Which song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Toy Story 3?

“We Belong Together” won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Toy Story 3.

Randy Newman wrote the song, which plays over the film’s closing montage. Its lyrics and melody summarize the lasting bond among Andy and his toys as Andy leaves for college and passes the toys to Bonnie. The song won at the 83rd Academy Awards, held in 2011.

This was Newman’s second Oscar win for a Toy Story-related song. He had previously won Best Original Song for “If I Didn’t Have You” from Monsters, Inc., while “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” is the signature song of the first Toy Story film but did not win for Toy Story 3.

Another common mix-up involves “When She Loved Me,” also written by Newman and performed by Sarah McLachlan in Toy Story 2. That song received an Oscar nomination, but Toy Story 3’s winning song was “We Belong Together.”