Editing Jennifer Warnes (section)

===1980s===
Warnes recorded the [[Randy Newman]] composition "One More Hour" for the 1981 motion picture ''[[Ragtime (film)|Ragtime]]''.<ref name= "Larkin"/> This became her second song performance nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.<ref name= "Larkin"/>

Warnes teamed up with [[Joe Cocker]] to record "[[Up Where We Belong]]" for the 1982 motion picture ''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]''.<ref name= "Larkin"/> Written by [[Buffy Sainte-Marie]], [[Will Jennings]] and [[Jack Nitzsche]], the song won the [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]],<ref name="Larkin"/> as well as a [[Golden Globe Award]]. The song also won Warnes and Cocker the [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal]], which was released as a [[single (music)|single]] and hit No. 1 (for three weeks running) on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart. It was certified [[platinum record|platinum]] for over two million sales in the United States. That same year, she recorded [[James Taylor]]'s "Millworker" for the ''[[American Playhouse]]'' [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] production of ''[[Working (musical)|Working]]''.

In 1985, she recorded a duet version with [[B. J. Thomas]] of the song "[[Growing Pains#Theme song|As Long As We Got Each Other]]", the theme for the TV show ''[[Growing Pains]]''. It was used as the opening theme for the second and third seasons. For the fourth season, the song was once again re-recorded with Thomas and [[Dusty Springfield]]. However, the Warnes version made its return for the fifth season and the seventh (final) season of the show. The same year, she recorded vocals for [[Leonard Cohen]]'s record ''[[Various Positions]]'', getting equal vocals credits with Cohen in the inside booklet. After releasing a praised tribute LP of Leonard Cohen's songs in 1987, ''Famous Blue Raincoat'',<ref name="Larkin"/> to which Cohen contributed two new compositions, "[[First We Take Manhattan]]", which featured [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] on guitar, and "Ain't No Cure for Love", she contributed vocals to Cohen's 1988 hit LP ''[[I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen album)|I'm Your Man]]'', most notably to "[[Take This Waltz (song)|Take This Waltz]]" and "Tower of Song".

Warnes teamed with [[Bill Medley]] to record "[[(I've Had) The Time of My Life]]" for the 1987 motion picture ''[[Dirty Dancing]]''.<ref name="Larkin"/> This marked the third song performed by Warnes to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song and second for the [[Golden Globe Award]] in the same category. The song also won Warnes and Medley the Grammy Award for Duo or Group with Vocal. It reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and spent four consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

On September 30, 1987, at the Coconut Grove in [[Los Angeles]], she contributed vocals for [[Roy Orbison]]'s star-studded television special ''[[Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night]]''.