George Fenton, a five-time Oscar-nominated composer on Cry Freedom, Dangerous Liaisons, Groundhog Day, You’ve Got Mail and dozens of other films, died on Monday. He was 76.

His family confirmed his death to the BBC, writing in a statement, “We are very sad to announce that George Fenton passed away unexpectedly today.” His cause of death wasn’t immediately available.

Born Oct. 19, 1949, in England, Fenton was one of five siblings. His father worked as a mechanical engineer, while his mother was a dancer and dance teacher before becoming a nurse during the war, according to his website.

After studying the church organ at a young age, Fenton decided to skip college and pursue a career as a performer. He played in various bands while continuing to audition for roles, eventually being cast in Alan Bennett’s play, Forty Years On, in 1968.

Around this time, he also signed a record contract at MCA as a recording artist, as well as one with his band at Decca. Over the next several years, he worked as a session musician with artists such as B. A. Robertson and did some arranging for theater and television, including for Carl Davis.

Fenton was later asked by director Peter Gill in 1974 to write the music for the play, Twelfth Night, for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. He went on to write dozens of projects across theater, film and TV.

Some of his most notable film work as a composer includes Gandhi (1982), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Cry Freedom (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Fisher King (1991), Groundhog Day (1993), Mary Reilly (1996), The Woodlanders (1997), The Object of My Affection (1998), Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998), You’ve Got Mail (1998), Anna and the King (1999), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Hitch (2005), Bewitched (2005), Last Holiday (2006), Fool’s Gold (2008), The Bounty Hunter (2010), Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight (2013), Walk on the Wild Side (2016), Cold Pursuit (2019), The Old Oak (2023) and Up Against It (2026).

Fenton also composed several natural history documentary series from David Attenborough’s The Trials of Life (1990) and Life in the Freezer (1993) to Alastair Fothergill’s The Blue Planet (2001) and Planet Earth (2006).

Over his long career, he won two Emmys and earned two Grammy nominations. He was also nominated for five Oscars, including for best score for Gandhi, Cry Freedom, Dangerous Liaisons and The Fisher King, and best song for “Cry Freedom.”

Fenton is survived by his wife Amanda; ex-wife Jane; children Gemma, Grace and Bridget; and grandchildren Lola, Audrey, Alfred, George, Frank and Beatrice.

The first reactions to The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin‘s intriguing followup to The Social Network, have hit social media.

Full critics reviews for the Sony Pictures film drop on Oct. 7, but the embargo for brief social media reactions to press screenings on Monday has been lifted and the consensus seems to be that Social Reckoning is a timely slow burn legal drama with a compelling performance from Jeremy Strong.

A companion film rather than a direct sequel to David Fincher‘s The Social Network (2010), which Sorkin wrote, Social Reckoning tells the story of the 2021 Facebook leak that saw tens of thousands of internal documents about the company’s practices sent to the Wall Street Journal and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Per the film’s logline: “Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.”

Strong plays Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the film, taking over from Jesse Eisenberg, who turned down the opportunity to play Zuckerberg once more. The stellar cast also includes Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen and Bill Burr.

As with all this directorial projects, Sorkin wrote the script. Interestingly, Jeff Cronenweth, Fincher’s longtime cinematographer who also worked on Social Network, lensed the film and the music is by two-time Oscar-winner Alexandre Desplat.

Sorkin’s film comes at a time when Hollywood is applying much greater scruitiny to Silicon Valley’s tech titans. In recent weeks, Alex Gibney has released Musk, a searing documentary about polarizing trillionaire Elon Musk. On Monday, first reactions to Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman biopic Artificial started to hit social media. Also coming up in Nathan Fielder’s acclaimed docudrama You Can See Everything, about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.

The Social Reckoning hits theaters on Oct. 9. Below is a selection of early reactions to the film.