Ramin Djawadi

Ramin Djawadi (, ; born 19 July 1974) is an Iranian-German score composer. He is known for his scores for the 2008 Marvel film "Iron Man" and the HBO series "Game of Thrones", for which he was nominated for Grammy Awards in 2009, 2018 and 2020. He is also the composer for the HBO "Game of Thrones" prequel series, "House of the Dragon" (2022–present). He has scored films such as "Clash of the Titans", "Pacific Rim", "Warcraft", "A Wrinkle in Time", "Iron Man" and "Eternals", television series including "Prison Break", "Person of Interest", "Jack Ryan", and "Westworld", and video games such as "Medal of Honor", "Gears of War 4", and "Gears 5". He 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".
Early life.
Djawadi was born in Duisburg, to an Iranian father and a German mother. He went to Krupp Gymnasium in Duisburg, West Germany and studied at Berklee College of Music.
Career.
After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1998, Djawadi garnered the attention of Hans Zimmer, who recruited him to Remote Control Productions. Djawadi moved to Los Angeles and worked as an assistant to Klaus Badelt. From there on he made additional music and arrangements for Badelt and Zimmer movies, such as "", "The Time Machine", and the Academy Award-nominated film "Something's Gotta Give". He co-composed the music for "System Shock 2" (1999). In 2003, he and Badelt composed the score of "Beat the Drum".
In 2004, Djawadi went out on his own with "", collaborating with RZA for director David S. Goyer. This was the beginning of his relationship with Goyer for both film and television. The following year, Djawadi continued making additional music for Zimmer in films such as "Batman Begins" and "The Island", which was his last time working in the background of another composer. The same year, he composed the Emmy-nominated main title themes and scores for "Prison Break" and the related show "Breakout Kings".
In 2006, Djawadi scored the first Sony Pictures Animation project, "Open Season", followed by the sequel "Open Season 2" (2008). Djawadi's ethereal score for the film "Mr. Brooks" (2007) earned him a World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year nomination. His other scores include "Deception", Robert Towne's "Ask the Dust", and "Iron Man". Djawadi was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for his work on "Iron Man"'.
Djawadi wrote the score for Goyer's horror thriller "The Unborn" (2009), produced by Michael Bay. Djawadi collaborated with Goyer on the television show "FlashForward" that year, earning him his second Emmy nomination.
In 2010, Djawadi completed Warner Brothers' "Clash of the Titans". The same year, he scored the soundtrack for the video game "Medal of Honor".
In 2011, he was selected to score HBO's fantasy drama "Game of Thrones". His work on "Game of Thrones" has garnered him several industry awards and recognition including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series in September 2018 for the score "The Dragon and the Wolf". For his work on season 7, he was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. This was his second nomination in this category after being nominated before for "Iron Man" in 2009. In 2011, he worked on the CBS crime drama "Person of Interest".
In 2013, Djawadi composed for the science fiction film "Pacific Rim". He scored FX's vampire drama "The Strain", created by "Pacific Rim" director Guillermo del Toro.
In 2016, Djawadi composed for the fantasy film "Warcraft" and the HBO science fiction show "Westworld". The same year, Djawadi composed the score for the fantasy action monster film "The Great Wall".
Djawadi scored "The Queen's Corgi", an animation film directed by frequent collaborator Ben Stassen. He co-wrote "Hollow Crown " alongside Ellie Goulding in "". In 2019, he won his second Emmy Award in a row for the "Game of Thrones" episode "The Long Night".
In 2019, Djawadi also made the soundtrack for the Microsoft Studios and The Coalition video game, "Gears 5". The soundtrack was copyrighted and cannot be used even while playing the game online. 
He received a third Grammy nomination for his work in season 8 of "Game of Thrones", in the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category.
Djawadi composed the score for the 2021 Marvel Studios film "Eternals", which marked his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) since 2008's "Iron Man". Djawadi composed music for the trailer of , a card game. Djawadi co-composed music with Brandon Campbell for the second episode of Apple TV+'s series "Amazing Stories" titled "The Heat". He composed music for the Disney+'s nature documentary film "Elephant". Djawadi composed the score for Lisa Joy's feature film debut "Reminiscence". He also co-composed the music for the Amazon Game's "New World" with Brandon Campbell.
He scored the music for Ruben Fleischer's "Uncharted" based on the videogame franchise of same name. He reunited with "Game Of Thrones" creator D.B Weiss and Tom Morello, scoring the Netflix film, "Metal Lords," directed by Peter Solliet. He scored Sony's "The Man from Toronto", directed by Patrick Hughes and the "Game Of Thrones" prequel series", House Of the Dragon."
Personal life.
Djawadi is married to Jennifer Hawks, a music executive in the film industry. They are parents of twins. According to Djawadi, he experiences the perceptual phenomenon known as synesthesia whereby he may "associate colours with music, or music with colours", and it allows him to visualize music.