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=== Disney Renaissance and later films ===
=== Disney Renaissance and later films ===
On the strength of the success of ''Little Shop of Horrors'', Menken and Ashman were hired by [[The Walt Disney Studios (division)|Walt Disney Studios]] to write the music for ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 film)|The Little Mermaid]]'' (1989). The challenge was to create an animated musical film of this [[Hans Christian Andersen]] fairy tale that could sit alongside the Disney classics ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' and ''[[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]]''. ''The Little Mermaid'' opened to critical and commercial success and signaled a new Disney era called the [[Disney Renaissance]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/mpaarating.htm?rating=G&yr=1989&p=.htm | title=1989 Yearly Box Office for G-Rated Movies | publisher=''[[Internet Movie Database]]'' | work=Box Office Mojo | accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> The film gave them their first Oscar win: [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Song]] for the song "[[Under the Sea]]". Menken also won the 1989 Oscar for [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Score]].<ref name=bionyt/><ref name=oscar>[http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearch action=searchLink&displayType=6&BSNomineeID=68951 "Menken Academy Awards"], Awardsdatabase.oscars.org, accessed February 19, 2016</ref>
On the strength of the success of ''Little Shop of Horrors'', Menken and Ashman were hired by [[The Walt Disney Studios (division)|Walt Disney Studios]] to write the music for ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 film)|The Little Mermaid]]'' (1989). The challenge was to create an animated musical film of this [[Hans Christian Andersen]] fairy tale that could sit alongside the Disney classics ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' and ''[[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]]''. ''The Little Mermaid'' opened to critical and commercial success and signaled a new Disney era called the [[Disney Renaissance]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/mpaarating.htm?rating=G&yr=1989&p=.htm | title=1989 Yearly Box Office for G-Rated Movies | publisher=''[[Internet Movie Database]]'' | work=Box Office Mojo | accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> The film gave them their first Oscar win: [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Song]] for the song "[[Under the Sea]]". Menken also won the 1989 Oscar for [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Score]].<ref name=bionyt/><ref name=oscar>[http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearch action=searchLink&displayType=6&BSNomineeID=68951 "Menken Academy Awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723203618/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearch |date=2008-07-23 }}, Awardsdatabase.oscars.org, accessed February 19, 2016</ref>


Menken and Ashman's ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' garnered them three 1991 Oscar nominations for Best Song, winning for [[Beauty and the Beast (Disney song)|its title song]].<ref name=oscar/> Menken won another Oscar for Best Score. The two were working on ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' at the time of Ashman's death in 1991. Subsequently, Menken went to collaborate with [[Tim Rice]] to finish the songs for the film. The film won an Oscar in 1992 for Best Song: "[[A Whole New World]]".<ref name=oscar/> Menken also won the Oscar for Best Score. Menken's live action musical film ''[[Newsies]]'', with lyrics by [[Jack Feldman (songwriter)|Jack Feldman]], was released in 1992. Three more animated musical films followed. Menken collaborated with [[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]] for ''[[Pocahontas (1995 film)|Pocahontas]]'', for which the two won two Oscars: Best Song and [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Musical or Comedy Score]]. In 1996, the same musical team created the songs, and Menken, the score, for ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''. In 1997, Menken reunited with his early collaborator, [[David Zippel]], for his last animated musical film in the series, ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]''.<ref>[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/451904/Hercules/full-credits.html ''Hercules''], TCM.com, accessed February 19, 2016</ref>
Menken and Ashman's ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' garnered them three 1991 Oscar nominations for Best Song, winning for [[Beauty and the Beast (Disney song)|its title song]].<ref name=oscar/> Menken won another Oscar for Best Score. The two were working on ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' at the time of Ashman's death in 1991. Subsequently, Menken went to collaborate with [[Tim Rice]] to finish the songs for the film. The film won an Oscar in 1992 for Best Song: "[[A Whole New World]]".<ref name=oscar/> Menken also won the Oscar for Best Score. Menken's live action musical film ''[[Newsies]]'', with lyrics by [[Jack Feldman (songwriter)|Jack Feldman]], was released in 1992. Three more animated musical films followed. Menken collaborated with [[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]] for ''[[Pocahontas (1995 film)|Pocahontas]]'', for which the two won two Oscars: Best Song and [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Musical or Comedy Score]]. In 1996, the same musical team created the songs, and Menken, the score, for ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''. In 1997, Menken reunited with his early collaborator, [[David Zippel]], for his last animated musical film in the series, ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]''.<ref>[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/451904/Hercules/full-credits.html ''Hercules''], TCM.com, accessed February 19, 2016</ref>
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Menken debuted on Broadway with a musical theatre adaptation of ''[[Beauty and the Beast (musical)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' that opened in 1994 and ran for 13 years before closing in 2007. In 1997, he collaborated with lyricist [[Tim Rice]] on a musical, ''[[King David (musical)|King David]]'', based on the biblical character, which was performed in a [[concert version]] on Broadway at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]]. ''Little Shop of Horrors'' played on Broadway from 2003 to 2004.<ref name=IBDb>[http://www.ibdb.com/Person/View/12135 "Alan Menken"], Internet Broadway Database, accessed February 17, 2016</ref>
Menken debuted on Broadway with a musical theatre adaptation of ''[[Beauty and the Beast (musical)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' that opened in 1994 and ran for 13 years before closing in 2007. In 1997, he collaborated with lyricist [[Tim Rice]] on a musical, ''[[King David (musical)|King David]]'', based on the biblical character, which was performed in a [[concert version]] on Broadway at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]]. ''Little Shop of Horrors'' played on Broadway from 2003 to 2004.<ref name=IBDb>[http://www.ibdb.com/Person/View/12135 "Alan Menken"], Internet Broadway Database, accessed February 17, 2016</ref>


He next created the stage version of ''[[The Little Mermaid (musical)|The Little Mermaid]]'', which played on Broadway from 2008 to 2009 and for which he received a nomination for a [[Tony Award for Best Score]].<ref name=IBDb/> Menken's stage adaptation of ''[[Sister Act (musical)|Sister Act]]'' premiered in London in 2009, and opened on Broadway in 2011. He was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Score.<ref>[http://broadwayworld.com/article/2011-Tony-Nominations-Announced-THE-BOOK-OF-MORMON-Leads-With-14-20110503 "2011 Tony Nominations Announced!"] BroadwayWorld.com, May 3, 2011</ref> Menken received a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 2010.<ref>Gans, Andrew. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/144700-Alan-Menken-to-Be-Honored-with-Star-on-the-Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame "Alan Menken to Be Honored with Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame"], ''Playbill'', November 8, 2010</ref> In December 2010, he was a guest on the ''[[NPR]]'' quiz show ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!]]''.<ref>[http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/2010/12/18/132155902/?showDate=2010-12-18 "''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'' for December 18, 2010"], NPR.org, accessed February 18, 2016</ref>
He next created the stage version of ''[[The Little Mermaid (musical)|The Little Mermaid]]'', which played on Broadway from 2008 to 2009 and for which he received a nomination for a [[Tony Award for Best Score]].<ref name=IBDb/> Menken's stage adaptation of ''[[Sister Act (musical)|Sister Act]]'' premiered in London in 2009, and opened on Broadway in 2011. He was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Score.<ref>[http://broadwayworld.com/article/2011-Tony-Nominations-Announced-THE-BOOK-OF-MORMON-Leads-With-14-20110503 "2011 Tony Nominations Announced!"] BroadwayWorld.com, May 3, 2011</ref> Menken received a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 2010.<ref>Gans, Andrew. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/144700-Alan-Menken-to-Be-Honored-with-Star-on-the-Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame "Alan Menken to Be Honored with Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212075313/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/144700-Alan-Menken-to-Be-Honored-with-Star-on-the-Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame |date=2010-12-12 }}, ''Playbill'', November 8, 2010</ref> In December 2010, he was a guest on the ''[[NPR]]'' quiz show ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!]]''.<ref>[http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/2010/12/18/132155902/?showDate=2010-12-18 "''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'' for December 18, 2010"], NPR.org, accessed February 18, 2016</ref>


In 2012, Menken won a Tony Award for Best Score for his musical adaptation of ''[[Newsies (musical)|Newsies]]'', which ran until 2014. He also wrote the music for ''[[Leap of Faith (musical)|Leap of Faith]]'', which had a brief run on Broadway in 2012. His stage adaptation of ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' opened on Broadway in 2014, earning him another Tony nomination for Best Score.<ref name=IBDb/> In 2013, he was a guest at the annual Junior Theatre Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, and was honored with the Junior Theater Festival Award.<ref>Hetrick, Adam. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/2013-junior-theater-festival-to-feature-newsies-cast-alan-menken-thomas-sch-201228?r=n# "2013 Junior Theater Festival to Feature Newsies Cast, Alan Menken, Thomas Schumacher, Jeff Calhoun and More"], ''Playbill'', January 7, 2013</ref> He gave a concert there, including music that was cut from various productions, while talking about his creative process.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}
In 2012, Menken won a Tony Award for Best Score for his musical adaptation of ''[[Newsies (musical)|Newsies]]'', which ran until 2014. He also wrote the music for ''[[Leap of Faith (musical)|Leap of Faith]]'', which had a brief run on Broadway in 2012. His stage adaptation of ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' opened on Broadway in 2014, earning him another Tony nomination for Best Score.<ref name=IBDb/> In 2013, he was a guest at the annual Junior Theatre Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, and was honored with the Junior Theater Festival Award.<ref>Hetrick, Adam. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/2013-junior-theater-festival-to-feature-newsies-cast-alan-menken-thomas-sch-201228?r=n# "2013 Junior Theater Festival to Feature Newsies Cast, Alan Menken, Thomas Schumacher, Jeff Calhoun and More"], ''Playbill'', January 7, 2013</ref> He gave a concert there, including music that was cut from various productions, while talking about his creative process.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}

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Alan Menken
Menken in 2013
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Background information
Birth nameAlan Irwin Menken[1]
Born (1949-07-22) July 22, 1949 (age 74)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Composer
  • songwriter
  • record producer
Labels
WebsiteOfficial website

Alan Irwin Menken

Enchanted (2007), Tangled (2010) and Sausage Party (2016), among others. He is also known for his work on musical theatre works for Broadway and elsewhere. Some of these are based on his Disney films, but other stage hits include Little Shop of Horrors (1982), A Christmas Carol (1994) and Sister Act
(2009).

Menken has collaborated with such lyricists as

Tony Award
and other honors.

Early life

Alan Irwin Menken was born on July 22, 1949, at French Hospital in New York City, to Judith and Norman Menken. His father was a boogie-woogie piano-playing dentist, and his mother was an actress, dancer and playwright.[2][3] His family was Jewish.[4] Menken developed an interest in music at an early age, taking piano and violin lessons. He began to compose at an early age.[5] At age 9, at the New York Federation of Music Clubs Junior Composers Contest, his original composition "Bouree" was rated Superior and Excellent by the judges.[6]

He attended

BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.[10]

Career

Early career

After graduating, Menken's plan was to become either a rock star or a recording artist. His interest in writing musicals increased when he joined the Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) Musical Theatre Workshop and was mentored by Lehman Engel.[10] From 1974 to 1978, he showcased various BMI workshop works, such as Midnight, Apartment House (lyric by Muriel Robinson), Conversations with Pierre,[10]Harry the Rat and Messiah on Mott Street (lyrics by David Zippel).[citation needed] According to Menken, during this period, he "worked as a ballet and modern dance accompanist, a musical director for club acts, a jingle writer, arranger, a songwriter for Sesame Street and a vocal coach. He performed his material at clubs like The Ballroom, Reno Sweeny and Tramps."[11] In 1976, John Wilson reported for The New York Times that members of Engel's BMI Workshop began performing as part of the "Broadway at the Ballroom" series: "The opening workshop program ... featured Maury Yeston and Alan Menken, both playing their piano accompaniment and singing songs they have written for potential musicals."[12] Wilson reviewed a performance at the Ballroom in 1977 where Menken accompanied a singer: "In the current cabaret world, a piano accompanist is no longer expected to merely play piano for a singer. More and more, pianists can be heard joining in vocally, harmonizing with the singer, creating a background of shouts and exclamations or even doing brief passages of solo singing."[13]

Menken contributed material to

revues like New York's Back in Town, Big Apple Country, The Present Tense (1977),[14] Real Life Funnies (Off-Broadway, 1981),[15] Diamonds (Off-Broadway, 1984), and Personals (Off-Off-Broadway, 1985).[16] His revue Patch, Patch, Patch ran at the West Bank Cafe in New York City in 1979 and featured Chip Zien. The New York Times reviewer, Mel Gussow, wrote: "The title song ... refers to a life's passage. According to Alan Menken ... after age 30 it is a downhill plunge."[17]

Menken wrote several shows that were not produced, including Atina, Evil Queen of the Galaxy (1980), with lyrics by Steve Brown. He also wrote The Thorn with lyrics by Brown, which was commissioned by Divine in 1980. This was a parody of the film The Rose, but they could not raise the money to have it produced.[18] He collaborated with Howard Ashman in an uncompleted musical called Babe (c. 1981),[19][20] with Tom Eyen in Kicks: The Showgirl Musical (1984),[21] and with David Rogers in The Dream in Royal Street (c. 1981), which was an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream.[20] Menken contributed music for the film The Line (1980), directed by Robert J. Siegel.[22]

Breakthrough years

Menken finally achieved success as a composer when playwright Howard Ashman chose him and Engel to write the music for his musical adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. The musical opened in 1979 at the WPA Theater[23] to excellent reviews[23] and modest box office. It transferred after several months to the Off-Broadway Entermedia Theater, where it ran for an additional six weeks.[24][25][26][27]

Menken and Ashman wrote their next musical,

Mean Green Mother From Outer Space".[28] For his body of work in musical theatre, he was awarded the BMI Career Achievement Award in 1983.[citation needed
]

In 1987, Menken and lyricist David Spencer's adaptation, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, based on the 1959 novel of the same name, was produced in Philadelphia. After substantial re-writes, it was produced in 2015 in Montreal.[29][30] In 1992, the WPA Theatre produced Menken's Weird Romance, also with lyrics by Spencer.[31] Menken's musical based on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Mike Ockrent, debuted at Madison Square Garden's Paramount Theater in 1994.[32] The show proved successful and was an annual New York holiday event.[33]

Disney Renaissance and later films

On the strength of the success of Little Shop of Horrors, Menken and Ashman were hired by

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella. The Little Mermaid opened to critical and commercial success and signaled a new Disney era called the Disney Renaissance.[34] The film gave them their first Oscar win: Best Song for the song "Under the Sea". Menken also won the 1989 Oscar for Best Score.[8][35]

Menken and Ashman's

Stephen Schwartz for Pocahontas, for which the two won two Oscars: Best Song and Best Musical or Comedy Score. In 1996, the same musical team created the songs, and Menken, the score, for The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In 1997, Menken reunited with his early collaborator, David Zippel, for his last animated musical film in the series, Hercules.[36]

Menken also wrote the music for the

Enchanted (2007) and Tangled (2010). In March 2017, Disney released a live action film adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, with the songs from the 1991 film and new material by Menken and Rice.[40] As of 2017, Menken is collaborating on writing new songs with Pasek and Paul for a live-action film remake of Aladdin and is also working with Lin-Manuel Miranda on new music for a live-action film adaptation of The Little Mermaid.[41]

With eight Academy Awards (four each for best score and best song), only composer

Disney Legend in 2001.[42]

Return to musical theatre

Menken debuted on Broadway with a musical theatre adaptation of

concert version on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Little Shop of Horrors played on Broadway from 2003 to 2004.[43]

He next created the stage version of

Tony Award for Best Score.[43] Menken's stage adaptation of Sister Act premiered in London in 2009, and opened on Broadway in 2011. He was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Score.[44] Menken received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.[45] In December 2010, he was a guest on the NPR quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!.[46]

In 2012, Menken won a Tony Award for Best Score for his musical adaptation of Newsies, which ran until 2014. He also wrote the music for Leap of Faith, which had a brief run on Broadway in 2012. His stage adaptation of Aladdin opened on Broadway in 2014, earning him another Tony nomination for Best Score.[43] In 2013, he was a guest at the annual Junior Theatre Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, and was honored with the Junior Theater Festival Award.[47] He gave a concert there, including music that was cut from various productions, while talking about his creative process.[citation needed]

Menken's stage adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame played at La Jolla Playhouse, California, in 2014.[48][49] The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz was revived in Montreal in 2015,[29][30] and A Bronx Tale: The Musical, played at the Paper Mill Playhouse in 2016.[50]

Personal life

Menken met the ballet dancer Janis Roswick while working with the Downtown Ballet Company. They have been married since November 1972 and live in North Salem, New York. The couple has two daughters, Anna Menken and Nora Menken.[51]

Filmography

Score and/or songs

Year Title Director(s) Studio(s) Notes
1972 A Dancer's Life William Richert Warner Bros. Pictures Himself (Documentary)
1986 Little Shop of Horrors Frank Oz Warner Bros.
The Geffen Company 		—
1989 The Little Mermaid Ron Clements
John Musker 		Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios 		—
1991 Beauty and the Beast Gary Trousdale
Kirk Wise 		Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios 		—
1992 Newsies Kenny Ortega Walt Disney Pictures —
Aladdin Ron Clements
John Musker 		Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios 		—
1993 Life with Mikey James Lapine Touchstone Pictures —
1995 Pocahontas
Eric Goldberg
 Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios 		—
1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Gary Trousdale
Kirk Wise 		Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios 		—
1997 Hercules Ron Clements
John Musker 		Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios 		—
2004 Home on the Range Will Finn
John Sanford 		Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios 		—
Noel Chazz Palminteri Convex Group —
A Christmas Carol Arthur Allan Seidelman
Hallmark Entertainment
NBC
 Television film
2006 The Shaggy Dog Brian Robbins Walt Disney Pictures —
2007
Enchanted
 		Kevin Lima Walt Disney Pictures —
2010 Tangled Byron Howard
Nathan Greno 		Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios 		—
2012 Mirror Mirror Tarsem Singh Relativity Media —
2016 Sausage Party Greg Tiernan
Conrad Vernon 		Columbia Pictures
Annapurna Pictures 		co-composed with Christopher Lennertz
2017 Beauty and the Beast Bill Condon Walt Disney Pictures Songs from 1991 animated film and new material co-composed with Tim Rice
2019 Aladdin Guy Ritchie Returning to score from 1992 animated film; co-composed with Pasek & Paul
TBA The Little Mermaid Rob Marshall Returning to score from 1989 animated film; co-composed with Lin-Manuel Miranda

Songs only

Television

  • Sesame Street [the songs "Grouchelot", "What is Friend?", "It's Gonna Get Dirty Again," "Snuffle Friends," "Martian Family (Yip Yip Song)," and "Todos un Pueblo"] 1989-1990
  • Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (supervising composer, the song "Wonderful Ways to Say No") 1990
  • Lincoln 1992
  • A Christmas Carol 2004
  • The Neighbors - S01E20 "Sing Like a Larry Bird" [the songs "More or Less The Kind of Thing You May or May Not Possibly See on Broadway", "Giselle", "More or Less The Kind of Thing You May or May Not Possibly See on Broadway" (Reprise)] 2013 (Emmy nominee)
  • Galavant (2 seasons complete soundtrack, score by Christopher Lennertz) 2015–2016
  • Tangled: The Series 2017 [53]

Musicals

Other

Upcoming projects

  • Menken is composing a new musical based on a 1994 film Corrina, Corrina with lyrics by Brian Yorkey and book by Jessie Nelson (writer for the film's screenplay).[55]
  • A musical in the composition process is Mrs. Doubtfire, with a book by Harvey Fierstein[56][57]
  • Producer John Hart hopes to revive the Menken and Eyen musical Kicks with a new book by playwright and cabaret artist Salty Brine.[58]
  • Menken has announced that a stage version of Hercules is in the works, but it has not yet entered production. [59]

Awards

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Alan Menken

Alan Menken has earned eight Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, eleven Grammy Awards, one Tony Award, one Drama Desk Award and two Outer Critics Awards. He was awarded as Disney Legends in 2002 and was the recipient of a Richard Kirk Career Achievement Award in 1998, a Freddie G. Award for Musical Excellence in 2013, and The Oscar Hammerstein Award in 2013, among others. The American Film Institute included the title song from the film Beauty and the Beast, in the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. Five other songs from his Disney films have been nominated:

In 2006, AFI listed its 25 greatest movie musicals. Beauty and the Beast (1991) is ranked 22nd and is the only animated musical film in the list. Four of his other film musicals were also nominated:

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