 | 2009Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett - Music & Lyric CRAZY HEART The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) 
| 2008A.R. Rahman - Music; Gulzar - Lyric SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Jai Ho
| 2007Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová - Music & Lyric ONCE Falling Slowly
| 2006Melissa Etheridge - Music & Lyric AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH I Need to Wake Up
| 2005Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman & Paul Beauregard - Music & Lyric HUSTLE & FLOW It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp
| 2004Jorge Drexler - Music & Lyric THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES Al otro lado del río (The Other Side of the River)
| 2003Fran Walsh and Howard Shore and Annie Lennox - Music & Lyric THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING Into the West
| 2002Eminem, Jeff Bass & Luis Resto - Music; Eminem - Lyric 8 MILE Lose Yourself
| 2001Randy Newman - Music & Lyric MONSTERS, INC. If I Didn't Have You
| 2000Bob Dylan - Music & Lyric WONDER BOYS Things Have Changed
| 1999Phil Collins - Music & Lyric TARZAN You'll Be in My Heart
| 1998Stephen Schwartz - Music & Lyric THE PRINCE OF EGYPT When You Believe
| 1997James Horner - Music Will Jennings - Lyric TITANIC My Heart Will Go on
| 1996Andrew Lloyd Webber - Music Tim Rice - Lyric EVITA You Must Love Me
| 1995Alan Menken - Music Stephen Schwartz - Lyric POCAHONTAS Colors of the Wind
| 1994Elton John - Music Tim Rice - Lyric THE LION KING Can You Feel the Love Tonight
| 1993Bruce Springsteen - Music & Lyric PHILADELPHIA Streets of Philadelphia
| 1992Alan Menken - Music Tim Rice - Lyric ALADDIN Whole New World, A
| 1991Alan Menken - Music Howard Ashman - Lyric BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Beauty and the Beast
| 1990Stephen Sondheim - Music & Lyric DICK TRACY Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)
| 1989Alan Menken - Music Howard Ashman - Lyric THE LITTLE MERMAID Under the Sea
| 1988Carly Simon - Music & Lyric WORKING GIRL Let the River Run
| 1987Franke Previte - Music & Lyric John DeNicola & Donald Markowitz - Music DIRTY DANCING (I've Had) The Time of My Life
| 1986Giorgio Moroder - Music Tom Whitlock - Lyric TOP GUN Take My Breath Away
| 1985Lionel Richie - Music & Lyric WHITE NIGHTS Say You, Say Me
| 1984Stevie Wonder - Music & Lyric THE WOMAN IN RED I Just Called to Say I Love You
| 1983Giorgio Moroder - Music Keith Forsey & Irene Cara - Lyric FLASHDANCE Flashdance... What a Feeling
| 1982Jack Nitzsche - Music Buffy Sainte-Marie - Music Will Jennings - Lyric AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN Up Where We Belong
| 1981Burt Bacharach , Carole Bayer Sager , Christopher Cross & Peter Allen - Music & Lyric ARTHUR Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)
| 1980Michael Gore - Music Dean Pitchford - Lyric FAME Fame
| 1979David Shire - Music Norman Gimbel - Lyric NORMA RAE It Goes Like It Goes
| 1978Paul Jabara - Music & Lyric THANK GOD, IT'S FRIDAY Last Dance
| 1977Joseph Brooks - Music & Lyric YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE You Light Up My Life
| 1976Barbra Streisand - Music Paul Williams - Lyric A STAR IS BORN Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)
| 1975Keith Carradine - Music & Lyric NASHVILLE I'm Easy
| 1974Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn - Music & Lyric THE TOWERING INFERNO We May Never Love Like This Again
| 1973Marvin Hamlisch - Music Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman - Lyric THE WAY WE WERE The Way We Were
| 1972Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn - Music & Lyric THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE The Morning After
| 1971Isaac Hayes - Music & Lyric SHAFT Theme from Shaft
| 1970Fred Karlin - Music Robb Royer & James Griffin - Lyric LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS For All We Know (Robb Royer is also known as Robb Wilson. James Griffin is also known as Arthur James.)
| 1969Burt Bacharach - Music Hal David - Lyric BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
| 1968Michel Legrand - Music Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman - Lyric THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR The Windmills of Your Mind
| 1967Leslie Bricusse - Music & Lyric DOCTOR DOLITTLE Talk to the Animals
| 1966John Barry - Music Don Black - Lyric BORN FREE Born Free
| 1965Johnny Mandel - Music Paul Francis Webster - Lyric THE SANDPIPER The Shadow of Your Smile
| 1964Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman - Music & Lyric MARY POPPINS Chim Chim Cher-ee
| 1963Jimmy Van Heusen - Music Sammy Cahn - Lyric PAPA'S DELICATE CONDITION Call Me Irresponsible
| 1962Henry Mancini - Music Johnny Mercer - Lyric DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES Days of Wine and Roses
| 1961Henry Mancini - Music Johnny Mercer - Lyric BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S Moon River
| 1960| Manos Hadjidakis - Music & Lyric NEVER ON SUNDAY | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |