Which song from Top Gun won the Academy Award for Best Original Song?

The Top Gun song that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song was “Take My Breath Away.”

Berlin recorded the song, which plays during the romantic storyline involving Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood. Giorgio Moroder composed the music, and Tom Whitlock wrote the lyrics. The track became one of the film’s best-known musical elements.

Top Gun was released in 1986 and became a major box-office success. Its soundtrack also included Kenny Loggins’s “Danger Zone,” a song strongly associated with the film’s jet-fighter training sequences. That association often causes people to name “Danger Zone” instead.

“Take My Breath Away” won the Academy Award at the 59th ceremony, honoring films released in 1986. The song also reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, giving the film both critical recognition and substantial popular success.