Ramin Djawadi (/rɒˈmiːn ˈdʒɑːvədi/, Persian: رامین جوادی, born July 19, 1974) is an Iranian-German score composer. He is well known for his scores for the 2008 Marvel film Iron Man and the HBO series Game of Thrones which were both nominated for Grammy Awards in 2009 and 2018 respectively. He has also scored movies such as Clash of the Titans, Pacific Rim, Warcraft and A Wrinkle in Time, and television series including Game of Thrones, Prison Break, Person of Interest, Jack Ryan, and Westworld. 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".
Djawadi was born in Duisburg, West Germany, to an Iranian father and a German mother, and studied at Berklee College of Music.
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 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Time Machine, and the Academy Award-nominated film Something's Gotta Give. He also co-composed the music for System Shock 2 (1999). In 2003, he and Badelt composed the score of Beat the Drum.