Goldsmith was suffering from cancer. The musician breathed his last on Wednesday night in his Beverly Hills, California, home.
Trained in classical music, Goldsmith scored memorable music for films like Freud, A Patch of Blue, The Sand Pebbles, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Boys from Brazil, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, LA Confidential and Mulan.
In a career spanning almost 50 years, he was nominated for 18 Oscars. But he won it only once for The Omen in 1976.