway | Gold Diggers of 1935 | Harry Warren | Al Dubin |
| 1934 | The Continental | The Gay Divorcee | Con Conrad | Herb Magidson |
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