Paul Davies

Sound Designer

Credits

Film

Production Company Notes
RETREAT
2025
The Fold

Dir: Ted Evans
Prod: Jennifer Monks, Michelle Stein, Alex Usborne
2025 The London Film Festival Premiere

DIE MY LOVE
2025
Black Label Media / Mubi

Dir: Lynne Ramsay
Prod: Andrea Calderwood, Justine Ciarrocchi, Jennifer Lawrence, Thad Luckinbill
(with Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield)
2025 Official Selection: In Competition, Cannes Film Festival
2025 Gala screening at London Film Festival

ECHO VALLEY
2025
Apple Original Films

Supervising Sound Editor
Dir: Michael Pearce
Prod: Brad Ingelsby, Michael Pruss, Ridley Scott, Kevin J. Walsh
(with Julianne Moore, Sydney Sweeney, Domhnall Gleeson)

LOVE LIES BLEEDING
2024
A24 Films

Dir: Rose Glass
Prods: Andrea Cornwell and Oliver Kassman
with Kristen Stewart
2024 Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival

SKY PEARLS
2023
Escape Films

Dir: Moin Hussain
Prod: Michelle Stein
* Nominated: Best First Feature, BFI London Film Festival 2023

IN CAMERA
2023
Prettybird

Dir: Naqqash Khalid
Prod: Mary Burke, Juliette Larthe

THE ORIGIN
2022
Sony

Dir: Andrew Cumming
Prod: Oliver Kassman

NIGHTMARE ALLEY
2022
Fox Searchlight Pictures

Dir: Guillermo Del Toro
Prod: J Miles Dale, Guillermo Del Toro, Bradley Cooper
(with Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, William Dafoe, Rooney Mara)

GOOD JOE BELL
2021
Endeavor Content

Dir: Reinaldo Marcus Green
Prod: Cary Joji Fukunaga, Stephen Levinson, Riva Marker, Ryan Ahrens, Eva Maria Daniels
(with Mark Wahlberg, Reid Miller, Connie Britton, Maxwell Jenkins and Gary Sinise)

ENCOUNTER
2021
RAW / Film4 / Automatik Entertainment / Amazon Studios

Dir: Michael Pearce Prods: Derrin Schlesinger, Dimitri Doganis, Piers Vellacott
Nominated 2021 BIFA Award for Best Sound

MOGUL MOWGLI
2020
Pulse Films/BBC Films

Dir: Bassam Tariq
Prod: Bennett McGhee
2020 British Independent Film Awards nominee, for Best Sound

SURGE
2020
BBC Films

Dir: Aneil Karia
Prod: Julia Godzinskaya and Sophie Vickers

SAINT MAUD
2020
Film4/BFI/Escape Plan Productions

Dir: Rose Glass
Prod: Andrea Cornwell and Oliver Kassman
2020 British Independent Film Awards nominee, for Best Sound

FOUR KIDS AND IT
2020
Dan Films/Kindle Entertainment

Dir: Andy De Emmony
Prod: Julie Baines

SULPHUR AND WHITE
2020
EMU Films

Dir: Julian Jarrold
Prod: Mike Elliott

ORDINARY LOVE
2019
Out of Orbit

Dir: Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn
Prod: Brian J. Falconer

AMERICAN ANIMALS
2018
Film 4/RAW/Lionsgate

Dir: Bart Layton
Prod: Derrin Schlesinger

A PRIVATE WAR
2018
Thunder Road Pictures

Dir: Mathew Heineman
Prod: Basil Iwanyk

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
2017
Why Not Productions/Amazon Studios

Dir: Lynne Ramsay
Prod: Pascal Caucheteux
2018 British Independent Film Awards Winner, for Best Sound

FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL
2017
Eon Productions/Sony Pictures

Dir: Paul McGuigan
Prod: Barbara Broccoli & Colin Vaines

THE SECRET SCRIPTURE
2016
Ferndale Films

Dir: Jim Sheridan
Prod: Noel Pearson

DETOUR
2015
Dan Films/Bankside Films

Dir: Chris Smith
Prod: Julie Baines

RONALDO
2015
On the Corner Films/Universal Pictures

Dir: Anthony Wonke
Prod: Paul Martin

THE ONES BELOW
2015
Cuba Pictures/Protagonist Pictures

Dir: David Farr
Prod: Nikki Parrott

GET SANTA
2014
Scott Free Films

Dir: Chris Smith
Prod: Liza Marshall/Ridley Scott

THE FALLING
2014
Independent Films

Dir: Carol Morley
Prod: Cairo Cannon/Luc Roeg

’71
2014
Warp Films

Dir: Yann Demange
Prod: Angus Lamont/Robin Gutch

SNOW IN PARADISE
2013
Ipso Facto Films

Dir: Andrew Hulme
Prod: Christine Alderson

CLOSED CIRCUIT
2013
Working Title Films

Dir: John Crowley
Prod: Tim Bevan/Eric Fellner

SWIMMER
2012
Warp Films/BBC Films

Dir: Lynne Ramsay
Prod: Peter Carlton & Diarmid Scrimshaw

LOCK-OUT
2012
Europacorp

Dir: James Mather & Stephen St. Leger
Prod: Luc Besson

THE IMPOSTER
2011
Film 4/RAW

Dir: Bart Layton
Prod: Dimitri Doganis

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
2011
BBC Films

Dir: Lynne Ramsay
Prod: Luc Roeg & Stephen Soderbergh
2012 Evening Standard British Film Awards nominee for Best Technical Achievement (Sound Design)
2012 London Critics Circle Film Awards nominee for Best Technical Achievement of the Year (Sound Design)

THE AMERICAN
2010
Focus Features

Dir: Anton Corbijn
Prod: Anne Carey, Jill Green & George Clooney

CHATROOM
2009
Ruby Films

Dir: Hideo Nakata
Prod: Laura Hastings-Smith & Alison Owen

PERRIER’S BOUNTY
2009
Parallel Films/Number 9 Films

Dir: Ian Fitzgibbon
Prod: Alan Maloney & Stephen Woolley

HUNGER
2008
Film4/Blast Films

Dir: Steve McQueen
Prod: Laura Hastings-Smith & Robin Gutch
Winner Camera D’Or Cannes Film Festival, 2008

THE CRIMSON WING
2008
Disney/Kudos Film and TV

Dir: Matthew Aeberhard & Paul Webster
Prod: Leander Ward

THE QUEEN
2006
Pathe Pictures

Dir: Stephen Frears
Prod: Tracey Seaward & Andy Harries
Winner BAFTA Best Film, 2007

MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS
2005
Pathe Pictures

Dir: Stephen Frears
Prod: Norma Heyman

KINKY BOOTS
2005
Miramax/Harbour Pictures

Dir: Julian Jarrold
Prod: Nick Barton & Suzanne Mackie

THE JACKET
2005
Warner Independent Pictures

Dir: John Maybury
Prod: Stephen Soderbergh & George Clooney

THE PROPOSITION
2005
Autonomous

Dir: John Hillcoat
Prod: Cat Villiers & Chiara Menage
2005 Australian Film Institute Award nomination for Best Sound

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
2004
Movision/Spice Factory/Sony Pictures

Dir: Mike Radford
Prod: Barry Navidi & Jason Petite

TRAUMA
2003
BBC Films/Little Bird Productions

Dir: Marc Evans
Prod: Nicky Kentish-Barnes & Jonathan Cavendish

INTERMISSION
2003
Parallel Films

Dir: John Crowley
Prod: Alan Moloney & Stephen Wooley

MORVERN CALLAR
2002
Company Pictures/Film4

Dir: Lynne Ramsay
Prod: Robyn Slovo, Charles Pattinson & George Faber

THE HOLE
2001
Canal+/Impact Pictures/Cowboy Films

Dir: Nick Hamm
Prod: Jeremy Bolt & Pippa Cross

THE FILTH AND THE FURY
2000
Nitrate Film/Film4

Dir: Julien Temple
Prod: Amanda Temple

RATCATCHER
1999
Pathe Pictures/BBC Films

Dir: Lynne Ramsay
Prod: Gavin Emerson

THE TITCHBOURNE CLAIMANT
1999
Bigger Picture Co.

Dir: David Yates
Prod: Tom McCabe

LOVE IS THE DEVIL
1998
BBC Films

Dir: John Maybury
Prod: Chiara Menage

Documentaries

Production Company Notes
BRIGITTE
2019
Somesuch

Dir: Lynne Ramsay
Prod: Tom Gardiner

Television

Production Company Notes
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
2022
Netflix

Showrunner: Guillermo del Toro
(with Andrew Lincoln, Rupert Grint, Essie Davis and F. Murray Abraham)

SALISBURY
2020
Dancing Ledge Productions/BBC

Dir: Saul Dibb
Prod: Karen Lewis

DUBLIN MURDERS
2019
BBC/Starz

Dir: Saul Dibb
Prod: Kate Harwood

NATIONAL TREASURE
2015
The Forge/Channel 4

Dir: Craig Viveiros
Prod: Abi Bach

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
2015
Mammoth Screen/ITV

Dir: Craig Viveiros
Prod: Abi Bach

SOUTHCLIFFE
2013
Warp Films/Channel 4

Dir: Sean Dirkin
Prod: Peter Carlton

13 STEPS DOWN
2012
Parallel Films/ITV

Dir: Marek Losey
Prod: Neil Zeiger & Alan Maloney

THE GIRL
2012
Wall to Wall/HBO/BBC

Dir: Julian Jarrold
Prod: Amanda Jencks

NEVERLAND
2011
Parallel Films/Sky Movies/Syfy Channel

Dir: Nick Willing
Prod: Alan Maloney

MACBETH
2010
lluminations/BBC

Dir: Rupert Goold
Prod: John Wyver

HAMLET
2009
lluminations/BBC

Dir: Greg Doran
Prod: John Wyver

RED RIDING 1980
2009
Revolution/Channel 4

Dir: James Marsh
Prod: Andrew Eaton

THE 39 STEPS
2008
BBC

Dir: James Hawes
Prod: Lynn Horsford

ANNE FRANK
2008
Darlow Smithson/BBC

Dir: Jon Jones
Prod: Elinor Day

BOY A
2007
Cuba Pictures/Channel 4

Dir: John Crowley
Prod: Lynn Horsford

DRACULA
2006
Granada/BBC

Dir: Bill Eagles
Prod: Trevor Hopkins

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
2006
Box TV/ITV

Dir: Rachel Talalay
Prod: Gub Neal

BORN EQUAL
2006
BBC Films

Dir: Dominic Savage
Prod: Ruth Caleb

BON VOYAGE
2006
Box TV/ITV

Dir: John Fawcett
Prod: Gub Neal

CELEBRATION
2006
Parallel Films/Channel 4

Dir: John Crowley
Prod: Alan Maloney

HIS BIG WHITE SELF
2006
Lafayette Films/Channel 4

Dir: Nick Broomfield
Prod: Nick Broomfield

SWEENY TODD
2005
Box TV/BBC

Dir: David Moore
Prod: Gub Neal

FRIENDS AND CROCODILES
2005
Talkback Thames/BBC

Dir: Stephen Poliakoff
Prod: Nicolas Brown

GIDEON’S DAUGHTER
2005
Talkback Thames/BBC

Dir: Stephen Poliakoff
Prod: Nicolas Brown

SHAMELESS S1
2005
Company Pictures/Channel 4

Dir: Mark Mylod, Jonny Campbell and Dearbhla Walsh
Prod: Emma Burge
2006 BAFTA nomination for Best Sound

40
2003
Company Pictures/Channel 4

Dir: David Moore
Prod: Emma Burge

THE CANTERBURY TALES
2003
BBC

Dir: Andy De Emmony, John McKay, Julian Jarrold and Marc Munden
Prod: Kate Bartlett

WHITE TEETH
2002
Company Pictures/Channel 4

Dir: Julian Jarrold
Prod: Nicolas Brown

STRUMPET
2001
Destiny Films/BBC

Dir: Danny Boyle
Prod: Martin Carr

VACUUMING
2001
Destiny Films/BBC

Dir: Danny Boyle
Prod: Martin Carr

IN A LAND OF PLENTY
2001
BBC

Dir: Hettie McDonald & David Moore
Prod: Michael Riley

SEX ‘N’ DEATH
1999
Hat Trick Productions/BBC

Dir: Guy Jenkin
Prod: Jane Featherstone

VANITY FAIR
1998
BBC

Dir: Marc Munden
Prod: Gillian McNeal

TOUCHING EVIL S1, S2 & S3
1998
United Film and Television/ITV

Creator: Paul Abbott
Prod: Jane Featherstone
1998 BAFTA nomination for Best Sound, series one

IVANHOE
1997
BBC

Dir: Stuart Orme
Prod: Jeremy Gwilt
MONITOR Award winner for Best Sound

THE SCULPTRESS
1996
Red Rooster Film and TV/BBC

Dir: Stuart Orme
Prod: Linda James
RTS nomination for Best Sound

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