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- “When You Wish Upon a Star” won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Original Song. Harline and Washington also won an Oscar for Best Original Score.
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Manos Hatzidakis was the first to receive this award for a song originally written in a language other than English, in 1960 for "Never on Sunday" (Greek title "Ta Paidia toy Peiraia") from the Greek film Never on Sunday (Greek title Pote tin Kyriaki).
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- Pinocchio (1940) ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ from Pinocchio was Disney's first Oscar win in 1940. The original version of the song was sung by Jiminy Cricket in the opening credits and final scene of the film.
- Song of the South (1946) The film itself might be a bit past it, but Uncle Remus’ (James Baskett) Oscar-winning number ‘Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah’ has long outlived the popularity of the animation, and remains a well-loved tune.
- Mary Poppins (1964) From ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ to ‘Step in Time’, Mary Poppins was packed with iconic songs – but it was ‘Chim Chim Cher-ee’, Bert's pièce de résistance, that won the Oscar for Best Original Song.
- The Little Mermaid (1989) ‘Under the Sea’, composed by Alan Menken, took the 1989 Oscar for Original Song, pipping Sebastian the crab’s catchy ‘Kiss the Girl’ to the post.
It was also the first Disney song to win an Oscar. "When You Wish Upon a Star" is widely considered as the signature song of The Walt Disney Company and is often used as such in the production logos at the beginning of many Disney films since the 1980s.
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Aug 18, 2021 · The first song from a Disney movie to win Oscar glory is Jiminy Cricket’s ballad from “Pinocchio,” sung by Cliff Edwards.
Feb 9, 2024 · “When You Wish Upon a Star” won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Original Song. Harline and Washington also won an Oscar for Best Original Score.
The song was the first Disney song to win an Oscar, earning an Academy Award for Best Song. The American Film Institute ranked the song #7 in their 100 Greatest Songs in Film History. In 1991, Billy Joel sang the song in the TV special Simply Mad About the Mouse and its soundtrack.
Feb 25, 2019 · It is Lady Gaga's first Academy Award win, and she is also nominated in the Best Actress category for her role as a budding pop star who falls for a fading country crooner in A Star Is Born.
