Alan Menken

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1949 age 0

   Born

2. 1989 age 40

   CreditThe Little Mermaidcomposer

3. 1991 age 42

   CreditBeauty and the Beastcomposer

4. 1992 age 43

   CreditAladdincomposer

5. 1995 age 46

   CreditPocahontascomposer

6. 1996 age 47

   CreditThe Hunchback of Notre Damecomposer

7. 1997 age 48

   CreditHerculescomposer

8. 2004 age 55

   CreditHome on the Rangecomposer

9. 2007 age 58

   CreditEnchantedcomposer

10. 2010 age 61

    CreditTangledcomposer

11. 2012 age 63

    CreditMirror Mirrorcomposer

12. 2013 age 64

    CreditWhite House Downcomposer

13. 2016 age 67

    CreditSausage Partycomposer

14. 2017 age 68

    CreditBeauty and the Beastcomposer

15. 2019 age 70

    CreditAladdincomposer

16. 2023 age 74

    CreditThe Little Mermaidcomposer

• RCRon Clements4 titles
• MHMark Hester4 titles
• HPH. Lee Peterson3 titles
• JMJames Melton3 titles
• DHDon Hahn3 titles
• ADAlice Dewey3 titles
• JMJohn Musker3 titles
• IMIrene Mecchi2 titles
• JCJohn Carnochan2 titles
• HAHoward Ashman2 titles

• Influenced by

  • JWJohn Williams
  • MJMaurice Jarre
  • JGJerry Goldsmith
  • BHBernard Herrmann
  • JBJohn Barry
  • HMHenry Mancini
  • RRRichard Rodgers
  • EBElmer Bernstein
  • LBLeonard Bernstein
  • SSStephen Sondheim
  • GCGeorge M. Cohan
  • CPCole Porter
  • OIOscar Hammerstein II
  • IBIrving Berlin
  • TBThe Beatles

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

• Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing great, hard work — it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.

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• Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to land musically dramatic work.

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• First of all I'd like to thank my collaborator Howard Ashman who encouraged me to take the opportunity to compose my first film score with "The Little Mermaid." Thank you for your support, Howard. I'd like to thank all the people at Disney: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Roy Disney, Peter Schneider and Maureen Donley. Our outstanding directors: John Musker, Ron Clements. And thanks to a great music department: my orchestrator Thomas Pasatieri, conductor J.A.C. ["Jack"] Redford, music editor Kathy Bennett, recording engineer John Richards, supervisors Chris Montan and Andy Hill. Special thanks to my manager Scott Shukat and my wife Janis. And Academy members, thank you.

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• (Howard Ashman:I won't do fish jokes, just say a couple thank yous. At Disney to Jeff Katzenberg, Peter Schneider. To Sam Wright, who sang the song, all the words. Mostly though to John Musker and Ron Clements whose movie "Little Mermaid" really is. At William Morris there's Don Aslan, Mike Peretzian and my beloved Esther Sherman. And at home there's my mom, there's my sister, there's Nancy, and Bill. I feel really lucky. Thank you.) Thanks to the musical team that worked on the songs: Robby Merkin, Thomas Pasatieri, and J.A.C. ["Jack"] Redford in particular. Thank you. And thank you to the Academy.

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• On behalf of all the composers I want to thank Debbie Allen for that [referring to the production number]. That was just great. I'd like to thank the members of the Academy, in particular the members of the Music Branch, for this honor. At Disney I want to thank Jeffrey Katzenberg, Roy Disney, Peter Schneider, our producer Don Hahn, our directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale, and our brilliant animators. And I can't say enough about my music team. My orchestrator Danny Troob, conductor David Friedman, recording engineers John Richards, Michael Farrow, Bruce Botnick. Many thanks to the Disney music department, Chris Montan, Andy Hill. My music editor Kathy Bennett. My love and thanks to Janis, Anna and Nora. My mom and dad. My manager Scott Shukat. And most of all, I thank my late partner and friend, Howard Ashman. Howard, I wish you could have seen the finished product. I wish you could have heard the completed score. I know you would have been proud. Thank you.

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• On behalf of Howard, I know if he were here he would want to thank Angela Lansbury for her incomparable performance of the song in the movie as "Mrs. Potts," and also Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson for their performance. Also thanks to Walter A. and Robbie Buchanan for their work on the single. And accepting for Howard will be Bill Lauch. (Bill Lauch: Thanks, Alan. Howard and I shared a home and a life together and I'm very happy and very proud to accept this for him. But it is bittersweet. This is the first Academy Award given to someone we've lost to AIDS. In working on "Beauty and the Beast" Howard faced incredible personal challenges but always gave his best. And what made that possible was an atmosphere of understanding, love and support. That's something everyone facing AIDS not only needs, but deserves. There's an inscription at Howard's grave in Baltimore. It reads, "O, that he had one more song to sing." We'll never hear that song, but I'm deeply grateful for this tribute you've

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