Multiple Oscar-Winning Songwriters
by BonaFideBOSS | created - 08 Jul 2020 | updated - 22 Sep 2020 | PublicWhich of these songwriters, who won an Oscar for Best Song more than once, is your favorite?
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1. Sammy Cahn
Soundtrack | Die Hard
Award-winning songwriter ("All the Way" [Academy Award, 1957], "Three Coins in the Fountain" [Academy Award, 1954], "Love and Marriage" [Emmy Award, 1955], "High Hopes" [Academy Award, 1959], "Call Me Irresponsible" [Academy Award, 1963]), composer, author and publisher, educated at Seward Park ...
Wins: 4
For:
1. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) - Song: "Three Coins in the Fountain" (lyrics)
2. The Joker Is Wild (1957) - Song: "All the Way" (lyrics)
3. A Hole in the Head (1959) - Song: "High Hopes" (lyrics)
4. Papa's Delicate Condition (1963) - Song: "Call Me Irresponsible" (lyrics)
2. Johnny Mercer
Soundtrack | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Johnny Mercer started his career as singer and songwriter for Paul Whiteman. He started writing songs for Hollywood in 1935, where he also had a few small parts in musicals. Among his famous songs is the inoffical anthem of Hollywood, "Hooray For Hollywood" that he wrote for the movie "Hollywood ...
Wins: 4
For:
1. The Harvey Girls (1946) - Song: "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" (lyrics)
2. Here Comes the Groom (1951) - Song: "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (lyrics)
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Song: "Moon River" (lyrics)
4. Days of Wine and Roses (1962) - Song: "Days of Wine and Roses" (lyrics)
3. Alan Menken
Soundtrack | Beauty and the Beast
Alan Menken is an American composer, songwriter, music conductor, director and record producer.
Menken is best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores and songs for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and ...
Wins: 4
For:
1. The Little Mermaid (1989) - Song: "Under the Sea" (music)
2. Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Song: "Beauty and the Beast" (music)
3. Aladdin (1992) - Song: "A Whole New World" (music)
4. Pocahontas (1995) - Song: "Colors of the Wind" (music)
4. Jimmy Van Heusen
Soundtrack | Going My Way
Jimmy Van Heusen was inarguably one of the most accomplished songwriters in history. Claiming four "Oscars" and one Emmy award among his credits he also wrote more songs (85) recorded by Frank Sinatra, his long time friend, than any other composer. He also composed the songs for another good friend...
Wins: 4
For:
1. Going My Way (1944) - Song: "Swinging on a Star" (music)
2. The Joker Is Wild (1957) - Song: "All the Way" (music)
3. A Hole in the Head (1959) - Song: "High Hopes" (music)
4. Papa's Delicate Condition (1963) - Song: "Call Me Irresponsible" (music)
5. Paul Francis Webster
Soundtrack | Calamity Jane
Paul Francis Webster was born on December 20, 1907 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for Calamity Jane (1953), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) and Spider-Man (2002). He died on March 22, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Wins: 3
For:
1. Calamity Jane (1953) - Song: "Secret Love" (lyrics)
2. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) - Song: "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (lyrics)
3. The Sandpiper (1965) - Song: "The Shadow of Your Smile" (lyrics)
6. Harry Warren
Soundtrack | The Shape of Water
Harry Warren was born on December 24, 1893 in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for The Shape of Water (2017), An Affair to Remember (1957) and Sphere (1998). He was married to Josephine Wensler. He died on September 22, 1981 in Los Angeles, ...
Wins: 3
For:
1. Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) - Song: "Lullaby of Broadway" (music)
2. Hello Frisco, Hello (1943) - Song: "You'll Never Know" (music)
3. The Harvey Girls (1946) - Song: "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" (music)
7. Ray Evans
Soundtrack | The Man Who Knew Too Much
Academy Award-winning songwriter ("Buttons and Bows" [1948], "Mona Lisa" [1950], "Que Sera Sera" [1956]), composer, author, musician and publisher, educated at the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career in the college dance orchestra, then played in local night clubs...
Wins: 3
For:
1. The Paleface (1948) - Song: "Buttons and Bows"
2. Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949) - Song: "Mona Lisa"
3. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - Song: "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)"
8. Jay Livingston
Soundtrack | The Man Who Knew Too Much
Jay Livingston was born March 28, 1915 in McDonald, Pennsylvania. He (along with his partner Ray Evans) composed many songs for movies such as To Each His Own (1946), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) and Academy Award winning songs "Mona Lisa" from the movie Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949), "Buttons and ...
Wins: 3
For:
1. The Paleface (1948) - Song: "Buttons and Bows"
2. Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949) - Song: "Mona Lisa"
3. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - Song: "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)"
9. Tim Rice
Soundtrack | Aladdin
A prolific lyricist and librettist, Tim Rice was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, in the fall of 1944. Rice pursued his university education at Lancing College and, briefly, at l'Universite de Paris - Sorbonne. He was considering a legal career around the time that he met Andrew Lloyd Webber in ...
Wins: 3
For:
1. Aladdin (1992) - Song: "A Whole New World" (lyrics)
2. The Lion King (1994) - Song: "Hakuna Matata" (lyrics)
3. Evita (1996) - Song: "You Must Love Me" (lyrics)
10. Alan Bergman
Soundtrack | Tootsie
Prolific songwriter ("Nice 'n' Easy", "Yellow Bird"), composer and author, educated at UCLA and the University of Northern Carolina (BA). During WW II, he wrote and directed Special Services shows, then directed TV shows for CBS in Philadelphia, PA from 1945-1953. He joined ASCAP in 1955 and wrote ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) - Song: "The Windmills of Your Mind" (lyrics)
2. The Way We Were (1973) - Song: "The Way We Were" (lyrics)
11. Marilyn Bergman
Soundtrack | Tootsie
Prolific songwriter ("Nice 'n' Easy", "Yellow Bird"), composer and author Marilyn Bergman wrote several theme songs for television and songs for revues, night clubs, and films. Joining ASCAP in 1953, her chief musical collaborators included her husband Alan Bergman, Lew Spence, Norman Luboff, Paul ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) - Song: "The Windmills of Your Mind" (lyrics)
2. The Way We Were (1973) - Song: "The Way We Were" (lyrics)
12. Randy Newman
Soundtrack | The Princess and the Frog
Randy Newman is an American film composer and singer who is well-known for composing The Princess and the Frog, Meet the Parents and various Pixar films including the Toy Story, Monsters, Inc and Cars franchises as well as A Bug's Life. He wrote iconic songs such as "Short People", "You've Got A ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Monsters, Inc. (2001) - Song: "If I Didn't Have You"
2. Toy Story 3 (2010) - Song: "We Belong Together"
13. Henry Mancini
Soundtrack | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, but brought up in Pennsylvania, where he played the flute in a local band, as a youth, before sending some arrangements to Benny Goodman. Goodman offered him a job and, after serving in WWII, he joined the rearranged Glenn Miller band. In 1952, he was given a two-week ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Song: "Moon River" (music)
2. Days of Wine and Roses (1962) - Song: "Days of Wine and Roses" (music)
14. Ned Washington
Music_department | Pinocchio
Prolific American lyricist and songwriter, one of the giants of Tin Pan Alley. He contributed numerous popular standards to jazz and to the big band scene. His catalogue includes such titles as "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (theme song for bandleader Tommy Dorsey), the ballad "I Don't Stand a ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Pinocchio (1940) - Song: "When You Wish Upon a Star" (lyrics)
2. High Noon (1952) - Song: "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" (lyrics)
15. Sammy Fain
Soundtrack | Calamity Jane
Sammy Fain was born on June 17, 1902 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Calamity Jane (1953), Grease (1978) and The Rescuers (1977). He was married to Jane Fischer and Sally Fox. He died on December 6, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Wins: 2
For:
1. Calamity Jane (1953) - Song: "Secret Love" (music)
2. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) - Song: "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (music)
16. Howard Ashman
Soundtrack | Beauty and the Beast
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Howard Ashman moved to New York City in 1974 and began writing plays while working as an editor in a publishing house. His work attracted attention and he became WPA Theatre's artist director in 1977. In 1982, Ashman collaborated with composer Alan Menken on the ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. The Little Mermaid (1989) - Song: "Under the Sea" (lyrics)
2. Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Song: "Beauty and the Beast" (lyrics)
17. Jerome Kern
Soundtrack | Till the Clouds Roll By
Jerome David Kern was born in 1885. He began his stage career grafting American songs (for which he wrote the music) into imported European operettas. His breakthrough came with the song "They Didn't Believe Me", written (with lyrics by Edward Laska) for a show called "The Girl from Utah". It ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Swing Time (1936) - Song: "The Way You Look Tonight" (music)
2. Lady Be Good (1941) - Song: "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (music)
18. Burt Bacharach
Soundtrack | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Burt Bacharach was a well known and multi award winning singer and song writer.
Over 1,000 different artists have recorded Bacharach's songs. From 1961 to 1972, most of Bacharach and David's hits were written specifically for and performed by Dionne Warwick, but earlier associations (from 1957 to ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Song: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (music)
2. Arthur (1981) - Song: "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"
19. Oscar Hammerstein II
Soundtrack | State Fair
Oscar Hammerstein II was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and musical theatre director from New York City. He won a total of 8 Tony Awards for his best known works, "South Pacific" (1949), "The King and I" (1951), and "The Sound of Music" (1959). He twice won the Academy Award...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Lady Be Good (1941) - Song: "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (lyrics)
2. State Fair (1945) - Song: "It Might as Well Be Spring" (lyrics)
20. Stephen Schwartz
Soundtrack | The Prince of Egypt
Stephen Schwartz was born on March 6, 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a composer and writer, known for The Prince of Egypt (1998), Pocahontas (1995) and Enchanted (2007). He has been married to Carole Piasecki since July 6, 1969. They have two children.
Wins: 2
For:
1. Pocahontas (1995) - Song: "Colors of the Wind" (lyrics)
2. The Prince of Egypt (1998) - Song: "When You Believe"
21. Elton John
Soundtrack | Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Sir Elton John is one of pop music's great survivors. Born 25 March, 1947, as Reginald Kenneth Dwight, he started to play the piano at the early age of four. At the age of 11, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. His first band was called Bluesology. He later auditioned (...
Wins: 2
For:
1. The Lion King (1994) - Song: "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" (music)
2. Rocketman (2019) - Song: "I'm Gonna Love Me Again"
22. Joel Hirschhorn
Soundtrack | The Poseidon Adventure
Joel Hirschhorn shared two Academy Awards for theme songs in "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno," with longtime collaborator Al Kasha. During his long career Hirschhorn's songs sold more than 90 million records, and were featured in more then 20 films and were recorded by various ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. The Poseidon Adventure (1972) - Song: "The Morning After"
2. The Towering Inferno (1974) - Song: "We May Never Love Like This Again"
23. Will Jennings
Soundtrack | Titanic
Will Jennings was born on June 27, 1944 in Kilgore, Texas, USA. He is a composer, known for Titanic (1997), An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) and A Beautiful Mind (2001).
Wins: 2
For:
1. An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) - Song: "Up Where We Belong" (lyrics)
2. Titanic (1997) - Song: "My Heart Will Go On" (lyrics)
24. Al Kasha
Soundtrack | The Poseidon Adventure
Al Kasha has reached the top of every field that he has lent his talents to: as a writer, producer, composer, motivational speaker and executive working in theatre, film, television, home video, music publishing, and recording.
Kasha is one of those rare artists who, as a composer/lyricist, has had ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. The Poseidon Adventure (1972) - Song: "The Morning After"
2. The Towering Inferno (1974) - Song: "We May Never Love Like This Again"
25. Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Soundtrack | WandaVision
Kristen Anderson-Lopez was born on March 21, 1972 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a writer and composer, known for WandaVision (2021), Winnie the Pooh (2011) and Frozen II (2019). She has been married to Robert Lopez since October 12, 2003. They have two children.
Wins: 2
For:
1. Frozen (2013) - Song: "Let It Go" (music and lyrics)
2. Coco (2017) - Song: "Remember Me"
26. Robert Lopez
Soundtrack | WandaVision
Robert Lopez is the Tony®-, Grammy®-, Emmy®- and Oscar®- winning co-creator of the worldwide smash-hit Broadway musicals "Avenue Q" and "The Book of Mormon." Together with his wife and collaborator Kristen Anderson-Lopez, he co-wrote songs for the feature films "Winnie the Pooh (2011)" and "Frozen ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Frozen (2013) - Song: "Let It Go" (music and lyrics)
2. Coco (2017) - Song: "Remember Me"
27. Giorgio Moroder
Soundtrack | Top Gun
Giorgio Moroder was born on April 26, 1940 in Urtijëi, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. He is a composer and actor, known for Top Gun (1986), Over the Top (1987) and Flashdance (1983).
Wins: 2
For:
1. Flashdance (1983) - Song: "Flashdance...What a Feeling" (music)
2. Top Gun (1986) - Song: "Take My Breath Away" (music)
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