1949-07-22 ( 75 years old ) in 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").
Movies
An Evening with Alan Menken
2020-08-06
The Disney Family Singalong
2020-04-16
Howard
2018-04-22
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009-09-05
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009-04-24
Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin
2004-10-05
The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World
1992-11-25
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