Year | Film | Nominees | Winner(s) |
1980 (53rd) | Fame | Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford for "Fame" Michael and Lesley Gore for "Out Here on My Own" | Gore and Pitchford, "Fame" |
1983 (56th) | Flashdance | Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, and Irene Cara for "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky for "Maniac" | Moroder, Forsey, and Cara, "Flashdance... What a Feeling" |
Yentl | Michel Legrand and Alan & Marilyn Bergman for "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "The Way He Makes Me Feel" |
1984 (57th) | Footloose | Kenny Loggins and Tom Snow for "Footloose" Snow and Dean Pitchford for "Let's Hear It for the Boy" | Stevie Wonder, "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from The Woman in Red |
1985 (58th) | White Nights | Lionel Richie for "Say You, Say Me" Stephen Bishop for "Separate Lives" | Richie |
1989 (62nd) | The Little Mermaid | Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for "Kiss the Girl" and "Under the Sea" | Menken and Ashman, "Under the Sea" |
1991 (64th) | Beauty and the Beast | Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for "Be Our Guest", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Belle" | Menken and Ashman, "Beauty and the Beast" |
1992 (65th) | Aladdin | Alan Menken and Tim Rice for "A Whole New World" Menken and Howard Ashman for "Friend Like Me" | Menken and Rice, "A Whole New World" |
The Bodyguard | David Foster and Linda Thompson for "I Have Nothing" Jud J. Friedman and Allan Dennis Rich for "Run to You" |
1993 (66th) | Philadelphia | Neil Young for "Philadelphia" Bruce Springsteen for "Streets of Philadelphia" | Springsteen |
1994 (67th) | The Lion King | Elton John and Tim Rice for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight", "Circle of Life", and "Hakuna Matata" | John and Rice, "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" |
2003 (76th) | Cold Mountain | Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett for "The Scarlet Tide" Sting for "You Will Be My Ain True Love" | Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox, "Into the West" from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
2006 (79th) | Dreamgirls | Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, and Anne Preven for "Listen" Krieger and Siedah Garrett for "Love You I Do" Krieger and Willie Reale for "Patience" | Melissa Etheridge, "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth |
2007 (80th) | Enchanted | Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz for "Happy Working Song", "So Close", and "That's How You Know" | Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, "Falling Slowly" from Once |
2008 (81st) | Slumdog Millionaire | A. R. Rahman and Gulzar for "Jai Ho" Rahman and M.I.A. for "O... Saya" | Rahman and Gulzar, "Jai Ho" |
2009 (82nd) | The Princess and the Frog | Randy Newman for "Almost There" and "Down in New Orleans" | Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart |
2016 (89th) | La La Land | Justin Hurwitz and Pasek & Paul for "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)"and "City of Stars" | Hurwitz and Pasek & Paul, "City of Stars" |
2023 (96th) | Barbie | Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt for "I'm Just Ken" Billie Eilish and Finneas O' Connell for " What Was I Made For" | Eilish and O'Connell, "What Was I Made For?" |