En İyi Şarkı Oscar'ı ilk olarak 1935 yılında gerçekleşen 7. Akademi Ödülleri'nde verildi. 1934 yapımı "The Gay Divorcee" filmindeki "The Continental", ilk Oscar kazanan şarkı oldu.
2021: H.E.R., D'Mile, Tiara Thomas - Fight For You ("Judas and the Black Messiah" filminden)
2020: Elton John, Bernie Taupin – (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again ("Rocketman" filminden)
2019: Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt – Shallow ("A Star is Born" filminden)
2018: Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez - Remember Me ("Coco" filminden)
2017: Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul - City of Stars ("La La Land" filminden)
2016: Jimmy Napes, Sam Smith - Writing's On The Wall ("Spectre" filminden)
2015: John Stephens, Lonnie Lynn – Glory ("Selma" filminden)
2014: Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez - Let It Go ("Frozen" filminden)
2013: Adele Adkins, Paul Epworth – Skyfall ("Skyfall" filminden)
2012: Bret McKenzie - Man or Muppet ("The Muppets" filminden)
2011: Randy Newman - We Belong Together ("Toy Story 3" filminden)
2010: Ryan Bingham, T-Bone Burnett - The Weary Kind ("Crazy Heart" filminden)
2009: A.R.Rahman, Gulzar - Jai Ho ("Slumdog Millionaire" filminden)
2008: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová - Falling Slowly ("Once" filminden)
2007: Melissa Etheridge - I Need to Wake Up ("An Inconvenient Truth" filminden)
2006: Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, Paul Beauregard - It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp ("Hustle & Flow" filminden)
2005: Jorge Drexler - Al Otro Lado Del Rio ("The Motorcycle Diaries" filminden)
2004: Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, Annie Lennox - Into the West ("The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King" filminden)
2003: Eminem, Jeff Bass, Luis Resto - Lose Yourself ("8 Mile" filminden)
2002: Randy Newman - If I Didn't Have You ("Monsters, Inc." filminden)
2001: Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed ("Wonder Boys" filminden)
2000: Phil Collins - You'll Be in My Heart ("Tarzan" filminden)
1999: Stephen Schwartz - When You Believe ("The Prince of Egypt" filminden)
1998: James Horner, Will Jennings - My Heart Will Go On ("Titanic" filminden)
1997: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice - You Must Love Me ("Evita" filminden)
1996: Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz - Colors of the Wind ("Pocahontas" filminden)
1995: Elton John, Tim Rice - Can You Feel the Love Tonight ("The Lion King" filminden)
1994: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia ("Philadelphia" filminden)
1993: Alan Menken, Tim Rice – A Whole New World ("Aladdin" filminden)
1992: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman - Beauty and the Beast ("Beauty and the Beast" filminden)
1991: Stephen Sondheim - Sooner Or Later ("Dick Tracy" filminden)
1990: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman - Under the Sea ("The Little Mermaid" filminden)
1989: Carly Simon - Let the River Run ("Working Girl" filminden)
1988: Franke Previte, John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz, Franke Previte - (I've Had) The Time of My Life ("Dirty Dancing" filminden)
1987: Giorgio Moroder, Tom Whitlock - Take My Breath Away ("Top Gun" filminden)
1986: Lionel Richie - Say You, Say Me ("White Nights" filminden)
1985: Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You ("The Lady In Red" filminden)
1984: Keith Forsey, Irene Cara, Giorgio Moroder - What A Feeling ("Flashdance" filminden)
1983: Jack Nitzsche, Will Jennings, Buffy Sainte Marie - Up Where We Belong ("An Officer and A Gentleman" filminden)
1982: Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross, Carole Bayer Sager – Best That You Can Do ("Arthur" filminden)
1981: Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford – Fame ("Fame" filminden)
1980: Normal Gimbel - It Goes Like It Goes ("Norma Rae" filminden)
1979: Paul Jabara - Last Dance ("Thank God It's Friday" filminden)
1978: Joseph Brooks - You Light Up My Life ("You Light Up My Life" filminden)
1977: Paul Williams, Barbra Streisand – Evergreen ("A Star Is Born" filminden)
1976: Keith Carradine - I'm Easy ("Nashville" filminden)
1975: Al Kasha, Joel Hirschorn – We May Never Love Like This Again ("The Towering Inferno" filminden)
1974: Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Marvin Hamlish - The Way We Were ("The Way We Were" filminden)
1973: Al Kasha, Joel Hirschorn - The Morning After ("The Poseidon Adventure" filminden)
1972: Isaac Hayes - The Theme From Shaft ("Shaft" filminden)
1971: Fred Karlin, Jimmy Griffin, Robb Royer - For All We Know ("Lovers and Other Strangers" filminden)
1970: Hal David, Burt Bacharach - Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" filminden)
1969: Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel LeGrand - The Windmills of Your Mind ("The Thomas Crown Affair" filminden)
1968: Leslie Bricusse - Talk to the Animals ("Doctor Doolittle" filminden)
1967: Don Black, John Barry - Born Free ("Born Free" filminden)
1966: Paul Francis Webster, Johnny Mandel - The Shadow of Your Smile ("The Sandpiper" filminden)
1965: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman - Chim Chim Cheree ("Mary Poppins" filminden)
1964: Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen - Call Me Irresponsible ("Papa's Delicate Condition" filminden)
1963: Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini - Days of Wine and Roses ("Days of Wine and Roses" filminden)
1962: Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini - Moon River ("Breakfast at Tiffany's" filminden)
1961: Manos Hadjidakis - Never on Sunday ("Never on Sunday" filminden)
1960: Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen - High Hopes ("A Hole in the Head" filminden)
1959: Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe – Gigi ("Gigi" filminden)
1958: Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen - All The Way ("The Joker Is Wild" filminden)
1957: Ray Evans, Jay Livingston - Que Sera, Sera ("The Man Who Knew Too Much" filminden)
1956: Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain - Love Is a Many Splendored Thing ("Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" filminden)
1955: Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne - Three Coins In a Fountain ("Three Coins In a Fountain" filminden)
1954: Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain - Secret Love ("Calamity Jane" filminden)
1953: Ned Washington, Dimitri Tiomkin - High Noon ("High Noon" filminden)
1952: Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael - In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening ("Here Comes the Groom" filminden)
1951: Ray Evans, Jay Livingston - Mona Lisa ("Captain Carey, U.S.A." filminden)
1950: Frank Loesser - Baby It's Cold Outside ("Neptune's Daughter" filminden)
1949: Ray Evans, Jay Livingston - Buttons and Bows ("Paleface" filminden)
1948: Ray Gilbert, Allie Wrubel - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah ("Song of the South" filminden)
1947: Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren - On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe ("The Harvey Girls" filminden)
1946: Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers - It Might As Well Be Spring ("State Fair" filminden)
1945: Johnny Burke, Jimmy van Heusen - Swingin' On A Star ("Going My Way" filminden)
1944: Mack Gordon, Harry Warren - You'll Never Know ("Hello, Frisco, Hello" filminden)
1943: Irving Berlin - White Christmas ("Holiday Inn" filminden)
1942: Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern - The Last Time I Saw Paris ("Lady Be Good" filminden)
1941: Ned Washington, Leigh Harline - When You Wish Upon A Star ("Pinocchio" filminden)
1940: E.Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen - Over the Rainbow ("The Wizard of Oz" filminden)
1939: Leo Robin, Ralph Range - Thanks for the Memory ("The Big Broadcast of 1938" filminden)
1938: Harry Owens – Sweet Leilani ("Waikiki Wedding" filminden
1937: Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern – The Way You Look Tonight ("Swing Time" filminden)
1936: Al Dubin & Harry Warren – Lullaby of Broadway ("Gold Digger of 1935" filminden)
1935: Herb Magidson & Con Conrad - The Continental ("The Gay Divorcee" filminden)