Vangelis

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1943 age 0

   Born

2. 1981 age 38

   CreditChariots of Firecomposer

3. 1982 age 39

   CreditBlade Runnercomposer

   CreditMissingcomposer

4. 1992 age 49

   Credit1492 – Conquest of Paradisecomposer

   CreditBitter Mooncomposer

5. 2004 age 61

   CreditAlexandercomposer

6. 2022 age 79

   Died

• RSRidley Scott2 titles
• TRTerry Rawlings2 titles
• FBFrançoise Bonnot2 titles
• RMRory McCann1 title
• SWSigourney Weaver1 title
• JHJames Hong1 title
• KSKeith Szarabajka1 title
• MMMark Margolis1 title
• AHAnthony Hopkins1 title
• JLJared Leto1 title

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  Photo:Ian PattersonCC BY 2.0

• I’ve always had a tendency, since my early childhood, to design the world not through society, but through a cosmic truth. I believe that our existence is first cosmic, then biological and then social. Unfortunately, so much importance is placed on our social life that it hides this fact. I think that people feel social pressure and understand that these systems, currently prevent happiness.

  Vangelis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• On happiness: "For me, it’s harmony resulting from the cosmic wave, not the happiness resulting from the social wave"

  Vangelis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• On working alone: "I enjoy working alone. I know myself, and I know what I want... and all this allows me to create my music before my thoughts can interrupt".

  Vangelis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• On concerts: "Concerts are nonsense. They create many problems: money, interests – it is hardly spontaneous. I want to feel the same pleasure that my audience experiences, otherwise it’s not honest"

  Vangelis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• On voice and music: "The voice, for me, is probably the best instrument, but, on the other hand, when a person sings words they immediately limit themselves to a certain category of people, to a particular dialect. Music without lyrics travels more easily and may be biologically conceived and received".

  Vangelis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• On theory: "I don’t know any theory. Knowing the theory does not mean anything. If we theoretically know what a human being is, but someone has never seen one, or if you have never had a relationship with a human being, you cannot know anything about human beings! I think that the best way to gain knowledge is through gaining experience and through connections... Look, if I approach an instrument theoretically, it will give me a theory, so therefore this will make cold music".

  Vangelis, CC BY-SA 4.0