What Would the Talkies Be Without Music? Best Song.

Lest we forget, song and dance provide the heart and soul of entertainment, including our movies.

Here are the winners of the Academy Award's "Best Song," 1934 - 2008.

1934 The Continental

1935 Lullaby of Broadway


1936 The Way You Look Tonight


1937 Sweet Leilani
1938 Thanks for the Memory

1939 Over the Rainbow


1940 When You Wish Upon A Star
1941 The Last Time I Saw Paris
1942 White Christmas
1943 You'll Never Know
1944 Swinging on a Star
1945 It Might As Well Be Spring

1946 On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe


1947 Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
1948 Buttons and Bows
1949 Baby, It's Cold Outside

1950 Mona Lisa


1951 In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening

1952 High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling)


1953 Secret Love
1954 Three Coins in the Fountain
1955 Love is A Many Splendored Thing
1956 Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)

1957 All The Way


1958 Gigi
1959 High Hopes
1960 Never On Sunday

1961 Moon River


1962 Days of Wine and Roses
1963 Call Me Irresponsible
1964 Chim chim Cheree

1965 The Shadow of Your Smile


1966 Born Free
1967 Talk To The Animals
1968 Windmills of Your Mind

1969 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head


1970 For All We Know
1971 Theme from Shaft
1972 The Morning After

1973 The Way We Were


1974 We May Never Love Like This Again
1975 I'm Easy
1976 Evergreen
1977 You Light Up My Life
1978 Last Dance
1979 It goes Like It Goes
1980 Fame
1981 Arthur's Theme

1982 Up Where We Belong


1983 Flashdance - What A Feeling
1984 I Just Called To Say I Love You
1985 Say You, Say Me
1986 Take My Breath Away

1987 I've Had The Time Of My Life


1988 Let The River Run
1989 Under the Sea
1990 Sooner Or Later I Always Get My Man
1991 Beauty and the Beast
1992 A Whole New World

1993 Streets of Philadelphia


1994 Can You Feel The Love Tonight
1995 Colors of the Wind
1996 You Must Love Me
1997 My Heart Will Go On
1998 When You Believe
1999 You'll Be in My Heart

2000 Things Have Changed


2001 If I Didn't Have You
2002 Lose Yourself
2003 Into The West
2004 Al Otro Lado Del Rio
2005 It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp
2006 I Need To Wake Up

2007 Falling Slowly


2008 Jai Ho

2009 Nominees:

Almost There (Princess and the Frog)
Down In New Orleans (Princess and the Frog)
Loin de Paname (Paris 36)
Take It All (Nine)
The Weary Kind (Crazy Heart)