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The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the ''songwriters'' who have composed the best ''original'' song written specifically for a film. The performers of a song are not credited with the Academy Award unless they contributed either to music, lyrics or both in their own right. The award category was introduced at the 7th Academy Awards, the ceremony honoring the best in film for 1934. Nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers, and the winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. ==Requirement for nomination== The original requirement was only that the nominated song appear in a motion picture during the previous year. This rule was changed after the 1941 Academy Awards, when "The Last Time I Saw Paris", from the film ''Lady Be Good'', with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, won. Kern was upset that his song won because it had been published and recorded before it was used in the film. The song was actually written in 1940, after the Germans occupied Paris at the start of World War II. It was recorded by Kate Smith and peaked at No. 8 on the best seller list before it was used in the film ''Lady Be Good''. Kern got the Academy to change the rule so that only songs that are "original and written specifically for the motion picture" are eligible to win.〔Susan Sacket, "1941: 'The Last Time I Saw Paris'", ''Hollywood Sings!'', Billboard Books, New York, 1995, pp. 42–43.〕〔(Rule Fifteen: Special Rules for the Music Awards | Rules for the 86th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences )〕 Songs that were published prior to a film's production having nothing to do with the film, such as "Unchained Melody" in the 1990 film ''Ghost'' and "I Will Always Love You" in the 1992 film ''The Bodyguard'', cannot qualify (although "Unchained Melody" was nominated when first released for the 1955 film ''Unchained''). In addition, songs that rely on sampled or reworked material, such as "Gangsta's Paradise" in the 1995 film ''Dangerous Minds'', are also ineligible. When a film is adapted from a previously-written stage musical, none of the songs from the stage version of the musical (and other sources) are eligible. As a result, many recent film adaptations of stage musicals have included original songs which could be nominated, such as "You Must Love Me" in the 1996 film ''Evita'', and "Listen", "Love You I Do", "Patience" in the 2006 film ''Dreamgirls'' and "Suddenly" in the 2012 film ''Les Misérables''. There was a debate as to whether or not Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who were awarded the Oscar in 2008 for "Falling Slowly", were in fact eligible. "Falling Slowly" has been released on two other albums – ''The Swell Season'', Hansard and Irglova's duo project and ''The Cost'', by Hansard's band The Frames. ''The Swell Season'' was released in August 2006, and ''The Cost'' in February 2007, before the release of ''Once''. However, the AMPAS music committee determined that, in the course of the film's protracted production, the composers had "played the song in some venues that were deemed inconsequential enough to not change the song's eligibility". The same issue arose two years earlier with "In the Deep" from ''Crash'', which appeared on Kathleen "Bird" York's 2003 album ''The Velvet Hour'' after being written for ''Crash'', but before the film was released. The current Academy rule says an eligible song "must be recorded for use in the motion picture prior to any other usage", so recordings released prior to the film will not disqualify a song as long as the film version was "recorded" before then.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Academy Award for Best Original Song」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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