Alan Menken
Born: 1949-07-22 in New Rochelle, New York, USA
Known For: Sound
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").
Filmography
2024
- Spellbound ... (Lyricist)
2023
- The Little Mermaid ... (Songs)
- Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20 as Self
2022
2021
- Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook ... (Additional Music)
2020
- The Disney Family Singalong as Self - Performer
- Tangled: The Musical ... (Music)
- An Evening with Alan Menken as Himself
2019
- Aladdin ... (Songs)
- The Little Mermaid Live! ... (Original Music Composer)
2018
- Howard as Self / Various Character Scratch Singing
2017
- Beauty and the Beast ... (Songs)
- Newsies ... (Musical)
- Tangled: Before Ever After ... (Songs)
2016
- Sausage Party ... (Original Music Composer)
- Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall as Himself - Special Guest
- God Bless You, Mr Rosewater ... (Music)
2015
- Galavant ... (Executive Producer)
- Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as Himself
2012
- Mirror Mirror ... (Original Music Composer)
2011
- Hollywood in Vienna as Self
2010
- Tangled ... (Original Music Composer)
- Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast as Self
2009
- Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
- The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story as Self
2007
- Enchanted ... (Original Music Composer)
2006
- The Shaggy Dog ... (Original Music Composer)
- Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' as Self
2004
- Home on the Range ... (Original Music Composer)
- Noel ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Christmas Carol ... (Musical)
- Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream ... (Music)
- Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin as Self
1999
- Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits ... (Music)
1997
- Hercules ... (Original Music Composer)
1996
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame ... (Songs)
- Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice ... (Original Music Composer)
1995
- Pocahontas ... (Original Music Composer)
- Aladdin on Ice ... (Original Music Composer)
1993
- Life with Mikey ... (Original Music Composer)
1992
- Aladdin ... (Original Music Composer)
- Newsies ... (Songs)
- Lincoln ... (Music)
- The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World as Self
1991
- Beauty and the Beast ... (Original Music Composer)
1990
- Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue ... (Music)
1989
- The Little Mermaid ... (Original Music Composer)
1986
- Little Shop of Horrors ... (Original Music Composer)
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee