Alan Menken

Sound

Born 1949-07-22 New Rochelle, New York, USA 57 credits Academy Awards 8 Golden Globe Awards 7 Daytime Emmy Awards 1 Grammy Awards 11 Tony Awards 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Drama League Award 1 Disney Legends 1

Awards

Won 8 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 8 won · 5 nominated

2011 Best Original Song Nominated I See the Light
2008 Best Original Song Nominated That's How You Know, So Close, Happy Working Song
1998 Best Original Song Nominated Go the Distance
1997 Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Nominated The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996 Best Original Song Won Colors of the Wind
1996 Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Won Pocahontas
1993 Best Original Score Won Aladdin
1993 Best Original Song Won A Whole New World
1992 Best Original Song Won Beauty and the Beast
1992 Best Original Score Won Beauty and the Beast
1990 Best Original Score Won The Little Mermaid
1990 Best Original Song Won The Little Mermaid
1987 Best Original Song Nominated Mean Green Mother From Outer Space

Golden Globe Awards 7 won · 2 nominated

1996 Best Original Song Won Colors of the Wind
1993 Best Original Score Won Aladdin
1993 Best Original Song Won A Whole New World, Aladdin
1992 Best Original Song Won Beauty and the Beast
1992 Best Original Score Won Beauty and the Beast
1990 Best Original Song Won The Little Mermaid
1990 Best Original Score Won The Little Mermaid
1989 Best Original Song Nominated Kiss the Girl
— Best Original Song Nominated Prince Ali

Daytime Emmy Awards 1 won

— Daytime Emmy Award Won

Grammy Awards 11 won

2012 Best Song Written for Visual Media Won Tangled
1996 Best Song Written for Visual Media Won Colors of the Wind
1994 Best Musical Album for Children Won Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1994 Song of the Year Won Aladdin, A Whole New World (Aladdin’s Theme)
1994 Best Song Written for Visual Media Won Aladdin, A Whole New World
1994 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Won Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1993 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Won Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1993 Best Song Written for Visual Media Won Beauty and the Beast
1993 Best Musical Album for Children Won Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1991 Best Song Written for Visual Media Won The Little Mermaid
1991 Best Children's Music Album Won The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Tony Awards 1 won · 4 nominated

2014 Best Original Score Nominated Aladdin
2012 Best Original Score Won Newsies
2011 Best Original Score Nominated Sister Act
2008 Best Original Score Nominated The Little Mermaid (musical)
1994 Best Original Score Nominated Beauty and the Beast

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Drama League Award 1 won

— Drama League Award Won

Disney Legends 1 won

2001 Disney Legends Won

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song 1 nominated

1991 Worst Original Song Nominated The Measure of a Man

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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").