"Colors of the Wind" winning Best Original Song Oscar® 

It's probably the best song from a mediocre Disney film.

It's becoming more of a cult classic and a DISNEY cult classic!

That's true, and Stephen Schwartz have won two Oscars 1st was Pocahontas and 2nd was Prince Of Egypt.

I couldnt agree with you more. I mean i get it! but even Vanessa lewks less than impressed by their blantant disregard for THE talented and very gorgeous Tony (x2) nominated Broadway Superstar; Vanessa Williams. 16 x Grammy nominated performer and she gets NO love here, its criminal. (random) Vanessa appears to give us a taste of her Idol's (Bette Midler) last performance, in the 80s classic "Beaches". I cant be the only one who felt that btw lol

The movie version of the song is performed by Judy Kuhn, and that's the main one. Vanessa sang the pop version.

I agree, I don't like that the singers aren't honored in this award

The award is for writing not for performing. Two different forms of art. Also as stated by someone else this is the Oscars and the song performed for the movie is not Vanessa Williams.

See: grammys

I think the song introducing the other songs should have won

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@@rampageclover9788 lol if only

Even better than "Let It Go."

Even better then You’ve got a friend in me?

Last time I saw her was in Black Nativity with Forest Whittaker, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige and Tyrese.

nice

MrGabeanator I've also seen her in Akkelah and the Bee which she reunited with Mr. Fishbourne opposite Keke Palmer. In fact , he and Forrest Whittaker are reuniting for Black Panther.

awesome

MrGabeanator IKR!

Joe Whitehead really cool

And the balls on them to wear sneakers to such prestigious event, never mind on stage!

I still come back to this day

spaceye Big record for him indeed. Maybe this year Menken will be an EGOT with an Emmy for one song from the new Tangled series

shoulda been 9 from i see the light, but he got absolutely robbed

Big Jon I thought We Belong Together from TS3 was better

we belong together was nowhere near better, esp if you compare them to how they were used in the film. go watch tangled and try not to be bias towards toy story like 99% of population and ull see i see the light got robbed

Big Jon To each their own. But I did love the lanterns in I See the Light. I love the new Tangled show on Disney Channel

I love her voice! I haven't seen her acting since Hannah Montana the Movie

She's absolutely gorgeous! 😍🔥😍

yep

Annette Szklowin Well, this was Menken's 8th Oscar in 6 years - "Under the Sea," THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989); shared with Howard Ashman - "Beauty and the Beast," BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991); shared with Howard Ashman - "A Whole New World," ALADDIN (1992); shared with Tim Rice - "Colors of the Wind," POCAHONTAS (1995); shared with Stephen Shwartz Menken also won Best Original Score for all four movies.

musicaltheatergeek79 so by then he was used to it?

MrGabeanator I think so, but he should've cherished the moment because it was the last time he would win despite being nominated several times since: - Best Original Score, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1996) - "Go the Distance," HERCULES (1997); shared with David Zippel - "Happy Work Song," "So Close," "That's How You Know," ENCHANTED (2007); shared with Stephen Schwartz - "I See the Light," TANGLED (2010); shared with Glenn Slater

musicaltheatergeek79 you're right I think he should've won for at least one of those imparticulier I see the light

alex blend I'm a HUGE Bryan Adams fan and I absolutely love the song he was nominated for; however, Colors of the Wind is a much more important song, especially in today's times. Everyone needs to listen to the lyrics.

David Richardson You would understand if you knew what the climate was at the time of Berry's win. For starters, Jesse Jackson had been complaining that the Academy was racist, because in the Academy's 74 years (up to that point) only 6 black actors had won : - Hattie McDaniel, Supporting Actress for GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) - Sidney Poitier, Best Actor LILLIES OF THE FIELD (1963) - Louis Gossett, Jr., Supporting Actor for AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1982) - Denzel Washington, Supporting Actor for GLORY (1989) - Whoopi Goldberg, Supporting Actress for GHOST (1990) - Cuba Gooding, Jr., Supporting Actor for JERRY MAGUIRE (1996). Then you have the fact that Sidney Poitier (the first black actor to win Best Actor) was going to be honored with a lifetime achievement Oscar that year, which inspired Julia Roberts to campaign hard for Denzel Washington, saying she didn't want to live in a world where he didn't have a Best Actor Oscar (even though he had already won for Supporting). So then there was this opportunity to give it to him on the same night that Sidney Poitier was being honored, a passing of the torch if you will, since Denzel's win made him only the second black actor to win Best Actor -- a near forty-year gap between Poitier and Washington. But Russell Crowe was in the way, having won all the precursors in quick succession: Critics Choice, Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA. However, Russell tarnished his goodwill by assaulting the producer of the BAFTAs because he'd "dared" to cut out the poem he recited from his acceptance speech. Needless to say, that turned off voters, which helped Denzel in the long run. Meanwhile, Halle was getting good reviews for MONSTER'S BALL. After she won the Screen Actors Guild award, there was suddenly talk about awarding her, too. This would mean that history would be made in two ways, because never before had two black actors won in the same year, never mind two black actors in the lead categories. Also, the Best Documentary Oscar would be won by MURDER ON A SUNDAY MORNING, about a black teenager who had been wrongfully convicted of murder. So that's what happened in a nutshell. After the ceremony, there were accusations that the Academy was just trying to appease Jesse Jackson et al.

musicaltheatergeek79 Halle won mainly because of the sex scenes with Billy Bob Thornton.

@musicaltheatregeek You wrote a long and thoughtful explanation of the climate.... and the guy responded with "she won 'mainly because of the sex scenes.'" HAHA! Don't waste this much time on internet responses, my friend..

@@TheIsh1988 two things can be true

​@@musicaltheatergeek79 The Academy Awards had done it again this year, to Angela Bassett right along with Austin Butler!!! 😢

JORGE RUIZ V. Dude i think you are missing You got a friend in me

How dare you leave out You've Got a Friend in Me? It'd be blasphemous to leave it out of the nominations.

Meteorite Entertainment no but the academy did

Ever thought Walt Disney got tired of winning 22 Oscars?

Yep

Angus Ng I just loved the way they announced it in song!

yep

I couldn't agree more! "Colors of the Wind" is even more beautiful when it's sung in Spanish than in English!

@@zeldafan1942 Never knew that

Should have won for Wicked in 2004

@@manuelorozco7760 alas, the little puppet show made a propaganda against Wicked.

@@CountryCowboy008 Dont remind me. Did not care for Avenue Q

And so was Beauty and the Beast. That also was nominated three times in the Best Original Song category.

siddharth nagar I didn't understand the nominated song from Sabrina

I prefer his music from Wicked, Prince of Egypt and Pippin.

Do you know the depth and meaning in the lyrics of Colors of the Wind compared to You've got a friend in Me? Its a nice song but not comparable at all.

@@lanacastillo49 totally agree. Colors of the Wind is the hymn of humanity

Didn't you heard? Menken even began his speech by thanking her!

They said "Thank you Vanessa Williams" at the start? How did you not hear it!

I’d rather Mel Gibson and Judy Kuhn be given a nod, I think their version is better plus it’s kind of nice to see Mel Gibson on the stage here that is not Braveheart.

Do you know the depth and meaning in the lyrics of Colors of the Wind compared to You've got a friend in Me? Its a nice song but not comparable at all.

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aedithmoreno Sadly we will never know.

We can probably imagine what the Howard Ashman version of Colors of the Wind sounds like in the alternate universe where Howard Ashman never had AIDs and lived to see his work on Beauty and the Beast be successful and his version of Aladdin with the deleted songs was the version of Aladdin we grew up with instead of the original 1992 post his death with Tim Rove's lyrics and collaborated with Alan Menken on The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Enchanted, and Tangeled.

We don't know. However, I think that Ashman was the perfect lyricist for fabulous tales, Schwartz for realistic and mature tales. They both did a great job

I never made comment three days ago. Someone somehow made that comment.

what would you swap out personally i'd take out true lies and swap in kiss from a rose

MrGabeanator true lies is a movie not a song and it was made in 94 not 95

oops I meant moonlight

MrGabeanator the song from Sabrina

what would you replace

Because she is the lead singer on this song

+Bruno Entringer So, it's not like she was Pocahontas but I must admit, the orchestra made it sound very sad. Also Why was Pocahontas drawn as an Asian? Native Americans aren't Mongoloids. Native Americans are their own race. They didn't come from Asia.

Thanks for the information. Yes I can see them most in Inuit and Canadians as well as South American indigenous but not in american indians. Some of them look totally white or a kind of white hispanic.

Thank you. On contrary, you interested me. Are you Native American btw? I agree on most points but I believe Native Americans have high nose bridges and since Pocahontas belonged to the East Coast where Viking civilization flourished, I don't think she could've looked like that.

***** Sorry. I hadn't received the notification. Thank you for sharing your great knowledge. Disney Pocahontas as well as most Native Americans resemble Asians. East Asians are just a section of Asians. Some Japanese and most important ethnic Tibetans (because of their sculpted features) resembles natives the most as well as Polynesians like in the Amazon. You can check them out. No wonder I thought Graham Greene was Asian because I found him just like my people who do not look East Asian. Also a lot of old photos show Mongoloid features like Sitting Bull.

Janie Doe I'm sure they have but what's your point?

Well, think about the message of “Colors of the Wind”. It’s conveying us to actually learn from others who are different from us, which is the equivalent of learning another’s culture, and how we’re all the same even with our differences and we should be united instead of believing the stereotypes associated with minorities. And especially in today’s climate, this song really is more relevant than ever. “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”, on the other hand, while not a bad song, is just your typical friendship song and even its lyrics are no different than what you’d ordinarily hear in other friendship songs. Don’t get me wrong, the message of “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” is good, but compared to “Colors of the Wind”, it’s not really a socially relevant song.

barely. You obviously have NO clue why this twice Tony nominated Broadway Superstar was chosen to sing, and not the Kuhnster herself. Idk, maybe its the 16 Grammy nominations Vanessa already has under her belt that sent COTW into worldwide smash hit #3 Billboard stratosphere or perhaps because she's a huge trailblazing star.

I do.

I do!

Your comment is stupid. Colors of the Wind won everything on 1996. It is a beautiful song.

If you like cliche songs than its your call but academy is predictable on most of these stupid cartoons. I`d rather go with something more original. Next.

2 Oscars, one Golden Globe, one Grammy, one ASCAP > Your opinion. End.

Vini Mendonça*** kid, its not a problem of awards but the old formula they use. Simple.

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