Roger Allers; Rob Minkoff

The Profile

Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff are American film directors best known for co-directing the 1994 Disney animated musical The Lion King.

The Lion King (1994) earned two Academy Awards (best original score; best song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight") and grossed approximately $968,483,777 worldwide (as noted in contemporary reporting).

Reviewers praise The Lion King's technical animation, key sequences (Circle of Life, the stampede) and its soundtrack by Elton John, Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer. They also note heavy borrowing from earlier films, narrative imbalance between the film's two halves, and underused secondary characters. Overall regarded as historically important but flawed; nostalgia influences many positive readings.