🎬Alan Menken

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").

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Spellbound (2024)	Director / Writer		7
2	Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20 (2023)	Self		7
3	Howard (2018)	Self / Various Character Scratch Singing		7.5
4	Newsies (2017)	Director / Writer		8
5	Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall (2016)	Himself - Special Guest	-	-
6	Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2015)	Himself		8
7	Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)	Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)		7.8
8	The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009)	Self		6
9	A Christmas Carol (2004)	Director / Writer		7
10	Little Shop of Horrors (1986)	Director / Writer		7.4