Academy Award (Oscar) Nominees for the past 20 years (1987 to present) * = winner 1987 (60th) MUSIC (Original Song) "Cry Freedom" from Cry Freedom -- Music and Lyric by George Fenton and Jonas Gwangwa * "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing -- Music by Franke Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz; Lyric by Franke Previte "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" from Mannequin -- Music and Lyric by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren "Shakedown" from Beverly Hills Cop II -- Music by Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey; Lyric by Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey and Bob Seger "Storybook Love" from The Princess Bride -- Music and Lyric by Willy DeVille 1988 (61st) MUSIC (Original Song) "Calling You" from Bagdad Cafe -- Music and Lyric by Bob Telson * "Let the River Run" from Working Girl -- Music and Lyric by Carly Simon "Two Hearts" from Buster -- Music by Lamont Dozier; Lyric by Phil Collins 1989 (62nd) MUSIC (Original Song) "After All" from Chances Are -- Music by Tom Snow; Lyric by Dean Pitchford "The Girl Who Used To Be Me" from Shirley Valentine -- Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyric by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman "I Love To See You Smile" from Parenthood -- Music and Lyric by Randy Newman "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid -- Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman * "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid -- Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman 1990 (63rd) MUSIC (Original Song) "Blaze of Glory" from Young Guns II -- Music and Lyric by Jon Bon Jovi "I'm Checkin' Out" from Postcards from the Edge -- Music and Lyric by Shel Silverstein "Promise Me You'll Remember" from The Godfather, Part III -- Music by Carmine Coppola; Lyric by John Bettis "Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone -- Music by John Williams; Lyric by Leslie Bricusse * "Sooner Or Later (I Always Get My Man)" from Dick Tracy -- Music and Lyric by Stephen Sondheim 1991 (64th) MUSIC (Original Song) "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast -- Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman * "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast -- Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast -- Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves -- Music by Michael Kamen; Lyric by Bryan Adams and Robert John Lange "When You're Alone" from Hook -- Music by John Williams; Lyric by Leslie Bricusse 1992 (65th) MUSIC (Original Song) "Beautiful Maria of My Soul" from The Mambo Kings -- Music by Robert Kraft; Lyric by Arne Glimcher "Friend Like Me" from Aladdin -- Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman "I Have Nothing" from The Bodyguard -- Music by David Foster; Lyric by Linda Thompson "Run to You" from The Bodyguard -- Music by Jud Friedman; Lyric by Allan Rich * "A Whole New World" from Aladdin -- Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Tim Rice 1993 (66th) MUSIC (Original Song) "Again" from Poetic Justice -- Music and Lyric by Janet Jackson, James Harris III and Terry Lewis "The Day I Fall In Love" from Beethoven's 2nd -- Music and Lyric by Carole Bayer Sager, James Ingram and Clif Magness "Philadelphia" from Philadelphia -- Music and Lyric by Neil Young * "Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia -- Music and Lyric by Bruce Springsteen "A Wink and a Smile" from Sleepless in Seattle -- Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyric by Ramsey McLean 1994 (67th) MUSIC (Original Song) * "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King -- Music by Elton John; Lyric by Tim Rice "Circle of Life" from The Lion King -- Music by Elton John; Lyric by Tim Rice "Hakuna Matata" from The Lion King -- Music by Elton John; Lyric by Tim Rice "Look What Love Has Done" from Junior -- Music and Lyric by Carole Bayer Sager, James Newton Howard, James Ingram and Patty Smyth "Make Up Your Mind" from The Paper -- Music and Lyric by Randy Newman 1995 (68th) MUSIC (Original Song) * "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas -- Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz "Dead Man Walkin'" from Dead Man Walking -- Music and Lyric by Bruce Springsteen "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman" from Don Juan DeMarco -- Music and Lyric by Michael Kamen, Bryan Adams and Robert John Lange "Moonlight" from Sabrina -- Music by John Williams; Lyric by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman "You've Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story -- Music and Lyric by Randy Newman 1996 (69th) MUSIC (Original Song) "Because You Loved Me" from Up Close and Personal -- Music and Lyric by Diane Warren "For the First Time" from One Fine Day -- Music and Lyric by James Newton Howard, Jud J. Friedman and Allan Dennis Rich "I Finally Found Someone" from The Mirror Has Two Faces -- Music and Lyric by Barbra Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch, Bryan Adams and Robert 'Mutt' Lange "That Thing You Do!" from That Thing You Do! -- Music and Lyric by Adam Schlesinger * "You Must Love Me" from Evita -- Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyric by Tim Rice 1997 (70th) MUSIC (Original Song) "Go the Distance" from Hercules -- Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by David Zippel "How Do I Live" from Con Air -- Music and Lyric by Diane Warren "Journey to the Past" from Anastasia -- Music by Stephen Flaherty; Lyric by Lynn Ahrens "Miss Misery" from Good Will Hunting -- Music and Lyric by Elliott Smith * "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic -- Music by James Horner; Lyric by Will Jennings 1998 (71st) MUSIC (Original Song) "I Don't Want To Miss a Thing" from Armageddon -- Music and Lyric by Diane Warren "The Prayer" from Quest for Camelot -- Music by Carole Bayer Sager and David Foster; Lyric by Carole Bayer Sager, David Foster, Tony Renis and Alberto Testa "A Soft Place To Fall" from The Horse Whisperer -- Music and Lyric by Allison Moorer and Gwil Owen "That'll Do" from Babe: Pig in the City -- Music and Lyric by Randy Newman * "When You Believe" from The Prince of Egypt -- Music and Lyric by Stephen Schwartz 1999 (72nd) MUSIC (Original Song) "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut -- Music and Lyric by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman "Music of My Heart" from Music of the Heart -- Music and Lyric by Diane Warren "Save Me" from Magnolia -- Music and Lyric by Aimee Mann "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2 -- Music and Lyric by Randy Newman * "You'll Be In My Heart" from Tarzan -- Music and Lyric by Phil Collins 2000 (73rd) MUSIC (Original Song) "A Fool In Love" from Meet the Parents -- Music and Lyric by Randy Newman "I've Seen It All" from Dancer in the Dark -- Music by Björk; Lyric by Lars von Trier and Sjon Sigurdsson "A Love Before Time" from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- Music by Jorge Calandrelli and Tan Dun; Lyric by James Schamus "My Funny Friend and Me" from The Emperor's New Groove -- Music by Sting and David Hartley; Lyric by Sting * "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys -- Music and Lyric by Bob Dylan 2001 (74th) MUSIC (Original Song) * "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. -- Music and Lyric by Randy Newman "May It Be" from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- Music and Lyric by Enya, Nicky Ryan and Roma Ryan "There You'll Be" from Pearl Harbor -- Music and Lyric by Diane Warren "Until" from Kate & Leopold -- Music and Lyric by Sting "Vanilla Sky" from Vanilla Sky -- Music and Lyric by Paul McCartney 2002 (75th) MUSIC (Original Song) "Burn It Blue" from Frida -- Music by Elliot Goldenthal; Lyric by Julie Taymor "Father and Daughter" from The Wild Thornberrys Movie -- Music and Lyric by Paul Simon "The Hands That Built America" from Gangs of New York -- Music and Lyric by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen "I Move On" from Chicago -- Music by John Kander; Lyric by Fred Ebb * "Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile -- Music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto; Lyric by Eminem 2003 (76th) MUSIC (Original Song) "Belleville Rendez-vous" from The Triplets of Belleville -- Music by Benoît Charest; Lyric by Sylvain Chomet * "Into the West" from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King -- Music and Lyric by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore and Annie Lennox "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" from A Mighty Wind -- Music and Lyric by Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole "Scarlet Tide" from Cold Mountain -- Music and Lyric by T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello "You Will Be My Ain True Love" from Cold Mountain -- Music and Lyric by Sting 2004 (77th) MUSIC (Original Song) "Accidentally In Love" from Shrek 2 -- Music by Adam Duritz, Charles Gillingham, Jim Bogios, David Immergluck, Matthew Malley and David Bryson; Lyric by Adam Duritz and Daniel Vickrey * "Al Otro Lado Del Río" from The Motorcycle Diaries -- Music and Lyric by Jorge Drexler "Believe" from The Polar Express -- Music and Lyric by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri "Learn To Be Lonely" from The Phantom of the Opera -- Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyric by Charles Hart "Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)" from The Chorus (Les Choristes) -- Music by Bruno Coulais; Lyric by Christophe Barratier 2005 (78th) MUSIC (Original Song) "In the Deep" from Crash -- Music by Kathleen "Bird" York and Michael Becker; Lyric by Kathleen "Bird" York * "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow -- Music and Lyric by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard "Travelin' Thru" from Transamerica -- Music and Lyric by Dolly Parton 2006 (79th) MUSIC (Original Song) * "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth -- Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge "Listen" from Dreamgirls -- Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler; Lyric by Anne Preven "Love You I Do" from Dreamgirls -- Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Siedah Garrett "Our Town" from Cars -- Music and Lyric by Randy Newman "Patience" from Dreamgirls -- Music by Henry Krieger; Lyric by Willie Reale