Ramin Djawadi — Movie Scores, Soundtracks & Filmography

The essay

Reading Ramin Djawadi

Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.

Why this filmmaker matters

Ramin Djawadi has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue. Ramin Djawadi (born 19 July 1974) is an Iranian-German film score composer, conductor, and record producer. He is known for his scores for the HBO series Game of Thrones, for which he was nominated for Grammy Awards in 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 3 Body Problem, Prison Break, Person of Interest, Jack Ryan, Westworld, and Fallout; and video games such as Medal of Honour, Gears of War 4, Gears 5, and System Shock 2. 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.". Description above from the Wikipedia article Ramin Djawadi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Signature style

The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.

Legacy

Djawadi set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.