Who won Best Original Song – Motion Picture at the most recent Golden Globes?

El Mal won at the 2025 Golden Globes.

Who won Best Original Song – Motion Picture in 2024?

What Was I Made For? — Barbie.

Who won Best Original Song – Motion Picture in 2021?

Io sì (Seen) — The Life Ahead.

How many different winners has Best Original Song – Motion Picture had?

63 different winners across 62 ceremonies, 1962–2025.

A visual history · Golden Globes

The winners who defined Original Song.

62 ceremonies, 1962–2025. 63 different winners.

Who won most recently?: El Mal in 2025 for Emilia Pérez.

2025Emilia PérezEl Mal
2024BarbieWhat Was I Made For?
2023RRRNaatu Naatu
2022No Time to DieNo Time to Die
2021The Life AheadIo sì (Seen)
2020Rocketman(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again

Years explored: 1962–2025
Different winners: 63
Category leader: No leader

About this record

Best Original Song – Motion Picture was first awarded in 1962, so it does not run the full 1944–2025 window.

2000–2025

26 ceremonies

19622025

01 / The reigns

26 winners shaped this category.

The timeline turns the 2000–2025 record into a sequence of reigns. Longer bands reveal sustained runs; color shows the credited network / distributor.

One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by network / distributor; scroll sideways for the full run.

You'll Be in My Heart'00

Things Have Changed'01

Until...'02

The Hands That Built America'03

Into the West'04

Old Habits Die Hard'05

A Love That Will Never Grow Old'06

Song of the Heart'07

Guaranteed'08

The Wrestler'09

The Weary Kind'10

You Haven't Seen the Last of Me'11

Masterpiece'12

Skyfall'13

Ordinary Love'14

Glory'15

Writing's on the Wall'16

City of Stars'17

This Is Me'18

Shallow'19

(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again'20

Io sì (Seen)'21

No Time to Die'22

Naatu Naatu'23

What Was I Made For?'24

El Mal'25

02 / The power map

Who stood behind the winners?

Paramount leads the recorded network / distributor credits with 5 wins, 2000–2025. The full distribution shows whether power was concentrated or shared.

Paramount5 wins

Warner Bros.4 wins

Sony3 wins

Miramax2 wins

Netflix2 wins

Searchlight2 wins

Wins by network / distributor

Paramount519%
Warner Bros.415%
Sony312%
Miramax28%
Netflix28%
Searchlight28%
Other831%

04 / The archive

Every year.
Every winner.

The complete reference behind the story, showing 2000–2025. Open any year to see the rest of the field when nominee records are available.

Year	Winner	Network / Distributor
2025	El Mal (Emilia Pérez) beat 5 others Forbidden Road (Better Man) Compress / Repress (Challengers) Mi camino (Emilia Pérez) Beautiful That Way (The Last Showgirl) Kiss the Sky (The Wild Robot)	Netflix
2024	What Was I Made For? (Barbie) beat 5 others Dance the Night (Barbie) I'm Just Ken (Barbie) Road to Freedom (Rustin) Addicted to Romance (She Came to Me) Peaches (The Super Mario Bros. Movie)	Warner Bros.
2023	Naatu Naatu (RRR) beat 4 others Lift Me Up (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) Ciao Papa (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio) Hold My Hand (Top Gun: Maverick) Carolina (Where the Crawdads Sing)	Variance Films
2022	No Time to Die (No Time to Die) beat 4 others Down to Joy (Belfast) Dos Oruguitas (Encanto) Be Alive (King Richard) Here I Am (Singing My Way Home) (Respect)	United Artists Releasing
2021	Io sì (Seen) (The Life Ahead) beat 4 others Fight for You (Judas and the Black Messiah) Speak Now (One Night in Miami...) Hear My Voice (The Trial of the Chicago 7) Tigress & Tweed (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)	Netflix
2020	(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again (Rocketman) beat 4 others Beautiful Ghosts (Cats) Into the Unknown (Frozen 2) Stand Up (Harriet) Spirit (The Lion King)	Paramount
2019	Shallow (A Star Is Born) beat 4 others All the Stars (Black Panther) Revelation (Boy Erased) Girl in the Movies (Dumplin') Requiem for a Private War (A Private War)	Warner Bros.
2018	This Is Me (The Greatest Showman) beat 4 others Remember Me (Coco) Home (Ferdinand) Mighty River (Mudbound) The Star (The Star)	20th Century Fox
2017	City of Stars (La La Land) beat 4 others Gold (Gold) How Far I'll Go (Moana) Faith (Sing) Can't Stop the Feeling! (Trolls)	Lionsgate
2016	Writing's on the Wall (Spectre) beat 4 others Love Me like You Do (Fifty Shades of Grey) See You Again (Furious 7) One Kind of Love (Love & Mercy) Simple Song #3 (Youth)	Columbia/Sony
2015	Glory (Selma) beat 4 others Opportunity (Annie) Big Eyes (Big Eyes) Yellow Flicker Beat (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1) Mercy Is (Noah)	Paramount
2014	Ordinary Love (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) beat 4 others Let It Go (Frozen) Atlas (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) Please Mr. Kennedy (Inside Llewyn Davis) Sweeter than Fiction (One Chance)	The Weinstein Company
2013	Skyfall (Skyfall) beat 4 others For You (Act of Valor) Safe & Sound (The Hunger Games) Suddenly (Les Misérables) Not Running Anymore (Stand Up Guys)	Columbia/Sony
2012	Masterpiece (W.E.) beat 4 others Lay Your Head Down (Albert Nobbs) Hello, Hello (Gnomeo and Juliet) The Living Proof (The Help) The Keeper (Machine Gun Preacher)	The Weinstein Company
2011	You Haven't Seen the Last of Me (Burlesque) beat 4 others Bound to You (Burlesque) There's a Place for Us (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) Coming Home (Country Strong) I See the Light (Tangled)	Columbia/Sony
2010	The Weary Kind (Crazy Heart) beat 4 others I See You (Avatar) Winter (Brothers) (I Want To) Come Home (Everybody's Fine) Cinema Italiano (Nine)	Fox Searchlight
2009	The Wrestler (The Wrestler) beat 4 others I Thought I Lost You (Bolt) Once in a Lifetime (Cadillac Records) Gran Torino (Gran Torino) Down to Earth (WALL-E)	Fox Searchlight
2008	Guaranteed (Into the Wild) beat 4 others That's How You Know (Enchanted) Grace Is Gone (Grace Is Gone) Despedida (Love in the Time of Cholera) Walk Hard (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)	Paramount Vantage
2007	Song of the Heart (Happy Feet) beat 4 others Never Gonna Break My Faith (Bobby) Listen (Dreamgirls) Try Not to Remember (Home of the Brave) A Father's Way (The Pursuit of Happyness)	Warner Bros.
2006	A Love That Will Never Grow Old (Brokeback Mountain) beat 4 others Christmas in Love (Christmas in Love) Wunderkind (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway (The Producers) Travelin' Thru (Transamerica)	Focus Features
2005	Old Habits Die Hard (Alfie) beat 4 others Million Voices (Hotel Rwanda) Learn to Be Lonely (The Phantom of the Opera) Believe (The Polar Express) Accidentally in Love (Shrek 2)	Paramount
2004	Into the West (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) beat 4 others Man of the Hour (Big Fish) You Will Be My Ain True Love (Cold Mountain) Time Enough for Tears (In America) The Heart of Every Girl (Mona Lisa Smile)	New Line Cinema
2003	The Hands That Built America (Gangs of New York) beat 4 others Lose Yourself (8 Mile) Die Another Day (Die Another Day) Here I Am (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron) Father and Daughter (The Wild Thornberrys Movie)	Miramax
2002	Until... (Kate & Leopold) beat 4 others Come What May (Moulin Rouge!) There You'll Be (Pearl Harbor) May It Be (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) Vanilla Sky (Vanilla Sky)	Miramax
2001	Things Have Changed (Wonder Boys) beat 4 others I've Seen It All (Dancer in the Dark) My Funny Friend and Me (The Emperor's New Groove) When You Come Back to Me Again (Frequency) One in a Million (Miss Congeniality)	Paramount
2000	You'll Be in My Heart (Tarzan) beat 4 others Beautiful Stranger (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me) How Can I Not Love You (Anna and the King) Save Me (Magnolia) When She Loved Me (Toy Story 2)	Buena Vista
1999	The Prayer (Quest for Camelot)unverified beat 5 others Uninvited (City of Angels) The Mighty (The Mighty) Reflection (Mulan) When You Believe (The Prince of Egypt) The Flame Still Burns (Still Crazy)	Warner Bros.
1998	My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)unverified beat 4 others Journey to the Past (Anastasia) Once Upon a December (Anastasia) Go the Distance (Hercules) Tomorrow Never Dies (Tomorrow Never Dies)	Paramount Pictures/20th Century Fox
1997	You Must Love Me (Evita)unverified beat 4 others I Finally Found Someone (The Mirror Has Two Faces) For the First Time (One Fine Day) That Thing You Do (That Thing You Do!) Because You Loved Me (Up Close and Personal)	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution/Cinergi Productions
1996	Colors of the Wind (Pocahontas)unverified beat 4 others Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (Batman Forever) Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? (Don Juan DeMarco) Moonlight (Sabrina) You've Got a Friend in Me (Toy Story)	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
1995	Can You Feel the Love Tonight (The Lion King)unverified beat 5 others The Color of the Night (Color of Night) Look What Love Has Done (Junior) Circle of Life (The Lion King) Far Longer than Forever (The Swan Princess) I'll Remember (With Honors)	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
1994	Streets of Philadelphia (Philadelphia)unverified beat 4 others The Day I Fall in Love (Beethoven's 2nd) Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (Faraway, So Close) You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart (In the Name of the Father) Again (Poetic Justice)	TriStar Pictures
1993	A Whole New World (Aladdin)unverified beat 4 others Friend Like Me (Aladdin) Prince Ali (Aladdin) This Used to Be My Playground (A League of Their Own) Beautiful Maria of My Soul (The Mambo Kings)	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
1992	Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast)unverified beat 4 others Dreams to Dream (An American Tail: Fievel Goes West) Be Our Guest (Beauty and the Beast) (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) Tears in Heaven (Rush)	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
1991	Blaze of Glory (Young Guns II)unverified beat 4 others Sooner or Later (Dick Tracy) What Can You Lose? (Dick Tracy) Promise Me You'll Remember (The Godfather Part III) I'm Checkin' Out (Postcards from the Edge)	20th Century Fox
1990	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)unverified beat 4 others After All (Chances Are) Kiss the Girl (The Little Mermaid) I Love to See You Smile (Parenthood) The Girl Who Used to Be Me (Shirley Valentine)	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
1989	Let the River Run (Working Girl)tieTwo Hearts (Buster)unverified beat 4 others A Woman Loves a Man (Bull Durham) Kokomo (Cocktail) Why Should I Worry? (Oliver & Company) Twins (Twins)	20th Century Fox
1988	(I've Had) The Time of My Life (Dirty Dancing)unverified beat 4 others Shakedown (Beverly Hills Cop II) Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (Mannequin) The Secret of My Success (The Secret of My Succe$s) Who's That Girl (Who's That Girl)	Vestron Pictures
1987	Take My Breath Away (Top Gun)unverified beat 5 others Somewhere Out There (An American Tail) Glory of Love (The Karate Kid Part II) Sweet Freedom (Running Scared) Life in a Looking Glass (That's Life!) They Don't Make Them Like They Used To (Tough Guys)	Paramount Pictures
1986	Say You, Say Me (White Nights)unverified beat 4 others The Power of Love (Back to the Future) Rhythm of the Night (The Last Dragon) We Don't Need Another Hero (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) A View to a Kill (A View to a Kill)	Columbia Pictures
1985	I Just Called to Say I Love You (The Woman in Red)unverified beat 5 others Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) (Against All Odds) Footloose (Footloose) Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters) No More Lonely Nights (Give My Regards to Broad Street) When Doves Cry (Purple Rain)	Orion Pictures
1984	Flashdance... What a Feeling (Flashdance)unverified beat 4 others Maniac (Flashdance) Far from Over (Staying Alive) Over You (Tender Mercies) The Way He Makes Me Feel (Yentl)	Paramount Pictures
1983	Up Where We Belong (An Officer and a Gentleman)unverified beat 4 others Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (Cat People) Making Love (Making Love) Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III) If We Were in Love (Yes, Giorgio)	Paramount Pictures
1982	Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) (Arthur)unverified beat 4 others It's Wrong for Me to Love You (Butterfly) Endless Love (Endless Love) For Your Eyes Only (For Your Eyes Only) One More Hour (Ragtime)	Warner Bros.
1981	Fame (Fame)unverified beat 4 others Call Me (American Gigolo) Yesterday's Dreams (Falling in Love Again) Love on the Rocks (The Jazz Singer) 9 to 5 (9 to 5)	United Artists/Cinema International Corporation
1980	The Rose (The Rose)unverified beat 4 others Through the Eyes of Love (Ice Castles) The Main Event (The Main Event) Rainbow Connection (The Muppet Movie) Better Than Ever (Starting Over)	20th Century-Fox
1979	Last Dance (Thank God It's Friday)unverified beat 4 others Ready to Take a Chance Again (Foul Play) Grease (Grease) You're the One That I Want (Grease) The Last Time I Felt Like This (Same Time, Next Year)	Columbia Pictures
1978	You Light Up My Life (You Light Up My Life)unverified beat 4 others Down Deep Inside (The Deep) New York, New York (New York, New York) How Deep Is Your Love (Saturday Night Fever) Nobody Does It Better (The Spy Who Loved Me)	Not listed
1977	Evergreen (A Star Is Born)unverified beat 5 others Bugsy Malone (Bugsy Malone) Car Wash (Car Wash) I'd Like to Be You for a Day (Freaky Friday) Hello and Goodbye (From Noon Till Three) So Sad the Song (Pipe Dreams)	Warner Bros.
1976	I'm Easy (Nashville)unverified beat 4 others How Lucky Can You Get (Funny Lady) My Little Friend (Paper Tiger) Now That We're in Love (Whiffs) Richard's Window (The Other Side of the Mountain)	Paramount Pictures
1975	I Feel Love (Benji)unverified beat 4 others On and On (Claudine) Sail the Summer Winds (The Dove) I Never Met a Rose (The Little Prince) We May Never Love Like This Again (The Towering Inferno)	Mulberry Square Releasing
1974	The Way We Were (The Way We Were)unverified beat 5 others Breezy's Song (Breezy) Lonely Looking Sky (Jonathan Livingston Seagull) Rosa Rosa (Kazablan) Send a Little Love My Way (Oklahoma Crude) All That Love Went to Waste (A Touch of Class)	Columbia Pictures
1973	Ben (Ben)unverified beat 7 others Carry Me (Butterflies Are Free) Mein Herr (Cabaret) Money, Money (Cabaret) Dueling Banjos (Deliverance) Marmalade, Molasses and Honey (The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean) Take Me Home (Molly and Lawless John) The Morning After (The Poseidon Adventure)	Cinerama Releasing Corporation
1972	Life Is What You Make It (Kotch)unverified beat 4 others Rain Falls Anywhere It Wants To (The African Elephant) Something More (Honky) Long Ago Tomorrow (The Raging Moon) Theme from Shaft (Shaft)	Cinerama Releasing Corporation
1971	Whistling Away the Dark (Darling Lili)unverified beat 4 others Ballad of Little Fauss and Big Halsey (Little Fauss and Big Halsy) Till Love Touches Your Life (Madron) Pieces of Dreams (Pieces of Dreams) Thank You Very Much (Scrooge)	Paramount Pictures
1970	Jean (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)unverified beat 6 others Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) The Time for Love Is Anytime (Cactus Flower) Goodbye, Columbus (Goodbye, Columbus) What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? (The Happy Ending) Stay (The Secret of Santa Vittoria) True Grit (True Grit)	20th Century-Fox
1969	The Windmills of Your Mind (The Thomas Crown Affair)unverified beat 4 others Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) Funny Girl (Funny Girl) Star (Star!)	United Artists
1968	If Ever I Would Leave You (Camelot)unverified beat 4 others Talk to the Animals (Doctor Dolittle) Circles in the Water (Des ronds dans l'eau) (Live for Life) Please Don't Gamble with Love (Ski Fever) Thoroughly Modern Millie (Thoroughly Modern Millie)	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
1967	Strangers in the Night (A Man Could Get Killed)unverified beat 4 others Alfie (Alfie) Born Free (Born Free) Georgy Girl (Georgy Girl) A Man and a Woman (A Man and a Woman)	Universal Pictures
1966	Forget Domani (The Yellow Rolls-Royce)unverified beat 4 others Ballad of Cat Ballou (Cat Ballou) The Sweetheart Tree (The Great Race) The Shadow of Your Smile (The Sandpiper) That Funny Feeling (That Funny Feeling)	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1965	Circus World (Circus World)unverified beat 4 others Dear Heart (Dear Heart) From Russia with Love (From Russia with Love) Sunday in New York (Sunday in New York) Where Love Has Gone (Where Love Has Gone)	Paramount Pictures
1962	Town Without Pity (Town Without Pity)unverified	Gloria Film/United Artists

26 winners shaped this category.

Who stood behind the winners?

Every year.Every winner.

Every year.
Every winner.