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Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003). He has contributed lyrics to a number of successful films, including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt (1998, music and lyrics), and Enchanted (2007). Schwartz has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards, and has been nominated for six Tony Awards. He received the 2015 Isabelle Stevenson Award, a special Tony Award, for his commitment to serving artists and fostering new talent.[1]

Early life and education[]

Schwartz was born to a Jewish family[2] in New York City, the son of Sheila Lorna (née Siegel), a teacher, and Stanley Leonard Schwartz, a businessman.[3] He grew up in the Williston Park area of Nassau County, New York, where he graduated from Mineola High School in 1964.[4] While attending Carnegie Mellon University, Schwartz composed and directed an early version of Pippin (entitled Pippin, Pippin) with the student-run theatre group, Scotch'n'Soda. Schwartz graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama.[5]

Early career[]

Upon returning to New York City, Schwartz went to work as a producer for RCA Records, but shortly thereafter began to work in Broadway theatre. He was asked to be the musical director of the first American rock opera, The Survival of St. Joan. He was credited as the producer of the double album of the soundtrack with the progressive rock group Smoke Rise on Paramount Records. His first major credit was the title song for the play Butterflies Are Free; the song was eventually used in the movie version as well.[6]

In 1971, he wrote music and lyrics for Godspell, for which he won several awards, including two Grammys. For this musical's Toronto production in 1972, he asked Paul Shaffer to be the musical director, thus starting Shaffer's career. Godspell was followed by the English-language texts, in collaboration with Leonard Bernstein, for Bernstein's Mass, which opened the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. In 1972, the long-running Pippin premiered on Broadway. Schwartz had begun writing songs for Pippin while in college, although none of the songs from the college version ended up in the Broadway production. Both Pippin and Godspell continue to be frequently produced.[7]

Two years after Pippin debuted, Schwartz wrote music and lyrics of The Magic Show, which ran for just under 2,000 performances. By mid-1974, at age 26, Schwartz had three smash hit musicals playing in New York simultaneously. Next were the music and lyrics of The Baker's Wife, which closed before reaching Broadway after an out-of-town tryout tour in 1976. However, the cast album went on to attain cult status, which led to several subsequent productions, including a London production directed by Trevor Nunn in 1990 and another at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey in 2005.[8]

In 1978, Schwartz's next Broadway project was a musical version of Studs Terkel's Working, which he adapted and directed, winning the Drama Desk Award as best director, and for which he contributed four songs. He also co-directed the television production, which was presented as part of the PBS American Playhouse series. In 1977, Schwartz wrote a children's book called The Perfect Peach. In the 1980s, Schwartz wrote songs for a one-act musical for children, The Trip, which 20 years later was revised, expanded and produced as Captain Louie. He then wrote music for three of the songs of the Off-Broadway revue Personals, and lyrics to Charles Strouse's music for the musical Rags.[9]

Later career[]

In 1991, Schwartz wrote the music and lyrics for the musical Children of Eden. He then began working in film, collaborating with composer Alan Menken on the scores for the Disney animated features Pocahontas (1995), for which he received two Academy Awards, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). He provided songs for DreamWorks' animated feature, The Prince of Egypt (1998), winning another Academy Award for the song "When You Believe". He wrote music and lyrics for the original television musical, Geppetto (2000), seen on The Wonderful World of Disney. A stage adaptation of this piece premiered in June 2006 at The Coterie Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, and was titled Geppetto and Son, and is now known as Disney's My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto's Musical Tale. A version created for young performers, titled Geppetto & Son, Jr. had its world premiere on July 17, 2009, at the Lyric Theatre in Stuart, Florida. It was presented by the StarStruck Performing Arts Center.

In 2003, Schwartz returned to Broadway, as composer and lyricist for Wicked, a musical based on the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which tells the story of the Oz characters from the point of view of the witches. Schwartz won a Grammy Award for his work as composer and lyricist and producer of Wicked's cast recording. On March 23, 2006, the Broadway production of Wicked passed the 1,000 performance mark, making Schwartz one of four composers (the other three being Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jerry Herman, and Richard Rodgers) to have three shows last that long on Broadway (the other two were Pippin and The Magic Show). In 2007, Schwartz joined Jerry Herman as being one of only two composer/lyricists to have three shows run longer than 1,500 performances on Broadway.

After Wicked, Schwartz contributed music and lyrics for a new musical that was commissioned to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen. The production, titled Mit Eventyr or "My Fairytale", opened at the Gladsaxe Theatre in Copenhagen in the fall of 2005. The American premiere of My Fairytale took place in the summer of 2011 at the PCPA Theatrefest of California and was directed by the composer's son Scott Schwartz.

Schwartz returned to Hollywood in 2007 and wrote lyrics for the hit Disney film Enchanted, again collaborating with Menken. Three songs from the film, "Happy Working Song", "That's How You Know", and "So Close", were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He has written the theme song for the Playhouse Disney show Johnny and the Sprites, starring John Tartaglia. A recent project is incidental music for his son Scott Schwartz's adaptation of Willa Cather's My Ántonia.

On several occasions prior to 2008, Schwartz had reached out to Tim Dang who was the longtime artistic director of Los Angeles-based Asian-Pacific Islander theater company, East West Players (EWP).[10] This collaboration led to the conception of a new version of Pippin, aesthetically inspired by Japanese anime and musically inspired by hip-hop.[11] The production was a record-breaking hit and remained the highest grossing production in EWP's history[11] for an entire decade before being dethroned by Allegiance in 2018.

In 2008, Applause Theatre and Cinema Books published the first ever Schwartz biography titled Defying Gravity, by Carol de Giere. The book is a comprehensive look at his career and life, and includes sections on how to write for the musical theatre.

Turning to the pop world in 2009, Schwartz collaborated with John Ondrasik in writing two songs on the Five for Fighting album Slice, the title track as well as "Above the Timberline". Ondrasik became familiar with Schwartz based on his daughter's affection for, and repeated attendance at performances of, the musical Wicked.

In September 2011, the Northlight Theatre in Chicago premiered Schwartz's new musical, Snapshots, which featured music and lyrics by Schwartz, book by David Stern, and was directed by Ken Sawyer. It blended together "some of the best-loved music with some of the genuinely wonderful lesser known gems of (the) renowned Broadway composer."[12]

On March 22, 2012, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus released "Testimony", composed by Schwartz with lyrics taken from submissions to Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project.[13]

In March 2015, Princess Cruises announced a partnership with Schwartz for the development of four shows over three years. The first will be a magic themed review of Schwartz's music, titled Magic To Do, including one new song written for the show.

Schwartz will return to write the lyrics for a live-action remake of The Hunchback of Notre Dame,[14] as well as a sequel to Enchanted, titled Disenchanted.[15] Schwartz will also write the songs for Bill Condon's Marley, a musical film based on A Christmas Carol.[16]

In April 2020 Schwartz participated in a fund-raising video called Saturday Night Seder which featured an "all-star" cast of performers, composers and religious leaders broadcasting from their home computers and cellphones due to the practice of "social distancing" forced on people around the world in response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. The video explained the story of Passover through stories, song, comedy and memories, and raised money for the CDC Foundation.[17]

Personal life[]

Schwartz married Carole Piasecki on June 6, 1969. They have two children, Jessica and Scott.[3]

In 2009 Schwartz was elected president of the Dramatists Guild of America, succeeding John Weidman;[18] he stepped down in 2014, to be succeeded by Doug Wright.[19]

Major works[]

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Schwartz, 2017

Stage[]

  • Butterflies Are Free (1969) - title song (play and movie)
  • Godspell (1971) - composer, lyricist
  • Mass (1971) - English texts (in collaboration with Leonard Bernstein)
  • Pippin (1972) - composer, lyricist
  • The Magic Show (1974) - composer, lyricist
  • The Baker's Wife (1976) - composer, lyricist
  • Working (1978) - adaptation, direction, composer, lyricist of 4 songs
  • Personals (1985) - composer of 3 songs
  • The Trip (1986) - children's show; composer, lyricist
  • Rags (1986) - lyricist
  • Children of Eden (1991) - composer, lyricist
  • Der Glöckner von Notre Dame (1999 Berlin) - lyricist to Alan Menken (stage version of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame); Michael Kunze translated the lyrics to German; English version in 2013
  • Wicked (2003) - composer, lyricist
  • Tiruvasakam (2005) - English translation of selected verses of the Tamil hymn on Lord Siva by Manickavasagar; Indian composer Ilaiyaraaja wrote the music.
  • Snapshots (2005)
  • Captain Louie (2005)
  • Mit Eventyr – My Fairy Tale (2005) - contributed 6 songs
  • Séance on a Wet Afternoon (2009) - opera[20]
  • Schikaneder (2016 Vienna)
  • The Prince of Egypt (2017) - composer, lyricist, based on the film

Recordings[]

  • Reluctant Pilgrim (1997)
  • Uncharted Territory (2001)

Books[]

  • Defying Gravity (2008) - biography

Film[]

  • Godspell (1973) - composer, lyricist
  • Pocahontas (1995) - lyricist
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) - lyricist
  • Grentaluciodin (1997) - composer, lyricist
  • The Prince of Egypt (1998) - composer, lyricist
  • Mexiceanthontago (1999) - lyricist with Juan Gusto Lárioced
  • Magistaned (faning film) (2005) - lyricist (with songs: Music & Lyrics by Marc Shaiman; co-lyricist by Patrick McShermanson)
  • The Fairly Oddparents: The Movie (faning film) (2007) - Musical-themed songs and Additional lyricist
  • Enchanted (2007) - lyricist
  • Peanocotal (2014) - lyricist (with songs: Music & Lyrics by Marc Shaiman, co-Lyricist by Chris Marco Jocarton)
  • DAF computer-animated musical adventure film (2019) composer with Lebo M, lyricist
  • Municakitocearinod (2020) - composer with John Debney, lyricist
  • Pooh (DAF film) (2021) Collaboration lyricist (with co-lyricist by Glenn Slater and Tim Rice)
  • Disenchanted (2022) - lyricist[15]
  • Wicked: Part 1 (2024) - co-screenwriter, composer, lyricist
  • Wicked: Part 2 (2025) - co-screenwriter, composer, lyricist
  • Annie (animated film adaptation) - animation adaptated composer, animation adaptated lyricist (with animation adaptated songs by Marc Shaiman, Trent Reznor, Daniel Bob Goldwell, Lin-Manuel Miranda, David Zippel, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Musical songs from music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin. Music score composed by Marc Shaiman, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame - lyricist
  • Marley - composer, lyricist

Television[]

  • Working - director
  • Geppetto (2000) - composer, lyricist
  • Johnny and the Sprites (2005) - theme song

Choral[]

  • The Chanukah Song (We are Lights)
  • Kéramos
  • Thiruvasakam in Symphony (2005)[21]
  • Testimony (2012)

Awards and nominations[]

Schwartz has won many major awards in his field, including three Oscars, three Grammys, four Drama Desk Awards, one Golden Globe Award, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theater and a self-described "tiny handful of tennis trophies".[22]

He has received six Tony Award nominations, for Wicked, Pippin, and Godspell, music/lyrics; Rags, lyrics; and Working, music/lyrics and book.[23] In 2015, he received an honorary Tony Award, the Isabelle Stevenson Award, for his commitment to serving artists and fostering new talent.[1]

In April 2008, Schwartz was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[24] Also in 2009, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[25] The induction ceremony took place on the night of January 25, 2010.[26]

Schwartz received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2015.[27]

References[]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Stephen Schwartz to Receive 2015 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". tonyawards.com. http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/news/articles/2015-04-27/201504271430150148195.html.
  2. "Genesis inspires newest show by composer of Godspell, Rags". January 14, 2000. https://www.jweekly.com/2000/01/14/genesis-inspires-newest-show-by-composer-of-godspell-rags/.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Stephen Schwartz Biography (1948–)". FilmReference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/75/Stephen-Schwartz.html.
  4. "Alumni News". The New York Times. March 2008. https://movies.nytimes.com/person/1168428/Stephen-Schwartz/biography.
  5. "Stephen Schwartz ('68) Gives Master Class to Musical Theatre Students". CMU School of Drama. September 21, 2011. http://www.drama.cmu.edu/news/view/60.
  6. "Stephen Schwartz Full Biography | Broadway World" (in en). https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Stephen-Schwartz/.
  7. "Stephen Schwartz Launched His Career with Godspell" (in en-US). 2015-05-05. https://www.godspell.com/stephen-schwartz-launched-his-career-with-godspell/.
  8. Staff, Playbill. "Revisit The Magic Show, Stephen Schwartz's Other Huge '70s Hit", Playbill, May 28, 2021, pp. 1. 
  9. "Articles | Page 3 of 4" (in en-US). https://www.theschwartzscene.com/articles/.
  10. "Taking 'Pippin' across cultures" (in en-US). 2008-05-11. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-11-ca-pippin11-story.html.
  11. 11.0 11.1 Wood, Ximón (June 5, 2015). "5 Tony Award-Winning Productions Produced at East West Players". http://www.eastwestplayers.org/news/5-tony-award-winning-productions/.
  12. "Northlight Theatre 2011–12 Season Will Include New Musical by Stephen Schwartz", broadwayworld.com, February 28, 2011
  13. It Gets Better: "Testimony" by SF Gay Men's Chorus & Stephen Schwartz on YouTube
  14. Fleming, Mike Jr. (January 16, 2019). "Disney Rings 'Hunchback' Bell: David Henry Hwang To Script Live Action Musical, Alan Menken/Stephen Schwartz Writing Music". https://deadline.com/2019/01/hunchback-movie-disney-live-action-david-henry-hwang-josh-gad-alan-menken-stephen-schwartz-1202536031/.
  15. 15.0 15.1 Christina Radish (March 7, 2018). "Adam Shankman on 'Step Up: High Water' and The Status of the 'Enchanted' Sequel". Collider. https://collider.com/adam-shankman-interview-step-up-enchanted-2/#youtube-red. "As planned right now, there's more singing and dancing than there was in the first one, and it's all original music, with Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz coming back to do it."
  16. "'Beauty and the Beast' Director Bill Condon To Direct Musical Re-Imagining of 'A Christmas Carol' For Disney", The DisInsider, October 28, 2019. 
  17. Levere, Jane. "Alexander, Bialik, Drescher, Erivo, Menzel, Midler, Platt, Porter, Silverman, Others To Raise Funds For CDC COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund At Virtual 'Saturday Night Seder' April 11" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/janelevere/2020/04/10/alexander-bialik-drescher-erivo--menzel-midler-platt-porter-silverman-others-to-raise-funds-for-cdc-covid-19-emergency-response-fund-at-virtual-saturday-night-seder-april-11/.
  18. Gans, Andrew. "Stephen Schwartz Succeeds John Weidman as Dramatists Guild President", Playbill, March 19, 2009. 
  19. "Save the Date: Copyright Matters Program on Wednesday, January 29", Copyright Matters, January 7, 2014. 
  20. "Séance on a Wet Afternoon, composer, librettist, co-orchestrator: About the opera". seancetheopera.com. http://www.seancetheopera.com/about_us.html.
  21. Longman, Hollie. "Thiruvasagam: A Classical Crossover by Ilaiyaraaja". The World of Music 50 (2): 146–148. JSTOR 41699841.
  22. "Schwartz, Stephen". stephenschwartz.com. http://www.stephenschwartz.com/bio/press-kit/short-bio/.
  23. Stephen Schwartz at the Internet Broadway DatabaseScript error: No such module "WikidataCheck".
  24. "Stephen Schwartz Songwriters Hall of Fame Exhibit". songwritershalloffame.org. http://songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C6022.
  25. Gans, Andrew (January 25, 2010). "Redgrave, Schwartz, Lloyd Webber and More Inducted Into Theater Hall of Fame Jan. 25". Playbill. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/136195-Redgrave-Schwartz-Lloyd-Webber-and-More-Inducted-Into-Theater-Hall-of-Fame-Jan-25.
  26. "Stephen Schwartz Theater Hall of Fame Induction". stephenschwartz.com. http://www.stephenschwartz.com/theater-hall-of-fame-induction/.
  27. "Alan Alda To Give Commencement Address At Carnegie Mellon, May 17". www.cmu.edu. http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/april/alan-alda-speaks-at-commencement.html.

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  • Green, Stanley; Taylor, Deems. The world of musical comedy. The story of the American musical stage. As told through the careers of its foremost composers and lyricist, A. S. Barnes, 1980.
  • Kasha, Al. Notes on Broadway. Conversations with the great songwriters, Books, Inc., 1985.
  • Press, Jaques Cattell (Ed.). ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, fourth edition, R. R. Bowker, 1980.
  • Suskin, Steven. Show tunes 1905–1991. The songs, shows and careers of Broadway's major composers, Limelight Editions, 1992.

External links[]

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1930s
  • Louis Silvers (1934)
  • Max Steiner (1935)
  • Leo F. Forbstein (1936)
  • Charles Previn (1937)
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Alfred Newman (1938)
  • Herbert Stothart / Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold and Leo Shuken (1939)

1940s

  • Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith and Ned Washington / Alfred Newman (1940)
  • Bernard Herrmann / Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace (1941)
  • Max Steiner / Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld (1942)
  • Alfred Newman / Ray Heindorf (1943)
  • Max Steiner / Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon (1944)
  • Miklos Rozsa / Georgie Stoll (1945)
  • Hugo Friedhofer / Morris Stoloff (1946)
  • Miklos Rozsa / Alfred Newman (1947)
  • Brian Easdale / Johnny Green and Roger Edens (1948)
  • Aaron Copland / Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton (1949)

1950s

  • Franz Waxman / Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens (1950)
  • Franz Waxman / Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin (1951)
  • Dimitri Tiomkin / Alfred Newman (1952)
  • Bronislau Kaper / Alfred Newman (1953)
  • Dimitri Tiomkin / Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin (1954)
  • Alfred Newman / Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch (1955)
  • Victor Young / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby (1956)
  • Malcolm Arnold (1957)
  • Dimitri Tiomkin / Andre Previn (1958)
  • Miklos Rozsa / Andre Previn and Ken Darby (1959)

1960s

  • Ernest Gold / Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman (1960)
  • Henry Mancini / Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal (1961)
  • Maurice Jarre / Ray Heindorf (1962)
  • John Addison / Andre Previn (1963)
  • Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman / Andre Previn (1964)
  • Maurice Jarre / Irwin Kostal (1965)
  • John Barry / Ken Thorne (1966)
  • Elmer Bernstein / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby (1967)
  • John Barry / Johnny Green (1968)
  • Burt Bacharach / Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman (1969)

1970s

  • Francis Lai / The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) (1970)
  • Michel Legrand / John Williams (1971)
  • Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell / Ralph Burns (1972)
  • Marvin Hamlisch / Marvin Hamlisch (1973)
  • Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola / Nelson Riddle (1974)
  • John Williams / Leonard Rosenman (1975)
  • Jerry Goldsmith / Leonard Rosenman (1976)
  • John Williams / Jonathan Tunick (1977)
  • Giorgio Moroder / Joe Renzetti (1978)
  • Georges Delerue / Ralph Burns (1979)

1980s

  • Michael Gore (1980)
  • Vangelis (1981)
  • John Williams / Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse (1982)
  • Bill Conti / Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1983)
  • Maurice Jarre / Prince (1984)
  • John Barry (1985)
  • Herbie Hancock (1986)
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su (1987)
  • Dave Grusin (1988)
  • Alan Menken (1989)

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

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1960s
v - e - dGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song (1960s)
  • "Town Without Pity" – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington (1961)
  • No Award (1962)
  • No Award (1963)
  • "Circus World" – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington (1964)
  • "Forget Domani" – Music by Riz Ortolani; Lyrics by Norman Newell (1965)
  • "Strangers in the Night" – Music by Bert Kaempfert; Lyrics by Charles Singleton & Eddie Snyder (1966)
  • "If Ever I Would Leave You" – Music by Frederick Loewe; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner (1967)
  • "The Windmills of Your Mind" – Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1968)
  • "Jean" – Music and Lyrics by Rod McKuen (1969)

1970s

v - e - dGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song (1970s)
  • "Whistling Away the Dark" – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer (1970)
  • "Life Is What You Make It" – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer (1971)
  • "Ben" – Music by Walter Scharf; Lyrics by Don Black (1972)
  • "The Way We Were" – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1973)
  • "I Feel Love" – Music by Euel Box; Lyrics by Betty Box (1974)
  • "I'm Easy" – Music and Lyrics by Keith Carradine (1975)
  • "Evergreen" – Music by Barbra Streisand; Lyrics by Paul Williams (1976)
  • "You Light Up My Life" – Music and Lyrics by Joseph Brooks (1977)
  • "Last Dance" – Music and Lyrics by Paul Jabara (1978)
  • "The Rose" – Music and Lyrics by Amanda McBroom (1979)

1980s

v - e - dGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song (1980s)
  • "Fame" – Music by Michael Gore; Lyrics by Dean Pitchford (1980)
  • "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" – Music and Lyrics by Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross & Carole Bayer Sager (1981)
  • "Up Where We Belong" – Music by Jack Nitzsche & Buffy Sainte-Marie; Lyrics by Wilbur Jennings (1982)
  • "Flashdance... What a Feeling" – Music by Giorgio Moroder; Lyrics by Irene Cara & Keith Forsey (1983)
  • "I Just Called to Say I Love You" – Music and Lyrics by Stevie Wonder (1984)
  • "Say You, Say Me" – Music and Lyrics by Lionel Richie (1985)
  • "Take My Breath Away" – Music by Giorgio Moroder; Lyrics by Tom Whitlock (1986)
  • "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" – Music by John DeNicola & Donald Markowitz; Lyrics by Franke Previte (1987)
  • "Let the River Run" – Music and Lyrics by Carly Simon / "Two Hearts" – Music by Lamont Dozier; Lyrics by Phil Collins (1988)
  • "Under the Sea" – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Howard Ashman (1989)

1990s

v - e - dGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song (1990s)

2000s

v - e - dGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song (2000s)
  • "Things Have Changed" – Music and Lyrics by Bob Dylan (2000)
  • "Until..." – Music and Lyrics by Sting (2001)
  • "The Hands That Built America" – Music and Lyrics by Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge & Larry Mullen Jr. (2002)
  • "Into the West" – Music and Lyrics by Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Frances Walsh (2003)
  • "Old Habits Die Hard" – Music and Lyrics by Mick Jagger & David A. Stewart (2004)
  • "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" – Music by Gustavo Santaolalla; Lyrics by Bernie Taupin (2005)
  • "The Song of the Heart" – Music and Lyrics by Prince Rogers Nelson (2006)
  • "Guaranteed" – Music and Lyrics by Eddie Vedder (2007)
  • "The Wrestler" – Music and Lyrics by Bruce Springsteen (2008)
  • "The Weary Kind" – Music and Lyrics by Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett (2009)

2010s

v - e - dGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song (2010s)
  • "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren (2010)
  • "Masterpiece" – Music and lyrics by Madonna, Julie Frost & Jimmy Harry (2011)
  • "Skyfall" – Music and lyrics by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth (2012)
  • "Ordinary Love" – Music and lyrics by Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr. & Danger Mouse (2013)
  • "Glory" – Music and lyrics by Common & John Legend (2014)
  • "Writing's on the Wall" – Music and lyrics by Sam Smith & Jimmy Napes (2015)
  • "City of Stars" – Music by Justin Hurwitz; lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (2016)
  • "This Is Me" – Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (2017)
  • "Shallow" – Music and lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (2018)
  • "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" – Music by Elton John; lyrics by Bernie Taupin (2019)

2020s

v - e - dGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song (2020s)
  • "Io sì (Seen)" – Music by Diane Warren; Lyrics by Diane Warren, Laura Pausini & Niccolò Agliardi (2020)
  • "No Time to Die" – Music and Lyrics by Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell (2021)
  • "Naatu Naatu" – Music by M. M. Keeravani; Lyrics by Chandrabose (2022)
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1988−2000

2001−2020

  • "When She Loved Me" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2001)
  • "Boss of Me" – John Flansburgh & John Linnell (songwriters) (2002)
  • "If I Didn't Have You" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2003)
  • "A Mighty Wind" – Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy & Michael McKean (songwriters) (2004)
  • "Into the West" – Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh (songwriters) (2005)
  • "Believe" – Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri (songwriters) (2006)
  • "Our Town" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2007)
  • "Love You I Do" – Siedah Garrett & Henry Krieger (songwriters) (2008)
  • "Down to Earth" – Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman (songwriters) (2009)
  • "Jai Ho" – Gulzar, A. R. Rahman & Tanvi Shah (songwriters) (2010)
  • "The Weary Kind" – Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett (songwriters) (2011)
  • "I See the Light" – Alan Menken & Glenn Slater (songwriters) (2012)
  • "Safe & Sound" – T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, Joy Williams & John Paul White (songwriters) (2013)
  • "Skyfall" – Adele Atkins & Paul Epworth (songwriters) (2014)
  • "Let It Go" – Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (songwriters) (2015)
  • "Glory" – Common, Che Smith & John Legend (songwriters) (2016)
  • "Can't Stop the Feeling!" – Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake (songwriters) (2017)
  • "How Far I'll Go" – Lin-Manuel Miranda (songwriter) (2018)
  • "Shallow" – Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (songwriters) (2019)
  • "I'll Never Love Again" – Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey & Aaron Raitiere (songwriters) (2020)

2021−present

  • "No Time to Die" – Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell (songwriters) (2021)
  • "All Eyes on Me" – Bo Burnham (songwriter) (2022)
  • "We Don't Talk About Bruno" – Lin-Manuel Miranda (songwriter) (2023)

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