Sound mixer Kevin O'Connell holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a single win. In 2008, he was nominated for the 20th time for his work on Michael Bay's Transformers.
Fast Facts:
- First nomination was for Terms of Endearment
- Credited as a recording technician on Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
Kevin O'Connell News and Gossip
- Google News: Kevin O'Connell
- Associated Press: O'Connell Receives 20th Oscar Nomination (January 23, 2008)
- O'Connell told the AP: "I'm like the luckiest guy on the planet. How many other people have 20 Oscar nominations?"
- New York Magazine: Vulture: Can Kevin O'Connell, the Ultimate Hard-luck Oscar Nominee, Finally Win? (January 22, 2008)
- dB's Blog: Sound Mixer Smackdown? (March 2, 2007)
- Los Angeles Times: The Envelope: O'Connell was with dying mom while being bashed at Oscars (March 1, 2007)
- Defamer: Sound Mixer Smackdown! (February 27, 2007)
- A fellow Sound Mixer on Apocalypto, Michael Minkler, said backstage at 2007's Oscars that O'Connell was "an okay mixer" and that he should "take up another line of work."
- CBS News: Oscar's Biggest Loser, Sound Mixer Kevin O'Connell... (February 22, 2007)
- Google Blog Search: Kevin O'Connell
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