Alan Menken
Biography
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").
Known For
Tony Awards
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
Howard
The Disney Family Singalong
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
Hollywood in Vienna
The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World
All Movies (14)
- Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/202023 · as Self
- Hollywood in Vienna 2022: A Celebration of Disney Classics - Featuring Alan Menken2022
- An Evening with Alan Menken2020 · as Himself
- The Disney Family Singalong2020 · as Self - Performer
- Howard2018 · as Self / Various Character Scratch Singing
- Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall2016 · as Himself - Special Guest
- Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs2015 · as Himself
- Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast2010 · as Self
- Waking Sleeping Beauty2009 · as Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
- The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story2009 · as Self
- Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'2006 · as Self
- Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin2004 · as Self
- Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman2003 · as Self
- The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World1992 · as Self
All TV Shows (2)
- Hollywood in Vienna2011 · as Self
- Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Nominee