Alan Menken
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
Sound
as Music
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Original Music Composer
as Music
as Songs
as Original Music Composer
as Original Music Composer
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Songs
as Original Music Composer
as Music
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Music
as Original Music Composer
as Original Music Composer
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Original Music Composer
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Original Music Composer
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Music
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Music
as Original Music Composer
as Original Music Composer
as Music
as Songs
as Songs
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Music
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
as Original Music Composer
as Songs
Actor
as Himself
as Self
as Self / Various Character Scratch Singing
as Himself - Special Guest
as Self
as Self / Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
as Alan Menken
as Self - Nominee
Writer
as Lyricist
as Lyricist
as Musical
as Musical
as Musical
Crew
as Additional Music
Producer
as Executive Producer