He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou ( Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου 29 March 1943 – ), known professionally as Vangelis ( / v æ ŋ ˈ ɡ ɛ l ɪ s/ vang- GHEL-iss Greek: Βαγγέλης ), was a Greek composer and arranger of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music.
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