Oscar Song Nominees

Something I was recently thinking about, as Oscar nominations come out soon.  This is meant to be one long thought, and so I am writing this from memory and not fact-checking.  In recent years, it seems like the Best Song Winner is not actually the best song, or not a song with as much recognition as other nominees. I have also wondered whether a movie having multiple songs nominated had the effect of cancelling each other out, specifically in the cases of Dreamgirls and Enchanted. Both of these movies had three songs nominated. In the first case, it was "Listen", "Love You I Do" and "Patience". In the latter case, the selected songs were "How Do You Know?", "Happy Working Song", and "So Close". And none of those six songs won, and I thought a plausible explanation is that each of them were getting some votes, but they split the Academy's preferences and allowed an underdog candidate to sneak in. But then I thought back to The Lion King ("Circle of Life", "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?", "Hakuna Matata") and Beauty and the Beast ("Belle", "Be Our Guest", "Beauty and the Beast") in the 1990's. Both of those movies had three songs nominated from their scores. And both of them won Oscars for Best Score and Best Song. Aladdin and The Little Mermaid each had two songs nominated ("Part of Your World" was not nominated?) , and they also walked away with Best Score and Best Song. I would like to point out that five of these six examples had the involvement of Alan Menken or Tim Rice. Alan Menken also won Best Song and Score for Pocohontas featuring "Colors of the Wind." So I guess it's a newer trend for the votes to be split among the songs without one being a clear winner. Can anyone else think of movies which had multiple songs nominated in the last 30 years? Now I actually am interested in doing the research.

The update to this post is that I don't think any other movie has had more than one song nominated that wasn't listed above and I'm glad that Randy Newman won the Oscar for "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 and that a traditional nominee finally reclaimed the award after some very disappointing winners the last few years. Hopefully this will reverse that trend and there won't be as many obscure and untraditional winners. On a related note, can we have more time devoted to the performance of the songs on the telecast? That has also been bugging me, the small amount of time devoted to performance on a bloated telecast.