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Every Oscar Winner for Best Original Song, Ranked. It was 1. 93. 5 when Con Conrad and and Herb Magidson took home the first- ever Oscar for Best Original Song: “The Continental,” from the Fred Astraire and Ginger Rogers musical The Gay Divorcee. Since then, the winners have expanded from big- band dance number centerpieces to include stirring pop epics from animated movies, non- diagetic love ballads from blockbuster romances, and character themes from all sorts of genres — rock, folk, country, funk and, in the 2. The list of the songs that have won Best Original Song is a bizarre one. It encompasses classic rock legends like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, Great American Songbook crafters like Irving Berlin and Burt Bacharach. Timeless classic films like The Wizard of Oz, High Noon, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s are represented. Put this playlist on shuffle and you’ll be hospitalized for whiplash within six songs.

We’ve trudged through the gems and the duds, the songs that have become part of cinema history and the songs whose writers have even forgotten about, to rank the winners from worst to first — also taking a moment to point out the notable nominees beaten each year, and those snubbed from being nominated in the first place, whether due to arcane Academy rules or sheer neglect. Be warned that we ranked the songs according to the versions used in their Oscar- winning parent movies, which aren’t necessarily the most famous version of the song — so it’s Terence Howard and Taraji P. Henson doing “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp,” not Three 6 Mafia, and Angela Lansbury singing “Beauty and the Beast,” not Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson. See where your favorites ranked below — unless your favorite is Phil Collins’ Tarzan song, in which case maybe don’t — and check back next week to see where this year’s winner ends up falling. Presumably, the “Morning After” writers were referring to the duration of their own treacly abomination of a ballad.

The only thing this song is good for is banishing a demonic succubus back to the hellfire from whence it came, as South Park so expertly noted. JAMES GREBEYAlso Nominated From ’7.

Michael Jackson’s first chart- topping solo hit, the title track from the movie Ben, earned a nomination for writers Walter Scharf and Don Black. Not exactly “Rock With You” or “Billie Jean” that got beat here — songs about rats generally have a certain ceiling — but just about anything would have been preferable to “The Morning After.”Snubbed: Nothing from Curtis Mayfield’s iconic Super Fly soundtrack to be found — probably a counter- balance to Isaac Hayes winning the year before, lest the Academy start to reach a level of cool that would have been totally unsustainable. While some of the soft- rock icon’s contributions to Tarzan are fun in a cornball kind of way, “You’ll Be in My Heart” is an overwrought bore. J. G. Also Nominated From ’9. Canada” wasn’t the only gem passed over in the name of Phil: Aimee Mann’s “Save Me” from Magnolia, an Oscar nominee of rare subtlety and vulnerability, was also overlooked.

Snubbed: R. E. M.’s “Man on the Moon,” the Automatic for the People single that inspired the Andy Kaufman biopic of the same name, was naturally ineligible, but the fair- game “The Great Beyond” — one of the band’s last great singles, and their biggest- ever hit in the U. K. Calm it down guys. DAVID LEVESLEYAlso Nominated From ’5. The lovely quasi- standard “A Kiss to Build a Dream On,” recorded first by Louis Armstrong for the Mickey Rooney musical melodrama The Strip. Snubbed: The Burton Lane / Alan Jay Lerner composition “You’re All the World to Me” might not have been a classic, but it definitely at least soundtracked a classic movie scene — Fred Astaire’s famous spinning- room dance sequence from Royal Wedding, later referenced in countlessmusicvideos.

It’s also a little preachy, although that’s kind of a given. J. G. Also Nominated From ’9. I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” histrionic Diane Warren power ballad and first- ever Hot 1. Aerosmith, from Michael Bay’s apocalyptic blockbuster, Armageddon. Snubbed: The only other power ballad that might have been as ubiquitous in 1. Aerosmith’s, the Goo Goo Dolls’ City of Angels contribution “Iris.” Also, don’t forget that Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?,” one of Baby Girl’s signature hits and on the shortlist for Best R& B songs of the decade, was first heard on the Dr.

Doolittle 2 soundtrack that year. This isn’t even the famous version, either: It’s Did Cohn lip- syncing along Kacey Cisyk. God must have been piiiiiisssssed at this being done in his name. A. U. Also Nominated From ’7. The Carly Simon- sung, Marvin Hamlisch and Carol Bayer Sager- penned “Nobody Does It Better,” from The Spy Who Loved Me — a No.

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Bond themes. Snubbed: Oh nothing much, just every song eligible from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which spawned fourundying. No. 1hits and sold 1. Thank the Lord that they remembered that timeless chestnut “The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me)” from The Slipper and the Rose, though!

Unfortunately, the version from Captain Carey was performed by the significantly less- enduring Charlie Spivak and Tommy Lynn: a limp, repetitive arrangement that has deservedly been lost to the ages. A. U. Also Nominated From ’5. Bibbidi- Bobbidi- Boo” from Cinderella, one of Disney’s all- time great nonsense jams. Snubbed: “Silver Bells,” a future holidays perennial, actually debuted in ’5. Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell comedy The Lemon Drop Kid, which is definitely the only reason anyone would have cause to discuss The Lemon Drop Kid in the year 2. Stevie Wonder, a perfectly nice song that was nevertheless a totally fair target for Jack Black’s eventual dickish scorn. A. U. Also Nominated From ’8.

The 1. 98. 4 category was jam- packed with iconic ’8. Ray Parker’s “Ghostbusters,” Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds” and Kenny Loggins’ “Footloose.” And yet. The Purple One did take home a statue in the now- defunct Best Original Song Score category, but no song from the movie — which included a couple chart- toppers of its own in “Let’s Go Crazy” and “When Doves Cry,” not to mention the No. How do you sleep at night, Loggins? The earned grandiosity of The Lion King’s “Circle of Life” three decades later effectively made this song totally useless.

A. U. Also Nominated From ’6. A couple of memorable British themes: Cilla Black’s Burt Bacharach / Hal David- penned title track to the Michael Caine vehicle Alfie, and the Seekers’ vivacious hit ode to the protagonist of Georgy Girl. Snubbed: Did you know that the original version of “Strangers in the Night” was an instrumental recorded by easy- listening maestro Bert Kaempfert for the movie A Man Could Get Killed in 1.

Well, neither did the Academy. Far more memorable for its ahead- of- its- time cinematic introduction — performed in a two- minute one- shot zoom- in on performer Wini Shaw that looks like something from Eraserhead, courtesy of famed choreographer Busby Berkeley — than for anything related to the song itself. A. U. Also Nominated From ’3. The considerably fonder- remembered Irving Berlin composition “Cheek to Cheek,” introduced by Fred Astaire in Top Hat. Snubbed: “You Are My Lucky Star,” from the confusingly titled Broadway Melody of 1. In that movie, the song was by cast member Frances Langford and others, but it’s probably best- remembered today as being sung by a terrified Sigourney Weaver in the final fight scene at the end of Alien.

The “wake up” metaphor is a clich. Climate change is real, but this isn’t the most motivating of protest songs. J. G. Also Nominated From ’0. Listen,” Beyonc. Those high notes are pretty chill, though. A. U. Also Nominated From ’3. Watch These Final Hours (2015) Movie Stream here.

Another Fred Astaire classic in the George and Ira Gershwin- scribed “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” from Shall We Dance. And “That Old Feeling,” from Vogues of 1. Snubbed: Geez, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, anyone?