Sound editor Kevin O'Connell holds the record for most Academy Award nominations, for films including "Pearl Harbor" and "Transformers," without a win. O'Connell has been nominated a total of 20 times, and has walked away empty-handed each time.
Kevin O'Connell (born November 27, 1957 on Long Island, New York) is a 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 loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".
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 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.
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."
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