An Emmy Award-winning, Grammy-nominated film, television, and video game composer,
Ramin Djawadi is best known for his work on the 2008 Marvel film Iron Man and the popular HBO series
Game of Thrones and
Westworld. He worked with Marvel Studios again in 2021 on
Eternals and provided the score for the following year's big-screen adaptation of the popular video game
Uncharted.
Iranian-German composer
Ramin Djawadi honed his considerable talents alongside contemporaries like
Klaus Badelt,
John Debney,
Harry Gregson-Williams, and
Steve Jablonsky while working for veteran composer
Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions film score company. He worked as an assistant to
Badelt before venturing out on his own with the
RZA-assisted score for director David Goyer's
Blade: Trinity (2004).
Djawadi continued to work with Goyer, providing music for both film (The Unborn) and television (FlashForward), earning an Emmy nomination for the latter.
In 2008
Djawadi, a longtime fan of the Marvel characters, provided the guitar-heavy score for director Jon Favreau's big-screen rendering of Iron Man, and in 2011 he provided the memorable (and oft-covered) theme and incidental music for HBO's massively popular fantasy series
Game of Thrones. Subsequent film scores have included
Clash of the Titans,
Red Dawn,
Pacific Rim,
Warcraft, The Great Wall, and
A Wrinkle in Time, while his work in television expanded to vampire horror show The Strain, sci-fi techno thriller
Person of Interest, and HBO's sci-fi/Western hybrid
Westworld, along with Amazon's series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.
Djawadi won consecutive Emmy Awards in 2018 and 2019 for his scores for individual
Game of Thrones episodes. Also in 2019, he earned a Grammy nomination for his work on the final season of
Game of Thrones. He scored Marvel Studios'
Eternals in 2021 and the video game-inspired adventure film
Uncharted in 2022. ~ James Christopher Monger