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 Menkens 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