| Year | Song | Film | Writers |
|---|
| 1934 | The Continental | The Gay Divorcee | Con Conrad,Herb Magidson |
| 1935 | Lullaby of Broadway | Gold Diggers of 1935 | Harry Warren,Al Dubin |
| 1936 | The Way You Look Tonight | Swing Time | Jerome Kern,Dorothy Fields |
| 1937 | Sweet Leilani | Waikiki Wedding | Harry Owens |
| 1938 | Thanks for the Memory | The Big Broadcast of 1938 | Ralph Rainger,Leo Robin |
| 1939 | Over the Rainbow | The Wizard of Oz | Harold Arlen,E. Y. Harburg |
| 1940 | When You Wish upon a Star | Pinocchio | Leigh Harline,Ned Washington |
| 1941 | The Last Time I Saw Paris | Lady Be Good | Jerome Kern,Oscar Hammerstein II |
| 1942 | White Christmas | Holiday Inn | Irving Berlin |
| 1943 | You'll Never Know | Hello, Frisco, Hello | Harry Warren,Mack Gordon |
| 1944 | Swinging on a Star | Going My Way | James Van Heusen,Johnny Burke |
| 1945 | It Might As Well Be Spring | State Fair | Richard Rodgers,Oscar Hammerstein II |
| 1946 | On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe | The Harvey Girls | Harry Warren,Johnny Mercer |
| 1947 | Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah | Song of the South | Allie Wrubel,Ray Gilbert |
| 1948 | Buttons and Bows | The Paleface | Jay Livingston, Ray Evans |
| 1949 | Baby, It's Cold Outside | Neptune's Daughter | Frank Loesser |
| 1950 | Mona Lisa | Captain Carey, U.S.A. | Ray Evans, Jay Livingston |
| 1951 | In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening | Here Comes the Groom | Hoagy Carmichael,Johnny Mercer |
| 1952 | High Noon | High Noon | Dimitri Tiomkin,Ned Washington |
| 1953 | Secret Love | Calamity Jane | Sammy Fain,Paul Francis Webster |
| 1954 | Three Coins in the Fountain | Three Coins in the Fountain | Jule Styne,Sammy Cahn |
| 1955 | Love Is a Many-Spendored Thing | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Sammy Fain,Paul Francis Webster |
| 1956 | Whatever Will Be, Will Be | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Jay Livingston, Ray Evans |
| 1957 | All The Way | The Joker Is Wild | James Van Heusen,Sammy Cahn |
| 1958 | Gigi | Gigi | Frederick Loewe,Alan Jay Lerner |
| 1959 | High Hopes | A Hole in the Head | James Van Heusen,Sammy Cahn |
| 1960 | Never On Sunday | Never on Sunday | Manos Hadjidakis |
| 1961 | Moon River | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Henry Mancini,Johnny Mercer |
| 1962 | Days of Wine and Roses | Days of Wine and Roses | Henry Mancini,Johnny Mercer |
| 1963 | Call Me Irresponsible | Papa's Delicate Condition | James Van Heusen,Sammy Cahn |
| 1964 | Chim Chim Cher-ee | Mary Poppins | Richard M. Sherman , Robert B. Sherman |
| 1965 | The Shadow of Your Smile | The Sandpiper | Johnny Mandel,Paul Francis Webster |
| 1966 | Born Free | Born Free | John Barry,Don Black |
| 1967 | Talk to the Animals | Doctor Dolittle | Leslie Bricusse |
| 1968 | The Windmills of Your Mind | The Thomas Crown Affair | Michel Legrand,Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman |
| 1969 | Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Burt Bacharach,Hal David |
| 1970 | For All We Know | Lovers and Other Strangers | Fred Karlin,Robb Royer, James Griffin |
| 1971 | Theme from Shaft | Shaft | Isaac Hayes |
| 1972 | The Morning After | The Poseidon Adventure | Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn |
| 1973 | The Way We Were | The Way We Were | Marvin Hamlisch,Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman |
| 1974 | We May Never Love Like This Again | The Towering Inferno | Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn |
| 1975 | I'm Easy | Nashville | Keith Carradine |
| 1976 | Evergreen | Star Is Born | Barbra Streisand,Paul Williams |
| 1977 | You Light Up My Life | You Light Up My Life | Joseph Brooks |
| 1978 | Last Dance | Thank God It's Friday | Paul Jabara |
| 1979 | It Goes Like It Goes | Norma Rae | David Shire, Norman Gimbel |
| 1980 | Fame | Fame | Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford |
| 1981 | Arthur's Theme | Arthur | Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross, Peter Allen |
| 1982 | Up Where We Belong | An Officer and a Gentleman | Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie,Will Jennings |
| 1983 | Flashdance...What a Feeling | Flashdance | Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Irene Cara |
| 1984 | I Just Called to Say I Love You | The Woman in Red | Stevie Wonder |
| 1985 | Say You, Say Me | White Nights | Lionel Richie |
| 1986 | Take My Breath Away | Top Gun | Giorgio Moroder,Tom Whitlock |
| 1987 | The Time of My Life | Dirty Dancing | Franke Previte, John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz, Franke Previte |
| 1988 | Let the River Run | Working Girl | Carly Simon |
| 1989 | Under the Sea | The Little Mermaid | Alan Menken, Howard Ashman |
| 1990 | Sooner Or Later | Dick Tracy | Stephen Sondheim |
| 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | Beauty and the Beast | Alan Menken, Howard Ashman |
| 1992 | A Whole New World | Aladdin | Alan Menken, Lyric by Tim Rice |
| 1993 | Streets of Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Bruce Springsteen |
| 1994 | Can You Feel the Love Tonight | The Lion King | Elton John, Tim Rice |
| 1995 | Colors of the Wind | Pocahontas | Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz |
| 1996 | You Must Love Me | Evita | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice |
| 1997 | My Heart Will Go On | Titanic | James Horner, Will Jennings |
| 1998 | When You Believe | The Prince of Egypt | Stephen Schwartz |
| 1999 | You'll Be In My Heart | Tarzan | Phil Collins |
| 2000 | Things Have Changed | Wonder Boys | Bob Dylan |
| 2001 | If I Didn't Have You | Monsters, Inc. | Randy Newman |
| 2002 | Lose Yourself | Mile | Eminem, Jeff Bass, Luis Resto |
| 2003 | Into the West | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, Annie Lennox |
| 2004 | Al Otro Lado Del Río | The Motorcycle Diaries | Jorge Drexler |
| 2005 | It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp | Hustle & Flow | Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard |
- Winners of the Best Song Oscar