1. Ramin Djawadi was born on 19 July 1974 and is an Iranian-German film score composer, conductor, and record producer.
37 Facts About Ramin Djawadi
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Ramin Djawadi is known for his scores for the HBO series Game of Thrones, for which he was nominated for Grammy Awards in 2018 and 2020.
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Ramin Djawadi is the composer for the HBO Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.
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Ramin Djawadi has scored films such as Clash of the Titans, Pacific Rim, Warcraft, A Wrinkle in Time, Iron Man and Eternals.
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Ramin Djawadi won two consecutive Emmy Awards for Game of Thrones, in 2018 for the episode "The Dragon and the Wolf" and in 2019 for "The Long Night".
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Ramin Djawadi went to Krupp Gymnasium in Duisburg, West Germany and studied at Berklee College of Music.
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Ramin Djawadi moved to Los Angeles and worked as an assistant to Klaus Badelt.
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Ramin Djawadi co-composed the music for System Shock 2.
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In 2004, Djawadi went out on his own with Blade: Trinity, collaborating with RZA for director David S Goyer.
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In 2006, Ramin Djawadi scored the first Sony Pictures Animation project, Open Season, followed by the sequel Open Season 2 In 2007 Ramin Djawadi scored "Fly Me To The Moon", the first full-length animation film to be released solely in 3D by the Belgian nWave Studios.
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Ramin Djawadi subsequently scored 6 more films with Belgian director Ben Stassen: Sammy's Adventure, Samy II, African Safari 3D and House of Magic, Robinson Crusoe, and Queen's Corgi.
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Ramin Djawadi was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for his work on Iron Man.
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Ramin Djawadi wrote the score for Goyer's horror thriller The Unborn, produced by Michael Bay.
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Ramin Djawadi collaborated with Goyer on the television show FlashForward that year, earning him his second Emmy nomination.
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In 2010, Ramin Djawadi completed Warner Brothers' Clash of the Titans.
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In 2013, Ramin Djawadi composed for the science fiction film Pacific Rim.
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Ramin Djawadi scored FX's vampire drama The Strain, created by Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro.
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In 2014, Ramin Djawadi wrote the score for an American action horror film Dracula Untold.
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In 2016, Ramin Djawadi composed for the fantasy film Warcraft and the HBO science fiction show Westworld.
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In 2017, Ramin Djawadi composed the music for American survival drama film The Mountain Between Us.
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In 2018, Ramin Djawadi scored American science fantasy adventure film A Wrinkle in Time and American supernatural horror film Slender Man.
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Ramin Djawadi wrote the music for Amazon Prime Video's political action thriller television series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.
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Ramin Djawadi scored The Queen's Corgi, an animation film directed by frequent collaborator Ben Stassen.
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Ramin Djawadi co-wrote "Hollow Crown " alongside Ellie Goulding in For the Throne: Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones.
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In 2019, Ramin Djawadi returned to the Gears of War series to compose the music for Gears 5.
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Ramin Djawadi received a third Grammy Award nomination for his work in season 8 of Game of Thrones, in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category.
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Ramin Djawadi composed the score for the 2021 Marvel Studios film Eternals, which marked his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008's Iron Man.
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Ramin Djawadi composed music for the trailer of Magic: The Gathering: Theros Beyond Death, a card game.
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Ramin Djawadi co-composed music with Brandon Campbell for the second episode of Apple TV+'s series Amazing Stories titled "The Heat".
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Ramin Djawadi composed music for the Disney+'s nature documentary film Elephant.
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Ramin Djawadi composed the score for Lisa Joy's feature film debut Reminiscence.
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Ramin Djawadi co-composed the music for the Amazon Game's New World with Brandon Campbell.
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Ramin Djawadi scored the music for Ruben Fleischer's Uncharted based on the videogame franchise of same name.
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Ramin Djawadi scored Sony's The Man from Toronto, directed by Patrick Hughes and the Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.
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Ramin Djawadi re-teamed with Person of Interest and Westworld creators, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy for Fallout, Amazon Prime's adaptation of Bethesda Studio's famous video game franchise.
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In 2025, Ramin Djawadi scored Pixar's Win or Lose, with the duo, CAMPFIRE, writing all the original songs for the show based on Ramin Djawadi's themes.
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Ramin Djawadi is married to Jennifer Hawks, a music executive in the film industry.