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80 Years of Oscars- Screenplays, Sequels, Animated Features, Foreign Language Films, Score and Song

A look at Academy Award nominated movies

Screenplays, Sequels, Animated Features, Foreign Language Films, Posthumous nominees and winners, Score, All the Best Song winners and more.

Screenplay

Since 1957 there are two categories, shortly known as Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Both have changed titles along the years. "Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced", "Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium", "Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen", "Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published".

Which are all just a little more confusing than the earlier years' three categories: Best Writing, Original Story; Best Writing, Original Screenplay; Best Writing, Screenplay.

Woody Allen was nominated for a record 14 times for Best Original Screenplay. He won for writing Annie Hall (1977) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).

Billy Wilder was nominated 12 times for Screenplay. He is one of only four men that won three awards for screenplay.

Wilder won an Oscar for writing The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Apartment (1960).

Charles Brackett won for writing Weekend, Sunset and Titanic (1953).

Paddy Chayefsky won for Marty (1955), Hospital (1971) and Network (1976).

Francis Ford Coppola won for Patton (1970), The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). All three won Best Picture.

For their statistics as directors and producers go to 80 years of Oscars- Best Picture and Directors.

Billy Wilder's grave, with the

final words taken from his movie

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Best Picture and Screenwriting

Four or all five Best Picture nominees are usually nominated for Screenplay.

Of the 80 Best Picture winners, 25 were based on an Original Screenplay and 55 on a screenplay based on previously published material, a book, a play or another movie.

Since 1981, there has always been at least one movie based on an Original Screenplay in the Best Picture category (in 1977, 1996 and 2006 there were four, but there are usually only one or two).

Since 1957- 16 Best Picture winners didn't win for screenplay:

5 musicals: West Side Story (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), The Sound of Music (1965; wasn't nominated for screenplay), Oliver! (1968) and Chicago (2002). The musicals Going My Way (1944), An American in Paris (1951) and Gigi (1958) have won Best Picture and Screenplay.
2 Clint Eastwood Best Picture winners: Unforgiven (1992, original) and Million Dollar Baby (2004, adapted).
7 Epic/War movies: Ben-Hur (1959), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Deer Hunter (1978), Platoon (1986), Braveheart (1995), The English Patient (1996) and Gladiator (2000).
Titanic (1997) which wasn't nominated for screenplay; and Rocky (1976), written by Best Actor nominee Sylvester Stallone. 2

Of the 10 movies that won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay since 1957, three were based on actual events (Patton, Gandhi and Chariots of Fire), three didn't win Best Director (Chariots of Fire, Shakespeare in Love and Crash).

Of the 67 movies that won Best Screenplay but not Best Picture: 41 were Original and 26 Adapted. Only two of the Adapted winning Screenplays weren't nominated for Best Picture (1996's Sling Blade and 1998's Gods and Monsters- both directed by the screenwriter; unlike most movies winning the category), while 14 Original winning Screenplays weren't nominated for Best Picture.

Only nominated for Screenplay

The last time a movie was nominated only for Screenplay and won, was 1957's Designing Woman. It won for Original Screenplay.

Since 1957 65 movies were nominated for Original Screenplay (about a third were Foreign Language Films, mainly in the '60s, and four written by Woody Allen), and 24 for Adapted Screenplay.

Adapted or Original?

Or: Why is it Adapted? Why was it considered Original?

A few recent case studies- Original: Heavenly Creatures (1994), Memento (2000), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002); Adapted: Adaptation. (2002), Before Sunset (2004), Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006).

Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh for Heavenly Creatures, "based on Pauline Parker's diaries". However, the diaries were not published when the movie was made.
Christopher and Jonathan Nolan for Memento, based on Jonathan's short story, which was published after the movie was released.
Nia Vardalos for My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The story is that Rita Wilson and husband Tom Hanks saw Nia's one-woman-show about her Greek family and wanted to make a movie out of it. But- Nia already registered the screenplay that became the hit movie.
Charlie Kauffman had a hard time adapting "The Orchid Thief" into a screenplay. His difficulties wound up in the movie Adaptation. Author Susan Orlean, who became a character in the movie, acknowledged that the movie is ultimately exactly what she wrote about.
For Before Sunset director Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy return to the characters of Before Sunrise. Which would make you think that any sequel would end up in the Adapted Screenplay, but The Barbarian Invasions was up for Original Screenplay, although it's a sequel to The Decline of the American Empire which was nominated for an Oscar 16 years earlier.
Todd Philips (story), Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham and Dan Mazar for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan which was scripted and partially improvised was first and foremost based on a TV character.

George Bernard Shaw is the only Nobel Prize laureate who won an Oscar. He won the Nobel for literature in 1925, and an Oscar for the screenplay of Pygmalion (1938).

{Al Gore, who received the Nobel Peace Prize, did not win an Oscar. He got on stage when An Inconvenient Truth won Best Documentary. However, the award goes to the movie's director Davis Guggenheim.}

Noble Prize winners who were nominated for an Oscar: John Steinbeck (nominated for Lifeboat, A Medal for Benny and Viva Zapata) and Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita).

Pulitzer Prize winners who won an Oscar: Sidney Howard for Gone with the Wind (he won the Oscar posthumously); William Inge for Splendor in the Grass; Horton Foote for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies; Larry McMurtry for Brokeback Mountain; John Patrick Shanley for Moonstruck; Alfred Uhry for Driving Miss Daisy (adapted his own award-winning play).

Pulitzer Prize winners who were nominated for an Oscar: Maxwell Anderson for All Quiet on the Western Front; Moss Hart for Broadway Melody of 1936 and Gentleman's Agreement; John Patrick for The Strange Love of Martha Ivers; Tennessee Williams for A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll; James Agee for The African Queen; Neil Simon for The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl and Chapter Two; Arthur Miller for The Crucible; Tony Kushner for Munich.

Nominated twice in one year

1959 Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin: Operation Petticoat and won Pillow Talk.

1986 Oliver Stone, Best Original Screenplay: Salvador (with Rick Boyle) and Platoon.

Sequels and Franchises

Eight Best Picture winners have at least one sequel, only four spawned Oscar nominated sequels.

Most movie sequels aren't as good as the first successful movie. While the original movie is showered with awards, the sequel is usually ignored (The Matrix won all four Oscar nominations; the box office hit sequels Reloaded and Revolutions weren't nominated for anything). There are a few opposite examples, of course. While The Terminator (1984) was ignored, the superior and much more successful Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) won four Oscars. Alien (1979) was nominated for two Oscars, Aliens (1986) for seven. The Godfather: Part II (1974) won twice as many Oscars than the first one. Movies from the same franchise are usually nominated in the same or similar categories (all three Lord of the Rings movies won for Visual Effects). And for some reason, a lot of sequels get nominated for Best Song.

In order of the first movie's release year:

The Thin Man (1934) with 4 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Actor and Screenplay.

After the Thin Man (1936) was nominated for Best Screenplay.

The rest of the movies weren't nominated.

Three Smart Girls (1936) with 3 nominations: Best Picture, Screenplay and Sound.

Hers to Hold (1943) was nominated for Best Song.

Wasn't nominated: Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)

Topper (1937) with 2 nominations: Best Supporting Actor and Sound.

Topper Takes a Trip (1939) was nominated for Best Visual Effects.

Topper Returns (1941) with 2 nominations: Best Visual Effects and Sound.

Going My Way (1944) won 7 of 10 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actor, Supporting Actor, Screenplay, Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography and Song.

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) won 1 of 8 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Editing, Sound, Score and Song.

The Paleface (1948) won Best Song.

Son of Paleface (1952) was nominated for Best Song.

Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951) won Best Animated Short.

Gerald McBoing-Boing! on Planet Moo (1956) was nominated for Best Animated Short.

Weren't nominated: Gerald McBoing-Boing's Symphony (1953) and How Now Boing Boing (1954).

Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) was nominated for Best Screenplay in 1955.

My Uncle (1958) won Best Foreign Language Film (France).

Weren't nominated: Play Time (1967) and Traffic (1971).

The Pink Panther (1964) was nominated for Best Score.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) [5th movie] was nominated for Best Song.

The rest of the movies were not nominated for a single award.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) won 1 of 4 nominations: Best Director, Original Screenplay, Art Direction and Visual Effects.

2010 (1984) with 4 nominations: Best Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound and Visual Effects.

Funny Girl (1968) won 1 of 8 nominations: Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress, Editing, Cinematography, Sound, Score and Song.

Funny Lady (1975) with 5 nominations: Best Cinematography, Costume Design, Sound, Score and Song.

Airport (1970) won 1 of 10 nominations: Best Picture, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound and Score.

Airport '77 (1977) with 2 nominations: Best Art Direction and Costume Design.

Wasn't nominated: Airport 1975 (1975).

The Godfather (1972) won 3 of 10 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Costume Design and Sound.

The Godfather: Part II (1974) won 6 of 11 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Costume Design and Score.

The Godfather: Part III (1990) with 7 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction and Song.

The Sting (1973) won 7 of 10 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Original Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound and Score.

The Sting II (1983) was nominated for Best Adapted Score.

Rocky (1976) won 3 of 10 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Editing, Sound and Song.

Rocky III (1982) was nominated for Song.

Weren't nominated at all: II (1979), IV (1985), V (1990) and Rocky Balboa (2006).

Star Wars (1977) won 6 of 10 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Editing, Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound, Score, Visual Effects and received a special award for Sound Effects.

The Empire Strikes Back (1980) won 2 of 4 nominations: Best Art Direction, Sound, Score and Visual Effects.

Return of the Jedi (1983) with 4 nominations: Best Art Direction, Sound, Score and Sound Effects Editing.

Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace (1999) with 3 nominations: Best Sound, Visual Effects and Sound Effects Editing.

Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones (2002) was nominated for Best Visual Effects.

Star Wars: Episode III- Revenge of the Sith (2005) was nominated for Best Makeup.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) with 3 nominations: Best Art Direction, Score and Visual Effects.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) with 4 nominations: Best Cinematography, Sound, Score and Sound Effects Editing.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) with 2 nominations: Best Sound Effects Editing and Makeup.

Star Trek: First Contact (1996) [8] was nominated for Best Makeup.

Weren't nominated: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982), the odd-numbered movies and Nemesis [10].

Alien (1979) won 1 of 2 nominations: Best Art Direction and Visual Effects.

Aliens (1986) won 2 of 7 nominations: Best Actress, Editing, Art Direction, Sound, Score, Visual Effects and Sound Effects Editing.

Alien³was nominated for Best Visual Effects.

Wasn't nominated: Alien: Resurrection (1997).

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) won 4 of 8 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound, Score and Visual Effects.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) won 1 of 2 nominations: Best Score and Visual Effects.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) won 1 of 3 nominations: Sound, Score and Sound Effects Editing.

Poltergeist (1982) with 3 nominations: Best Score, Visual Effects and Sound Effects Editing.

Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) was nominated for Best Visual Effects.

Wasn't nominated: III (1988).

The Karate Kid (1984) was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

The Karate Kid, Part II (1986) was nominated for Song.

Weren't nominated: Part III (1989) and The Next Karate Kid (1994).

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) was nominated for Best Original Screenplay.

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) was nominated for Best Song.

Wasn't nominated: III (1994).

Back to the Future (1985) won 1 of 4 nominations: Best Original Screenplay, Sound, Sound Effects Editing and Song.

Back to the Future Part II (1989) was nominated for Best Visual Effects.

Wasn't nominated: Part III (1990).

The Decline of the American Empire (1986) was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (Canada).

The Barbarian Invasions (2003) won 1 of 2 nominations: Best Foreign Language Film (Canada) and Original Screenplay.

Lethal Weapon (1987) was nominated for Best Sound.

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) was nominated for Best Sound Effects Editing.

Weren't nominated: 3 (1992) and 4 (1998).

Batman (1989) won Best Art Direction.

Batman Returns (1992) was nominated for Best Visual Effects and Makeup.

Batman Forever (1995) was nominated for Best Cinematography, Sound and Sound Effects Editing.

Wasn't nominated: Batman and Robin (1997).

Batman Begins (2005) was nominated for Best Cinematography.

[Jack Ryan franchise]

The Hunt for Red October (1990) won 1 of 3 nominations: Best Editing, Sound and Sound Effects Editing.

Clear and Present Danger (1994) with 2 nominations: Sound and Sound Effects Editing.

Weren't nominated: Patriotic Games (1993) and The Sum of All Fears (2002).

The Addams Family (1991) was nominated for Best Costume Design.

Addams Family Values (1993) was nominated for Best Art Direction.

Jurassic Park (1993) won all 3 nominations: Best Visual Effects, Sound, Sound Effects Editing.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) was nominated for Best Visual Effects.

Wasn't nominated: III (2001).

Babe (1995) won 1 of 7 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Art Direction and Visual Effects.

Babe: Pig in the City (1998) was nominated for Best Song.

Toy Story (1995) with 3 nominations: Best Original Screenplay, Score and Song.

Toy Story 2 (1999) was nominated for Best Song.

Elizabeth (1998) won 1 of 7 nominations: Best Picture, Actress, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume Design, Score and Makeup.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) won 1 of 2 nominations: Best Actress and Costume Design.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) won 4 of 13 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound, Score, Visual Effects, Makeup and Song.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) won 2 of 6 nominations: Best Picture, Editing, Art Direction, Sound, Sound Editing and Visual Effects.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won all 11 nominations: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound, Score, Visual Effects, Makeup and Song.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) was nominated for Best Art Direction, Costume Design and Score.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) was nominated for Best Visual Effects and Score.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) was nominated for Best Art Direction.

Weren't nominated: Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Order of the Phoenix (2007).

Shrek (2001) won 1 of 2 nominations: Best Animated Feature and Adapted Screenplay.

Shrek 2 (2004) with 2 nominations: Best Animated Feature and Song.

Wasn't nominated: the Third (2007).

Spider-Man (2002) with 2 nominations: Best Sound and Visual Effects.

Spider-Man 2 (2004) won 1 of 3 nominations: Best Sound, Sound Editing and Visual Effects.

Wasn't nominated: 3 (2007).

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) with 5 nominations: Best Actor, Sound, Sound Editing, Visual Effects and Makeup.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) won 1 of 4 nominations: Best Art Direction, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) with 2 nominations: Best Visual Effects and Makeup.

Nominated Sequels

These were nominated, while the first or next movie(s) - weren't.

Ben (1972) was nominated for Best Song. [Willard (1971)]
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1983) was nominated for Best Sound Effects Editing. [First Blood (1982), Rambo III (1988)]
Young Guns 2 (1990) and Beethoven's 2nd (1993) were nominated for Best Song. [Young Guns (1989); Beethoven (1992)]
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) won 4 of 6 nominations: Best Editing, Cinematography, Sound, Visual Effects, Sound Effects Editing and Makeup. [The Terminator (1984), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)]
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) was nominated for Best Makeup. [International Man of Mystery (1997), in Goldmember (2002)]
102 Dalmatians (2000) was nominated for Best Costume Design. [101 Dalmatians (1996)]
Before Sunset (2004) was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. [Before Sunrise (1995)]

* The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) won all 3 nominations: Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. The

first two, The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004) weren't nominated.

The James Bond series

Goldfinger (1964), the third James Bond film, won for Best Visual Effects.
Thunderball (1965) won for Best Visual Effects. No Bond film won again.
Weren't nominated: Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
Diamonds Are Forever (1971) was nominated for Best Sound.
Live and Let Die (1973) was nominated for Best Song.
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) with 3 nominations: Best Art Direction, Score and Song.
Moonraker (1979) was nominated for Best Visual Effects.
For Your Eyes Only (1981) was nominated for Best Song.

* And no Bond film has been nominated since.

The Muppets

1979 The Muppet Movie: Best Score (adapted), Song

1981 The Great Muppet Caper: Best Song

1984 The Muppets Take Manhattan: Best Score (songs)

Animated Features

Disney's animated feature films

1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was nominated for Best Score, and received a special award for being the first animated feature film.

1940 Pinocchio won both nominations: Best Score and Song ("When You Wish Upon a Star").

Fantasia received two special awards.

1941 Dumbo won 1 of 2 nominations: Best Score and Song ("Baby Mine").

1942 Bambi with 3 nominations: Best Sound, Score and Song ("Love Is a Song").

1943 Saludos Amigos with 3 nominations: Best Sound, Score and Song ("Saludos Amigos").

1950 Cinderella with 3 nominations: Best Sound, Score and Song ("Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo").

Alice in Wonderland (1951), Sleeping Beauty (1959) and The Sword in the Stone (1963) were nominated for Best Score.

The Jungle Book (1967) and The Rescuers (1977) were nominated for Best Song ("The Bare Necessities" and "Someone's Waiting for You", respectively).

One statue and 7 mini-statues presented

to Walt Disney by Shirley Temple in

honor of the first animated feature film,

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1989 The Little Mermaid won 2 of 3 nominations: Best Score, Song ("Under the Sea") and Song ("Kiss the Girl").

1991 Beauty and the Beast won 2 of 6 nominations: Best Picture, Sound, Score, Song ("Beauty and the Beast"), Song ("Be Our Guest") and Song ("Belle").

1992 Aladdin won 2 of 5 nominations: Best Sound, Score, Sound Effects Editing, Song ("A Whole New World") and Song ("Friend Like Me").

1994 The Lion King won 2 of 4 nominations: Best Score, Song ("Can You Feel the Love Tonight"), Song ("Circle of Life") and Song ("Hakuna Matata").

1995 Pocahontas won both nominations: Best Score and Song ("Colors of the Wind").

Tarzan

1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dam was nominated for Best Score.

1997 Hercules was nominated for Best Song ("Go the Distance").

1998 Mulan was nominated for Best Score.

1999 Tarzan won Best Song ("You'll Be in My Heart").

2000 The Emperor's New Groove was nominated for Best Song ("My Funny Friend and Me").

2002 Lilo and Stitch was nominated for Best Animated Feature.

2003 Brother Bear was nominated for Best Animated Feature.

Weren't nominated: Atlantis (2001) and Home on the Range (2004).

Pixar movies

1995 Toy Story: Best Original Screenplay, Score and Song ("You've Got a Friend in Me")

1998 A Bug's Life: Best Score

1999 Toy Story 2: Best Song ("When She Loved Me")

2001 Monsters Inc.: Best Animated Feature, Sound Editing, Score and Song ("If I Didn't Have You"). [1/4]

2003 Finding Nemo: Best Animated Feature, Original Screenplay, Sound Editing and Score. [1/4]

2004 The Incredibles: Best Animated Feature, Original Screenplay, Sound and Sound Editing. [2/4]

2006 Cars: Best Animated Feature and Song ("Our Town"). [2]

2007 Ratatouille: Best Animated Feature, Original Screenplay, Score, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. [1/5]

Pixar shorts nominated for Best Animated Shorts

1986 Luxo Jr. (the source for the Pixar lamp logo)

1988 Tin Toy [won]

1997 Geri's Game [won]

2001 For the Birds [won]

2002 Mike's New Car (with Monsters Inc.'s Mike and Sulley)

2003 Boundin'

2005 One Man Band

2006 Lifted

Animated Feature Film

Beauty and the Beast (1991) is the only animated movie ever to get nominated for Best Picture.

With the surge of the number of animated movies (as well as there quality and appeal), a separate category was instated in 2001 for animated feature films (the category for shorts began in 1932).

In a year with 8-15 animated movies, there are 3 nominees. There will be 5 nominees when there will be more than 16 eligible movies (as there was in 2002).

All 7 winners:

2001 Shrek [Dreamworks]

2002 Spirited Away (Japanese)

2003 Finding Nemo [Pixar]

2004 The Incredibles [Pixar]

2005 Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (3! Wallace & Gromit shorts have won an Oscar)

2006 Happy Feet

2007 Ratatouille [Pixar]

The Oscar winners match the Best Feature in the Annie Awards (awards for animated movies) six out of seven times (I knew Cars wouldn't win in 2006).
Spirited Away is the first non-English speaking nominee. Others followed: The Triplets of Belleville (2003, France), Howl's Moving Castle (Japan, 2005) and Persopolis (France, 2007).
Toy Story (1995) was the first animated movie nominated for Best Screenplay.

Pixar's other movies followed: Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2006).
Shrek (2001) was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Foreign Language Film

Between 1947-1955 a special award was given to a foreign film (3 Japanese including Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, 2 Italian and 2 French).

Since 1956 each country submits a single movie. That's 51 years, 51 winners. Of them-

Italy won the most awards: 10. Four movies, including the first two, directed by Federico Fellini*; and two directed by Vittorio De Sica. 10 of 25 nominations.

France won 9 awards, out of the most nominated country: 34. Francois Truffaut directed one winning movies and two additional nominated movies.

Far in third place, Spain with 4 wins of 19 nominations. Jose Luis Garci directed four nominated movies.

They clearly favored European movies. It's gradually changing in the 21st century.

In the 50s (56-59) 18 out of 20 movies were from Europe, as were all four winning movies.

In the 60s (60-69) 39 out of 50 movies were from Europe, as were nine out of ten winners.

In the 70s (70-79) 41 out of 50 movies were from Europe, as were nine out of ten winners.

In the 80s (80-89) 39 out of 50 movies were from Europe, as were nine out of ten winners.

In the 90s (90-99) 38 out of 49* movies were from Europe, as were all ten winners.

In the 00s (00-07) 24 out of 40 movies were from Europe, as were four out of seven winners. That's change for you.

[*There were four nominees in 1992 after a movie from South America was disqualified.]

The 6 non-European winners are:

1969 Z (Algeria; In French)

1976 Black and White in Color (Ivory Coast; In French)

1985 The Official Story (Argentina; was also up for Original Screenplay)

2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Taiwan; was up for 10 awards, including Best Picture)

2003 The Barbarian Invasion (Canada; In French, was also up for Original Screenplay)

2005 Tsotsi (South Africa)

Countries with most nominations and no wins

Japan - 0 of 11

Poland - 0 of 8 (one directed by Roman Polanski, four by Andrzej Wajda*)

Israel, Yugosalvia and Mexico - 0 of 7

After Rashomon, two Akira Kurosawa movies represented Japan. His only movie to win an Oscar for Foreign Film is Dersu Uzala (1975), in Russian, representing the Soviet Union.
Sweden was nominated 14 times and won for the three nominated Ingmar Bergman movies (1960's The Virgin Spring, 1961's Through a Glass Darkly and 1983's Fanny and Alexander). Three movies were directed by Jan Troell and three by Bo Widerberg.
All three nominated Taiwanese movies were directed by Ang Lee (1993's The Wedding Banquet, 1994's Eat Drink Man Woman and 2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon which won).
Denmark won twice: Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and Babette's Feast (1988).
Oscar-winning actor Maximilian Schell directed two nominated movies: First Love (1970, Switzerland) and The Pedestrian (1973, Germany). He also directed Marlene (1984), which was nominated for Best Documentary.
Hungary was nominated eight times, four of them directed by Istvan Szabo, including the only winning movie, Mephisto (1981).
Future Oscar-winning director Milos Forman directed the Czech nominees Loves of a Blonde (1966) and The Firemen's Ball (1968).
Two women won for directing Best Foreign Language Films: Marleen Gorris for the Dutch Antonia's Line (1995) and Caroline Link for Germany's Nowhere in Africa (2002).

Two foreign language films were nominated for Best Picture without being nominated in the Foreign Language category:

1973 Cries and Whispers Also nominated for Director (Ingmar Bergman), Original Screenplay (Bergman), Costume Design and won Cinematography (Sven Nyquist). Sweden, 1/5.
1995 Il Postino Also nominated for Director (Michael Radford), Actor (Masimo Trossi), Adapted Screenplay and won Score. Italy, 1/5.

Nominated in the Foreign Language category and Best Picture

1969 Z also nominated for Director (Costa-Gavras), Adapted Screenplay and won Editing. 2/5, including Best Foreign Language Film (Algeria).
1998 Life Is Beautiful also nominated for Director (Roberto Begnini), Actor (Begnini), Original Screenplay, Editing and Score. 3/7, including Best Foreign Language Film (Italy).
2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon also nominated for Director (Ang Lee), Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume Design, Score and Song. 4/7, including Best Foreign Language Film (Taiwan).
Sweden's The Emigrants lost in the Foreign Language Film category in 1971, and in 1972 was nominated for Best Picture, Director (Jan Troell), Actress (Liv Ullman) and Adapted Screenplay.

Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and additional awards

1956 La Strada: won Best Foreign Language Film, Original Screenplay (Italy)

1968 War and Peace: Best Foreign Language Film, Art Direction (Soviet Union)

1971 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis: Best Foreign Language Film, Adapted Screenplay (Italy)

Tchaikovsky: Best Foreign Language Film, Adapted Score (Soviet Union)

1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: Best Foreign Language Film, Original Screenplay (France)

1975 Scent of a Woman: Best Foreign Language Film, Original Screenplay (Italy) [remade as 1992's Scent of a Woman]

1976 Cousin, cousine: Best Foreign Language Film, Actress, Original Screenplay (France, 1975)

Seven Beauties: Best Foreign Language Film, Director, Actor, Original Screenplay (Italy)

1977 A Special Day: Best Foreign Language Film, Actor (Italy)

That Obscure Object of Desire: Best Foreign Language Film, Adapted Screenplay (Spain)

1980 Kagemusha: Best Foreign Language Film, Art Direction (Spain)

1985 The Official Story: Best Foreign Language Film, Original Screenplay (Argentina)

1987 Goodbye, Children: Best Foreign Language Film, Original Screenplay (France)

1988 Pelle the Conqueror: Best Foreign Language Film, Actor (Denmark)

1989 Camille Claudel: Best Foreign Language Film, Actress (France)

1990 Cyrano de Bergerac: Best Foreign Language Film, Actor, Art Direction, Costume Design, Makeup (France)

1992 Indochina: Best Foreign Language Film, Actress (France)

1993 Farewell My Concubine: Best Foreign Language Film, Cinematography (Hong Kong)

1998 Central Station: Best Foreign Language Film, Actress (Brazil)

2001 Amelie: Best Foreign Language Film, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction and Sound (France)

2003 The Barbarian Invasions: Best Foreign Language Film, Original Screenplay (Canada)

2004 The Sea Inside: Best Foreign Language Film, Makeup (Spain)

The Chorus: Best Foreign Language Film, Song (France)

2006 Pan's Labyrinth: Best Foreign Language Film, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction,

Score and Makeup (Mexico) [27 movies]

Nominated for Foreign Language Film and other awards the following year

1962 Through a Glass Darkly: Original Screenplay (won for Sweden, 1961).

1963 Sundays and Cybele: Adapted Screenplay, Score (won for France, 1962)

The Four Days of Naples: Original Screenplay (Italy)

1964 Marriage Italian Style: Actress and the following year for Foreign Language Film (Italy)

1965 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg: Original Screenplay, Score, Score, Song (France)

Woman in the Dunes: Director (Japan, 1964)

1966 The Shop on Main Street: Actress (won for Czechoslovakia, 1965)

1967 The Battle of Algiers: Director, Original Screenplay (Italy)

1970 My Night at Maud's: Original Screenplay (France)

1971 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion: Original Screenplay (won for Italy, 1970)

1974 Day for Night: Director, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay (won for France, 1973)

1975 Amarcord: Director, Original Screenplay (won for Italy, 1974) [12 movies]

Many-many foreign films weren't nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category, but were nominated for other awards (81 movies to be exact). The few that have won are:

1956 The Red Balloon: won Screenplay (original) (France)

1960 Never on Sunday: Director, Actress, Original Screenplay, Costume Design and won Song (Greece)

1961 Two Women: Actress (Italy)

La Dolce vita: Director, Art Direction and Costume Design (Italy)

1962 Divorce- Italian Style: Director, Actor and Original Screenplay (Italy)

1981 Quest for Fire: Makeup (France)

2002 Talk to Her: Director, Original Screenplay (Spain)

Spirited Away: Animated Feature Film (Japan)

2007 La Vie en rose: Actress, Costume Design, Makeup (France) [9 movies]

Person with most Oscars

Walt Disney was nominated 59 times and won 22 awards, more than any individual in Oscar history, in addition to three special awards and one honorary award.

He won as producer for (including all 4 categories in 1953!):

Short Subject (cartoon): Flowers and Trees, The Three Little Pigs, The Tortoise and the Hare, Three Orphan Kittens, The Country Cousin, The Old Mill, Fredinand the Bull, The Ugly Duckling, Lend a Paw, Der Fuehrer's Face, Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (the last won posthumous). [12]

Short Subject: Seal Island, In Beaver Valley, Nature's Half Acre, Water Birds, Bear County, Grand Canyon. [6]

Documentary (feature): The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie. [2]

Documentary (short subject): The Alaskan Eskimo, Men Against the Arctic. [2]

Received a special award for: The creation of Mickey Mouse, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia. [3]
Awarded the Irving G. Thalberg award in 1942.
His only nominated for Best Picture: Mary Poppins (1964).

Posthumous nominees and winners

Finch

Only one actress was nominated posthumously, and only one actor won posthumously. All lead roles, except one.

1929 Jeanne Eagels for The Letter

1955 James Dean for East of Eden

1956 James Dean for Giant

1967 Spencer Tracy for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1976 Peter Finch won for Network

1984 Ralph Richardson for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (supporting role)

1995 Massimo Troisi for Il Postino (also adapted screenplay)

First color film to

win Best Picture,

and first to win a

posthumous award

It is also better to be alive in the other categories:

1928 Gerald Duffy, The Private Life of Helen of Troy (screenplay)

1939 Sidney Howard, Gone with the Wind (won screenplay)

1942 Frank Churchill, Bambi (won score, song)

1945 Allen Davey, A Song to Remember (cinematography)

1945 Joseph O'Brien, Your National Gallery (short)

1945 Tess Slesinger, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (screenplay)

1945 Jerome Kern, Can't Help Singing (score, song)

1946 Jerome Kern, Centennial Summer (song)

1946 James Monaco, The Dolly Sisters (song)

1948 Joseph August, Portrait of Jennie (cinematography)

1951 Bert Kalmar, The Strip (song)

1951 Gile Steele, Kind Lady (costume, black-and-white); Gile Steele, The Great Caruso (costume, color)

1952 Gile Steele, The Merry Widow (costume)

1952 Gordon Hollingshead, Desert Killer (short one-reel) and Thar She Blows! (short two-reel)

1954 Lamar Trotti, There's No Business Like Show Business (screenplay)

1956 Victor Young, Around the World in 80 Days (won score, song)

1958 William Horning, Gigi (won art direction)

1959 William Horning, Ben-Hur (won art direction) and North by Northwest (art direction)

1959 Zam Zimbalist, Ben-Hur (won Best Picture)

1959 Richard H. Riedel, Pillow Talk (art direction)

1960 Eric Orborn, Spartacus (won art direction)

1963 Frederic Knudtson, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (editing)

1963 William Ferrari, How the West Was Won (art direction)

1965 David Hall, The Greatest Story Ever Told (art direction)

1965 William Mellor, The Greatest Story Ever Told (cinematography)

1968 Walt Disney, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (won short cartoon)

1969 Harry Stradling, Hello Dolly! (cinematography)

1970 Alfred Newman, Airport (score)

1971 Stuart Gilmore, The Andromeda Strain (editing)

1972 Arnold Perl, Malcolm X (documentary)

1972 both Raymond Rasch & Larry Russell, Limelight (won score)

1973 William Kiernan, The Way We Were (art direction)

1976 Bernard Herrmann, Taxi Driver and Obsession (score)

1976 Harry Warren Tetrick, King Kong and Rocky (sound)

1977 John Hubley, The Doonesbury Special (animated short)

1978 Les Bowie, Superman (visual effects)

1978 Albert Lamorisse, The Lovers' Wind (documentary)

1979 Robert Alan Aurthur, All That Jazz (Best Picture, screenplay)

1980 Geoffrey Unsworth, Tess (won cinematography)

1981 Robert L. Wolfe, On Golden Pond (editing)

1982 Dale Hennesy, Annie (art direction)

1986 Boris Leven, The Color of Money (art direction)

1991 Carol Sobieski, Fried Green Tomatoes (screenplay)

1991 Howard Ashman, Beauty and the Beast (song, won song, song)

1992 Howard Ashman, Aladdin (song)

1992 Thomas C. Goodwin, Educating Peter (won short documentary)

1995 Mario Cecchi Gori, Il Postino (Best Picture)

2002 Conrad L. Hall, Road to Perdition (won cinematography)

2006 Gretchen Rau, The Good Shepard (art direction)

2007 Marit Allen, La Vie en Rose (costume)

Best Score

In 1934 the Academy introduced two Best Score categories with up to 21 nominated movies in each category.

Between 1946-1984 (except in 1957) there were five nominated movies in each category (Drama/Musical, Original/Adapted, Score/Songs). The latter with only 3 movies.

Since 1985 there is one category with five movies.

Between 1995-1998 drama and comedy scores were separated again. That lead to the only two winning women-composers: Rachel Portman for Emma (1996) and Anne Dudley for The Full Monty (1997).

Since 1985 19 movies had one nomination which was for score (including all 5 comedy movies in 1996), and three movies won: The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), Emma (1996, for comedy) and The Red Violin (1999).

Before that:

1940 Tin Pan Alley

1948 Easter Parade (musical)

1949 On the Town (musical)

1960 Song Without End (musical)

1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (adapted score)

1970 Let It Be (songs)

1977 Limelight [the 1952 Charlie Chaplin movie wasn't screened in L.A. in its initial release]

1984 Purple Rain (songs)

John Williams is the most nominated composer ever, with 5 of 40 (Score) and 0 of 5 (song).

He won for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Schindler's List (1997). All five were nominated for Best Picture. The second, fourth and fifth were directed by Steven Spielberg.

He has been nominated twice in the same category seven times:

1972 Images and The Poseidon Adventure

1977 Encounters of the Third Kind and won for Star Wars

1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The River

1987 Empire of the Sun and The Witches of Eastwick

1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Born on the Fourth of July

2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Artificial Intelligence: A.I.

2005 Munich and Memoirs of a Geisha

Alfred Newman won more Oscars than any other composer, with 9 of 41 (score) and 0 of 2 (song). He won for Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), Tin Pan Alley (1940), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Mother Wore Tights (1947), With a Song in My Heart (1952), Call Me Madam (1953), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), The King and I (1956) and Camelot (1967).

His brother Lionel Newman was nominated 11 times (9 for score, 2 for song) and won his last nomination for the score of Hello, Dolly! (1969). Their brother Emil Newman was nominated once for score.

Alfred's sons David and Thomas Newman have also been nominated for score. David once, Thomas eight times. Their cousin Randy Newman has been nominated 17 times (8 for score, 9 for song) and won for Best Song in Monsters Inc. (2001). (Randy's father Irving was a physician.)

Double nominees in the same category

For John Williams, see above. Since 1950:

1951 Alex North: A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman

1957 Hugo Friedhofer: An Affair to Remember and Boy on a Dolphin

1976 Bernard Herrmann: Taxi Driver and Obsession

1994 Thomas Newman: The Shawshank Redemption and Little Women

1995 James Horner: Apollo 13 and Braveheart

Most nominations without a single win

Alex North is 0 for 15 (including one song). Nominated between 1951-1984. Received a special award in 1985.

Walter Scharf 0 for 10 (including one song).

Robert Emmett Dolan was nominated 8 times in 7 consecutive years (1941-1947), and never won.

James Newton Howard will probably win soon, after 7 nominations.

Consecutive wins

Roger Edens is the only person to win three years in row for score (his only 3 Oscars), all three were musicals: Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950).

Eight composers won two years in row:

Alfred Newman and Andre Previn both achieved that twice. Previn won all four of his Oscars for musicals (1958 Gigi, 1959 Porgy and Bess, 1963 Irma la Douce, 1964 My Fair Lady).

Ray Heindorf for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and This Is the Army (1943)

Franz Waxman for Sunset Blvd. (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951)

Adolf Deutsch for the musicals Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Oklahoma! (1955).

Leonard Rosenman for Barry Lyndon (1975) and Bound for Glory (1976). Both in the "Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score" category.

Alan Menken for Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Aladdin (1992).

Gustavo Santaolalla won both times he was nominated, for Best Picture nominees Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Babel (2006).

Marvin Hamlisch won his three Oscars in the same night. He won Best Score and Song for The Way We Were (1973) and Best Adapted Score for The Sting (1973). Incidentally, both starred Robert Redford.
Maurice Jarre won his three Oscars for Best Score for David Lean directed movies: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984).

Best Picture and Best Score

A Best Picture nominee usually wins for Best Score.

Only two of the last 13 Best Score winners were not nominated for Best Picture: The Red Violin (1999) and Frida (2002).

Two of the three comedy score winners in the 90's were Best Picture nominees. (In 1996 no Best Picture nominee was nominated for comedy score).

All but eight winners since 1981 were Best Picture nominees (including three Disney movies The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and The Lion King).

Since 1985 only Best Picture winners with 7 Oscars or more, won Best Score. They were: Out of Africa, The Last Emperor, Dances with Wolves, Schindler's List, The English Patient, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. They won 7, 9 or 11 Oscars.

Two Best Picture movies won 6 Oscars: Forrest Gump (which heavily relied on period songs) and Chicago (which was based on a Broadway musical). The rest won 4 or 5 Oscars (Crash won only 3).

The rule actually applies since 1971 with four exceptions: 1981's Chariots of Fire (won 4, including Best Score), 1984's Amadeus (won 8, music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), 1982's Gandhi (won 8, lost score to E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial) and 1974's The Godfather: Part II (won 6, incluing score; The Godfather's score was disqualified two years earlier).

Scores that were nominated but didn't win

1939 Gone with the Wind - Max Steiner (won: Herbert Stothart for The Wizard of Oz)

1960 The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein (Ernest Gold for Exodus, can't really blame them)

1964 The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini (Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman for Mary Poppins)

1976 Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann (Jerry Goldsmith for The Omen)

1978 Superman - John Williams (he won in 1971, 1975 and 1977; Giorgio Moroder for Midnight Express)

1983 Terms of Endearment - Michael Gore (Bill Conti for The Right Stuff)

1984 The Natural - Randy Newman (Maurice Jarre for A Passage to India)

1988 Rain Man - Hans Zimmer (David Grusin for The Milagro Beanfield War)

1999 American Beauty - Thomas Newman (John Corigliano for The Red Violin)

Scores that should have been nominated

1959 North by Northwest - Bernard Herrmann

1960 Psycho - Bernard Herrmann (wasn't nominated for any of his 8 collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock)

1962 Dr. No - Monty Norman

1965 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Barry

1966 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Ennio Morricone

A Man and a Woman - Francis Lai (won for his only nomination, 1970's Love Story)

1976 Rocky - Bill Conti

More people bought the CD

than went to see the movie

1984 Terminator - Brad Fiedel

Gremlins - Jerry Goldsmith

1985 Back to the Future - Alan Silvestri

1986 Beetle Juice - Danny Elfman

1988 Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone

1989 Batman - Danny Elfman

Driving Miss Daisy - Hans Zimmer

1990 The Grifters - Elmer Bernstein

Total Recall - Jerry Goldsmith

5 nominations,

but not for score

1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Howard Shore

1992 The Last of the Mohicans - Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman

1492: Conquest of Paradise - Vangelis

1993 The Piano - Michael Nyman

Three Colors: Blue - Zbigniew Preisner

Benny & Joon - Rachel Portman

1994 Legends of the Fall - James Horner

2000 Requiem for a Dream - Clint Mansell

In the Mood for Love - Michael Galasso and Shigeru Umebayashi

2001 Amelie - Yann Tiersen

2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - Klaus Badelts

The Graduate (1967) wasn't nominated for Score or Song. Paul Simon was nominated for the song "Father and Daughter" from The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002).

Best Original Song

30s and 40s produced staple songs, 80s gave us pop hits (check out all 5 nominees in 1984), there were big hits during the most of the 90s, and then- practically nothing. There used to be songs from movies playing on MTV, that doesn't happen anymore.

16 movies were nominated for Score and Song (one song only). Two won both awards: Born Free (1966) and Pocahontas (1995), two won Best Score: The Omen (1976) and Pete's Dragon (1977), and three won Best Song: The Thomas Crowne Affair (1968), Shaft (1971) and The Prince of Egypt (1998).

Movies with two or more nominated songs

Usually, more than one nominated song meant the movie will win. However, the last three movies nominated for more than one song, did not win for song. And the new rules allow up to two songs from a movie to be nominated.

1980 Fame: "Fame" won and "Out Here on My Own"

1983 Flashdance: "Flashdance... What a Feeling" won and "Maniac"

Yentl: "Papa Can You Hear Me?" and "The Way He Makes Me Feel"

1984 Footloose: "Footloose" and "Let's Hear It for the Boys"

1985 White Nights: "Say You, Say Me" won and "Separate Lives"

1989 The Little Mermaid: "Under the Sea" won and "Kiss the Girl"

1991 Beauty and the Beast: "Beauty and the Beast" won, "Be Our Guest" and "Belle"

1992 Aladdin: "A Whole New World" won and "Friend Like Me"

The Bodyguard: "I Have Nothing" and "Run to Me"

1993 Philadelphia: "Streets of Philadelphia" won and "Philadelphia"

1994 The Lion King: "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" won, "Circle of Life" and "Hakuna Matata"

2003 Cold Mountain: "Scarlet Tide" and "You Will Be My Ain True Love"

2006 Dreamgirls: "Listen", "Love You I Do" and "Patience"

2007 Enchanted: "Happy Working Song", "That's How You Know" and "So Close"

Four-time Oscar winners

Sammy Cahn won four Oscars of 26 nominations for Best Song: "Three Coins in the Fountain" from Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), "All the Way" from The Joker Is Wild (1957), "High Hopes" from A Hole in the Head (1959) and "Call Me Irresponsible" from Papa's Delicate Condition (1963). Lyricist Jimmy Van Heusen won four Oscars of 14 nominations for the last three songs and for "Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way (1944).

Lyricist Johnny Mercer won four Oscars of 18 nominations for Best Song (he was also nominated once for score): "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" from The Harvey Girls (1946), "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" from Here Comes the Groom (1951), "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and "Days of Wine and Roses" from Days of Wine and Roses (1962). The last two with composer Henry Mancini.

Composer Alan Menken won Best Score and Best Song for four animated Disney movies: The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and The Lion King (1994).

All Best Original Song winners

1934 "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee

1935 "Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935

Lost: "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat ("Heaven... I'm in heaven...")

1936 "The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time

Over the Rainbow

Lost: "I've Got You Under My Skin" from Born to Dance

1937 "Sweet Leilani" from Waikiki Wedding

Lost: "They Can't Take That Away from Me" from Shall We Dance

1938 "Thanks for the Memories" from The Big Broadcast of 1938

1939 "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz

1940 "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio

First song from an animated movie to win

1941 "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from Lady Be Good

Lost: "Baby Mine" from Dumbo

1942 "White Christmas" from Holiday Inn

Lost: "Love Is a Song" from Bambi, "How About You?" from Babes on Broadway ("I Llike New York

in June-- How about you?")

1943 "You'll Never Know" from Hello Frisco Hello

1944 "Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way

First Best Picture winner to win for Song; Lost: "The Trolley Song" from Meet Me in St. Louis ("Clang

clang clang went the trolley/Ding Ding Ding went the bell" sung by Judy Garland)

1945 "It Might As Well Be Spring" from State Fair

Lost: "Love Letters" from Love Letters

1946 "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" from The Harvey Girls

1947 "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South

1948 "Buttons and Bows" from The Paleface

Lost: "The Woody Woodpecker Song" from Wet Blanket Policy (6-minute cartoon, the only one

nominated for song), "It's Magic" sung by Doris Day in her film debut Romance on the High Seas

1949 "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter

1950 "Mona Lisa" from Captain Carey, USA

Lost: "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella

1951 "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" from Here Comes the Groom

1952 "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'" from High Noon

Lost: Am I in Love from Son of Paleface

1953 "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane (sung by Doris Day, "Once I had a secret love that lived within the

heart of me")

Lost: "That's Amore" from The Caddy ("When the moon hits your eyes like a big pizza pie")

1954 "Three Coins in the Fountain" from Three Coins in the Fountain

Lost: "The Man That Got Away" from A Star Is Born

1955 "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

1956 "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" from The Man Who Knew Too Much (sung by Doris

Day)

1957 "All the Way" from The Joker Is Wild

Lost: "Tammy" from Tammy and the Bachelor, "Unchained Melody" from Unchained ("Oh... my love,

my darling, ...times goes by so slowly, ...I need your love")

1958 "Gigi" from Gigi

Moon River

1959 "High Hopes" from A Hole in the Head

1960 "Never On Sunday" from Never On Sunday

First winning song from a foreign language film

1961 "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's

1962 "Days of Wine and Roses" from Days of Wine and Roses

Second win in a row for composer Henry Mancini

1963 "Call Me Irresponsible" from Papa's Delicate Condition

1964 "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins

Lost: "My Kind of Town" from Robin and the 7 Hoods ("Chicago is-- my kind of town")

1965 "The Shadow of Your Smile" from The Sandpiper

Lost: "What's New Pussycat?" from What's New Pussycat?, "I Will Wait for You" from The

Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1966 "Born Free" from Born Free

Lost: "Alfie" from Alfie

1967 "Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle

Lost: "The Bare Necessities" from The Jungle Book, "Thoroughly Modern Millie" from Thoroughly

Modern Millie

1968 "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crowne Affair

Rightfully lost: "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, "Funny Girl" from Funny Girl

1969 "Rain Drops Keep Fallin' On My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1970 "For All We Know" from Loves and Other Strangers

1971 "Theme from Shaft" from Shaft

Isaac Hayes was invited to update he song for the 2000 movie version. He didn't change a note.

1972 "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure

1973 "The Way We Were" from The Way We Were

Lost: "Live and Let Die" from Live and Let Die (Linda and Paul McCartney) the first official Bond film

nominated for song, "Love" from Robin Hood

1974 "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno

Lost: "Little Prince" from The Little Prince

1975 "I'm Easy" from Nashville

1976 "Evergreen (Love Theme)" from A Star Is Born

Lost: "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky, which wasn't nominated for Best Score!

1977 "You Light Up My Life" from You Light Up My Life

Lost: "Nobody Does It Better" from The Spy Who Loved Me (second Bond nominated for song), and

Fame

an animated movie

1978 "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday

Lost: "Hopelessly Devoted to You" from Grease

1979 "It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Rae

1980 "Fame" from Fame

Lost: "Nine to Five" from 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton), "Our Here on My Own" from Fame

1981 "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" from Arthur

Lost: "Endless Love" from Endless Love (Lionel Richie), "For Your Eyes Only" from For Your Eyes

Only, third and last nominated Bond film

1982 "Up Where We Belong" from An Officer and a Gentleman

Lost: "Eye of the Tiger" from Rocky III

1983 "Flashdance... What a Feeling" from Flashdance

Lost: "Maniac" from Flashdance; "The Way He Makes Me Feel" and "Papa Can You Hear Me?" from

Yentl

1984 "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from The Woman in Red

Lost: "Footloose" and Let's Hear It for the Boys" from Footloose; Ghostbusters from Ghost Busters;

Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" from Against All Odds (Phil Collins)

1985 "Say You, Say Me" from White Nights

Lost: "The Power of Love" from Back to the Future, "Surprise Surprise" from The Chorus Line, "Miss

Celie's Blues (Sister)" from The Color Purple

1986 "Take My Breath Away" from Top Gun

Lost: Mean Green Mother from Outer Space from Little Shop of Horrors

1987 "I've Had (The Time of My Life)" from Dirty Dancing

Lost: Storybook Love from The Princess Bridge (the perfect's movie sole nomination!)

1988 "Let the River Run" from Working Girl

Lost: "Calling You" from Cafe Baghdad, "Two Hearts" from Buster (Phil Collins) [only 3 nominees]

1989 "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid

Lost: "I Love to See You Smile" from Parenthood; "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid

1990 "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" from Dick Tracy

Lost: "I'm Checkin' Out" from Postcards from the Edge, "Blaze of Glory" from Young Guns 2

1991 "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast

Lost: "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" (Bryan Adams); "Belle"

and "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast

1992 "A Whole New World" from Aladdin

Lost: "Friend Like Me" from Aladdin; "I Have Nothing" and "Run to Me" from The Bodyguard

1993 "Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia

Lost: "Philadelphia" from Philadelphia (Neil Young)

1994 "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King

Lost: The much better "Circle of Life" and "Hakuna Matata" from The Lion King

1995 "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas

Lost: "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman" from Don Juan de Marco (Bryan Adams), "You've Got

a Friend in Me" from Toy Story

1996 "You Must Love Me" from Evita

Lost: "I Finally Found Someone" from The Mirror Has Two Faces (Bryan Adams), "Because You

Loved Me" from Up Close & Personal, "That Thing You Do" from That Thing You Do

1997 "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic

Lost: "How Do I Live" from Con Air, "Miss Misery" from Good Will Hunting, and two animated movies;

Andrew Lloyd Webber, last year's Best Song winner, said in his speech: Thank God there wasn't a

song from The English Patient

1998 "When You Believe" from The Prince of Egypt

Lost: "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from Armageddon, and an animated movie

1999 "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan (Phil Collins)

Lost: "Save Me" from Magnolia, "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2, "Blame Canada" from

South Park: Taller, Bigger and Uncut (performed at the ceremony by Robin Williams)

2000 "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys (Bob Dylan)

Lost: "I've Seen It All" from Dancer in the Dark (Bjork), "A Love Before Time" from Crouching Tiger,

Hidden Dragon, and an animated movie

2001 "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters Inc.

Randy Newman's first win after 15 nominations for Score and Song since 1981; Lost: "May It Be"

from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, "Until" from Kate & Leopold (Sting), "Vanilla

Sky" from Vanilla Sky (Paul McCartney)

2002 "Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile

A rap song won, the only song that wasn't performed at the ceremony; Lost: "The Hands that Built

America" from Gangs of New York (U2), "I Move On" from Chicago, and an animated movie

2003 "Into the West" from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Lost: "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" from A Mighty Wind, "Scarlet Tide" (Elvis Costello) and

"You Will Be My Ain True Love" from Cold Mountain (Sting), and a French animated movie

2004 "Al Otro Lado Del Rio" from The Motorcycle Diaries

Lost: "Learn to Be Lonely" from The Phantom of the Opera, and two animated movies

2005 "It's Hard for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow

Lost: "Travelin' Thru" from Transamerica (Dolly Parton) [only three nominees]

2006 "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth

First song from a documentary to win; Lost: "Listen", "Love You I Do" and "Patience" from

Dreamgirls, and an animated movie

2007 "Falling Slowly" from Once

Lost: "Happy Working Song", "That's How You Know" and "So Close" from Enchanted

Of the 74 winning songs:

7 songs are from Disney animated feature films (21 songs from 15 movies have been nominated);
16 won for its movie's only nomination (only 5 since 1979: 1984's The Woman in Red, 1987's Dirty Dancing, 1999's Tarzan, 2002's 8 Mile and 2007's Once).
No James Bond theme song has ever won.
4 from the Best Picture winning movie (Going My Way, Gigi, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King).

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