Kevin O'Connell

Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He held the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, until he finally won his first Academy Award for Hacksaw Ridge at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017.

Early life and career O'Connell was born on Long Island, New York. and raised in Los Angeles, California. At 18, he became a projectionist at 20th Century Fox Studios, where his mother was a secretary for the head of the sound department.

Subsequently, failing the trade union examination for the job, he became a Los Angeles County firefighter for a year. At the behest of his concerned mother, alarmed at his gaunt and charred appearance following a brush fire in Sylmar, Los Angeles, he obtained a job as a machine-room operator at Warner Hollywood Studios, also known as Samuel Goldwyn Studios in 1978, where he worked on films including Grease (1978). In October 2013, he was hired to provide mixing services and take a creative leadership role at Todd Soundelux, working in that company's Todd-AO division in Santa Monica, California. O'Connell returned to Sony Pictures Post Production Services in 2015. In 2017, he won his first Academy Award at the 89th Academy Awards for Hacksaw Ridge (2016).

In his acceptance speech at the ceremony, held on February 26, 2017, O'Connell thanked his mother, Skippy, who had urged him into his profession.

Personal life In 2001, Kevin and Heather O'Connell were married. Result Lost to

Terms of Endearment The Right Stuff

Dune Amadeus

Silverado Out of Africa

Top Gun Platoon

Black Rain Glory

Days of Thunder Dances with Wolves

A Few Good Men The Last of the Mohicans

Crimson Tide Apollo 13

Twister

The Rock

Con Air Titanic

The Mask of Zorro

Armageddon

The Patriot Gladiator

Pearl Harbor Black Hawk Down

Spider-Man Chicago

Spider-Man 2 Ray

Memoirs of a Geisha King Kong

Apocalypto Dreamgirls

Transformers The Bourne Ultimatum

Hacksaw Ridge

Oppenheimer The Zone of Interest

Primetime Emmy Award In 1989, O'Connell, along with James L. Aicholtz, Michael Herbick and Don Johnson, won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or Movie for the television miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989).

Cinema Audio Society Award Nominations Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures – Live Action – Hacksaw Ridge (2016) (shared with seven colleagues)