Alan Menken

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").

Filmography

All 16Movies 14TV 2

Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20

Self

Hollywood in Vienna 2022: A Celebration of Disney Classics - Featuring Alan Menken

2022

An Evening with Alan Menken

Himself

The Disney Family Singalong

Self - Performer

Howard

Self / Various Character Scratch Singing

Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall

Himself - Special Guest

Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Himself

Hollywood in Vienna

Self

Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast

Self

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

Self

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Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'

Self

Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin

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Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman

Self

The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World

Self

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee