Will ‘Toy Story’ Join These Other Film Franchises That Won Multiple Best Original Song Oscars?

Fun Fact: Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff were 5 and 11, respectively, when the first Toy Story film was released in 1995.

Taylor Swift attends the Toy Story 5 Los Angeles World Premiere at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on June 09, 2026.

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As Toy Story 5 goes into general release on Friday (June 19), awards-minded pop fans will start gauging the chances that Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You,” the song that plays over the Disney Pixar film’s closing credits, will receive an Oscar nomination next January. Let’s just say its chances are very good.

Randy Newman was nominated for best original song for tunes he wrote for each of the first four installments in this franchise – “You’ve Got a Friend In Me” from Toy Story, “When She Loved Me” from Toy Story 2, “We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3 and “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” from Toy Story 4.