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Oriol Tarragó
Oriol Tarragó
Born	Reus, Tarragona, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation(s)	Sound designer and Sound post-production supervisor
Website	orioltarrago.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 such as , 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.

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.

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 Escola Superior de Cinema Film School. He is also involved in several projects with studios in San Francisco, Toronto and London.

Filmography (selection)

References

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2. "La Masia de 'Lo imposible'". La Vanguardia. 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
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4. Freire, Juan Manuel (2018-06-06). "Los infalibles de J.A. Bayona". elperiodico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-02-28.
5. "Daniel Villanueva y Oriol Tarragó ganan el Goya". Diari de Tarragona (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-12-11.
6. "Oriol Tarragó, premio del Cine Europeo al mejor sonido por 'Un monstruo viene a verme'". La Vanguardia. 2017-11-14. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
7. "Equipo ESCAC - Quiénes somos". escac.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-12-11.
8. "Pura". catalanfilms.cat. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
9. Tarragó, Designing Sound » Exclusive Interview with Oriol; of “Rec”, Sound Designer; says, “Rec 2″. ""The Orphanage" – Exclusive Interview with Sound Designer Oriol Tarragó". Retrieved 2019-02-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
10. Hart, Patricia (2011). "Una entrevista con Oriol Tarragó, mayo, 2011". Purdue E-Pubs. School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers.
11. "El reusenc Oriol Tarragó, responsable del disseny de so a 'Jurassic world: el regne caigut'". Reusdigital.cat diari de Reus. Notícies i actualitat del Camp de Tarragona (in Catalan). 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
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13. "Oriol Tarragó - Professionals". catalanfilms.cat. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
14. Tarragó, Oriol (2016-10-13). "¿Cómo su suena el monstruo?". @oritarrago (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-12-11.
15. "Entrevista en exclusiva con el diseñador de sonido Oriol Tarragó". Hispasonic (in Spanish). 2010-07-23. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
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18. "Oriol Tarragó » Premios Goya 2019". www.premiosgoya.com. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
19. "Anacleto: agente secreto » Premios Goya 2019". www.premiosgoya.com. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
20. "El Niño » Premios Goya 2019". www.premiosgoya.com. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
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22. "El orfanato » Premios Goya 2019". www.premiosgoya.com. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
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25. "A Monster Calls (Un monstre em ve a veure)". www.academiadelcinema.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2019-02-28.
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34. Peralta, Paulo (7 December 2017). "CinEuphoria: Fénix - Premio Iberoamericano de Cine 2017: os vencedores". CinEuphoria. Retrieved 2019-02-28.

• 1976 births
• Living people
• People from Reus
• Sound editors
• Academic staff of the University of Barcelona
• New York University alumni
• Spanish expatriates in the United States
• Spanish expatriates in the United Kingdom