Alan Menken
Known for: Sound
Born: July 22, 1949
Place of birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA
Alan Irwin Menken (born July 12, 1949) is an American composer, pianist, music director, and record producer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Menken's music for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) has each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Newsies (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007), Tangled (2010), and Disenchanted (2022), among others. His accolades include winning eight Academy Awards — becoming the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman (who has 9 Oscars), a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menken is one of nineteen people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony ("an EGOT").
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Filmography
53 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
6.6
Spellbound
2024
7.1
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
2023
6.3
The Little Mermaid
2023
6.8
Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration
2022
6.7
Disenchanted
2022
8.5
Hollywood in Vienna 2022: A Celebration of Disney Classics - Featuring Alan Menken
2022
NR
Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook
2021
NR
An Evening with Alan Menken
2020
7.6
Tangled: The Musical
2020
6.3
Central Park
2020
8.2
The Disney Family Singalong
2020
6.7
The Little Mermaid Live!
2019
7.1
Aladdin
2019
6.8
Howard
2018
7.0
Beauty and the Beast
2017
6.8
Tangled: Before Ever After
2017
8.0
Newsies
2017
8.0
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
2016
9.0
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
2016
5.8
Sausage Party
2016
6.3
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2015
NR
Aria for a Cow
2015
7.3
Galavant
2015
5.9
Mirror Mirror
2012
8.0
Hollywood in Vienna
2011
7.6
Tangled
2010
6.0
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010
7.2
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
7.4
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
6.8
Enchanted
20078.0
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
2006
4.9
The Shaggy Dog
2006
6.4
A Christmas Carol
2004
5.8
Noel
2004
6.5
Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin
2004
9.0
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
2004
6.1
Home on the Range
2004
8.0
Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman
2003
NR
Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits
1999
7.5
Hercules
1997
8.3
Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice
1996
7.1
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996
5.4
Aladdin on Ice
1995
6.9
Pocahontas
1995
5.7
Life with Mikey
19937.3
Lincoln
1992
7.0
The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World
1992
7.7
Aladdin
1992
6.7
Newsies
1992
NR
Beauty the Beast - Live on Stage
1991
7.7
Beauty and the Beast
1991
6.2
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
1990
7.4
The Little Mermaid
1989
7.0
Little Shop of Horrors
1986
NR
Tony Awards
1956
NR
Hunchback
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NR
Aladdin: Live from the West End
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