‘You don’t know what this means to my kids’ — List of Phil Collins Oscar nominations for Best Original Song
Posted: July 2025
List of Oscar nominations and wins for Phil Collins. Phil Collins has been nominated for 3 Academy Awards and won 1, all for the category of Best Original Song. Sources: Oscars.org, Internet Movie Database, Wikipedia
1999: WON: Tarzan (You’ll Be In My Heart) — Other nominees: Music of the Heart (Diane Warren) (Music Of My Heart), Toy Story 2 (Randy Newman) (When She Loved Me), South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker, Marc Shaiman) (Blame Canada), Magnolia (Aimee Mann) (Save Me)
1988: Buster (Two Hearts) (shared with Lamont Dozier) — lost to Working Girl (Carly Simon) (Let the River Run). Other nominee: Bagdad Cafe (Bob Telson) (Calling You)
1984: Against All Odds (Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)) — lost to The Woman in Red (Stevie Wonder) (I Just Called to Say I Love You). Other nominees: Footloose (Kenny Loggins, Dean Pitchford) (Footloose), Footloose (Tom Snow, Dean Pitchford) (Let’s Hear It for the Boy), Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr.) (Ghostbusters)