Editing Vangelis (section)

==Honours and legacy==
In 1989 Vangelis received the [[Max Steiner]] Award.<ref name="Finder">{{cite web |url=http://www.newsfinder.org/site/more/vangelis_papathanassiou/ |title=Vangelis Papathanassiou by Gus Leous |date=7 March 2003 |website=Newsfinder.Org |access-date=20 August 2016 |archive-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310091918/http://newsfinder.org/site/more/vangelis_papathanassiou |url-status=dead }}</ref> France made him a Knight of the [[Order of the Arts and Letters]] in 1992 and promoted him to Commander in 2017,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mounarebeiz.com/vangelis-commandeur-des-arts-et-des-lettres-3/|title=Vangelis is 'Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres' (Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters)|date=3 July 2017|work=mounarebeiz.com|access-date=28 July 2017|archive-date=31 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331014513/https://mounarebeiz.com/vangelis-commandeur-des-arts-et-des-lettres-3/|url-status=dead}}</ref> as well as Knight of the [[National Order of the Legion of Honour]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/docs/management/consultation-rights-management/vangelis_en.pdf |title=Vangelis copyright BUMA and STEMRA |author=Jacqueline A. Schaap |date=21 June 2004 |publisher=Commission of the European Communities |access-date=20 August 2016 |archive-date=23 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123075724/http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/docs/management/consultation-rights-management/vangelis_en.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1993 he received the music award Apollo by Friends of the Athens National Opera Society.<ref name="Finder"/> In 1995, Vangelis had a [[minor planet]] named after him (''[[6354 Vangelis]]'') by the [[International Astronomical Union]]'s Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the [[Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory]]; the name was proposed by the MPC's co-director, [[Gareth V. Williams]], rather than by the object's original discoverer, [[Eugène Joseph Delporte]], who died in 1955, long before the 1934 discovery could be confirmed by observations made in 1990. In 1996 and 1997, Vangelis received awards at the [[World Music Awards]].<ref name="Finder"/>

[[NASA]] conferred their [[Public Service Medal (NASA)|Public Service Medal]] to Vangelis in 2003. The award is the highest honour the space agency presents to an individual not involved with the [[American government]]. Five years later, in 2008, the board of the [[National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]] voted to award Vangelis an [[honorary doctoral degree]], making him a [[professor emeritus]] at their Faculty of Primary Education. In June 2008, the [[American Hellenic Institute]] honoured Vangelis with an AHI Hellenic Heritage Achievement Award for his "exceptional artistic achievements" as a pioneer in electronic music and for his lifelong dedication to the promotion of [[Hellenization|Hellenism]] through the arts.<ref>[http://www.ahiworld.org/press_releases/071008b.html American Hellenic website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412103847/http://www.ahiworld.org/press_releases/071008b.html |date=12 April 2009 }} Retrieved 22 February 2009</ref> On 16 September 2013, he received the honour of appearing on the [[Postage stamps and postal history of Greece#Commemorative stamps|Greek 80 cent postage stamp]], as part of a series of six distinguished living personalities of the [[Greek Diaspora]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Papantoniou |first=Margarita |url=http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/09/17/six-greek-diaspora-personalities-on-postal-stamps/#sthash.Hf7eC8Ye.dpuf |title=Six Greek Diaspora Personalities on Postal Stamps &#124; GreekReporter.com |website=Greece.greekreporter.com |date=17 September 2013 |access-date=24 April 2014 |archive-date=9 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409044923/http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/09/17/six-greek-diaspora-personalities-on-postal-stamps/#sthash.Hf7eC8Ye.dpuf |url-status=live }}</ref> In May 2018 the [[University of Thessaly]] in Vangelis's hometown of [[Volos]] awarded him an honorary doctorate degree in electrical and computer engineering.<ref>{{cite web|title=Honorary Doctorate degree for Vangelis|url=http://elsew.com/data/latest.htm|website=Elsewhere|access-date=24 May 2018|archive-date=1 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001203537/http://www.elsew.com/data/latest.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[American Film Institute]] nominated Vangelis's scores for ''[[Blade Runner]]'' and ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'' for [[AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores|their list of the 25 greatest film scores]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/scores250.pdf|title=AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores Ballot|website=Afi.com|access-date=30 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805075852/https://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/scores250.pdf |archive-date=2019-08-05}}</ref>