Burt Bacharach, Alan Menken & More Composers Who Have Won Oscars for Both Song & Score in One Night: Full List

When the 2025 Academy Awards are presented on March 2, Clément Ducol and Camille have a chance to join an exclusive list of composers who have won Oscars for best original song and best original score (or in a predecessor scoring category) on the same night.

Ducol and Camille are nominated for best original score for Emilia Pérez and for best original song for two songs from the film – “Mi Camino” and “El Mal.” (They co-wrote the latter song with Jacques Audiard, the film’s writer, director and co-producer.)

Since the Motion Picture Academy introduced music categories in 1935, one composer (or composing team) has won both awards in one night just 16 times. Remarkably, Alan Menken has achieved this double victory four times. No other composer has done it more than once. Menken co-wrote his Oscar-winning songs from The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast with Howard Ashman. Following Ashman’s death, Menken cowrote his Oscar-winning songs from Aladdin and Pocahontas with Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz, respectively.

Marvin Hamlisch also deserves special mention. In 1974, he won three Oscars in music categories – best original song for “The Way We Were” (which he co-wrote with Alan and Marilyn Bergman) best original dramatic score for that film, and best adaptation score for The Sting.

Here are all the composers who have won best original song and in a scoring category in the same year. The year shown is the year of the Oscar ceremony. We show the exact name of the score category in which the film won, as those categories have shifted over the years.