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==Awards== {{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Giorgio Moroder}} [[File:Giorgio Moroder.jpg|thumb|right|Moroder with some of his awards in 2007]] Moroder has won three [[Academy Awards]]: [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]] for ''[[Midnight Express (film)|Midnight Express]]'' (1978);<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYGnxGYqYFI|title=Music Oscars® for "Midnight Express" and "The Buddy Holly Story"|date=10 September 2013|publisher=[[YouTube]]|access-date=4 October 2020|archive-date=8 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200908010323/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYGnxGYqYFI|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Song]] for "[[Flashdance...What a Feeling]]", from the film ''[[Flashdance]]'' (1983)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fpbQrdVDpc|title="Flashdance...What a Feeling" winning Best Original Song Oscar®|date=24 November 2010|publisher=[[YouTube]]|access-date=4 October 2020|archive-date=8 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200908015436/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fpbQrdVDpc|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Song]] for "[[Take My Breath Away]]", from ''[[Top Gun]]'' (1986).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4y19tWzDGQ|title="Take My Breath Away" winning Best Original Song Oscar®|date=4 February 2016|publisher=[[YouTube]]|access-date=4 October 2020|archive-date=8 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200908031713/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4y19tWzDGQ|url-status=live}}</ref> Moroder also won two of his four [[Grammy Awards]] for ''Flashdance'': Best Album or Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special and Best Instrumental Composition for the track "Love Theme from Flashdance". The third was awarded for Best Dance Recording for the song "Carry On". Moroder also won four [[Golden Globe]]s: two [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]] for "Midnight Express" and "Flashdance... What a Feeling", and two [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]] for "Flashdance... What a Feeling" and "Take My Breath Away". On 20 September 2004, Moroder was honoured at the [[Dance Music Hall of Fame]] ceremony, held in New York, when he was inducted for his achievements and contributions as a producer. In 2005, Moroder was named a ''[[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic|Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=158014|title=Presidenza della Repubblica|publisher=Quirinale.it|date=26 May 2005|access-date=15 May 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116073743/http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=158014|archive-date=16 January 2014}}</ref> and in 2010 [[Bolzano]] awarded him the ''Grande Ordine al Merito della Provincia autonoma di Bolzano''. In 2011, he was awarded the [[World Soundtrack Award – Lifetime Achievement|Lifetime Achievement Award]] by the [[World Soundtrack Academy]]. In 2014, Moroder won his fourth [[Grammy Award]] for [[Daft Punk]]'s ''[[Random Access Memories]]'' (Album of the Year).
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