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Actors Who Have Won Oscars for Performing a Song That Won an Oscar: Full List

And we haven’t forgotten Judy Garland and James Baskett, who received honorary Oscars.

Zoe Saldaña won best supporting actress at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday (March 2) for her role in Emilia Pérez. Her performance included performing the song “El Mal,” which won best original song. This is only the fifth time in Oscar history that someone has won a competitive Oscar for a performance that included singing the song that won best original song.

In addition, two actors received honorary Oscars for performances that included singing the best original song winner. Honorary awards are lovely, but winning in a competitive race is everything, especially at EGOT-level award shows.

Still, let’s give those two recipients of honorary Oscars a shout-out. In 1940, Judy Garland received an honorary Oscar inscribed “To Judy Garland for her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year.” Her unforgettable performance that year was playing Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, in which she sang the best original song winner “Over the Rainbow” (which was co-written by Harold Arlen and E.Y Harburg).

In 1948, James Baskett received an honorary Oscar “for his able and heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and story teller to the children of the world in Walt Disney’s Song of the South.” That performance included singing the Oscar-winning song “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” (which was co-written by Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert). The film is now seen as racist, but it’s not fair to discredit the song for the shortcomings of the film.

Here are the five actors who won Oscars in competitive categories for a performance that included singing a song that won an Oscar. The years shown are the years of the Oscar ceremonies. We also show excerpts from the actors’ Oscar acceptance speeches.

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