Media Notes / Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song was first given out at the 19th Golden Globes ceremony in 1962.

Winners and nominees

1960s

• 1961: Town Without Pity — "Town Without Pity"

• 1962: No Award Given

• 1963: No Award Given

• 1964: Circus World — "Circus World"
  • Dear Heart – "Dear Heart"
  • From Russia with Love — "From Russia, with Love"
  • Sunday in New York — "Sunday in New York"
  • Where Love Has Gone — "Where Love Has Gone"

• 1965: The Yellow Rolls-Royce — "Forget Domani"
  • Cat Ballou — "Ballad of Cat Ballou"
  • The Great Race — "The Sweetheart Tree"
  • The Sandpiper – "The Shadow of Your Smile"
  • That Funny Feeling – "That Funny Feeling"

• 1966: A Man Could Get Killed — "Strangers in the Night"
  • Alfie — "Alfie"
  • Born Free — "Born Free"
  • Georgy Girl – "Georgy Girl"
  • A Man and a Woman – "A Man and a Woman"

• 1967: Camelot — "If Ever I Would Leave You"
  • Doctor Dolittle — "Talk to the Animals"
  • Circles in the Water – "Live for Life"
  • Please Don't Gamble with Love — "Ski Fever"
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie — "Thoroughly Modern Millie"

• 1968: The Thomas Crown Affair — "The Windmills of Your Mind"
  • Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell — "Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell"
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang — "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
  • Funny Girl — "Funny Girl"
  • Star! — "Star"

• 1969: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — "Jean"
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"
  • Cactus Flower — "The Time for Love Is Anytime"
  • Goodbye, Columbus — "Goodbye, Columbus"
  • The Happy Ending — "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"
  • The Secret of Santa Vittoria — "Stay"
  • True Grit — "True Grit"

1970s

• 1970: Darling Lili — "Whistling Away the Dark"
  • Little Fauss and Big Halsy — "Ballad of Little Fauss and Big Halsy"
  • Madron — "Till Love Touches Your Life"
  • Pieces of Dreams — "Pieces of Dreams"
  • Scrooge — "Thank You Very Much"

• 1971: Kotch — "Life Is What You Make It"
  • The African Elephant — "Rain Falls Anywhere It Wants To"
  • Honky — "Something More"
  • Shaft — "Theme from Shaft"
  • The Great Moon — "Long Ago Tomorrow"

• 1972: Ben — "Ben"
  • Butterflies Are Free — "Carry Me"
  • Cabaret — "Mein Herr"
  • Cabaret — "Money, Money"
  • Deliverance — "Dueling Banjos"
  • The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean — "Marmalade, Molasses, and Honey"
  • Molly and Lawless John — "Take Me Home"
  • The Poseidon Adventure — "The Morning After"

• 1973: The Way We Were — "The Way We Were"
  • Breezy — "Breezy"
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull — "Lonely Looking Sky"
  • Kazablan — "Rosa Rosa"
  • Oklahoma Crude — "Send a Little Love My Way
  • A Touch of Class — "All That Love Went to Waste"

• 1974: Benji — "I Feel Love"
  • Claudine — "On and On"
  • The Dove — "Sail the Summer Winds"
  • Gold — "Wherever Love Takes Me"
  • The Little Prince — "I Never Met a Rose"
  • The Towering Inferno — "We May Never Love Like This Again"

• 1975: Nashville — "I'm Easy"
  • Funny Lady — "How Lucky Can You Get?"
  • Paper Tiger — "My Little Friend"
  • The Other Side of The Mountain — "Richard's Window"
  • Whiffs — "Now That We're In Love"

• 1976: A Star Is Born — "Evergreen"
  • Bugsy Malone — "Bugsy Malone"
  • Car Wash — "Car Wash"
  • Freaky Friday — "I'd Like to Be You for a Day"
  • From Noon Till Three — "Hello and Goodbye"
  • Pipe Dreams — "So Sad the Song"

• 1977: You Light Up My Life — "You Light Up My Life"
  • The Deep — "Down Deep Inside"
  • New York, New York — "New York, New York"
  • Saturday Night Fever — "How Deep Is Your Love"
  • The Spy Who Loved Me — "Nobody Does It Better"

• 1978: Thank God It's Friday — "Last Dance"
  • Foul Play — "Ready to Take a Chance Again"
  • Grease — "Grease"
  • Grease — "You're the One That I Want"
  • Same Time, Next Year — "The Last Time I Felt Like This"

• 1979: The Rose — "The Rose"
  • Ice Castles — "Through the Eyes of Love"
  • The Main Event — "The Main Event"
  • The Muppet Movie — "Rainbow Connection"
  • Starting Over — "Better Than Ever"

1980s

• 1980: Fame — "Fame"
  • American Gigolo — "Call Me"
  • Falling in Love Again — "Yesterday's Dreams"
  • The Jazz Singer — "Love on the Rocks"
  • 9 to 5 — "9 to 5"

• 1981: Arthur — "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"
  • Butterfly — "It's Wrong for Me to Love You"
  • Endless Love — "Endless Love"
  • For Your Eyes Only — "For Your Eyes Only"
  • Ragtime — "One More Hour"

• 1982: An Officer and a Gentleman — "Up Where We Belong"
  • Cat People — "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)"
  • Making Love — "Making Love"
  • Rocky III — "Eye of the Tiger"
  • Yes, Giorgio — "If We Were in Love"

• 1983: Flashdance — "Flashdance... What a Feeling"
  • Flashdance — "Maniac"
  • Staying Alive — "Far from Over"
  • Tender Mercies — "Over You"
  • Yentl — "The Way He Makes Me Feel"

• 1984: The Woman in Red — "I Just Called to Say I Love You"
  • Against All Odds — "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
  • Footloose — "Footloose"
  • Ghostbusters — "Ghostbusters"
  • Give My Regards to Broad Street — "No More Lonely Nights"
  • Purple Rain — "When Doves Cry"

• 1985: White Nights — "Say You, Say Me"
  • Back to the Future — "The Power of Love"
  • The Last Dragon — "Rhythm of the Night"
  • Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome — "We Don't Need Another Hero"
  • A View to a Kill — "A View to a Kill"

• 1986: Top Gun — "Take My Breath Away"
  • An American Tail — "Somewhere Out There"
  • The Karate Kid Part II — "Glory of Love"
  • Running Scared — "Sweet Freedom"
  • That's Life! — "Life in a Looking Glass"
  • Tough Guys — "They Don't Make Them Like They Used To"

• 1987: Dirty Dancing — "(I've Had) The Time of My Life"
  • Beverly Hills Cop II — "Shakedown"
  • Mannequin — "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
  • The Secret of My Success — "The Secret of My Success"
  • Who's That Girl — "Who's That Girl"

• 1988: Tie
  • Working Girl — "Let the River Run"
  • Buster — "Two Hearts"
    • Bull Durham — "When a Woman Loves a Man"
    • Cocktail — "Kokomo"
    • Oliver & Company — "Why Should I Care?
    • Twins — "Twins"

• 1989: The Little Mermaid — "Under the Sea"
  • Chances Are — "After All"
  • The Little Mermaid — "Kiss the Girl"
  • Parenthood — "I Love to See You Smile"
  • Shirley Valentine — "The Girl Who Used to Be Me"

1990s

• 1990: Young Guns II — "Blaze of Glory"
  • Dick Tracy — "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)"
  • Dick Tracy — "What Can You Lose?"
  • The Godfather Part III — "Promise Me You'll Remember"
  • Postcards from the Edge — "I'm Checkin' Out"

• 1991: Beauty and the Beast — "Beauty and the Beast"
  • An American Tail: Fievel Goes West — "Dreams to Dream"
  • Beauty and the Beast — "Be Our Guest"
  • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves — "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
  • Rush — "Tears in Heaven"

• 1992: Aladdin — "A Whole New World"
  • Aladdin — "Friend Like Me"
  • Aladdin — "Prince Ali"
  • A League of Their Own — "This Used to Be My Playground"
  • The Mambo Kings — "Beautiful Maria of My Soul"

• 1993: Philadelphia — "Streets of Philadelphia"
  • Beethoven's 2nd — "The Day I Fall in Love"
  • Faraway, So Close — "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)"
  • In the Name of the Father — "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart"
  • Poetic Justice — "Again"

• 1994: The Lion King — "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
  • Color of Night — "The Color of the Night"
  • Junior — "Look What Love Has Done"
  • The Swan Princess — "Far Longer Than Forever"
  • With Honors — "I'll Remember"

• 1995: Pocahontas — "Colors of the Wind"
  • Batman Forever — "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"
  • Don Juan DeMarco — "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?"
  • Sabrina — "Moonlight"
  • Toy Story — "You've Got a Friend in Me"

• 1996: Evita — "You Must Love Me"
  • The Mirror Has Two Faces — "I Finally Found Someone"
  • One Fine Day — "For the First Time"
  • That Thing You Do! — "That Thing You Do!"
  • Up Close and Personal — "Because You Loved Me"

• 1997: Titanic — "My Heart Will Go On"
  • Anastasia — "Journey to the Past"
  • Anastasia — "Once Upon a December"
  • Hercules — "Go the Distance"
  • Tomorrow Never Dies — "Tomorrow Never Dies"

• 1998: Quest for Camelot — "The Prayer"
  • City of Angels — "Uninvited"
  • The Mighty — "The Mighty"
  • The Prince of Egypt — "When You Believe"
  • Still Crazy — "The Flame Still Burns"

• 1999: Tarzan — "You'll Be in My Heart"
  • Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me — "Beautiful Stranger"
  • Anna and the King — "How Can I Not Love You"
  • Magnolia — "Save Me"
  • Toy Story 2 — "When She Loved Me"

2000s

• 2000: Wonder Boys — "Things Have Changed"
  • Dancer in the Dark — "I've Seen It All"
  • The Emperor's New Groove — "My Funny Friend and Me"
  • Frequency — "When You Come Back to Me Again"
  • Miss Congeniality — "One in a Million"

• 2001: Kate & Leopold — "Until..."
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — "May It Be"
  • Moulin Rouge! — "Come What May"
  • Pearl Harbor — "There You'll Be"
  • Vanilla Sky — "Vanilla Sky"

• 2002: Gangs of New York — "The Hands That Built America"
  • Die Another Day — "Die Another Day"
  • 8 Mile — "Lose Yourself"
  • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron — "Here I Am"
  • The Wild Thornberrys Movie — "Father and Daughter"

• 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — "Into the West"
  • Big Fish — "Man of the Hour"
  • Cold Mountain — "You Will Be My Ain True Love"
  • In America — "Time Enough for Tears"
  • Mona Lisa Smile — "The Heart of Every Girl"

• 2004: Alfie — "Old Habits Die Hard"
  • Hotel Rwanda — "Million Voices"
  • The Phantom of the Opera — "Learn to be Lonely"
  • The Polar Express — "Believe"
  • Shrek 2 — "Accidentally in Love"

• 2005: Brokeback Mountain — "A Love That Will Never Grow Old"
  • Christmas in Love — "Christmas in Love"
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe — "Wunderkind"
  • The Producers — "Nothing Like a Show on Broadway"
  • Transamerica — "Travelin' Thru"

• 2006: Happy Feet — "Song of the Heart"
  • Bobby — "Never Gonna Break My Faith"
  • Dreamgirls — "Listen"
  • Home of the Brave — "Try Not to Remember"
  • The Pursuit of Happyness — "A Father's Way"

• 2007: Into the Wild — "Guaranteed"
  • Enchanted — "That's How You Know"
  • Grace Is Gone — "Grace Is Gone"
  • Love in the Time of Cholera — "Despedida"
  • Walk Hard — "Walk Hard"

• 2008: The Wrestler — "The Wrestler"
  • Bolt — "I Thought I Lost You"
  • Cadillac Records — "Once in a Lifetime"
  • Gran Torino — "Gran Torino"
  • WALL•E — "Down to Earth"

• 2009: Crazy Heart — "The Weary Kind"
  • Avatar — "I See You"
  • Brothers — "Winter"
  • Everybody's Fine — "(I Want To) Come Home"
  • Nine — "Cinema Italiano"

2010s

• 2010: Burlesque — "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me"
  • Burlesque — "Bound To You"
  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader — "There's a Place for Us"
  • Country Strong — "Coming Home"
  • Tangled — "I See the Light"

• 2011: W.E. — Masterpiece
  • Albert Nobbs — "Lay Your Head Down''
  • Gnomeo & Juliet — "Hello, Hello"
  • The Help — "The Living Proof"
  • Machine Gun Preacher — "The Keeper

• 2012: Skyfall — "Skyfall"
  • Act of Valor — "For You"
  • The Hunger Games — "Safe & Sound"
  • Les Misérables — "Suddenly"
  • Stand Up Guys — "Not Running Anymore"

• 2013: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom — "Ordinary Love"
  • Frozen — "Let It Go"
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — "Atlas"
  • Inside Llewyn Davis — "Please, Mr. Kennedy"
  • One Chance — "Sweeter Than Fiction"

• 2014: Selma — "Glory"
  • Annie — "Opportunity"
  • Big Eyes — "Big Eyes"
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 — "Yellow Flicker Beat"
  • Noah — "Mercy Is"

• 2015: Spectre — "Writing's on the Wall"
  • Fifty Shades of Grey — "Love Me Like You Do"
  • Furious 7 — "See You Again"
  • Love & Mercy — "One Kind of Love''
  • Youth — "Simple Song #3"

• 2016 — La La Land — "City of Stars"
  • Gold — "Gold"
  • Moana — "How Far I'll Go"
  • Sing — "Faith"
  • Trolls — "Can't Stop the Feeling!"

• 2017: The Greatest Showman — "This is Me"
  • Coco — "Remember Me"
  • Ferdinand — "Home"
  • Mudbound — "Mighty River"
  • The Star — "The Star"

• 2018: A Star Is Born — "Shallow"
  • Black Panther — "All the Stars"
  • Boy Erased — "Revelation"
  • Dumplin' — "Girl in the Movies"
  • A Private War — "Requiem for a Private War"

• 2019: Rocketman — "I'm Gonna Love Me Again"
  • Cats — "Beautiful Ghosts"
  • Frozen II — "Into the Unknown"
  • Harriet — "Stand Up"
  • The Lion King — "Spirit"

2020s

• 2020: The Life Ahead — "Io sì (Seen)"
  • Judas and the Black Messiah — "Fight for You"
  • One Night in Miami... — "Speak Now"
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7 — "Hear My Voice"
  • The United States vs. Billie Holliday — "Tigress & Tweed"

• 2021: No Time to Die — "No Time to Die"
  • Belfast — "Down to Joy"
  • Encanto — "Dos Oruguitas"
  • King Richard — "Be Alive"
  • Respect — "Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)"

• 2022: RRR — "Naatu Naatu"
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — "Lift Me Up"
  • Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio — "Ciao Papa"
  • Top Gun: Maverick — "Hold My Hand"
  • Where the Crawdads Sing — "Carolina"

• 2023: Barbie — "What Was I Made For?"
  • Barbie — "I'm Just Ken"
  • Barbie — "Dance the Night"
  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie — "Peaches"
  • She Came to Me — "Addicted to Romance"
  • Rustin — "Road to Freedom"

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