| Year | Film | Song | Nominees |
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| 1970(28th) | Darling Lili | "Whistling Away the Dark" | Henry Mancini &Johnny Mercer |
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| Little Fauss and Big Halsy | "Ballad of Little Fauss and Big Halsey" | Johnny Cash andCarl Perkins |
| Madron | "Till Love Touches Your Life" | Shirley Bassey,Riz Ortolani &Arthur Hamilton |
| Pieces of Dreams | "Pieces of Dreams" | Johnny Mathis,Marvin Hamlisch,Alan and Marilyn Bergman |
| Scrooge | "Thank You Very Much" | James Head andLeslie Bricusse |
| 1971(29th) | Kotch | "Life Is What You Make It" | Percy Faith,Marvin Hamlisch &Johnny Mercer |
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| The African Elephant | "Rain Falls Anywhere It Wants To" | Michael Dees,Laurence Rosenthal,Alan and Marilyn Bergman |
| Honky | "Something More" | Carlton Dinnall,Quincy Jones & Bradford Craig |
| The Raging Moon | "Long Ago Tomorrow" | B. J. Thomas,Burt Bacharach &Hal David |
| Shaft | "Theme fromShaft" | Isaac Hayes |
| 1972(30th) | Ben | "Ben" | Walter Scharf &Don Black |
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| Butterflies Are Free | "Carry Me" | Edward Albert,Bob Alcivar & Randy McNeill |
| Cabaret | "Mein Herr" | John Kander &Fred Ebb |
| Cabaret | "Money, Money" | Kander & Ebb |
| Deliverance | "Dueling Banjos" | Eric Weissberg andArthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith |
| The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | "Marmalade, Molasses and Honey" | Andy Williams,Maurice Jarre,Alan and Marilyn Bergman |
| Molly and Lawless John | "Take Me Home" | Renée Armand,Johnny Mandel, Alan and Marilyn Bergman |
| The Poseidon Adventure | "The Morning After" | Maureen McGovern,Al Kasha &Joel Hirschhorn |
| 1973(31st) | The Way We Were | "The Way We Were" | Marvin Hamlisch,Alan and Marilyn Bergman |
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| Breezy | "Breezy's Song" | Shelby Flint,Michel Legrand,Alan and Marilyn Bergman |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | "Lonely Looking Sky" | Neil Diamond |
| Kazablan | "Rosa Rosa" | Yehoram Gaon,Aliza Azikri,Dov Seltzer &Haim Hefer |
| Oklahoma Crude | "Send a Little Love My Way" | Anne Murray,Henry Mancini &Hal David |
| A Touch of Class | "All That Love Went to Waste" | Shirley Bassey,George Barrie &Sammy Cahn |
| 1974(32nd) | Benji | "I Feel Love" | Claude Rich,Euel Box &Betty Box |
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| Claudine | "On and On" | Gladys Knight & the Pips andCurtis Mayfield |
| The Dove | "Sail the Summer Winds" | Lyn Paul,John Barry &Don Blackstone |
| The Little Prince | "I Never Met a Rose" | Richard Kiley,Frederick Loewe &Alan Jay Lerner |
| The Towering Inferno | "We May Never Love Like This Again" | Maureen McGovern,Al Kasha &Joel Hirschhorn |
| 1975(33rd) | Nashville | "I'm Easy" | Keith Carradine |
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| Funny Lady | "How Lucky Can You Get" | John Kander &Fred Ebb |
| Paper Tiger | "My Little Friend" | Roy Budd &Sammy Cahn |
| Whiffs | "Now That We're in Love" | George Barrie & Cahn |
| The Other Side of the Mountain | "Richard's Window" | Charles Fox &Norman Gimbel |
| 1976(34th) | A Star Is Born | "Evergreen" | Barbra Streisand &Paul Williams |
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| Bugsy Malone | "Bugsy Malone" | Williams |
| Car Wash | "Car Wash" | Norman Whitfield |
| Freaky Friday | "I'd Like to Be You for a Day" | Al Kasha &Joel Hirschhorn |
| From Noon Till Three | "Hello and Goodbye" | Elmer Bernstein,Alan and Marilyn Bergman |
| Pipe Dreams | "So Sad the Song" | Michael Masser &Gerry Goffin |
| 1977(35th) | You Light Up My Life | "You Light Up My Life" | Kasey Cisyk &Joseph Brooks |
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| The Deep | "Down Deep Inside" | John Barry &Donna Summer |
| New York, New York | "New York, New York" | Kander and Ebb |
| Saturday Night Fever | "How Deep Is Your Love" | The Bee Gees |
| The Spy Who Loved Me | "Nobody Does It Better" | Marvin Hamlisch &Carole Bayer Sager |
| 1978(36th) | Thank God It's Friday | "Last Dance" | Paul Jabara |
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| Foul Play | "Ready to Take a Chance Again" | Charles Fox &Norman Gimbel |
| Grease | "Grease" | Barry Gibb |
| Grease | "You're the One That I Want" | John Farrar |
| Same Time, Next Year | "The Last Time I Felt Like This" | Marvin Hamlisch,Alan and Marilyn Bergman |
| 1979(37th) | The Rose | "The Rose" | Amanda McBroom |
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| Ice Castles | "Through the Eyes of Love" | Marvin Hamlisch &Carole Bayer Sager |
| The Main Event | "The Main Event" | Paul Jabara &Bruce Roberts |
| The Muppet Movie | "Rainbow Connection" | Paul Williams &Kenny Ascher |
| Starting Over | "Better Than Ever" | Marvin Hamlisch & Carole Bayer Sager |