Alan Menken
- Professione
- Sound
- Nascita
- 22 luglio 1949
- Luogo di nascita
- New Rochelle, New York, USA
Biografia
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").
Film con Alan Menken
- Il risveglio della magia 2010 · ★ 7.2
- Howard - La vita, le parole 2018 · ★ 6.8
- The Boys: La storia dei fratelli Sherman 2009 · ★ 7.4
- The Disney Family Singalong 2020 · ★ 7.9
- Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20 2023 · ★ 7.1
- Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall 2016 · ★ 7.9
- Dietro la magia: Biancaneve e i sette nani 2015 · ★ 6.3
- Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin 2004 · ★ 6.5
- Hollywood in Vienna 2022: A Celebration of Disney Classics - Featuring Alan Menken 2022 · ★ 8.5
- The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World 1992 · ★ 7.0
- Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman 2003 · ★ 8.0
- Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast 2010 · ★ 6.0
- Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' 2006 · ★ 8.0
- An Evening with Alan Menken 2020