Giorgio Moroder

A prolific composer and producer of albums for popular artists, most notably Donna Summer, Moroder has provided pulsing, synthesized scores for films such as “Midnight Express” (1978) and “American Gigolo” (1980) and song scores for “Foxes” (1980), “Flashdance” (1983), “Electric Dreams” (1984) and “Let It Ride” (1989). He received three Oscars for his score for “Midnight Express” and shared the awards for the songs “Flashdance . . . What a Feeling” and “Take My Breath Away” (from “Top Gun”). —TCM