Oscars biggest looser

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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18 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and 28 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight

                                                                      

Meryl Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville (1971), before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season (1977). In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia (1977). Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) followed by, among others, Sophie's Choice (1982), Out of Africa (1985), Mamma Mia! (2008) and The Iron Lady (2011). In 2013, she appeared in the comedy drama film adaptation of Tracy Letts' play of the same name, August: Osage County, with Julia Roberts. In 2014, Streep will be seen in film adaptations of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods and Lois Lowry's The Giver.

Streep has received 18 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and 28 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two BAFTA awards, two Australian Film Institute awards, five Grammy Award nominations, and a Tony Award nomination, amongst several others. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts, the youngest actor in each award's history. 

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Jared Leto Dines on Vegan Pancakes To Clebrate Oscar Nomination

                                                              

Less than a week after winning his first Golden Globe, Jared Leto woke up to the news that he had been nominated for Hollywood’s most prestigious award. The “Dallas Buyer’s Club” star will be attending the Academy Awards with the hope that he’ll snag that much coveted Oscar in the category of best supporting actor.

How does one celebrate such an achievement? For Leto, it’s all about the food. He told the Hollywood Reporter, “I’m going back to bed and then wake up and make vegan pancakes.”

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