Oriol Tarragó (Reus, Tarragona), is a film post-production supervisor and sound designer. He is also a teacher at the Escuela Superior de Cine y Audiovisuales de Cataluña (ESCAC), attached to the University of Barcelona.
He has designed the sound design of many Spanish and international films such as [REC], The Orphanage (2007), The Impossible (2012), Enemy (2013) Crimson Peak (2015), Penny Dreadful (2014), A Monster Call (2018), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom(2018) and Society of the snow (2023). He won six Goya Awards from the Spanish Film Academy, eight Gaudí Award from the Catalan Film Academy and two Golden Reel Awards from the Motion Sound Picture Editors. In 2018 he was awarded Best European Sound Designer by the European Film Academy.
He is a member of the Spanish Film Academy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Biography
He graduated from the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya - (Cinema and Audivisuals School of Catalonia), with the documentary Pura (1999) after receiving a scholarship for a six-month stay at the Singapore`s Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
Career
Upon his return from Singapore, he worked with Guillermo del Toro on The Devil’s Backbone (2001) and with fellow graduate from Escola Superior de Cinema, Juan Antonio Bayona on Bayona´s first short films.
