| Year | Performer | Title | Film | Writers | Ref. |
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2000
2nd Annual | Meshell Ndegeocello | "Fool of Me" | Love & Basketball | Meshell Ndegeocello and Federico Pena | [1] |
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| Lucy Pearl | "Dance Tonight" | Love & Basketball | Dawn Robinson and Raphael Saadiq |
| Janet Jackson | "Doesn't Really Matter" | Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis |
| Destiny’s Child | "Independent Women" | Charlie's Angels | Beyoncé, Sam Barnes, Jean-Claude Oliver and Cory Rooney |
| Donell Jones | "I'll Go" | Love & Basketball | Steve "Silk" Hurley and Rashaan Patterson |
| R. Kelly | "Bad Man" | Shaft | R. Kelly |
2001
3rd Annual | Eric Benet | "Love Don't Love Me" | The Brothers | Eric Benet | [2] |
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| Nelly | "#1" | Training Day | Nelly and Waiel Yaghnam |
| R. Kelly | "The World's Greatest" | Ali | R. Kelly |
| R.L. | "Good Love" | The Brothers | R.L. |
| Tyrese Gibson, Snoop Dogg and Mr. Tan | "Just a Baby Boy" | Baby Boy | Battlecat, Snoop Dogg and Tyrese Gibson |
2002
4th Annual | Erykah Badu & Common | "Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)" | Brown Sugar | Erykah Badu, Maduwkwu Chinwah, Common, Robert Ozuna, James Poyser, Raphael Saadiq and Glenn Strandrige | [3] |
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| Snoop Dogg, Mr. Kane, Bootsy Collins, Quaze and Fred Wesley | "Undercova Funk (Give Up the Funk)" | Undercover Brother | George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Snoop Dogg and Jerome Brailey |
| Angie Stone | "Bring Me Your Heart" | Brown Sugar | Hersholt Polk, Angie Stone and Homer Talbert |
| Beyoncé | "Work It Out" | Austin Powers in Goldmember | Beyoncé, Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams |
| Bow Wow, Fundisha, Fabolous and Jermaine Dupri | "Basketball" | Like Mike | James Barlower, Kurt Blow, Full Force, Robert Ford, James Moore, Shirley Walker and William Waring |
2003
5th Annual | Beyoncé and Walter Williams Sr. | "He Still Loves Me" | The Fighting Temptations | Big Jim Wright, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis | [4] |
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| Joe Budden | "Pump It Up" | 2 Fast 2 Furious | Robert Bell, Just Blaze, George Brown, Joe Budden, Robert Mickens, Claydes Smith, Dennis Thomas and Richard Westfield |
| Ludacris | "Act a Fool" | 2 Fast 2 Furious | Ludacris |
| LL Cool J and Amerie | "Paradise" | Deliver Us From Eva | Amerie, Samuel Barnes, Keni Burke, Allen Felder, LL Cool J, Jean-Claude Olivier, Norma Jean Wright and 50 Cent |
| Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. | "Runnin' (Dying to Live)" | Tupac: Resurrection | Eminem, Notorious B.I.G., Luis Resto, Tupac Shakur and Edgar Winter |
2006
8th Annual | Jennifer Hudson | "And I'm Telling You (I'm Not Going)" | Dreamgirls | Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen | [5] |
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| Beyoncé | "Listen" | Dreamgirls | Beyoncé, Scott Cutler, Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen |
| Jennifer Hudson | "I Am Changing" | Dreamgirls | Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen |
| OutKast | "Idlewild Blue (Don'tchu Worry 'Bout Me)" | Idlewild | André 3000 |
| Alicia Keys and Lyfe Jennings | "People Get Ready" | Glory Road | Curtis Mayfield |
2009
10th Annual | Anika Noni Rose | "Almost There" | The Princess and the Frog | Randy Newman | [6] |
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| Anika Noni Rose | "Down in New Orleans" | The Princess and the Frog | Randy Newman |
| Ne-Yo | "Never Knew I Needed" | The Princess and the Frog | Ne-Yo |
| Stew, De'Adre Aziza and Daniel Breaker | "Keys" | Passing Strange | Stew |
| Mary J. Blige | "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" | I Can Do Bad All By Myself | Mary J. Blige, Chuck Harmony and Ne-Yo |
2010
11th Annual | John Legend | "Shine" | Waiting for Superman | John Legend | [7] |
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| Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith | "Never Say Never" | The Karate Kid | Justin Bieber, Kuk Harrell, Adam Messinger, Nasri, Omarr Rambert and Jaden Smith |
| Leona Lewis | "I Know Who I Am" | For Colored Girls | Greg Barnhill, Joanna Cotten and Melissa Manchester |
| Queen Latifah | "Champion" | Just Wright | Cool & Dre, Queen Latifah and Jazmine Sullivan |
| Jay Z, Kanye West and Rihanna | "Run This Town" | Just Wright | Jeff Bhasker, Jay Z, No I.D., Rihanna and Kanye West |
2011
12th Annual | Mary J. Blige | "The Living Proof" | The Help | Mary J. Blige, Harvey Mason, Jr., Thomas Newman and Damon Thomas, | [8] |
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| Ludacris and Slaughterhouse | "Furiously Dangerous" | Fast Five | Kon Artis, Joe Budden, Crooked I, Eminem, Ludacris, Joell Ortiz, Luis Resto and Royce da 5'9" |
| Nicole Beharie | "My Last Day Without You" | My Last Day Without You | Scott Jacoby, Stefan Schaefer and Christoph Silber |
| Cee-Lo Green and Kenny Wayne Shepherd | "Walkin' Blues" | Footloose | R. L. Burnside |
| Jamie Foxx | "Fly Love" | Rio | Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett |
2012
13th Annual | John Legend | "Who Did That to You?" | Django Unchained | Paul Epworth and John Legend | [9] |
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| John Legend and Ludacris | "Tonight (Best You Ever Had)" | Think Like a Man | Allen Arthur, Keith Justice, John Legend, Ludacris, Miguel and Clayton Reilly |
| Travis Barker, RZA, Raekwon and Tom Morello | "Carry It" | The Man with the Iron Fists | Travis Barker, Tom Morello, Raekwon and RZA |
| Jay Z, Kanye West and Frank Ocean | "No Church in the Wild" | Safe House | James Brown, Mike Dean, Jay Z, Phil Manzanera, Frank Ocean, Joseph Roach, The-Dream, Kanye West, Gary Wright and 88-Keys |
| Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston | "Celebrate" | Sparkle | R. Kelly |
2013
14th Annual | Judith Hill | "Desperation" | 20 Feet from Stardom | Judith Hill | [10] |
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| Fantasia Barrino | "In the Middle of the Night" | The Butler | Fantasia Barrino, Keith McMasters, Abel Terry and Kassim VonRico Washington |
| Alicia Keys | "Queen of the Field (Patsey's Song)" | 12 Years a Slave | Alicia Keys |
| Gladys Knight | "You & I Ain't No More" | The Butler | Lenny Kravitz |
| Pharrell Williams | "Happy" | Despicable Me 2 | Pharrell Williams |
2014
15th Annual | Common and John Legend | "Glory" | Selma | Common, John Legend and Rhymefest | [11] |
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| Questlove and Eliza Colby | "It Ain't Easy" | Top Five | Eliza Colby and Questlove |
| Janelle Monáe | "What is Love" | Rio 2 | Janelle Monáe, Nathaniel Irvin III and Roman Irvin |
| Rita Ora | "Grateful" | Beyond the Lights | Diane Warren |
| Alicia Keys and Kendrick Lamar | "It's On Again" | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar and Hans Zimmer |
2015
16th Annual | Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth | "See You Again" | Furious 7 | Andrew Cedar, DJ Frank E, Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth | [11] |
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| Tessa Thompson | "Grip" | Creed | Sam Dew, Ludwig Göransson and Tessa Thompson |
| Childish Gambino, Vince Staples and Jhené Aiko | "Waiting for My Moment" | Creed | Ryan Coogler, Donald Glover, Ludwig Göransson and Vince Staples |
| The Weeknd | "Earned It" | Fifty Shades of Grey | The Weeknd, Stephan Moccio, Jason Quenneville and Belly |
| Dr. Dre | "Talking to My Diary" | Straight Outta Compton | Dr. Dre, Russell Brown, Camille Clerc and François de Roubaix |
2018
19th Annual | Kendrick Lamar & SZA | "All the Stars" | Black Panther | Kendrick Duckworth, Mark Spears, Al Shuckburgh, Solána Rowe, and Anthony Tiffith |
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| The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar | "Pray for Me | Black Panther | Abel Tesfaye, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Adam Feeney, Jason Quenneville and Martin McKinney |
| Arlissa | "We Won’t Move" | The Hate U Give | Arlissa Ruppert, Jessica Karpov, Kevin White and Mike Woods |
| Khalid and Normani | "Love Lies" | Love, Simon | Khalid Robinson, Normani Kordei Hamilton, Jamil Chammas, Ryan Vojtesak, Tayla Parks |
| Jennifer Hudson | "I’ll Fight" | RBG | Diane Warren |
