| song | film | oscar | year | lyricist / composer (unless same) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Get Happy | Summer Stock (1950) § | 1930 | Ted Koehler / Harold Arlen | |
| It’s a Most Unusual Day | A Date with Judy * | 1947 | Harold Adamson / Jimmy McHugh | |
| The Last Time I Saw Paris | Lady Be Good (1941) ¶ | won ¶ | 1940 | Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern |
| The Shadow of Your Smile | The Sandpiper | won | 1965 | Paul Francis Webster / Johnny Mandel |
| Baby, It’s Cold Outside | Neptune’s Daughter | won | 1948 | Frank Loesser |
| Born Free | Born Free | won | 1966 | Don Black / John Barry |
| James Bond Theme | (various) | 1962 | - / Monty Norman | |
| Candle on the Water | Pete’s Dragon | nom | 1976 | Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn |
| Eye of the Tiger | Rocky III | nom | 1982 | Frank Sullivan & Jim Peterik |
| You’ve Got a Friend in Me | Toy Story | nom | 1995 | Randy Newman |
| Out Here on My Own | Fame | nom | 1980 | Lesley Gore / Michael Gore |
| If You Can’t Rock Me | Stuart Little | 1999 | Brian Setzer | |
| The Scarlet Tide | Cold Mountain | nom | 2003 | T Bone Burnett & Elvis Costello |
| Happy Working Song | Enchanted | nom | 2007 | Stephen Schwartz / Alan Menken |
| Accidentally in Love | Shrek 2 | nom | 2004 | Adam F. Duritz |
| Breakaway | The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | 2004 | Matthew Gerrard, Avril Lavigne, and Bridget Benenate | |
| That’s Entertainment | The Band Wagon * | 1953 | Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz |
* Later used in the 1974 MGM compilation That’s Entertainment
§ "Get Happy" is originally from the 1930 musical show Nine-Fifteen Review; it was then used in the 1950 musical film Summer Stock (with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly) and the 1952 musical film With a Song in my Heart; it was Arlen’s first successful stage song.
¶ "The Last Time I Saw Paris" was written in 1940 for Tony Martin, after the Germans occupied Paris; used in the 1941 film Lady Be Good; used in the 1946 film Till the Clouds Roll By [biopic of Jerome Kern], where it was sung by Dinah Shore; used in the 1954 film The Last Time I Saw Paris; used in the 1976 film That’s Entertainment, Part 2; song won an oscar, the only song so honored not written for the film it was featured in.