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A composer and songwriter for theater and film. Beginning with ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', for which he wrote both score and songs with lyricist [[Howard Ashman]] (the same team who wrote ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]''), he has been the go-to guy for [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney musicals]], including ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', ''[[Pocahontas]]'', ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', and ''[[Tangled]]''. This has earned him ''eighteen'' [[Academy Award]] nominations, eight of which he won—more Oscars than any other living individual.
After ''Mermaid'''s success, Menken wrote ''Beauty And The Beast'' and began ''Aladdin'' with Ashman before the latter's death in 1991. Since then, Menken has written with a multitude of lyricists, including Tim Rice (''Aladdin'', the [[Screen to Stage Adaptation|Screen To Stage Adaptations]] of ''Beauty and the Beast'' and ''Aladdin''), Jack Feldman (''[[Newsies]]'' and its [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]]), [[Stephen Schwartz]] (''Pocahontas'', ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', ''[[Enchanted]]'', the [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]] of ''Hunchback''), David Zippel (''[[Hercules (1997 film)
Due to the cancellation of a Disney adaptation of "[[The Snow Queen]]", Menken will provide music for a [[DreamWorks]] movie titled ''[[Lidsville]]''.
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