Alan Menken
Sound
1949-07-22 · 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").
movieDisney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
as Self · 2023 · 7.1
movieHollywood in Vienna 2022: A Celebration of Disney Classics - Featuring Alan Menken
as · 2022 · 8.0
movieAn Evening with Alan Menken
as Himself · 2020 · 0.0
movieThe Disney Family Singalong
as Self - Performer · 2020 · 8.3
movieHoward
as Self / Various Character Scratch Singing · 2018 · 6.8
movieDisney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
as Himself - Special Guest · 2016 · 8.0
movieBehind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as Himself · 2015 · 6.3
tvHollywood in Vienna
as Self · 2011 · 0.0
movieBeyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
as Self · 2010 · 0.0
movieWaking Sleeping Beauty
as Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage) · 2009 · 7.2
movieThe Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
as Self · 2009 · 7.3
movieTreasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
as Self · 2006 · 0.0
movieDiamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin
as Self · 2004 · 6.0
movieListen to Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman
as Self · 2003 · 8.0
movieThe Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World
as Self · 1992 · 7.0
tvTony Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1956 · 0.0