Disney Renaissance Menken. Disney's next film, "Mulan", with a score by Jerry Goldsmith and songs by Matthew Wilder and David Zippel, came out in 1998 and earned $304 million at the worldwide box office, restoring the commercial and critical standing of Disney's output. The release of "Tarzan" is retrospectively seen as the end of the Renaissance era. With songs by Phil Collins, Tarzan won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "You'll Be in My Heart," and became Disney's most commercially successful film since "The Lion King", earning $448 million at the box office and widespread positive reviews. "Tarzan" was also
Alan Menken The challenge was to create an animated musical film of this Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale that could sit alongside the Disney films "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. 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. Menken and Ashman's "Beauty and the Beast" garnered them three 1991 Oscar nominations for Best Song, winning for its title song. Menken won another Oscar