Oriol Tarragó

Oriol Tarragó
Oriol Tarragó
Born
Reus, Tarragona, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Occupation(s)Sound designer and Sound post-production supervisor
Websiteorioltarrago.com

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[1] such as [REC], The Orphanage (2007), The Impossible[2] (2012), Enemy (2013) Crimson Peak (2015), Penny Dreadful (2014), A Monster Call (2018), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom[3][4](2018) and Society of the snow (2023). He won six Goya Awards[5] 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.[6]

He is a member of the Spanish Film Academy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Biography

He graduated from the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya - (Cinema and Audivisuals School of Catalonia),[7] with the documentary Pura (1999)[8] 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.

He then moved to New York, where he studied film postproduction at New York University (NYU), and on to London to work as a sound editor.

He returned to Barcelona to do The Orphanage[9] (2007) with Bayona and began to work for directors such as Jaume Balagueró, Kike Maíllo, Denis Villeneuve or Daniel Monzón, Edmón Roch, as well as for Juan Antonio Bayona’s subsequent films.

He currently works from his studio Coser y Cantar in central Barcelona and is teaching sound design at Escola Superior de Cinema Film School. He is also involved in several projects[10] with studios in San Francisco, Toronto and London.

Filmography (selection)

Sound Department
Year Movies
2025 Wolfgang (Extraordinari)
2025 Un fantasma en la batalla
2025 Deep water
2024 L`homme au piano
2024 Dos tumbas (3 Episodios)
2024 La Joia: Bad Gyal
2024 The Penguin Lessons
2024 Buffalo Kids
2024 Casa en flames
2024 A través de tu mirada
2023 Això no és Suècia (8 Episodes)
2023 El último día
2023 Society of the Snow
2023 Bird Box: Barcelona
2023 A través del mar
2023 Fauna
2023 Mummies
2022 A man of action
2022 El Crédito
2022 Tad, the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet
2022 A través de mi ventana
2022 Feria: La luz más oscura (TV Series)
2021 Tres
2021 L'homme au piano
2021 Las leyes de la frontera
2021 Xtremo
2021 Way Down
2020 Cosmética del enemigo
2019 Malnazidos
2019 Hogar
2019 4×4
2019 Premios Goya 33 edición
2018 Paradise Hills
2018 La Noria
2018 Superlópez
2018 Yucatán
2018 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom[11]
2018 Another Day of Life[12]
2017 Marrowbone
2017 Tadeo Jones 2: El Secreto del Rey Midas[13]
2016 Don't Blame the Karma for Being an Idiot
2016 The Invisible Guest
2016 A Monster calls[14]
2015 Crimson Peak
2015 Capture the flag
2015 [REC] 4: Apocalypse
2014 El Niño
2014 Out of the Dark
2013 The Innocents
2013 Enemy
2013 Mamá
2012 The Body
2012 The Impossible
2011 Mientras duermes
2011 Eva
2010 The Julia's Eyes
2009 Spanish Movie
2009 [Rec]²
2007 Fermat's Room
2007 [Rec]
2007 The Orphanage[15]
2006 Moscow zero
2005 The Nun
2004 Whore
2003 Beyond Re-Animator
2001 Stranded
2001 The Devil's Backbone

Awards and nominations

27 Awards and 17 nominations

Year Award Category Result Work
2022 International Cinephile Society Awards Award - Best Sound 2º Place Tres
2022 Mestre Mateo Awards Award - Best Sound Winner Tres
2020 SITGES International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia Honorary Maria Award for a lifetime career in sound design Winner
2020 Madrid Film Festival-PNR Award - Best Sound Winner El Infierno
2019 Fugaz Awards Award - Best Sound Nominated La Noria
2018 Cortogenia Best Sound Award Winner La Noria
2018 Emile Awards Award for Best Sound Design in a Feature Film Production. Nominated Another day of life
2024 Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Film Awards (LEJA Awards) Best Sound Award Nominated Society of the Snow
2024 Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Foreign Language Feature Film Winner Society of the Snow
2020 Motion Picture Sound Editors Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR for live-action broadcast media under 35 minutes Nominated Battle at Big Rock
2015 Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award - Best Sound Montage, Best Sound Effects, Best Room Effects on television Nominated Chapter: «Penny Dreadful: Night Work»
2008 Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award - Best Sound Montage, Best Room Effects, Best Editing of Dialogues in a non-English speaking film Winner The Orphanage
2017 European Film European Sound Design Award[16] Winner A Monster Call[17]
2024 Goya Goya Award - Best Sound Winner Society of the Snow
2022 Goya Goya Award - Best Sound Winner Tres
2017 Goya Goya Award - Best Sound[18] Winner A Monster Call
2016 Goya Goya Award - Best Sound[19] Nominated Anacleto, agente secreto
2015 Goya Goya Award - Best Sound[20] Winner El Niño
2013 Goya Goya Award - Best Sound[21] Winner The Impossible
2012 Goya Goya Award - Best Sound Nominated Eva
2008 Goya Goya Award - Best Sound[22] Winner The Orphanage
2024 CinEuphoria Best Sound / Sound effects in international competition Winner Society of the Snow
2014 CinEuphoria Best Special Effects (sound or visual) in International Competition Winner The Impossible
2024 Platino Award - Best Sound Direction Winner Society of the Snow
2017 Platino Award - Best Sound Direction[23] Winner A Monster Call
2024 International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) Best Sound Award Nominated Society of the Snow
2022 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound Nominated Las Leyes de la frontera
2022 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound Nominated Tres
2019 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound Nominated Jurassic World
2019 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound Nominated Super López
2017 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound[24] Winner A Monster Call[25]
2016 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound[26] Winner Anacleto, agente secreto
2016 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound Winner Capture the flag
2015 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound[27] Winner El Niño
2014 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound Nominated [REC] 4: Apocalypse
2014 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound[28] Winner Los últimos días
2014 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound Nominated El cuerpo
2013 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound[29] Winner The Impossible
2012 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound[30] Winner Mientras duermes
2012 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound[31] Nominated Eva
2011 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound Nominated The Julia's Eyes
2010 The Catalan Film Academy Gaudí Award - Best Sound[32] Winner [Rec]²
2007 Barcelona Barcelona Award - Best Sound Winner The Orphanage
2017 Fenix Award - Best Sound[33] Winner A Monster Call[34]
2019 Fugaz Spanish Short Film Awards Best Sound award Nominated La Noria

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