James Horner tributes posted on social media

James Horner, the Hollywood composer who wrote the Oscar-winning score for Titanic, has died in a California plane crash aged 61.

Friends, collaborators and fans have been paying tribute on their social media accounts.

Singer Celine Dion sang My Heart Will Go On, the ballad from Titanic which won Horner an Oscar for best original song, one of two he won for the film.

Horner's work with director Ron Howard includes Apollo 13, The Grinch and Willow. They first worked together on 1985's Cocoon.

Perhaps the best known collaboration between Howard and Horner is the score for A Beautiful Mind, which starred Russell Crowe.

Horner's work with director James Cameron includes the epics Titanic and Avatar. Leona Lewis sang the theme song to the latter.

Josh Groban, actor, singer and music producer, performed Horner-composed music for Troy.

Kirstie Alley appeared in the film which helped to establish Horner as a composer, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan

The 2002 remake of Four Feathers by Shekhar Kapur is one of over 100 films that featured Horner's work. But it is Titanic and its epic Celine Dion ballad, My Heart Will Go On, for which Horner is probably best known.

Ron Perlman appeared in The Name of the Rose. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud's latest film, Wolf Totem, also features music by James Horner.

This tribute from Debra Messing is sure to resonate with the millions of fans who have enjoyed James Horner's work

This graph shows there were thousands of tweets mentioning James Horner and Titanic in the hours following news of his death.