Alan Menken
Composer, Editor, Producer
July 22, 1949 (76 years)
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
Filmography
| 2024 | Spellbound · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | The Little Mermaid · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | |
| 2019 | The Little Mermaid Live! · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | |
| 2018 | Howard · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | Newsies: The Broadway Musical · as Composer |
| 2016 | Disney's Broadway Hits at Royal Albert Hall · as Composer |
| 2016 | Sausage Party · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Level Up Norway · as Composer |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | The 37th Annual Kennedy Center Honors · as Composer |
| 2012 | The Neighbors · as Composer |
| 2012 | Mirror Mirror · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | Tangled · as Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | |
| 2007 | Enchanted · as Original Music Composer |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | The Shaggy Dog · as Original Music Composer |
| 2004 | A Christmas Carol: The Musical · as ComposerOn Plex |
| 2004 | Noel · as Original Music ComposerOn Plex |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | Home on the Range · as Original Music Composer |
| 2003 | |
| 1997 | Hercules · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Aladdin on Ice · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Pocahontas · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | Life with Mikey · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | |
| 1992 | Aladdin · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | |
| 1989 | The Little Mermaid · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Little Shop of Horrors · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | The Line · as Composer |
| 2015 | Galavant · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 |
| 2024 | Spellbound · as Lyricist |
| 2022 | Disenchanted · as Songs |
| 2019 | Aladdin · as Songs |
| 2017 | Newsies: The Broadway Musical · as Musical |
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast · as Songs |
| 2017 | Tangled: Before Ever After · as Songs |
| 2004 | A Christmas Carol: The Musical · as MusicalOn Plex |
| 1996 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame · as Songs |
| 1992 | Newsies · as Songs |
| 1991 | Beauty and the Beast · as Songs |
| 1986 | Little Shop of Horrors · as Musical |