Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)

Kevin O'Connell (born November 27 1957 in Long Island, New Yorkcite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640114/ |title=Kevin O'Connell (II) |accessdate=2007-01-05 |work=IMDb] ) is an Academy Award nominated sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and lossAssociated Press. [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/06/ap/entertainment/mainD8G5SCJ82.shtml "Three 6 Mafia 'Pimp' the Oscars,"] March 6 2006.] cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640114/bio |title=Biography for Kevin O'Connell (II) |accessdate=2007-01-05 |work=IMDb] cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640114/awards |title=Awards for Kevin O'Connell (II) |accessdate=2007-01-05 |work=IMDb] , making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".cite web |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/23/oscars2008 |title=In praise of... Kevin O'Connell |accessdate=2008-02-26 |work=The Guardian]

Awards and nominations

O'Connell won an Emmy for sound mixing for "Lonesome Dove". In addition to his 20 Academy Award nominations, he has been nominated for 11 Cinema Audio Society, USA awards, two Satellite Awards, and one BAFTA Award. He was profiled by the American weekend newsmagazine "CBS Sunday Morning" in 2007 on the morning before the Oscar telecast, as well as by the "CBS Evening News". [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/22/eveningnews/main2506107.shtml Oscar's Biggest Loser: Sound Mixer Kevin O'Connell Has Been Nominated 19 Times, Including This Year, But Has Yet To Win] (video and text summary of video segment), "CBS Sunday Morning", February 22 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-24.]

The films for which O'Connell has received an Oscar nomination without winning the award are:
# Terms of Endearment (1983)
# Dune (1984)
# Silverado (1985)
# Top Gun (1986)
# Black Rain (1989)
# Days of Thunder (1990)
# A Few Good Men (1992)
# Crimson Tide (1995)
# Twister (1996)
# The Rock (1996)
# Con Air (1997)
# The Mask of Zorro (1998)
# Armageddon (1998)
# The Patriot (2000)
# Pearl Harbor (2001)
# Spider-Man (2002)
# Spider-Man 2 (2004)
# Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
# Apocalypto (2006)
# Transformers (2007)

For his Academy Award nomination for his work on the film "Transformers", he commented, "If you could bottle up the way that I felt this morning when I found out I was nominated, people wouldn't buy drugs anymore because this is just the best thing on the planet."Associated Press. [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/22/ap/entertainment/main3739006.shtml Nominees React To Oscar Announcement] , January 22 2008.]

Peer view

Michael Minkler, winner of the 2007 Oscar, caused a minor scandal when he suggested that O'Connell was only "an okay mixer" who "should take up another line of work". His words led to a storm of criticism from workers in the industry. [ [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/oscars/article3420002.ece Sound man looking for Oscar to end 19-year losing streak - Times Online ] ]

References

External links

*imdb name|id=0640114|name=Kevin O'Connell
* [http://www.hossli.com/articles/2007/02/20/im-the-guy-who-always-loses/ Kevin O'Connell talks about his Oscar losses] Interview on Hossli.com
* [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/08/sunday/main3029158.shtml "'Transforming' Movie Sound: People usually think of movies as a visual experience, but there is an intricate process to create sounds,"] "CBS News Sunday Morning", July 8, 2007.
*Associated Press. [http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/23/ap/movies/main3743798.shtml?source=search_story "Kevin O'Connell Receives His 20th Oscar Nomination, This 1 For `Transformers',"] January 23, 2008.