Who composed the score for David Fincher's 1997 film The Game?

Howard Shore composed the score for David Fincher's 1997 film The Game.

Shore's music gives the thriller an uneasy, cerebral atmosphere that matches Nicholas van Orton's growing uncertainty about what is real. The film stars Michael Douglas as a wealthy San Francisco investment banker whose brother, played by Sean Penn, gives him an unusual birthday present: participation in a mysterious, immersive game.

The Game marked Shore's second collaboration with Fincher, following Se7en in 1995. Shore was already an established film composer, but he later became most famous for scoring Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, for which he won multiple Academy Awards.

The film's score is easy to confuse with its licensed songs and other music cues. Those tracks are separate from Shore's original score, which was released as a soundtrack album in 1997. The Game was released on September 12, 1997, and runs about 128 minutes.