Ludwing Goransson Net Worth 2025: How Rich is The Swedish Composer Actually?

He is best known for his accomplishments as a composer, record producer, and conductor in movies like Tenet, Black Panther, Creed, Creed II, Venom, and Fruitvale Station.

His primary occupation is that of a composer and music producer. Although Ludwig Goransson has accumulated a net worth of $1 million, his net worth is not huge.

Net Worth, Age, Career, Profession, Nationality, Bio

Early Life

Sweden was the home of Göransson when he was born and raised. He has a Polish mother, Maria, and a Swedish father, Tomas, who teaches guitar. The younger of the two siblings is Jessika.

His name is derived from Ludwig van Beethoven. In addition to his music lessons when he was a child, he also graduated from Stockholm Royal College of Music.

Since 2007, he has been pursuing his study of the score for motion pictures and television at the University of Southern California.

This is also where Ludwig met Ryan Coogler, who co-wrote and directed USC’s 2011 award-winning short film Fig (written by Alex George Pickering). Ludwig composed the score for them.

Following that, the two would collaborate on Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther. A few months after graduating from USC, he began assisting Theodore Shapiro, a composer known for films like Along Came Polly, The Devil Wears Prada and Idiocracy.

It was in 2009 that Ludwig scored the comedy Community that he gained his first break.

Career of Ludwing

Ludwig’s debut as a film composer was in the 2013 biographical film Fruitvale Station. In this film, Johannes Mehserle, a BART police officer, kills Oscar Grant, an African-American who was shot by Oscar Grant.

Several prestigious awards were given to this film, bringing Ludwig to the public’s attention.

A career breakthrough for Ludwig came after he composed Black Panther, which made $1.3 billion! Black Panther won the Academy Awards and Grammy Awards for Ludwig Goransson. Additionally, he appeared in the Rocky franchise films Creed and Creed II.

Goransson is currently earning attention and fame for composing the 2020 film, Tenet. Furthermore, Justin Timberlake collaborated with him on the original score of the 2020 film –the Trolls World Tour.

Ludwig also worked as a music producer. Ludvig Goransson is an award-winning music producer widely known for his work on the single ‘This Is America’ by Childish Gambino. Ludwig has won two Grammy awards for his contribution to the song.

A well-known television character, Ludwig plays The Mandalorian in the series. Ludwig Goransson has also appeared in American sitcoms like Happy Endings, New Girl, and Community.

Ludwig Goransson has won 12 awards and been nominated for 47 so far in his career.

The film is the first by Coogler, who graduated from USC with Göransson in 2013. Coogler’s critically acclaimed drama Fruitvale Station, about Oscar Grant, 22-year-old, ended in tragedy when he was shot to death on 1 January 2009, featured Göransson’s score.

At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, the film won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the Dramatic category, as well as the Avenir Prize and Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.

According to an August 2013 contract, Göransson is a composer for Jay-Z’s record label, Roc Nation. His music for the film We’re the Millers was also composed in that same year.

Their next collaboration was on the critically acclaimed Rocky franchise film Creed released in 2015. A few years later, he had scored True Memoirs of an International Assassin, Central Intelligence, and Everything, Everything.

For their third collaboration, Black Panther, Göransson and Coogler teamed up in 2018. A traditional superhero score and traditional African instrumentation served as Göransson’s inspiration for this piece. For this purpose, he traveled to Senegal to learn about traditional African instruments and music.

Baaba Maal, whose voice is featured in the music, sings in Fula, the native language of the musician.

After becoming familiar with the International Library of African Music, founded by Hugh Tracey, he traveled to South Africa in order to listen to traditional musicians and ensure that the score matches culturally. Among Göransson’s wins was the Oscar for Best Original Score for Black Panther in 2019.

It was announced on 22 May 2019 that owing to Hans Zimmer’s commitment to Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, a new film score was composed by Ludwig Göransson for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. With Justin Timberlake, he composed original songs for the movie Trolls World Tour.

The Mandalorian is a Star Wars television series set within the Disney+ universe and Göransson composes the score. He also wrote the fanfare for the franchises’ logo.

The judge chose him to compose the new fanfare for Warner Bros. The film debut in Italy on April 21, 2021 with the movie Non Mi Uccidere.

The television counterpart to the film premiered earlier on March 4, 2021 with Young Sheldon Season 4 Episode 10, “Cowboy Aerobics and 473 Grease-Free Bolts”.

This fanfare was introduced as the opening theme to Warner Bros. movies in 1998 and to its television shows’ closing logos in 2003 (albeit in a different key), but it now has a more powerful buildup, and the first notes are played on guitar rather than a piano.

 

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Biography of Ludwing

Originally from Linköping, Sweden, Göransson began his career as a television producer. He grew up in Warsaw, Poland, with his Polish mother Maria and his Swedish father Tomas. A sister named Jessika grew up with him. Ludwig van Beethoven was his ancestor.

Having taken music lessons from a young age, he graduated from the Stockholm Royal College of Music. As of 2007, he attended the University of Southern California’s program in scoring for motion pictures and television.

When Ludwig was attending USC he met Ryan Coogler (who directed the award-winning short film Fig), for which Ludwig composed the score for.

Alexander George Pickering, who wrote the screenplay, was a student at USC when Ludwig composed the score. Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther would eventually be the first films the pair worked on together.

Following graduation from USC, he began work as a production assistant for Theodore Shapiro, known for films like Along Came Polly, The Devil Wears Prada, Idiocracy, and Tropic Thunder.

As a composer for the comedy Community, Ludwig received his first break in 2009.

During their time working on Community, Glover and Göransson first discussed Glover’s side project, Childish Gambino. Four albums have been released since then: Camp, Because of the Internet, “Awaken, My Love!”, and 3.15.20.

Goransson wrote every song on the album “Awaken, My Love!”, which draws inspiration from Parliament-Funkadelic and black power music of the 1970s. Four Grammy nominations were given to them for “Redbone” over the course of November.

HAIM’s debut EP was produced by Göransson in 2012, and the song “Forever” helped establish the band’s new sound. Aside from making songs for HAIM’s debut album, he also produced two songs.

Ryan Coogler, a fellow USC grad who worked with Göransson on his first movie, premiered in 2013. In Fruitvale Station, which was based on the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant, 22 in the early hours of January 1, 2009, Göransson composed the score.

In addition to taking home the Avenir Prize and Un Certain Regard awards at the Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience awards in the Dramatic category at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Roc Nation’s Jay-Z label signed Göransson to a management agreement in August 2013. His music for We’re the Millers was also composed that year.

It was in 2015 that Coogler and Göransson collaborated once more, this time on the acclaimed Rocky franchise movie Creed. He had scored True Memoirs of an International Assassin, Central Intelligence, and Everything, Everything by 2016-17.

Earlier this year, Göransson and Coogler began collaborating on their third project, Black Panther. To create the score, Göransson wanted to compose something that would sit somewhere between African instrumentation and a superhero score.

A trip to Senegal was necessary in order to research traditional instruments and music from the continent. In the score, he hears the voice of Fula musician Baaba Maal who sings in his native language.

After traveling to South Africa, he listened to recordings of traditional musicians in Africa’s International Library of African Music, founded by Hugh Tracey. Black Panther’s score won Göransson the 2019 Academy Award for Best Original Score.

“This Is America” became available on 5 May 2018. Musicians for the song include Gambino and Ludwig Göransson, as well as American rappers Young Thug, Slim Jxmmi, BlocBoy JB, 21 Savage, Quavo and Offset.

Net Worth

The net worth of the famous composer Ludwig Göransson, aged 35, is $1-5 Million in line with Wikipedia, Forbes, IMDb & various other online sources. The composer earned the money by working for himself. lives in Sweden.