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Alan Menken

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

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The Disney Family Singalong
83 %|Apr 16, 2020
Family, Fantasy
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Howard
69 %|Apr 22, 2018
Documentary, Music
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Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
79 %|Dec 21, 2016
Music, Documentary
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Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
63 %|Dec 13, 2015
Animation, Documentary, Family, Fantasy, History
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
72 %|Sep 5, 2009
Documentary
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The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
73 %|Apr 24, 2009
Documentary, Music
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The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World
70 %|Nov 25, 1992
Documentary, Family

Series

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Hollywood in Vienna
0 %|Sep 25, 2011
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Tony Awards
50 %|Apr 1, 1956