Academy Award for Best Original Song

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The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film. They are not awarded to the performers themselves unless they also served as the winning song composer, lyricist, or both.

The award category was introduced at the 7th Academy Awards, the ceremony honoring the best in film for 1934. Nominations are currently made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers, and the winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole.

Only songs that are "original and written specifically for the film" are eligible to win.[1] Songs that became popular prior to a film's production, such as "Unchained Melody" in the 1990 film Ghost and "I Will Always Love You" in the 1992 film The Bodyguard, cannot qualify. As well, songs that rely on sampled or reworked material, such as Coolio's "Gangstas Paradise" from 1995's Dangerous Minds are also ineligible.

When a film is adapted from a previously written musical, all of the songs from that musical are also ineligible. As a result, recent film adaptions have included original songs in order to be nominated, such as "You Must Love Me" from the 1996 film Evita and "Listen" from the 2006 film Dreamgirls.

For the past few decades, the nominated songs are usually performed live at the Academy Awards ceremonies. Because the ceremonies are seen by a worldwide audience, it provides valuable exposure for performers looking to boost their careers

In general, the person or group who performed the nominated songs in the films appear at the awards ceremonies. However in certain cases, the Academy instead picks well-recognized performers to boost the show's ratings. For example, singer/actress Beyonce Knowles sang three nominated songs during the 77th Academy Awards even though she didn't perform all these songs in the respective nominated film.

Conversely, a number of well-known solo artistes and groups such as Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, and members of Three 6 Mafia who served as songwriters for winning songs do in fact end up both performing on stage and making an acceptance speech for the award later on.

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