Oriol Tarragó
Oriol Tarragó (Reus, Tarragona, 1976), is a sound designer and professor at the University of Barcelona, (ESCAC) currently residing in 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). He won four Goya Awards from the Spanish Film Academy, seven Gaudí Award from the Catalan Film Academy and one Golden Reel Award from the Motion Sound Picture Editors (MPSE). 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 (AMPAS).

Biography 
He graduated from the The Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya - Cinema and Audivisuals School of Catalonia (ESCAC), 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 ESCAC graduate 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 (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 ESCAC Film School. He is also involved in several projects with studios in San Francisco, Toronto and London.

Filmography (Selection)