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3 Work in film and commercial success
He and Jon Anderson released several albums together in the 1980s and '90s as Jon & Vangelis.
In 1982 Vangelis won the Academy Award for Original Music Score for Chariots of Fire. The theme song topped the US Billboard charts for one week after climbing steadily for one year.
That year he also began working with director Ridley Scott; Vangelis scored his films Blade Runner and .
He also scored many of the undersea documentaries of Jacques Cousteau.
In 1992, France granted him the Chevalier Order of Arts and Letters .
The 2001 release Mythodea (orchestral rather than electronic) was originally written in 1993, and was used by NASA as the theme for the Mars missions. Currently he has been signed to write the score for Oliver Stone's film version of Alexander The Great[1].
4 Discography
