Ricardo Steinberg (Buenos Aires, 1950) is a Spanish sound technician, teacher and producer of Argentinean origin.
Established in Spain, he has been part of Producciones El Escorpión and has worked as sound producer for directors Alejandro Amenábar, José Luis Cuerda, Adolfo Aristarain, Gonzalo Suárez, Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar, Felipe Vega, Víctor Erice, Álex de la Iglesia, Mateo Gil, or Agustín Díaz Yanes. He later founded Foro Sonoro Producciones, with which he produced the short film 'Dime que yo' by Mateo Gil (Goya for best fiction short film, 2010).
For his merit he was nominated in 1988 for the Goya for best sound with Daniel Goldstein for 'Remando al viento' and 'Pasodoble', but was not awarded. However, he was awarded in 1996 for 'Thesis', 2001 for 'The Others' and 2004 for 'The Sea Inside', all of them by Amenábar. In 2011 he co-directed the short film 'Mein liebe', nominated for the Goya for best fiction short film. He is also a professor of sound at the Escuela de Cinematografía y Audiovisual de Madrid (ECAM) and a member of the board of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).
