I can’t do a week on Academy Award winning songs without giving a nod to Disney animation. Songs from animated Disney films have won a whopping 13% of all Best Original Song Oscars.

The trend started way back the 40s with Pinocchio‘s ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ (1940) and ‘Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah’ from 1947’s racially problematic Song of the South. Disney had a 40-year drought after that, until 1989’s The Little Mermaid brought the studio back with a vengeance. Including that one for ‘Under the Sea,’ Disney animated films would go on to win seven of the next 10 Best Original Song Oscars.

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