Oscar’s Biggest Loser Gets One More Shot
[posted by Justin Levine]
Congrats to sound mixer Kevin O’Connell who was just nominated for an Academy Award for in the category of Best Sound Mixing for “Transformers”.
This would make it O’Connell’s 20th Oscar nomination. Not a typo folks…Twenty times…and he’s never won. There were two years where he was even nominated twice for different films (thus effectively competing against himself and splitting his vote).
He has (by far) the longest losing streak in Oscar history.
O’Connell’s complete list of nominations over the years is as follows –
1983 SOUND — Terms of Endearment [Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O’Connell, Jim Alexander]
1984 SOUND — Dune [Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Kevin O’Connell, Nelson Stoll]
1985 SOUND — Silverado [Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O’Connell, David Ronne]
1986 SOUND — Top Gun [Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O’Connell, Rick Kline, William B. Kaplan]
1989 SOUND — Black Rain [Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Keith A. Wester]
1990 SOUND — Days of Thunder [Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O’Connell, Charles Wilborn]
1992 SOUND — A Few Good Men [Kevin O’Connell, Rick Kline, Bob Eber]
1995 SOUND — Crimson Tide [Kevin O’Connell, Rick Kline, Gregory H. Watkins, William B. Kaplan]
1996 SOUND — The Rock [Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Keith A. Wester]
SOUND — Twister [Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Kevin O’Connell, Geoffrey Patterson]
1997 SOUND — Con Air [Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Arthur Rochester]
1998 SOUND — Armageddon [Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Keith A. Wester]
SOUND — The Mask of Zorro [Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Pud Cusack]
2000 SOUND — The Patriot [Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Lee Orloff]
2001 SOUND — Pearl Harbor [Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Peter J. Devlin]
2002 SOUND — Spider-Man [Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Ed Novick]
2004 SOUND MIXING — Spider-Man 2 [Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Joseph Geisinger]
2005 SOUND MIXING — Memoirs of a Geisha [Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline and John Pritchett]
2006 SOUND MIXING — Apocalypto [Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Cámara]
2007 SOUND MIXING — Transformers [Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin]
Good luck dude!
The audio mixing for Transformers was, frankly, awesome.
They actually managed to make it “sound” right. Was way cool.
Scott Jacobs (425810) — 1/22/2008 @ 8:10 amTransformers was judged recently as having the best hi-def disc sound, even though the disc’s sound wasn’t in the highest resolution format, and beat several discs that were.
Kevin Murphy (0b2493) — 1/22/2008 @ 8:25 amTransformers was an awesome movie only made more awesome by the sound. Good luck Kevin!
kimsch (2ce939) — 1/22/2008 @ 8:49 amCongratulations to Mr. O’Connell.
With the writer’s strike going on, my daughter is having a hellacious time breaking into cinematic productions in the Art Department. I just pray I live long enough for her not only to get employed, but get just one Oscar nomination.
PCD (f14ddd) — 1/22/2008 @ 8:52 amHis sound mixing was more than meets the eye.
Kevin (4890ef) — 1/22/2008 @ 9:32 amI don’t know much about sound mixing but any guy who managed to secure an acadamey award nod for his work on DUNE, of all films, is probably extremely good at his craft.
Sean P (e57269) — 1/22/2008 @ 9:35 amWhat about the guy getting the make-up nod for Norbit?
Techie (ed20d9) — 1/22/2008 @ 9:37 amBased on that list of credits, it appears he’s the fellow who thought it a good idea to mix a big cat’s roar into an explosion.
I hate that. No reason, I guess — it just grates on my nerves.
Rob Crawford (04f50f) — 1/22/2008 @ 12:50 pm