Random Best Songs Ever Written For Movies (31 items)

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  (#29) Miss Misery

  • Elliott Smith

  Elliot Smith wrote "Miss Misery" for Good Will Hunting. When it got an Academy Award nomination in 1998, producers had to convince Smith to play the song at the ceremony.
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  (#6) Take My Breath Away

  • Berlin

  Berlin wrote this love song for 1986's Top Gun. Giorgi Moroder and Tom Whitlock wrote the tune for the Tom Cruise movie and got both the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
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  (#25) Falling Slowly

  • The Frames

  "Falling Slowly" comes from Once, the 2007 Irish musical movie about friends writing songs together. Songwriters / actors Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2008.
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  (#27) Eyes Open

  In 2012, "Eyes Open" made a splash on the soundtrack "The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond." It was Taylor Swift's highest Billboard Pop Songs chart debut until "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
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  (#26) Exit Music (for a Film)

  • Radiohead

  "Exit Music (For a Film)" was indeed for a film. Radiohead wrote this song to be played for the end credits (hence exit music) for Romeo + Juliet, the 1996 DiCaprio-Winslet version of Shakespeare.
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  (#18) Fight the Power

  • Public Enemy

  Public Enemy wrote this hit for Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. As the 1989 movie's theme song, "Fight the Power" was included in Time magazine's list of the All-TIME 100 Songs.

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