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(Redirected from Stephen schwartz (composer)) American musical theatre lyricist and composer (born 1948) For other people named Stephen Schwartz, see Stephen Schwartz (disambiguation).

Stephen Schwartz
Schwartz in 2022
Born	Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (1948-03-06) March 6, 1948 (age 76) New York City, U.S.
Education	Carnegie Mellon University (BFA)
Occupations	Lyricist composer
Years active	1969–present
Spouse	Carole Piasecki (m. 1969)
Children	2

Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals such as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003). He has contributed lyrics to a number of successful films, including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt (1998, music and lyrics), Enchanted (2007), and Disenchanted (2022).

Schwartz has earned numerous accolades including three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He has received nominations for six Tony Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He received the Tony Award's Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2015.

Early life and education

Schwartz is Jewish, and was born in New York City, the son of Sheila Lorna (née Siegel), a teacher, and Stanley Leonard Schwartz, a businessman. He grew up in the Williston Park area of Nassau County, New York, where he graduated from Mineola High School in 1964. While attending Carnegie Mellon University, Schwartz composed and directed an early version of Pippin (entitled Pippin, Pippin) with the student-run theatre group, Scotch'n'Soda. Schwartz graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama.

Career

Early career

Upon returning to New York City, Schwartz went to work as a producer for RCA Records, but shortly thereafter began to work in Broadway theatre. He was asked to be the musical director of the first American rock opera, The Survival of St. Joan. He was credited as the producer of the double album of the soundtrack with the progressive rock group Smoke Rise on Paramount Records. His first major credit was the title song for the play Butterflies Are Free; the song was eventually used in the movie version as well.

In 1971, he wrote music and lyrics for Godspell, for which he won several awards, including two Grammys. For this musical's Toronto production in 1972, he asked Paul Shaffer to be the musical director, thus starting Shaffer's career. Godspell was followed by the English-language texts, in collaboration with Leonard Bernstein, for Bernstein's Mass, which opened the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. In 1972, the long-running Pippin premiered on Broadway. Schwartz had begun writing songs for Pippin while in college, although none of the songs from the college version ended up in the Broadway production. Both Pippin and Godspell continue to be frequently produced.

Two years after Pippin debuted, Schwartz wrote music and lyrics of The Magic Show, which ran for just under 2,000 performances. By mid-1974, at age 26, Schwartz had three smash hit musicals playing in New York simultaneously. Next were the music and lyrics of The Baker's Wife, which closed before reaching Broadway after an out-of-town tryout tour in 1976. However, the cast album went on to attain cult status, which led to several subsequent productions, including a London production directed by Trevor Nunn in 1990 and another at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey in 2005.

In 1978, Schwartz's next Broadway project was a musical version of Studs Terkel's Working, which he adapted and directed, winning the Drama Desk Award as best director, and for which he contributed four songs. He also co-directed the television production, which was presented as part of the PBS American Playhouse series. In 1977, Schwartz wrote a children's book called The Perfect Peach. In the 1980s, Schwartz wrote songs for a one-act musical for children, The Trip, which 20 years later was revised, expanded and produced as Captain Louie. He then wrote music for three of the songs of the Off-Broadway revue Personals, and lyrics to Charles Strouse's music for the musical Rags.

Later career

In 1991, Schwartz wrote the music and lyrics for the musical Children of Eden. He then began working in film, collaborating with composer Alan Menken on the scores for the Disney animated features Pocahontas (1995), for which he received two Academy Awards, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). He provided songs for DreamWorks' first musical animated feature, The Prince of Egypt (1998), winning another Academy Award for the song "When You Believe". He wrote music and lyrics for the original television musical, Geppetto (2000), seen on The Wonderful World of Disney. A stage adaptation of this piece premiered in June 2006 at The Coterie Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, and was titled Geppetto and Son, and is now known as Disney's My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto's Musical Tale. A version created for young performers, titled Geppetto & Son, Jr. had its world premiere on July 17, 2009, at the Lyric Theatre in Stuart, Florida. It was presented by the StarStruck Performing Arts Center.

In 2003, Schwartz returned to Broadway, as composer and lyricist for Wicked, a musical based on the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which tells the story of the Oz characters from the point of view of the witches. Schwartz won a Grammy Award for his work as composer and lyricist and producer of Wicked's cast recording. On March 23, 2006, the Broadway production of Wicked passed the 1,000 performance mark, making Schwartz one of four composers (the other three being Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jerry Herman, and Richard Rodgers) to have three shows last that long on Broadway (the other two were Pippin and The Magic Show). In 2007, Schwartz joined Jerry Herman as being one of only two composer/lyricists to have three shows run longer than 1,500 performances on Broadway.

After Wicked, Schwartz contributed music and lyrics for a new musical that was commissioned to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen. The production, titled Mit Eventyr or "My Fairytale", opened at the Gladsaxe Theatre in Copenhagen in the fall of 2005. The American premiere of My Fairytale took place in the summer of 2011 at the PCPA Theatrefest of California and was directed by the composer's son Scott Schwartz.

Schwartz returned to Hollywood in 2007 and wrote lyrics for the hit Disney film Enchanted, again collaborating with Menken. Three songs from the film, "Happy Working Song", "That's How You Know", and "So Close", were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He has written the theme song for the Playhouse Disney show Johnny and the Sprites, starring John Tartaglia. A recent project is incidental music for his son Scott Schwartz's adaptation of Willa Cather's My Ántonia.

On several occasions prior to 2008, Schwartz had reached out to Tim Dang who was the longtime artistic director of Los Angeles-based Asian-Pacific Islander theater company, East West Players (EWP). This collaboration led to the conception of a new version of Pippin, aesthetically inspired by Japanese anime and musically inspired by hip-hop. The production was a record-breaking hit and remained the highest grossing production in EWP's history for an entire decade before being dethroned by Allegiance in 2018.

In 2008, Applause Theatre and Cinema Books published the first ever Schwartz biography titled Defying Gravity, by Carol de Giere. The book is a comprehensive look at his career and life, and includes sections on how to write for the musical theatre.

Turning to the pop world in 2009, Schwartz collaborated with John Ondrasik in writing two songs on the Five for Fighting album Slice, the title track as well as "Above the Timberline". Ondrasik became familiar with Schwartz based on his daughter's affection for, and repeated attendance at performances of, the musical Wicked.

In September 2011, Northlight Theatre in Skokie, Illinois premiered Schwartz's new musical, Snapshots, which featured music and lyrics by Schwartz, book by David Stern, and was directed by Ken Sawyer. It blended together "some of the best-loved music with some of the genuinely wonderful lesser known gems of (the) renowned Broadway composer."

On March 22, 2012, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus released "Testimony", composed by Schwartz with lyrics taken from submissions to Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project.

In March 2015, Princess Cruises announced a partnership with Schwartz for the development of four shows over three years. The first will be a magic themed revue of Schwartz's music, titled Magic To Do, including one new song written for the show.

Schwartz returned to write the lyrics for a sequel to Enchanted, titled Disenchanted, and will do the same for a live-action remake of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

In April 2020 Schwartz participated in a fund-raising video called Saturday Night Seder which featured an "all-star" cast of performers, composers and religious leaders broadcasting from their home computers and cellphones due to the practice of "social distancing" used by people around the world in response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. The video explained the story of Passover through stories, song, comedy and memories, and raised money for the CDC Foundation.

Personal life

Schwartz married Carole Piasecki on June 6, 1969. They have two children, Jessica and Scott. Although he has not publicly commented on his orientation, as of 2024, Schwartz was reportedly in a long-term relationship with Broadway actor and frequent collaborator Michael McCorry Rose.

In 2009 Schwartz was elected president of the Dramatists Guild of America, succeeding John Weidman; he stepped down in 2014, to be succeeded by Doug Wright.

Major works

Stage

Godspell (1971) – composer, lyricist
Mass (1971) – English texts (in collaboration with Leonard Bernstein)
Pippin (1972) – composer, lyricist
The Magic Show (1974) – composer, lyricist
The Baker's Wife (1976) – composer, lyricist
Working (1978) – adaptation, direction, composer, lyricist of 4 songs
Personals (1985) – composer of 3 songs
The Trip (1986) – children's show; composer, lyricist
Rags (1986) – lyricist to Charles Strouse
Children of Eden (1991) – composer, lyricist
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1999 Berlin) – lyricist to Alan Menken (stage version of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame); Michael Kunze translated the lyrics to German; English version in 2013, adapted from Disney animated film
Wicked (2003) – composer, lyricist
Tiruvasakam (2005) – English translation of selected verses of the Tamil hymn on Lord Siva by Manickavasagar; Indian composer Ilaiyaraaja wrote the music.
Snapshots (2005)
Captain Louie (2005)
Mit Eventyr – My Fairy Tale (2005) – contributed 6 songs
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (2009) – opera
Schikaneder (2016 Vienna)
The Prince of Egypt (2017) – composer, lyricist, based on the film
The Queen of Versailles (2024) – composer, lyricist

Recordings

Reluctant Pilgrim (1997)
Uncharted Territory (2001)

Books

Defying Gravity (2008) – biography

Film

Butterflies Are Free (1969) – title song (play and movie)
Godspell (1973) – composer, lyricist
Pocahontas (1995) – lyricist
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) – lyricist
The Prince of Egypt (1998) – composer, lyricist
Enchanted (2007) – lyricist
Disenchanted (2022) – lyricist
Wicked (2024) – composer, lyricist, executive producer, cameo as Emerald City Guard
Wicked: For Good (in production) (2025) – composer, lyricist, executive producer

Television

Working (1982) – composer, lyricist, adaptation, director
Geppetto (2000) – composer, lyricist
Johnny and the Sprites (2005) – theme song

Choral

The Chanukah Song (We are Lights)
Kéramos
Thiruvasakam in Symphony (2005)
Testimony (2012)

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Stephen Schwartz

Schwartz has won many major awards in his field, including three Oscars, three Grammys, four Drama Desk Awards, one Golden Globe Award, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theater and a self-described "tiny handful of tennis trophies".

He has received six Tony Award nominations, for Wicked, Pippin, and Godspell, music/lyrics; Rags, lyrics; and Working, music/lyrics and book. In 2015, he received an honorary Tony Award, the Isabelle Stevenson Award, for his commitment to serving artists and fostering new talent.

In April 2008, Schwartz was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Also in 2009, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony took place on the night of January 25, 2010.

Schwartz received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2015.

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v t e Stephen Schwartz
Awards and nominations
Music and lyrics	Godspell (1971) Pippin (1972) The Magic Show (1974) The Baker's Wife (1976) Working (1978) Personals (1985) The Trip (1986) Children of Eden (1991) Wicked (2003) Captain Louie (2005) Séance on a Wet Afternoon (2009) The Prince of Egypt (2017) The Queen of Versailles (2024)
Lyrics	MASS (1971) Rags (1986) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1999) Thiruvasagam (2005)
Musical films	Godspell (1973, songs) Pocahontas (1995, lyrics) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996, lyrics) The Prince of Egypt (1998, songs) Geppetto (2000, songs) Enchanted (2007, lyrics) Disenchanted (2022, lyrics) Wicked (2024, songs) Wicked: For Good (2025, songs)
Soundtracks	Godspell (1971) Pocahontas (1995) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) The Prince of Egypt (1998) Wicked (2003) Thiruvasagam (2005) Enchanted (2007) Disenchanted (2022) Wicked (2024)
Film scores	Wicked (2024)

Awards for Stephen Schwartz

v t e Academy Award for Best Original Score
1930s	Louis Silvers (1934) Max Steiner (1935) Leo F. Forbstein (1936) Charles Previn (1937) Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Alfred Newman (1938) Herbert Stothart / Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold and Leo Shuken (1939)
1940s	Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith and Ned Washington / Alfred Newman (1940) Bernard Herrmann / Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace (1941) Max Steiner / Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld (1942) Alfred Newman / Ray Heindorf (1943) Max Steiner / Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon (1944) Miklos Rozsa / Georgie Stoll (1945) Hugo Friedhofer / Morris Stoloff (1946) Miklos Rozsa / Alfred Newman (1947) Brian Easdale / Johnny Green and Roger Edens (1948) Aaron Copland / Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton (1949)
1950s	Franz Waxman / Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens (1950) Franz Waxman / Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin (1951) Dimitri Tiomkin / Alfred Newman (1952) Bronislau Kaper / Alfred Newman (1953) Dimitri Tiomkin / Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin (1954) Alfred Newman / Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch (1955) Victor Young / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby (1956) Malcolm Arnold (1957) Dimitri Tiomkin / Andre Previn (1958) Miklos Rozsa / Andre Previn and Ken Darby (1959)
1960s	Ernest Gold / Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman (1960) Henry Mancini / Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal (1961) Maurice Jarre / Ray Heindorf (1962) John Addison / Andre Previn (1963) Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman / Andre Previn (1964) Maurice Jarre / Irwin Kostal (1965) John Barry / Ken Thorne (1966) Elmer Bernstein / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby (1967) John Barry / Johnny Green (1968) Burt Bacharach / Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman (1969)
1970s	Francis Lai / The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) (1970) Michel Legrand / John Williams (1971) Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell / Ralph Burns (1972) Marvin Hamlisch / Marvin Hamlisch (1973) Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola / Nelson Riddle (1974) John Williams / Leonard Rosenman (1975) Jerry Goldsmith / Leonard Rosenman (1976) John Williams / Jonathan Tunick (1977) Giorgio Moroder / Joe Renzetti (1978) Georges Delerue / Ralph Burns (1979)
1980s	Michael Gore (1980) Vangelis (1981) John Williams / Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse (1982) Bill Conti / Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1983) Maurice Jarre / Prince (1984) John Barry (1985) Herbie Hancock (1986) Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su (1987) Dave Grusin (1988) Alan Menken (1989)
1990s	John Barry (1990) Alan Menken (1991) Alan Menken (1992) John Williams (1993) Hans Zimmer (1994) Luis Bacalov / Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (1995) Gabriel Yared / Rachel Portman (1996) James Horner / Anne Dudley (1997) Nicola Piovani / Stephen Warbeck (1998) John Corigliano (1999)
2000s	Tan Dun (2000) Howard Shore (2001) Elliot Goldenthal (2002) Howard Shore (2003) Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (2004) Gustavo Santaolalla (2005) Gustavo Santaolalla (2006) Dario Marianelli (2007) A. R. Rahman (2008) Michael Giacchino (2009)
2010s	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2010) Ludovic Bource (2011) Mychael Danna (2012) Steven Price (2013) Alexandre Desplat (2014) Ennio Morricone (2015) Justin Hurwitz (2016) Alexandre Desplat (2017) Ludwig Göransson (2018) Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)
2020s	Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste (2020) Hans Zimmer (2021) Volker Bertelmann (2022) Ludwig Göransson (2023)

v t e Academy Award for Best Original Song
1934–1940	"The Continental" Music: Con Conrad Lyrics: Herb Magidson (1934) "Lullaby of Broadway" Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Al Dubin (1935) "The Way You Look Tonight" Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Dorothy Fields (1936) "Sweet Leilani" Music and lyrics: Harry Owens (1937) "Thanks for the Memory" Music: Ralph Rainger Lyrics: Leo Robin (1938) "Over the Rainbow" Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: E. Y. Harburg (1939) "When You Wish Upon a Star" Music: Leigh Harline Lyrics: Ned Washington (1940)
1941–1950	"The Last Time I Saw Paris" Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II (1941) "White Christmas" Music and lyrics: Irving Berlin (1942) "You'll Never Know" Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Mack Gordon (1943) "Swinging on a Star" Music: Jimmy Van Heusen Lyrics: Johnny Burke (1944) "It Might as Well Be Spring" Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II (1945) "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Johnny Mercer (1946) "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" Music: Allie Wrubel Lyrics: Ray Gilbert (1947) "Buttons and Bows" Music: Jay Livingston Lyrics: Ray Evans (1948) "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Music and lyrics: Frank Loesser (1949) "Mona Lisa" Music and lyrics: Ray Evans and Jay Livingston (1950)
1951–1960	"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" Music: Hoagy Carmichael Lyrics: Johnny Mercer (1951) "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" Music: Dimitri Tiomkin Lyrics: Ned Washington (1952) "Secret Love" Music: Sammy Fain Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster (1953) "Three Coins in the Fountain" Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (1954) "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" Music: Sammy Fain Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster (1955) "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" Music and lyrics: Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (1956) "All the Way" Music: Jimmy Van Heusen Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (1957) "Gigi" Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner (1958) "High Hopes" Music: Jimmy Van Heusen Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (1959) "Never on Sunday" Music and lyrics: Manos Hatzidakis (1960)
1961–1970	"Moon River" Music: Henry Mancini Lyrics: Johnny Mercer (1961) "Days of Wine and Roses" Music: Henry Mancini Lyrics: Johnny Mercer (1962) "Call Me Irresponsible" Music: Jimmy Van Heusen Lyrics: Sammy Cahn (1963) "Chim Chim Cher-ee" Music and lyrics: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (1964) "The Shadow of Your Smile" Music: Johnny Mandel Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster (1965) "Born Free" Music: John Barry Lyrics: Don Black (1966) "Talk to the Animals" Music and lyrics: Leslie Bricusse (1967) "The Windmills of Your Mind" Music: Michel Legrand Lyrics: Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1968) "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" Music: Burt Bacharach Lyrics: Hal David (1969) "For All We Know" Music: Fred Karlin Lyrics: Robb Royer and Jimmy Griffin (1970)
1971–1980	"Theme from Shaft" Music and lyrics: Isaac Hayes (1971) "The Morning After" Music and lyrics: Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn (1972) "The Way We Were" Music: Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics: Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1973) "We May Never Love Like This Again" Music and lyrics: Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn (1974) "I'm Easy" Music and lyrics: Keith Carradine (1975) "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" Music: Barbra Streisand Lyrics: Paul Williams (1976) "You Light Up My Life" Music and lyrics: Joseph Brooks (1977) "Last Dance" Music and lyrics: Paul Jabara (1978) "It Goes Like It Goes" Music: David Shire Lyrics: Norman Gimbel (1979) "Fame" Music: Michael Gore Lyrics: Dean Pitchford (1980)
1981–1990	"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" Music and lyrics: Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross and Peter Allen (1981) "Up Where We Belong" Music: Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie Lyrics: Will Jennings (1982) "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Music: Giorgio Moroder Lyrics: Keith Forsey and Irene Cara (1983) "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Music and lyrics: Stevie Wonder (1984) "Say You, Say Me" Music and lyrics: Lionel Richie (1985) "Take My Breath Away" Music: Giorgio Moroder Lyrics: Tom Whitlock (1986) "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" Music: Franke Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz Lyrics: Franke Previte (1987) "Let the River Run" Music and lyrics: Carly Simon (1988) "Under the Sea" Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman (1989) "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" Music and lyrics: Stephen Sondheim (1990)
1991–2000	"Beauty and the Beast" Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman (1991) "A Whole New World" Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Tim Rice (1992) "Streets of Philadelphia" Music and lyrics: Bruce Springsteen (1993) "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" Music: Elton John Lyrics: Tim Rice (1994) "Colors of the Wind" Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz (1995) "You Must Love Me" Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice (1996) "My Heart Will Go On" Music: James Horner Lyrics: Will Jennings (1997) "When You Believe" Music and lyrics: Stephen Schwartz (1998) "You'll Be in My Heart" Music and lyrics: Phil Collins (1999) "Things Have Changed" Music and lyrics: Bob Dylan (2000)
2001–2010	"If I Didn't Have You" Music and lyrics: Randy Newman (2001) "Lose Yourself" Music: Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto Lyrics: Eminem (2002) "Into the West" Music and lyrics: Fran Walsh, Howard Shore and Annie Lennox (2003) "Al otro lado del río" Music and lyrics: Jorge Drexler (2004) "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" Music and lyrics: Juicy J, Frayser Boy and DJ Paul (2005) "I Need to Wake Up" Music and lyrics: Melissa Etheridge (2006) "Falling Slowly" Music and lyrics: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (2007) "Jai Ho" Music: A. R. Rahman Lyrics: Gulzar (2008) "The Weary Kind" Music and lyrics: Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (2009) "We Belong Together" Music and lyrics: Randy Newman (2010)
2011–2020	"Man or Muppet" Music and lyrics: Bret McKenzie (2011) "Skyfall" Music and lyrics: Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth (2012) "Let It Go" Music and lyrics: Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (2013) "Glory" Music and lyrics: John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn (2014) "Writing's on the Wall" Music and lyrics: James Napier and Sam Smith (2015) "City of Stars" Music: Justin Hurwitz Lyrics: Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2016) "Remember Me" Music and lyrics: Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (2017) "Shallow" Music and lyrics: Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt (2018) "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" Music: Elton John Lyrics: Bernie Taupin (2019) "Fight for You" Music: D'Mile and H.E.R. Lyrics: H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas (2020)
2021–present	"No Time to Die" Music and lyrics: Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell (2021) "Naatu Naatu" Music: M. M. Keeravani Lyrics: Chandrabose (2022) "What Was I Made For?" Music and lyrics: Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell (2023)

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in a Feature Production

Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (1995)
Randy Newman (1996)
Randy Newman (1997)
Matthew Wilder, David Zippel and Jerry Goldsmith (1998)
Michael Kamen (1999)
Randy Newman (2000)
John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams (2001)
Joe Hisaishi (2002)
Thomas Newman (2003)
Michael Giacchino (2004)
Julian Nott (2005)
Randy Newman (2006)
Michael Giacchino (2007)
Hans Zimmer and John Powell (2008)
Bruno Coulais (2009)
John Powell (2010)
John Williams (2011)
Henry Jackman, Skrillex, Adam Young, Matthew Thiessen, Jamie Houston and Yasushi Akimoto (2012)
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez and Christophe Beck (2013)
John Powell and Jónsi (2014)
Michael Giacchino (2015)
Hans Zimmer, Richard Harvey, and Camille (2016)
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Germaine Franco, Adrian Molina and Michael Giacchino (2017)
Michael Giacchino (2018)
Dan Levy (2019)
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste (2020)
Germaine Franco and Lin-Manuel Miranda (2021)
Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale (2022)
Daniel Pemberton and Metro Boomin (2023)

v t e Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song
1990s	"When You Believe" – Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (1998) "Music of My Heart" – Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren (1999)
2000s	"My Funny Friend and Me" – Music by David Hartley and Sting; Lyrics by Sting (2000) "May It Be" – Music and Lyrics by Enya, Nicky Ryan and Roma Ryan / "Vanilla Sky" – Music and Lyrics by Paul McCartney (2001) "Lose Yourself" – Music and Lyrics by Jeff Bass, Eminem and Luis Resto (2002) "A Mighty Wind" – Music and Lyrics by Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy and Michael McKean (2003) "Old Habits Die Hard" – Music and Lyrics by Mick Jagger and David Stewart (2004) "Hustle & Flow" – Music and Lyrics by Terrence Howard (2005) "Listen" – Music and Lyrics by Scott Cutler, Henry Krieger and Anne Preven (2006) "Falling Slowly" – Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (2007) "The Wrestler" – Music and Lyrics by Bruce Springsteen (2008) "The Weary Kind" – Music and Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (2009)
2010s	"If I Rise" – Music and Lyrics by Rollo Armstrong, Dido and A. R. Rahman (2010) "Life's a Happy Song" – Music and Lyrics by Bret McKenzie (2011) "Skyfall" – Music and Lyrics by Adele and Paul Epworth (2012) "Let It Go" – Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (2013) "Glory" – Music and Lyrics by Common and John Legend (2014) "See You Again" – Music and Lyrics by Andrew Cedar, DJ Frank E, Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth (2015) "City of Stars" – Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2016) "Remember Me" – Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (2017) "Shallow" – Music and Lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt (2018) "Glasgow (No Place Like Home)" – Music and Lyrics by Mary Steenburgen / "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" – Music by Elton John; Lyrics by Bernie Taupin (2019)
2020s	"Speak Now" – Music and Lyrics by Leslie Odom Jr. and Sam Ashworth (2020) "No Time to Die" – Music and Lyrics by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell (2021) "Naatu Naatu" – Music by M. M. Keeravani; Lyrics by Chandrabose (2022) "I'm Just Ken" – Music and Lyrics by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (2023)

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics

1969–2000

Fred Ebb (1969)
Stephen Sondheim / Bertolt Brecht (1970)
Stephen Sondheim (1971)
John Guare (1972)
Stephen Sondheim (1973)
Al Carmines (1974)
Charlie Smalls (1975)
Edward Kleban (1976)
Martin Charnin (1977)
Carol Hall (1978)
Stephen Sondheim (1979)
Tim Rice (1980)
Stephen Sondheim / Maury Yeston (1982)
Howard Ashman (1983)
Stephen Sondheim (1984)
Roger Miller (1985)
Stephen Sondheim (1988)
David Zippel (1990)
William Finn (1991)
Susan Birkenhead (1992)
Denis Markell and Douglas Bernstein (1993)
Stephen Sondheim (1994)
Jonathan Larson (1996)
Gerard Alessandrini (1997)
Lynn Ahrens (1998)
Gerard Alessandrini (1999)
Stephen Sondheim (2000)

2001–present

Mel Brooks (2001)
Jason Robert Brown (2002)
Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman (2003)
Stephen Schwartz (2004)
Eric Idle (2005)
Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (2006)
Steven Sater (2007)
Stew (2008)
Stephen Sondheim (2009)
John Kander and Fred Ebb (2010)
Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone (2011)
Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (2012)
Tim Minchin (2013)
Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak (2014)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (2015)
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2016)
David Yazbek (2017)
Peter Kellogg (2018)
David Yazbek (2019)
Michael R. Jackson (2020)
No Award (2021)
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (2022)
Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman (2023)
David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna (2024)

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

1960s

"Town Without Pity" – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington (1961)
No Award (1962)
No Award (1963)
"Circus World" – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington (1964)
"Forget Domani" – Music by Riz Ortolani; Lyrics by Norman Newell (1965)
"Strangers in the Night" – Music by Bert Kaempfert; Lyrics by Charles Singleton & Eddie Snyder (1966)
"If Ever I Would Leave You" – Music by Frederick Loewe; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner (1967)
"The Windmills of Your Mind" – Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1968)
"Jean" – Music and Lyrics by Rod McKuen (1969)

1970s

"Whistling Away the Dark" – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer (1970)
"Life Is What You Make It" – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer (1971)
"Ben" – Music by Walter Scharf; Lyrics by Don Black (1972)
"The Way We Were" – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1973)
"I Feel Love" – Music by Euel Box; Lyrics by Betty Box (1974)
"I'm Easy" – Music and Lyrics by Keith Carradine (1975)
"Evergreen" – Music by Barbra Streisand; Lyrics by Paul Williams (1976)
"You Light Up My Life" – Music and Lyrics by Joseph Brooks (1977)
"Last Dance" – Music and Lyrics by Paul Jabara (1978)
"The Rose" – Music and Lyrics by Amanda McBroom (1979)

1980s

"Fame" – Music by Michael Gore; Lyrics by Dean Pitchford (1980)
"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" – Music and Lyrics by Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross & Carole Bayer Sager (1981)
"Up Where We Belong" – Music by Jack Nitzsche & Buffy Sainte-Marie; Lyrics by Wilbur Jennings (1982)
"Flashdance... What a Feeling" – Music by Giorgio Moroder; Lyrics by Irene Cara & Keith Forsey (1983)
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" – Music and Lyrics by Stevie Wonder (1984)
"Say You, Say Me" – Music and Lyrics by Lionel Richie (1985)
"Take My Breath Away" – Music by Giorgio Moroder; Lyrics by Tom Whitlock (1986)
"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" – Music by John DeNicola & Donald Markowitz; Lyrics by Franke Previte (1987)
"Let the River Run" – Music and Lyrics by Carly Simon / "Two Hearts" – Music by Lamont Dozier; Lyrics by Phil Collins (1988)
"Under the Sea" – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Howard Ashman (1989)

1990s

"Blaze of Glory" – Music and Lyrics by Jon Bon Jovi (1990)
"Beauty and the Beast" – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Howard Ashman (1991)
"A Whole New World" – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Tim Rice (1992)
"Streets of Philadelphia" – Music and Lyrics by Bruce Springsteen (1993)
"Can You Feel the Love Tonight" – Music by Elton John; Lyrics by Tim Rice (1994)
"Colors of the Wind" – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (1995)
"You Must Love Me" – Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyrics by Tim Rice (1996)
"My Heart Will Go On" – Music by James Horner; Lyrics by Wilbur Jennings (1997)
"The Prayer" – Music and Lyrics by David Foster, Tony Renis, Carole Bayer Sager & Alberto Testa (1998)
"You'll Be in My Heart" – Music and Lyrics by Phil Collins (1999)

2000s

"Things Have Changed" – Music and Lyrics by Bob Dylan (2000)
"Until..." – Music and Lyrics by Sting (2001)
"The Hands That Built America" – Music and Lyrics by Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge & Larry Mullen Jr. (2002)
"Into the West" – Music and Lyrics by Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Frances Walsh (2003)
"Old Habits Die Hard" – Music and Lyrics by Mick Jagger & David A. Stewart (2004)
"A Love That Will Never Grow Old" – Music by Gustavo Santaolalla; Lyrics by Bernie Taupin (2005)
"The Song of the Heart" – Music and Lyrics by Prince Rogers Nelson (2006)
"Guaranteed" – Music and Lyrics by Eddie Vedder (2007)
"The Wrestler" – Music and Lyrics by Bruce Springsteen (2008)
"The Weary Kind" – Music and Lyrics by Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett (2009)

2010s

"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren (2010)
"Masterpiece" – Music and lyrics by Madonna, Julie Frost & Jimmy Harry (2011)
"Skyfall" – Music and lyrics by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth (2012)
"Ordinary Love" – Music and lyrics by Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr. & Danger Mouse (2013)
"Glory" – Music and lyrics by Common & John Legend (2014)
"Writing's on the Wall" – Music and lyrics by Sam Smith & Jimmy Napes (2015)
"City of Stars" – Music by Justin Hurwitz; lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (2016)
"This Is Me" – Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (2017)
"Shallow" – Music and lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (2018)
"(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" – Music by Elton John; lyrics by Bernie Taupin (2019)

2020s

"Io sì (Seen)" – Music by Diane Warren; Lyrics by Diane Warren, Laura Pausini & Niccolò Agliardi (2020)
"No Time to Die" – Music and Lyrics by Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell (2021)
"Naatu Naatu" – Music by M. M. Keeravani; Lyrics by Chandrabose (2022)
"What Was I Made For?" – Music and Lyrics by Billie Eilish O'Connell and Finneas O'Connell (2023)

v t e Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
1980s	"Somewhere Out There" – James Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil (songwriters) (1987) "Two Hearts" – Phil Collins & Lamont Dozier (songwriters) (1988) "Let the River Run" – Carly Simon (songwriter) (1989)
1990s	"Under the Sea" – Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) (1990) "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" – Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Michael Kamen & Bryan Adams (songwriters) (1991) "Beauty and the Beast" – Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) (1992) "A Whole New World" – Alan Menken & Tim Rice (songwriters) (1993) "Streets of Philadelphia" – Bruce Springsteen (songwriter) (1994) "Colors of the Wind" – Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz (songwriters) (1995) "Because You Loved Me" – Diane Warren (songwriter) (1996) "I Believe I Can Fly" – R. Kelly (songwriter) (1997) "My Heart Will Go On" – James Horner & Will Jennings (songwriters) (1998) "Beautiful Stranger" – Madonna & William Orbit (songwriters) (1999)
2000s	"When She Loved Me" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2000) "Boss of Me" – John Flansburgh & John Linnell (songwriters) (2001) "If I Didn't Have You" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2002) "A Mighty Wind" – Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy & Michael McKean (songwriters) (2003) "Into the West" – Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh (songwriters) (2004) "Believe" – Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri (songwriters) (2005) "Our Town" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2006) "Love You I Do" – Siedah Garrett & Henry Krieger (songwriters) (2007) "Down to Earth" – Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman (songwriters) (2008) "Jai Ho" – Gulzar, A. R. Rahman & Tanvi Shah (songwriters) (2009)
2010s	"The Weary Kind" – Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett (songwriters) (2010) "I See the Light" – Alan Menken & Glenn Slater (songwriters) (2011) "Safe & Sound" – T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, Joy Williams & John Paul White (songwriters) (2012) "Skyfall" – Adele Atkins & Paul Epworth (songwriters) (2013) "Let It Go" – Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (songwriters) (2014) "Glory" – Common, Che Smith & John Legend (songwriters) (2015) "Can't Stop the Feeling!" – Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake (songwriters) (2016) "How Far I'll Go" – Lin-Manuel Miranda (songwriter) (2017) "Shallow" – Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (songwriters) (2018) "I'll Never Love Again" – Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey & Aaron Raitiere (songwriters) (2019)
2020s	"No Time to Die" – Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell (songwriters) (2020) "All Eyes on Me" – Bo Burnham (songwriter) (2021) "We Don't Talk About Bruno" – Lin-Manuel Miranda (songwriter) (2022) "What Was I Made For?" – Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell (songwriters) (2023)

v t e Isabelle Stevenson Award
Phyllis Newman (2009) David Hyde Pierce (2010) Eve Ensler (2011) Bernadette Peters (2012) Larry Kramer (2013) Rosie O'Donnell (2014) Stephen Schwartz (2015) Brian Stokes Mitchell (2016) Baayork Lee (2017) Nick Scandalios (2018) Judith Light (2019) Julie Halston (2020/21) Robert E. Wankel (2022) Jerry Mitchell (2023) Billy Porter (2024)

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