Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

List of winners and nominees

1990s

• 1998: "When You Believe" (Sally Dworsky & Michelle Pfeiffer) by Stephen Schwartz – The Prince of Egypt
• 1999: "Music of My Heart" (Gloria Estefan & NSYNC) by Diane Warren – Music of the Heart

2000s

• 2000: "My Funny Friend and Me" (Sting) by David Hartley & Sting – The Emperor's New Groove
• 2001: "May It Be" (Enya) by Enya, Nicky & Roma Ryan – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / "Vanilla Sky" (Paul McCartney): by McCartney – Vanilla Sky (TIE)
  • "There You'll Be" (Faith Hill) by Diane Warren – Pearl Harbor
  • "Until" (Sting) by Sting – Kate & Leopold
• 2002: "Lose Yourself" (Eminem) by Jeff Bass, Eminem, & Luis Resto – 8 Mile
  • "Father and Daughter" (Paul Simon) by Simon – The Wild Thornberrys Movie
  • "Hero" (Chad Kroeger & Josey Scott) by Kroeger & Scott – Spider-Man
• 2003: "A Mighty Wind" (The cast of A Mighty Wind) by Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, & Michael McKean – A Mighty Wind
  • "The Heart of Every Girl" (Elton John) by John – Mona Lisa Smile
  • "Man of the Hour" (Pearl Jam) by Eddie Vedder – Big Fish
  • "School of Rock" (The cast of School of Rock) by Sammy James & Mike White – School of Rock
  • "Time Enough for Tears" (Andrea Corr) by Bono, Gavin Friday, & Maurice Seezer – In America
• 2004: "Old Habits Die Hard" (Mick Jagger) by Jagger & Dave Stewart) – Alfie
  • "Accidentally in Love" (Counting Crows) by Counting Crows – Shrek 2
  • "Believe" (Josh Groban) by Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri – The Polar Express
• 2005: "Hustle & Flow" (Terrence Howard) by Howard – Hustle & Flow
  • "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" (Emmylou Harris) by Gustavo Santaolalla & Bernie Taupin – Brokeback Mountain
  • "Same in Any Language" (My Morning Jacket & I Nine) by Nancy Wilson & Cameron Crowe – Elizabethtown
  • "Seasons of Love" (The cast of Rent) by Jonathan Larson – Rent
  • "Travelin' Thru" (Dolly Parton) by Parton – Transamerica
• 2006: "Listen" (Beyoncé) by Scott Cutler, Henry Krieger & Anne Preven – Dreamgirls
  • "I Need to Wake Up" (Melissa Etheridge) by Etheridge – An Inconvenient Truth
  • "My Little Girl" (Tim McGraw) by Tom Douglas & McGraw – Flicka
  • "The Neighbor" (Dixie Chicks) by Dixie Chicks – Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
  • "Never Gonna Break My Faith" (Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin & Boys Choir of Harlem) by Bryan Adams – Bobby
  • "Ordinary Miracle" (Sarah McLachlan) by McLachlan – Charlotte's Web
• 2007: "Falling Slowly" (Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová) by Hansard & Irglová – Once
  • "Come So Far (So Far to Go)" (Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley & Queen Latifah) by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman – Hairspray
  • "Do You Feel Me" (Anthony Hamilton) by Hamilton – American Gangster
  • "Guaranteed" (Eddie Vedder) by Vedder – Into the Wild
  • "That's How You Know" (Amy Adams) by Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz – Enchanted
• 2008: "The Wrestler" (Bruce Springsteen) by Springsteen – The Wrestler
  • "Another Way to Die" (Alicia Keys & Jack White) by White – Quantum of Solace
  • "Down to Earth" (Peter Gabriel) by Gabriel & Thomas Newman – WALL-E
  • "I Thought I Lost You" (Miley Cyrus & John Travolta) by Cyrus & Jeffrey Steele – Bolt
  • "Jai Ho" (Vijay Prakash, Sukhvinder Singh, Mahalaxmi Iyer & Tanvi Shah) by Gulzar & A. R. Rahman – Slumdog Millionaire
• 2009: "The Weary Kind" (Ryan Bingham) by Bingham & T Bone Burnett – Crazy Heart
  • "All Is Love" (Karen O) by O & Nick Zinner – Where the Wild Things Are
  • "Almost There" (Anika Noni Rose) by Randy Newman – The Princess and the Frog
  • "Cinema Italiano" (Kate Hudson) by Maury Yeston – Nine
  • "(I Want to) Come Home" (Paul McCartney) by McCartney – Everybody's Fine

2010s

• 2010: "If I Rise" (Dido & A. R. Rahman) by Rollo Armstrong, Dido & Rahman – 127 Hours
  • "I See the Light" (Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi) by Alan Menken & Glenn Slater – Tangled
  • "Shine" (John Legend) by Legend – Waiting for "Superman"
  • "We Belong Together" (Randy Newman) by Newman – Toy Story 3
  • "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" (Cher) by Diane Warren – Burlesque
• 2011: "Life's a Happy Song" (Amy Adams, Jason Segel & Walter) by Bret McKenzie – The Muppets
  • "Hello Hello" (Lady Gaga & Elton John) by John & Bernie Taupin – Gnomeo & Juliet
  • "The Living Proof" (Mary J. Blige) by Blige, Harvey Mason Jr., Thomas Newman & Damon Thomas – The Help
  • "Man or Muppet" (Segel & Walter) by McKenzie – The Muppets
  • "Pictures in My Head" (Kermit the Frog & The Muppets) by Aris Archontis, Jeannie Lurie & Chen Neeman – The Muppets
• 2012: "Skyfall" (Adele) by Adele & Paul Epworth – Skyfall
  • "For You" (Keith Urban) by Monty Powell & Urban – Act of Valor
  • "Learn Me Right" (Birdy & Mumford & Sons) by Mumford & Sons – Brave
  • "Still Alive" (Paul Williams) by Williams – Paul Williams Still Alive
  • "Suddenly" (Hugh Jackman) by Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer & Claude-Michel Schönberg – Les Misérables
• 2013: "Let It Go" (Idina Menzel) by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez – Frozen
  • "Atlas" (Coldplay) by Coldplay – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
  • "Happy" (Pharrell Williams) by Williams – Despicable Me 2
  • "Ordinary Love" (U2) by U2 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
  • "Please Mr. Kennedy" (Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac & Justin Timberlake) by T Bone Burnett, Coen Brothers, George Cromarty, Ed Rush & Timberlake – Inside Llewyn Davis
  • "Young and Beautiful" (Lana Del Rey) by Del Rey – The Great Gatsby
• 2014: "Glory" (Common & John Legend) by Common & Legend – Selma
  • "Big Eyes" (Lana Del Rey) by Del Rey – Big Eyes
  • "Everything Is Awesome" (The Lonely Island & Tegan and Sara) by The Lonely Island, Jo Li & Shawn Patterson – The Lego Movie
  • "Lost Stars" (Keira Knightley & Adam Levine) by Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley & Nick Southwood – Begin Again
  • "Yellow Flicker Beat" (Lorde) by Lorde & Joel Little – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
• 2015: "See You Again" (Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth) by Andrew Cedar, DJ Frank E, Khalifa & Puth – Furious 7
  • "Love Me like You Do" (Ellie Goulding) by Ilya, Savan Kotecha, Tove Lo, Max Martin & Ali Payami – Fifty Shades of Grey
  • "One Kind of Love" (Brian Wilson) by Scott Bennett & Wilson – Love & Mercy
  • "Simple Song #3" (Sumi Jo) by David Lang – Youth
  • "Til It Happens to You" (Lady Gaga) by Gaga & Diane Warren – The Hunting Ground
  • "Writing's on the Wall" (Sam Smith) by Jimmy Napes & Smith – Spectre
• 2016: "City of Stars" (Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone) by Justin Hurwitz & Pasek & Paul – La La Land
  • "Audition" (Stone) by Hurwitz & Pasek & Paul – La La Land
  • "Can't Stop the Feeling!" (The cast of Trolls) by Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake – Trolls
  • "Drive It Like You Stole It" (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) by Gary Clark – Sing Street
  • "How Far I'll Go" (Auliʻi Cravalho) by Lin-Manuel Miranda — Moana
  • "The Rules Don't Apply" (Lily Collins) by Eddie Arkin & Lorraine Feather – Rules Don't Apply
• 2017: "Remember Me" (Benjamin Bratt) by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez – Coco
  • "Evermore" (Dan Stevens) by Alan Menken & Tim Rice – Beauty and the Beast
  • "Mystery of Love" (Sufjan Stevens) by S. Stevens – Call Me by Your Name
  • "Stand Up for Something" (Common & Andra Day) by Common & Diane Warren – Marshall
  • "This Is Me" (Keala Settle) by Pasek & Paul – The Greatest Showman
• 2018: "Shallow" (Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga) by Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, & Andrew Wyatt – A Star Is Born
  • "All the Stars" (Kendrick Lamar & SZA) by Top Dawg, Lamar, Al Shux, Sounwave & SZA - Black Panther
  • "Girl in the Movies" (Dolly Parton) by Parton & Linda Perry - Dumplin'
  • "I'll Fight" (Jennifer Hudson) by Diane Warren - RBG
  • "The Place Where Lost Things Go" (Emily Blunt) by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman - Mary Poppins Returns
  • "Trip a Little Light Fantastic" (Blunt, Pixie Davies, Joel Dawson, Tarik Frimpong, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Nathaniel Selah) by Shaiman & Wittman - Mary Poppins Returns
• 2019: "Glasgow (No Place Like Home)" (Jessie Buckley) by Mary Steenburgen – Wild Rose / "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" (Taron Egerton & Elton John) by Elton John & Bernie Taupin – Rocketman (TIE)
  • "I'm Standing With You" (Chrissy Metz) by Diane Warren – Breakthrough
  • "Into the Unknown" (Idina Menzel) by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez – Frozen II
  • "Speechless" (Naomi Scott) by Alan Menken & Pasek & Paul – Aladdin
  • "Spirit (Beyoncé) by Beyoncé, Ilya & Labrinth – The Lion King
  • "Stand Up" (Cynthia Erivo) by Joshuah Brian Campbell & Erivo – Harriet

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