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Composes music for Disney films

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Educated at New York University

Now tied with famed costume designer Edith Head for third most Academy Awards won, with eight. He has won best score and best song for four Disney animated movies: The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and Pocahontas (1995).

Children: Anna and Nora.

Plays piano, violin, guitar and accordian.

His show, Beauty and the Beast, was awarded the 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Musical of the 1997 season.

Has won more Academy awards then any other living composer in Oscar history (Alfred Newman received nine but passed away in 1970). He has won the following eight: Best Original Score for The Little Mermaid (1989), Best Song for Little Mermaid, The (1989)_ ("Under The Sea"), Best Original Score for Beauty and the Beast (1991), Best Original Song for Beauty and the Beast (1991)("Beauty and the Beast"), Best Original Score for Aladdin (1992), Best Original Song for Aladdin (1992)("A Whole New World"), Best Original Score for Pocahontas (1995) , and Best Original Song for Pocahontas ("Colors of the Wind"). He has also received ten other nominations.

Where Are They Now

(2003) Working with Alice Cooper on a stage project/recording: Alice Cooper's Deadly Seven. Planned Stage productions of The Idolmaker, Leap of Faith and Newsies being planned for stage.

(June 2006) Completing stage musical versions of The Little Mermaid, Leap of Faith and Sister Act. Working with Disney on the film Enchanted.

(September 2006) Appeared as part of a cast/crew panel discussion at the premiere of a revival/promotional screening of the 1989 Disney classic 'The Little Mermaid' at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on September 7th, 2006.

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