Random Best Songs Ever Written For Movies (31 items)

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  (#15) Pocahontas: Colors of the Wind

  • London Symphony Orchestra, John Williams

  "Colors of the Wind" was written by Stephen Schwartz and Alan Menken for Pocahontas. This 1995 movie theme song won Best Original Song at the Oscars, the Golden Globes, and the Grammys. 
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  (#23) Safe and Sound

  Taylor Swift and T-Bone Burnett wrote a song with The Civil Wars for The Hunger Games (2012). The result? "Safe and Sound," a single so popular that it garnered a Golden Globe nomination in 2013 for Best Original Song.
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  (#11) Men in Black

  • DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Will Smith

  Will Smith's song "Men in Black" played in Will Smith's movie Men in Black during the end credits. Smith garnered a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Rap Solo Performance.
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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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  (#24) Earned It

  The Canadian dark R&B producer The Weeknd wrote and released this song as a single for the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack. 
  
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  (#2) Lose Yourself

  The anthem of 8 Mile and pretty much all of 2002, "Lose Yourself" was Eminem's first single from the movie's soundtrack. Its 23 weeks on top of the world made its mark in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Longest Running Single at Number One for a Rap Song."

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